Moonvalley, an AI video startup, has raised $53 million from 14 investors, bringing its total funding to $124 million, as it aims to create generative video tools for filmmakers and creative professionals while addressing copyright concerns and ethical issues in the space.
Hedra, an AI video platform startup, raised $32 million to build omnimodal foundation models like Character-3 that generate lifelike character videos from text, audio, and image inputs, empowering creators and marketers to produce narrative-driven content at scale.
Over 400 music icons including Elton John, Dua Lipa, and Coldplay rallied for UK copyright reform to protect creators' rights, urging transparency and licensing regimes for AI developers using copyrighted material, arguing creative copyright is vital for the industry.
Meta faces a pivotal copyright lawsuit questioning whether its AI tools, capable of generating book-like content, undermine authors' livelihoods, sparking a debate on protecting creators versus stifling AI innovation in the rapidly evolving field.
An Australian radio station secretly employed an AI-generated host modeled after a real employee for months, sparking outrage over the lack of transparency and raising concerns about the need for honesty in disclosing AI use to audiences.
In a groundbreaking move, The Washington Post partners with OpenAI, allowing ChatGPT to integrate the newspaper's content, providing summaries, quotes, and links to its reporting when users ask relevant questions.
Alarming reports reveal AI companies are exploiting actors' digital avatars, created from licensed likenesses, in questionable ads and propaganda, often through broad contract terms granting unrestricted rights over their images and voices.
Google unveils Veo 2, an AI-powered video generation model that creates high-resolution videos with 'cinematic realism' from text inputs, featuring improved physics understanding and human motion rendering, while also offering Whisk Animate for animating images into short videos using Veo 2.
YouTube introduces a groundbreaking AI tool called 'Music assistant' that empowers creators to generate copyright-free instrumental background music for videos by simply entering text prompts describing their desired music style or mood, revolutionizing the content creation process.
Major tech giants like YouTube and OpenAI are backing a bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress, the NO FAKES Act, which aims to create new federal IP rights to protect against unauthorized AI deepfakes of people's voices and likenesses, aligning artists and tech on AI issues.