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23 days ago
Google DeepMind Bets $75M on AI's Future in Hollywood with A24 Deal
Google DeepMind and indie film powerhouse A24 have announced a $75 million partnership aimed at developing AI-powered filmmaking tools for the entertainment industry. The deal s...
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Tool
23 days ago
LocalAI Ships depth-anything.cpp: A Dependency-Free C++/ggml Port of ByteDance's Depth Anything 3
The LocalAI team has released depth-anything.cpp, a from-scratch C++17/ggml port of ByteDance's Depth Anything 3 model that performs monocular metric depth estimation and camera...
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Research
23 days ago
Discriminator-Guided RL Sharply Improves Flow-Matching Diffusion Model Quality Without Human Preference Labels
Researchers from Meta AI and collaborators have proposed Discriminator-Guided RL (DRL), a method to correct a structural flaw they identify in flow- and score-matching diffusion...
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Funding
23 days ago
AFP Launches MediaGen, a €4M Generative AI Project for Newsrooms
Agence France-Presse (AFP) has launched MediaGen, a €4 million generative AI initiative selected under France's France 2030 plan and backed by the French Public Investment Bank ...
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Tool
23 days ago
Hyper3D Launches Rodin V2.5 for Production-Ready 3D Model Generation from Text or Images
Hyper3D has released Rodin V2.5, a generative AI model accessible via API that produces production-ready 3D assets from text prompts or image inputs. The model outputs mesh and ...
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Legal
24 days ago
Federal Court Dismisses xAI's Trade Secret Claims Against OpenAI With Prejudice
A federal court in San Francisco dismissed xAI's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI with prejudice on June 15, 2026. The court found that xAI had sought to use the discovery pr...
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Funding
24 days ago
Google DeepMind Invests ~$75M in A24 to Co-Develop AI Filmmaking Tools
Google DeepMind has announced a hands-on R&D partnership with independent studio A24, backed by an investment reported by the Wall Street Journal to be in the $75 million range....
Legal
24 days ago
Music Publishers File SCOTUS Cert Petition to Reverse Fifth Circuit's Worldwide Copyright Termination Ruling
Four major music publishing companies—the publishing arms of Sony, Universal, and Warner, joined by BMG—have filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the Supreme Court t...
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