Cluely CEO Roy Lee confesses his $7M ARR figure shared with TechCrunch was a lie, then compounds the scandal by falsely claiming the interview was unsolicited — contradicting records showing his own PR team proactively pitched it.
Google's NotebookLM launches Cinematic Video Overviews today, using Gemini, Nano Banana Pro, and Veo 3 AI models to generate immersive, personalized videos from user content, available exclusively to Google AI Ultra subscribers aged 18 and older.
Google launches Nano Banana 2, a major upgrade to its viral AI image editing tool that brings Pro-level precision, Gemini 3 world knowledge, 4K resolution support, and automatic AI watermarking to all Gemini users for free.
The Motion Picture Association fires its first-ever cease-and-desist at ByteDance, accusing the TikTok parent of deliberately training its AI video generator Seedance 2.0 on copyrighted films and shows without permission, with Disney, Warner Bros., Netflix, Paramount, and Sony all joining the legal assault as ByteDance insists it respects intellectual property …
AMC Theatres backs down from screening AI-animated festival winner 'Thanksgiving Day' following fierce online backlash, forcing the Kazakhstani filmmaker's prize-winning short to pivot toward immersive venues instead.
OpenAI recruits Instagram's former partnerships chief Charles Porch to spearhead Hollywood relations as the company pushes its AI video tool Sora into entertainment deals, following a massive $1 billion Disney licensing agreement while the industry remains wary of AI threats to jobs and creative content.
ByteDance faces major Hollywood backlash as its Seedance 2.0 AI video tool generates hyperrealistic deepfakes of celebrities like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, prompting cease and desist letters from Disney and Paramount Skydance, while the MPA and SAG-AFTRA condemn the platform for copyright infringement at a scale that threatens millions …
ByteDance launches Seedance 2.0, an advanced AI video generator that creates realistic 15-second clips with audio from text and image prompts, featuring complex multi-subject scenes with accurate physics and camera movements, though users are already exploiting it to create unauthorized celebrity and copyrighted character content.
The Motion Picture Association accuses ByteDance of massive copyright infringement through its newly launched AI service Seedance 2.0, alleging unauthorized use of U.S. copyrighted works on a massive scale within just one day of the service's debut and demanding immediate cessation of all infringing activities.
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.0, a groundbreaking AI video model that creates cinematic-quality videos from text prompts, sparking massive stock surges across Chinese media companies with some hitting daily price limits as the technology democratizes professional video production.