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The New York Danziger Gallery displayed for sale an AI-generated version of Ansel Adams' photo "Moonrise Over Hernandez" without consulting the photographer's trust, effectively stealing the legendary artist's work and dramatically altering it with AI for the sake of profit. [Read More]
ByteDance's Intelligent Creation Lab has open-sourced Lance, a multimodal model that handles image and video understanding, generation, and editing within a single 3B-parameter framework. The unified architecture is designed to avoid the fragmentation of maintaining separate models for each task. Code and weights are publicly available.
Luma AI and Wonder Project have jointly launched Innovative Dreams, a production company aimed at using AI video tools for longer-form narrative content rather than short clips. The partnership reflects a broader shift among AI video companies toward working with professional production pipelines rather than pitching consumer tools directly to audiences.
Adobe is extending its Creative Cloud connector to Google Gemini, following a similar deal with Anthropic's Claude announced weeks earlier. The integration lets Gemini orchestrate Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and Express directly, with users describing what they want and the Adobe tools handling execution. Rollout is expected within a few weeks of Google I/O.
Google has added a remix option to YouTube Shorts that lets viewers restyle clips or insert themselves into other people's videos using Gemini Omni. Creators can disable the feature for their content, and all remixed output carries a SynthID watermark.
Hell Grind, a 90-minute sci-fi heist film produced entirely with Higgsfield AI, is screening at the Cannes Film Festival. Made with a team of 15 filmmakers who generated over 16,000 clips to produce 253 final shots, the production cost under $500,000 - a figure the company contrasts with a claimed $50 million equivalent using traditional methods.
Beeble AI has released Canvas, a node-based visual compositing platform that integrates AI video models, traditional compositing tools, and workflow automation in a single environment. The system includes native access to Beeble's SwitchX and SwitchLight models and supports external generative models for batch iteration across multiple shots.
A US federal law requiring social media platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate imagery - including AI-generated deepfakes - within 48 hours of a valid request has come into force. Experts have raised concerns that the takedown mechanism could be misused for censorship, and that practical enforcement for victims remains uncertain.
We’re introducing new multimodal capabilities into Google Ads’ Asset Studio — your creative destination to create, build and test your assets.
If robust AI labeling was in place when these swagged out images of Pope Francis went viral, it may have been easier for people to tell they were fake. | Image: via Reddit We're about to find out if the systems designed to make deepfakes and AI-generated content easy to spot are actually up to snuff. SynthID and C2PA Content Credentials, two distinct technologies for invisibly tagging image, video, and audio files with information about their origins, are getting their biggest expansion to date,
NVIDIA has published a detailed walkthrough on fine-tuning its Cosmos Predict 2.5 world model using LoRA and DoRA techniques, specifically targeting robot video generation. The guide, hosted on Hugging Face, offers a practical path for teams wanting to adapt the model to domain-specific physical AI applications without full retraining.
Netflix is building a small internal team called Inkubator to explore generative AI workflows in animation, starting with short-form content. Job listings include CG artists, compositors, and a Head of Technology, suggesting a production-ready ambition rather than a pure research exercise.
In a TechCrunch profile, Runway laid out its thesis that video generation is the foundation for building general world models, framing its position outside the large-lab ecosystem as a strategic advantage. The piece offers a candid look at how the company sees its long-term competitive footing against well-resourced rivals like Google.
YouTube is rolling out its likeness-detection feature-previously limited to creators and public figures-to all users over 18. The tool uses a face scan to flag potential AI-generated lookalikes on the platform, after which users can request removal of matched content.
Director Steven Soderbergh has confirmed that his documentary 'John Lennon: The Last Interview' incorporates AI-generated imagery, offering one of the more prominent examples of a name-brand filmmaker deliberately weaving generative visuals into a non-fiction work. Soderbergh discussed his reasoning publicly, adding a notable data point to the ongoing conversation about AI's role in documentary production.
Hasselblad has removed a shortlisted entry from its Masters 2026 competition after determining the image involved generative AI, following public scrutiny of the work. The case adds to a string of similar disqualifications at major photography competitions and highlights the continued difficulty of detection at the judging stage.
The software, called Delulu, is marketed specifically to streamers and lets them easily transform into other people including George Floyd, Jeffrey Epstein, and other streamers.
Google didn't forget AI creators in its latest round of Gemini announcements.
OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.
Google is bringing its AI-detecting feature to more of its products to make it easier for people to verify if something was generated or edited with AI.
Google Pics isn't Photoshop, but it could be better than what's in Google Photos.
Odyssey has released Agora-1, a world model that lets up to four players act simultaneously in an AI-generated world—tested on the N64 classic GoldenEye. Two separate models handle game state simulation and rendering in real time. The team sees potential in collaborative robotics and AI agent training. The article Agora-1 turns the N64 classic GoldenEye into a playable AI simulation for four players appeared first on The Decoder.
Google’s Gemini desktop client for Mac is set to gain Voice Mode, Stream to Cursor, Omni video generation, and Spark-powered features.
We’re expanding access to Google AI Ultra subscribers globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street View.
We got Haotian AI, the Chinese-language deepfake software powering scams. We also talk about a man finding $1 million of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and how the AI hard drive shortage is impacting internet archiving.
