The week in generative media · Jun 22 – Jun 29, 2026
Adobe has announced the acquisition of Topaz Labs, maker of widely used AI-powered video and image enhancement, upscaling, and denoising tools. Topaz products are deeply embedde...
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Wirestock, a creative marketplace that pivoted from stock photography distribution to AI data supply in 2023, has raised $23 million in Series A funding led by Nava Ventures, wi...
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Researchers from Netflix and Caltech have published Vera, a layered diffusion model that jointly generates an edit layer, alpha matte, and composite video from a source clip and...
Researchers from Stability AI and the University of Tübingen have introduced Arbor, a method for controllable 3D asset generation that uses typed geometric constraint meshes as ...
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Researchers from the University of Hong Kong, Alibaba Group, Horizon Robotics, and Ant Group have introduced SCOPE (Scale-Consistent One-Pass Estimation of 3D Geometry), a deep-...
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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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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 ...
Robert Gaudette, a Toronto-based nonprofit worker and self-taught AI video generator, took home the $50,000 Grand Prix at Runway's AI Film Festival with "A Face Only a Mother Co...
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ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at Volcano Engine's FORCE conference, with a launch slated for early July. The model generates single video clips up to 30 seconds long — without...
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Figma announced a slate of AI-powered design and development features at its annual Config 2026 conference. Highlights include a new Motion tool that lets designers create anima...
The UK's Automated Online Software (Access and Transparency) Bill is being drafted to stop AI bots from using deceptive tactics—such as masquerading as humans or legitimate sear...
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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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