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Roku launches AI-generated content channel, draws criticism

Roku has introduced Fairground, a channel offering AI-generated entertainment content

Hacker NewsAug 12, 2026

Black Forest Labs unveils FLUX 3, a multimodal video model learning from images, audio, and video

Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3, a new multimodal foundation model that learns jointly from images, audio, a…

Replicate BlogAug 10, 2026

Rust video editor with 46 filters, AI tools launched

A developer has released a video editing, screen recording, and streaming tool built in Rust using the Slint G…

Hacker NewsAug 9, 2026

Roku debuts AI-generated content channel from Fairground startup

Roku added four new channels to its streaming library this week, including a 24/7 stream of AI-generated conte…

The Verge AIAug 7, 2026

Image-to-video tool launches with multiple AI models

A developer has built and released an image-to-video generator that accepts still images (JPG, PNG, or WebP)…

Hacker NewsAug 6, 2026

Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Video, tops text-to-video rankings

Black Forest Labs made FLUX 3 Video generally available through its API and select partners

THE DECODERAug 5, 2026

Netflix, FutureCel Chiefs: AI Is Tool, Story Remains Why

Girish Balakrishnan (Netflix's Senior Director of Creative Innovation) and Joel Kuwahara (founder of animation…

Top Companies AIAug 3, 2026

Pippa pays artists per AI image—but still uses scraped art underneath

Pippa, a text-to-video AI startup launched in May, pays artists $0.005 per image and $0.003 per second of vide…

The Verge AIAug 2, 2026

Neural video codec aims to work across device platforms

A research effort called MLVC (Multi-platform Learned Video Codec) is tackling why AI-based video codecs have…

r/MachineLearningJul 30, 2026

mimic robotics deploys FLUX-mimic at Audi, cutting robot training from 30 hours to 30 minutes

mimic robotics introduced FLUX-mimic, a Video-Action Model built with Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 video model, t…

Robotics & Automation NewsJul 29, 2026

Video Upscaler: Browser tool for AI video upscaling to 4K

A team has launched Video Upscaler, a browser-based tool that uses AI to improve video resolution and clarity…

Hacker NewsJul 29, 2026

Midjourney acquires astrology app Co-Star

Midjourney, an AI lab known for image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star

TechCrunch AIJul 24, 2026

Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 multimodal model spanning video, audio, robotics

Black Forest Labs announced FLUX 3, a unified multimodal model trained in a single architecture that handles i…

Latent SpaceJul 24, 2026

AI Videos Shake Trust in Real Videos Even When Labeled, Study Finds

Researchers conducted a two-phase study with 100 participants comparing those exposed to AI-generated videos a…

Hacker NewsJul 24, 2026

Black Forest Labs releases Flux 3 with native audio video generation

German AI company Black Forest Labs released Flux 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns from images, vi…

THE DECODERJul 23, 2026

Runway launches Media Router to orchestrate generative AI models

Runway launched the Media Router through its Runway Dev platform on Thursday, a tool that automatically select…

TechCrunch AIJul 23, 2026

Synthesia launches AI coaching tool for sales, leadership training

British AI startup Synthesia launched Roleplay Sessions on Wednesday, an interactive training product where em…

TechCrunch AIJul 22, 2026

AI Movies Made Simple: How One Developer Built a Feature Film Using Claude and Video Models

A developer used Claude (an AI that understands and generates text) paired with Seedance 2.0 (a video generati…

Hacker NewsJul 22, 2026

Blomkamp's AI 'zombie film' Nightborne panned as slop despite human input

Director Neill Blomkamp unveiled Nightborne, a 13-minute sci-fi short created entirely with ByteDance's Seedan…

The Verge AIJul 22, 2026

District 9 director releases first AI-generated short film

Neill Blomkamp, director of "District 9," released "Nightborne," a 13-minute sci-fi horror short film made ent…

THE DECODERJul 20, 2026

Apple researchers benchmark long-video AI summaries with temporal grounding

Apple researchers introduced LVSum, a benchmark dataset of 72 videos (averaging 16 minutes each across 13 doma…

Apple Machine LearningJul 20, 2026

Google DeepMind shows video generators solve computer vision tasks with minimal training data

Google DeepMind released GenCeption, a model that repurposes a pre-trained video generation model (Alibaba's W…

THE DECODERJul 19, 2026

Robbyant opens hour-long AI world generation with LingBot-World 2.0

Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, open-sourced LingBot-World 2.0 (Infinity), extending stable…

Robotics & Automation NewsJul 18, 2026

Disney Jr. Releases AI-Made Preschool Series with French Studio Animaj

Disney Jr. and French AI animation company Animaj released Ozzy Fox, a music-driven preschool series, on YouTu…

Top Companies AIJul 17, 2026

Apple TV search gets smarter with personalized ranking from watch history

Apple researchers built a personalization system for Apple TV search that combines text-based and ID-based emb…

