August 14, 2026
A new short film produced with Higgsfield's AI video tools offers a rare look at what AI-assisted filmmaking actually looks and feels like in practice. The Verge went inside the production to find out where the technology helped - and where human craft still carried the weight. The result is a candid assessment of where generative video sits today.
Cara, a social platform built specifically to protect photographers from AI data scraping, has reportedly had its entire image library harvested by an outside actor. The incident is a pointed reminder that technical and policy-level protections do not always hold against determined scrapers. The person responsible apparently made their actions public, drawing sharp criticism from the creative community.
Google has added a toggle in Gemini and its AI video tool Flow that lets users remove the visible "sparkle" watermark from AI-generated images, videos, and music. Even with the visible mark turned off, content will still carry invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata. The change affects content produced by Google's Nano Banana and Omni models.
