Google announces AI Ultra, a $249.99/month subscription plan offering highest access to its most advanced AI models and premium features for demanding users like filmmakers, developers, and creative professionals, with benefits like enhanced Gemini, Flow for AI filmmaking, and massive storage.
Unveiling AI's Dark Underbelly exposes the exploitation of workers and artists by tech giants, who train AI models on copyrighted works without consent, raising ethical concerns and proposing alternative visions for responsible AI development through curated datasets and community consent.
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.
While AI risks deserve scrutiny, media coverage often sensationalizes dystopian scenarios, influenced by billionaire-backed movements, neglecting nuance; more balanced, evidence-based reporting highlighting diverse expert voices is needed to improve public understanding.
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.
AI video avatars revolutionize content creation, enabling lifelike, multilingual videos without cameras, mirroring voice, expressions, and gestures through customizable or stock AI-generated avatars.
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.