The week in generative media · Jun 29 – Jul 6, 2026
The UK-based Agents of Young Performers Association (AYPA) has published an open letter — signed by more than 1,000 representatives and actors — alleging that a major studio beh...
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Apple has shipped Final Cut Pro 12.3, a feature-packed update that addresses long-standing requests from both professional editors and social-media creators. Headline additions ...
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A Press Gazette investigation into AI-generated sports journalism published by online marketing company Clickout Media was removed from Google search results following a fraudul...
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The LocalAI team has released ced.cpp, a C++17 inference port of Xiaomi's CED (Consistent Ensemble Distillation) audio-tagging models built on the ggml runtime. The library clas...
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Midjourney is pushing to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose how they themselves use artificial intelligence, as part of its defense in a major copyright infr...
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Hugging Face and Cerebras have demonstrated a real-time speech-to-speech pipeline that chains NVIDIA's Parakeet for speech recognition, Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 31B for languag...
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Neon is nearing a deal to distribute "Artificial," the OpenAI-backed feature film directed by Luca Guadagnino. The move comes after Amazon dropped the project, a development tha...
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Researchers have introduced FlowBender, a training framework for conditional flow and diffusion models that treats a model's own alignment error as a direct input during trainin...
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Researcher Alexander Goslin has introduced InfiniteDiffusion, a training-free algorithm accepted to SIGGRAPH 2026 that reformulates diffusion sampling to enable unbounded, seaml...
Wan Streamer is a new end-to-end multimodal foundation model built for real-time, full-duplex audio-visual interaction within a single Transformer architecture. Unlike existing ...
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Dutch artist Ray Tijssen has unveiled "Algorithmic Organisms 2.0," an AI-driven immersive audiovisual exhibition now open at The Grey Box, GMBB Kuala Lumpur, running through Jul...
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Finalists in the Next Lab Generation program were mandated to incorporate Meta's Quill VR animation software and Magnific AI into their pitch development process ahead of presen...
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