The week in generative media · Jun 15 – Jun 22, 2026
Object-WIPER, a training-free research method from Adobe Research and UT Dallas accepted to CVPR 2026, goes beyond simple mask-and-fill object removal by also erasing associated...
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Adobe is rolling out Premiere AI Assistant, a new chat-based panel coming first to Premiere's beta channel. Editors can instruct it in natural language to handle a wide range of...
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Researchers from the University of Maryland and Adobe have introduced SliderEdit, a framework that adds continuous, per-instruction intensity control to existing instruction-bas...
Hallstone Ventures, the entertainment-focused venture fund led by industry veteran Seth Hallen, has closed its debut Fund I at over $10 million and revealed its first four portf...
Netflix and Focus Features have both declined to acquire distribution rights to Luca Guadagnino's 'Artificial,' a dramatic biopic centered on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The film was...
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Taste, a San Francisco-based AI infrastructure startup, has closed an $18.5M seed round co-led by CRV and Amplify to tackle what it calls "subjective domains"—the gap between AI...
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A year after the collapse of Technicolor sent shockwaves through the global VFX industry, another major consolidation is underway: TransPerfect, a translation and AI services co...
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Odyssey, an AI company focused on world models, has raised a new funding round that values the startup at $1.45 billion. The round is backed by Amazon alongside other prominent ...
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A new research paper from Philippe Weier, Lukas Bode, Philipp Slusallek, Adrián Jarabo, and Sébastien Speierer introduces a compact five-dimensional neural encoding designed to ...
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The Directors Guild of Canada issued a formal manifesto at the Banff World Media Festival, calling for robust protections for film and television creatives in the face of advanc...
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Grammy-winning artist SZA took to Instagram to publicly condemn musicians she says are complicit in AI music generation, singling out platforms like Suno for allegedly training ...
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Snap is spinning off its internal AI video team into a new independent company called Dotmo, which will focus on generative video development. The move follows a pattern of Snap...
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