Apple Machine LearningJul 17, 2026

Google Vids adds AI avatar, Gemini Omni for personalized video creation

Google announced updates to Google Vids on Thursday that let you create a custom digital avatar based on a sel…

TechCrunch AIJul 16, 2026

Google Vids adds Gemini Omni and personal avatars for AI video creation

Google is rolling out two new features to Google Vids—Gemini Omni, which generates and edits high-quality vide…

Google AI BlogJul 16, 2026

PixVerse reaches $2B valuation on $439M Series C funding

Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse closed an extended Series C round at over $2 billion(約3200億円) valuat…

THE DECODERJul 14, 2026

OpenAI shutters ChatGPT Atlas browser after less than a year

OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser launched in October, with deprecation targeted for August 9…

The Verge AIJul 9, 2026

OpenAI shuts Sora video app, Disney deal scrapped

OpenAI announced Tuesday it is shutting down the Sora app, the video generation tool the company launched in D…

Top Companies AIJul 4, 2026

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash for faster AI images and video

Google released two new AI models—Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast image generation at $0.034 per image in four sec…

THE DECODERJun 30, 2026

Google DeepMind invests $75M in A24, signaling shift from video tools to content

Google DeepMind invested $75 million(約120億円) in indie film studio A24 this week, with the two companies partne…

Yahoo Finance AIJun 26, 2026

Micron earnings test AI spending momentum this week

Market strategists on CNBC argued this week that the AI capital-spending cycle still has runway, with Micron T…

Yahoo Finance AIJun 22, 2026

SpaceX's record IPO surges 19% on day one, signaling Wall Street confidence that the AI-driven stock market has room for more capital raises.

SpaceX went public and its stock rose 19% on its first trading day, Friday

Yahoo Finance AIJun 14, 2026

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xAI releases Grok Imagine Video 1.5, an image-to-video model generating 720p video from still images

xAI has released Grok Imagine Video 1.5 in preview

THE DECODERJun 4, 2026

Podcast hosts argue AI infrastructure buildout has real runway through 2027, pointing to Taiwan Semiconductor demand as the key signal

On the Earn Your Leisure podcast, co-hosts Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings laid out a thesis that the AI buildo…

Yahoo Finance AIMay 26, 2026

Global Mofy AI Limited connects Gausspeed, its generative AI platform for film and digital content production, with its proprietary 3D digital asset library containing more than 150,000 high-precision assets.

Global Mofy announced a platform development milestone for Gausspeed on May 22, 2026, integrating the generati…

Yahoo Finance AIMay 22, 2026

Runway has raised close to $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation and is pushing beyond AI video generation into world models for gaming and robotics

Runway, a New York-based company, has raised close to $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation

TechCrunch AIApr 29, 2026

SpaceX strikes $60 billion deal to acquire or fund Cursor, an AI coding platform, as Elon Musk's companies race against OpenAI and Google in artificial intelligence

SpaceX announced a deal to either buy Cursor (an AI tool that auto-generates computer code) for $60 billion or…

The Verge AIApr 22, 2026

Bill Peebles, leader of OpenAI's Sora video generation project, departs as the company abandons the tool to refocus on coding and enterprise applications.

OpenAI discontinued its Sora video generation tool last month, marking a strategic shift away from experimenta…

The Verge AIApr 17, 2026

OpenAI loses two key executives as it abandons consumer projects like Sora to focus on enterprise AI products

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are departing OpenAI amid a strategic shift away from experimental consumer initia…

TechCrunch AIApr 17, 2026

Runway CEO argues AI production tools could enable studios to create 50 lower-budget films instead of betting everything on single $100M blockbusters.

AI video generation technology could democratize film production by reducing costs and timelines for content c…

Hacker NewsApr 17, 2026

Runway CEO argues AI production tools could enable studios to create 50 films at the cost of a single $100M blockbuster, potentially improving odds of finding hits through volume.

Runway's leadership believes AI can dramatically reduce production costs, allowing studios to experiment with…

TechCrunch AIApr 16, 2026

Explosive AI agent demand is creating a compute crunch, forcing major companies like Anthropic and OpenAI to grapple with service outages and GPU shortages.

Anthropic is experiencing service outages due to insufficient compute capacity to meet surging demand for AI a…

THE DECODERApr 13, 2026

International research team launches OpenWorldLib to standardize world model definitions, excluding text-to-video generators like Sora

An international research team created OpenWorldLib to establish clear criteria for what qualifies as a world…

THE DECODERApr 12, 2026

Wan 2.7 emerges as a new AI video generation tool capable of converting both text and images into video content

Wan 2.7 is an AI video generator supporting text-to-video and image-to-video conversion capabilities

Hacker NewsApr 10, 2026

Creator with 650K TikTok followers shares AI video generation insights, highlighting Gemini Nano as top image model and Chinese competitors rapidly advancing in video creation

Content creator has amassed 650k TikTok followers primarily by making 3D animal short story videos using AI

Hacker NewsApr 10, 2026

Google Vids now offers free AI-powered video generation and editing using Lyria 3 and Veo 3.1 models

Google Vids integrates Lyria 3 and Veo 3.1 AI models for enhanced video creation capabilities

Google AI BlogApr 2, 2026

Despite skepticism from Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy, Hollywood continues embracing AI technology at Runway Summit, comparing it to transformative innovations like fire and the printing press.

