General 4 stories

• AI Filmmakers Are Bypassing Hollywood — and Building Audiences of Millions 21 days ago
• Elon Musk Shares AI-Generated 'The Odyssey' Trailer Made with Grok Imagine 21 days ago
• AI-Hybrid Horror Feature 'Terrarium' Announces Full Cast, Begins Principal Photography 24 days ago
• AI Studio Asteria Partners with Virtual Production Studio ZeroSpace to Build Hybrid Filmmaking Workflows 24 days ago

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Funding 24 days ago

Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Build Ultra-Fast, Human-Sounding Voice AI

Smallest.ai has closed a $13 million funding round to develop ultra-fast voice AI models capable of producing phone calls that sound convincingly human. The company's core ambit...

· #funding #voice-ai-evaluation #saas-market-dynamics

Legal 24 days ago

Suno Loses Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Brought by GEMA in German Court

Munich Regional Court has ruled that AI music generator Suno infringed copyright by using copyrighted music to train its model without licensing or compensating rightsholders. T...

· #legal-policy #ai-music-creativity

General 25 days ago

AI-Powered Short Films Are Breaking China's Studio Gatekeeping

A new wave of young Chinese filmmakers with no formal training is using AI tools to produce short films on minimal budgets—and winning major festival recognition in the process....

· #ai-filmmaking #ai-job-displacement #short-form-production-economy

Event 2 stories

• YRF and Google to Co-Host AI Filmmaking Workshop at YRF Studios on August 4 25 days ago
• Google Flow Sessions Residency Showcases Emotionally Resonant AI-Assisted Short Films 26 days ago

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General 26 days ago

Amazon Scales Back Nova AI Models, Pivots Remaining Resources to Robotics

Amazon is gutting its in-house AI labs, placing most of its Nova text, video, and image-generating models into maintenance-only "keep the lights on" status, according to a Bloom...

· #saas-market-dynamics #world-models #research