August 29, 2026
Midjourney has pushed an update to its V8.2 edit model, addressing image quality issues some users encountered over the past day. The fix arrives quickly after reports surfaced, and the team is encouraging users to retry any edits that fell short. Further updates are said to be on the way.
LAION has released its Big Video Dataset (BVD), a large open collection of 80 million videos totaling 10 million hours of footage, aimed at advancing AI video research. The dataset also includes 55 million automatically described clips, and models trained on it have outperformed those trained on the previous benchmark dataset, InternVid. Its open availability marks a notable moment for researchers who have lacked large-scale, freely accessible video data.
China's short-drama industry has moved rapidly toward AI-generated content, with 95 percent of the 128,000 short dramas released in Q1 2026 produced using AI. Actors report being asked to surrender their voice and likeness data before losing their jobs, and labor disputes tied to AI displacement are climbing. The trend offers an early, concrete look at how generative video is reshaping entertainment workforces at scale.
Google has updated its native multimodal video model with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, bringing a set of targeted improvements to scene extension, frame-level control, and output resolution. The update extends the model's ability to read prior video context from a single frame to a full 10-second window, enabling more coherent continuations. First and last frame pinning, along with 4K upscaling, round out the changes.