Kathleen Kennedy emerged as a rare voice of skepticism about AI adoption at the Runway AI Summit

WIRED AIApr 1, 2026

New AI framework Stepper generates immersive 3D scenes from text using stepwise panoramic expansion with improved fidelity and consistency

Stepper addresses the visual fidelity vs

arXiv cs.CVApr 1, 2026

Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, a budget-friendly video generation model now available through Gemini API and AI Studio

Veo 3.1 Lite is Google's most cost-effective video generation model to date

Google AI BlogMar 31, 2026

OpenAI's discontinuation of Sora video generation tool highlights the risks and limitations of rapidly scaling AI products without sustainable business models.

OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its AI video generation product, suggesting challenges in commercializing the te…

Hacker NewsMar 31, 2026

Runway invests $10M to fuel AI video startup ecosystem as it races toward real-time video intelligence capabilities

Runway is establishing a $10 million fund specifically designed to support early-stage startups building appli…

TechCrunch AIMar 31, 2026

OpenAI's abrupt shutdown of Sora video tool after six months sparks speculation about data collection practices and facial recognition concerns.

OpenAI shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after its public release

TechCrunch AIMar 30, 2026

OpenAI's potential Sora shutdown raises questions about whether AI video generation is facing a broader industry pullback or just standard business decisions.

OpenAI may be shutting down Sora, its AI video generation model, signaling potential uncertainty in the viabil…

TechCrunch AIMar 29, 2026

DaVinci-MagiHuman brings open-source realistic video generation capabilities to developers worldwide

DaVinci-MagiHuman is an open-source AI model designed to generate realistic human videos

Hacker NewsMar 29, 2026

OpenAI abandons Sora video generation and Disney partnership while raising $10 billion to improve profitability

OpenAI scrapped its Sora video-generation app and reversed plans to integrate video generation into ChatGPT

The Verge AIMar 28, 2026

Developer launches VizTools, a collection of 16 deliberately non-AI tools for PMs and freelancers that prioritize simple design and correct math over language models.

VizTools includes meeting cost calculators, freelance rate calculators, PRD generators, runway calculators, an…

Hacker NewsMar 28, 2026

As AI infrastructure demands explode, rural communities are increasingly resisting billion-dollar data center deals despite lucrative offers.

An 82-year-old Kentucky woman rejected a $26 million offer from an AI company seeking to build a data center o…

TechCrunch AIMar 27, 2026

An 82-year-old Kentucky woman rejects $26 million AI data center deal, signaling growing public resistance to AI infrastructure expansion.

A Kentucky woman turned down a $26 million offer from an AI company seeking to build a data center on her land

TechCrunch AIMar 27, 2026

ByteDance integrates its advanced Dreamina Seedance 2.0 AI video generation model into CapCut with built-in safeguards against deepfakes and IP theft.

ByteDance's Dreamina Seedance 2.0 is now available in CapCut, the company's popular video editing platform

TechCrunch AIMar 26, 2026

OpenAI indefinitely shelves ChatGPT's adult mode following employee and investor concerns over societal harms.

OpenAI has paused its planned 'adult mode' for ChatGPT due to pushback from employees and investors worried ab…

The Verge AIMar 26, 2026

New TrajLoom framework predicts future motion in videos by modeling dense point trajectories using flow matching and variational autoencoders.

TrajLoom uses Grid-Anchor Offset Encoding to reduce location bias by representing points as offsets from pixel…

arXiv cs.CVMar 25, 2026

OpenAI reportedly abandons Sora video generation project and ends major partnership with Disney

OpenAI has discontinued development of its Sora video generation model

r/artificialMar 25, 2026

OpenAI discontinues Sora video generation tool after six months of operation, signaling challenges in AI video technology commercialization.

OpenAI has shut down Sora, its AI video generator, just six months after launch

Hacker NewsMar 25, 2026

OpenAI shuts down its Sora-powered social feed app despite the underlying video and audio generation model's technical capabilities.

OpenAI is discontinuing Sora, an AI-only social feed application that generated videos and audio

TechCrunch AIMar 25, 2026

Sora 2 launches with safety built in

OpenAI released Sora 2 and the Sora app, featuring state-of-the-art video generation and social creation, with…

OpenAI BlogMar 23, 2026

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