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An AI-generated feature film called "Gods Don't Give Gifts" is mounting a surprisingly serious awards campaign, complete with an AI-generated Grimes cameo, Times Square advertising, and official Oscar qualifying screenings. Creator Gossip Goblin argues the project deserves to be taken on its own terms rather than dismissed as a publicity stunt. The film is shaping up as one of the more visible tests of how the industry will respond to fully AI-generated feature content.

Google has updated its Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash model with native video generation support, extending clip length to 15 seconds and introducing editing capabilities alongside improved consistency. The release also comes with a 30% reduction in pricing, making it a more accessible option for developers building video-focused applications.

Runway has detailed how it serves its 57-billion-parameter video model - the one powering Runway Characters - at 24 frames per second for live, interactive conversation. The engineering work cuts the hardware requirement in half, from eight H100 GPUs down to four. The post offers a rare look at the infrastructure tradeoffs involved in running large generative video models at real-time latency.

OpenAI has updated its image generation system to Images 2.6, adding faster output, GIF creation, and more precise editing tools. The update rolls out across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API, with new controls available to developers. It marks a steady incremental step in OpenAI's image tooling rather than a wholesale overhaul.

Edited photos of Jeff Bezos and actor Jason Statham depicting both men with full heads of hair have been circulating on X, Threads, and Bluesky. The images are fabricated - produced through photo editing, AI-assisted or otherwise - and do not reflect any real change in either man's appearance. The Verge looked into the spread of these posts and found them appearing frequently enough to reach multiple members of their own team through social feeds.

Fal, an AI inference startup focused on generative media workloads, has raised $1.3 billion in a new funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, doubling its valuation to $16 billion. The five-year-old company has emerged as a key piece of infrastructure for developers building on top of image and video generation models. The raise reflects continued investor appetite for the compute and serving layer underneath generative AI applications.

A photographer has called out a fellow photographer for allegedly passing off AI-generated images as genuine photographs in their portfolio, with the dispute centered on images of Whitehaven, a historic harbor town on the Cumbrian coast of England. The case highlights growing tensions within the photography community as AI image generation becomes increasingly convincing. It raises difficult questions about disclosure, authenticity, and professional ethics in an era when synthetic imagery can be

Adobe has announced partnerships with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to bring licensed music from major artists into Adobe Premiere mobile. The move gives mobile video editors access to familiar tracks for use in their projects, with new browsing and editing tools to match. Tracks will be available for personal, non-commercial use when the feature rolls out.

A new study from e-commerce UX research organization Baymard finds that a majority of U.S. online shoppers feel less confident purchasing a product when its photos appear to be AI-generated. The findings raise questions about how retailers should approach AI image tools as they become more accessible and widely used in product photography workflows.

Google has expanded Dreambeans, its AI-powered personal storytelling experiment, to India with support for 13 Indian languages. The move signals Google's interest in bringing generative AI narrative tools to one of the world's largest and most linguistically diverse markets. It marks one of the broader regional rollouts for the product since its initial launch.

Runway has released Dev plugins for three popular coding environments - Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Cursor - allowing developers to access Runway's generative media API directly from their editor. The integration lets coding agents build and invoke video and image generation features without leaving the development workflow. It is a practical step toward making generative media capabilities a routine part of software projects.

Google is quietly testing a Comics artifact feature inside Gemini Notebook that would let users generate comic-style visuals directly within the tool. The feature appears to offer four distinct visual styles along with controls for language and page orientation, though no release date has been announced.

Adobe Research and UC San Diego have developed EditAgent, an AI system that approaches image editing by selecting specialized tools for each task - much as a skilled Photoshop user would. Rather than repeatedly applying a single general-purpose model, it delegates decisions to a language model that evaluates results using measured image data. The trade-off is significant: the approach demands roughly ten times the compute of simpler methods.

Google researchers have built StreamVibe, a video AI agent designed to observe people doing hands-on tasks and offer assistance only at the moments it is actually needed. A new benchmark reveals that current models struggle significantly with this timing problem, especially as videos grow longer and errors accumulate.

Meta has quietly rolled out a new AI-powered fashion app called Style Sketch in three Southeast Asian markets - Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. The app allows users to virtually try on clothing using generative AI. The limited regional launch suggests Meta is testing the waters before any broader rollout.

Pika Labs has released Pika-H3-Flex as open weights on Hugging Face, making its image-to-video model publicly available for local inference. The model generates video with synchronized audio in six sampling steps and supports up to 12 reference inputs for precise, reference-guided control. Native output runs at 480p or 768p locally, with higher resolutions available through Pika's hosted API.

Fashion photo studios are shutting their doors as clothing brands shift toward generative AI tools to produce product imagery, drawn largely by the cost reductions the technology offers. A Reuters report highlights the growing real-world impact this trend is having on traditional commercial photography businesses. The change marks a notable structural shift in how the fashion industry produces visual content at scale.

China's first fully AI-generated feature film has hit theaters nationwide, but early returns suggest audiences are not warming to the format. Despite an opening day that included 10,000 screenings, the film is struggling to find a meaningful box office foothold. The release marks a notable moment for generative video AI, even as the commercial reception raises questions about audience readiness.

Apple has rolled out a significant update to its Creator Studio subscription suite, with the headline addition being MotionVFX content built directly into Final Cut Pro for Mac. The update also brings Pixelmator Pro integration, Logic Pro improvements, and expanded AI features across Apple's productivity apps.

Runway has made its Ads product generally available across all paid plans, giving marketers a dedicated tool for generating on-brand creative variants from existing high-performing ads. The company reports that internal use of the tool grew weekly ad volume tenfold while reducing cost per subscriber by 41%. The release marks Runway's clearest move yet into applied advertising workflows.

Liquid AI has published a guide on building specialized multimodal models using LFM3, its latest generation of foundation models. LFM3 moves away from the transformer-only architecture, offering a different approach to handling multiple input types. The post, hosted on Hugging Face, walks through how developers can adapt these models for targeted use cases.

Google has announced Genie 4, the latest version of its AI world model for generating interactive experiences. The update brings more realistic visuals, real-time natural language editing, audio generation, and a doubled maximum experience length of two minutes. The model runs on Gemini 3.8 Flash under the hood to power its simulations.

Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 21.1.2, bringing up to 14x faster IntelliSearch analysis on Apple M6 hardware and 4x faster OGraf playback in the Edit and Fusion pages. The update also expands Linux graphics support and refines timeline editing behavior. More than a dozen fixes and enhancements round out the release.

ASAP Rocky is facing accusations from two video artists and a parkour athlete who claim that AI was used to replicate their original work in his latest music video without permission or credit. The case adds a high-profile name to a growing list of disputes over generative AI and creative ownership. It raises pointed questions about accountability when AI-assisted production pipelines obscure the line between inspiration and copying.