June 25, 2026
A24, the independent studio behind films like Everything Everywhere All at Once and Midsommar, has accepted $75 million from Google to develop AI tools aimed at movie production. The deal marks a notable move by a prestige indie label into studio-level AI infrastructure. It also signals Google's continued push to embed its AI capabilities into the entertainment industry.
A new Pew Research study finds that only 24% of Americans use AI tools for creating or editing images and videos. Despite the rapid growth of generative image and video platforms, adoption remains limited across the general population. The findings offer a grounded look at where everyday use of these tools actually stands.
Adobe has announced the acquisition of Topaz Labs, a company widely respected among photographers and videographers for its AI-powered image and video enhancement tools. The deal brings capabilities like high-quality upscaling, noise reduction, and sharpening under Adobe's umbrella. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Ali Ghodsi's successor at Databricks has launched a startup claiming its approach to AI inference can reduce energy consumption by a factor of 1,000. The company's first public demonstration, an image-generation system called Un-0, aims to show that its underlying technology can match the output of conventional AI systems at a fraction of the power cost. If the claims hold up under scrutiny, the implications for data center energy demand could be significant.
