The week in generative media · Jul 13 – Jul 20, 2026
Elon Musk's xAI has filed suit in Texas against Terry Wayne Harwood, a 67-year-old South Carolina man arrested in March on multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, all...
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Five amicus briefs landed at the Supreme Court on Thursday urging the justices to grant certiorari in BMG Rights Management v. Vetter and reverse a Fifth Circuit ruling that U.S...
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Blackmagic Design has released version 3.4 of its Blackmagic Camera app for Android, bringing a set of features aimed at making smartphones more viable in professional multi-cam...
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Researchers from NVIDIA and ETH Zürich have unveiled ARDY, an autoregressive diffusion framework for real-time interactive 3D human motion generation, accepted to ACM Transactio...
A coalition of major music industry and artists' organizations — including the RIAA, IFPI, the Recording Academy (Grammys), SAG-AFTRA, and the Human Artistry Campaign — has intr...
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The Raindance Film Festival has partnered with Israeli AI creative development platform IMGN to launch a £10,000 film fund and a dedicated development hub tied to the 2027 Raind...
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The Visual Effects Society has announced its honorees for the 2026 VES Honors Celebration, scheduled for September 4th at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Susan Zwer...
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Hume AI has released Real World VoiceEQ, a large-scale benchmark that evaluates more than 40 proprietary and open-source voice AI models across 15+ dimensions and 60+ metrics co...
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Thinking Machines has launched Inkling, a 1-trillion-parameter open multimodal large language model that natively ingests text, image, and audio inputs within a 1-million-token ...
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SIGGRAPH 2026, set for 19–23 July at the Los Angeles Convention Center, will open with a new one-day Games Summit on Sunday 19 July. The dedicated track brings together major st...
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Character.AI has debuted c.ai Series, a slate of short-form animated microdramas made primarily with generative AI and designed for mobile viewing. The launch kicks off with thr...
Image-Line has released FL Studio 2026 as a free update for all existing users under its Lifetime Free Updates policy. The release introduces Gopher, an agentic AI assistant des...
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