The week in generative media · Jul 20 – Jul 27, 2026
Primordial Soup Labs, the AI film and content studio founded by director Darren Aronofsky and producing partner Dylan Golden, has filed with the SEC for a $15 million equity rai...
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Bafta has updated its awards eligibility rules to explicitly allow films made with generative AI tools, stating that its awards exist to recognise "outstanding human achievement...
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NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) has expanded its NewNarratives grant initiative to $35,000 in total funding, distributed across six grants in three categories. The expansion i...
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Boris FX has acquired iZotope, the widely used audio technology company known for its Neutron, Nectar, Ozone, and RX product lines. The deal resolves months of uncertainty for i...
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The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) is pressing a court to deny motions to dismiss its lawsuit against Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, arguing that the labe...
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Hollywood's relationship with artificial intelligence has shifted from defensive skepticism to active partnership. Netflix acquired AI production platform InterPositive — co-fou...
Sony Music filed a new lawsuit against AI music platform Udio in New York on July 20, asserting over 30,000 sound recordings that a judge had previously barred the major label f...
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Director Zack London, the creative force behind YouTube generative AI filmmaking channel Gossip Goblin, is bringing his first feature-length AI-generated film, "Gods Don't Give ...
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Deezer has revealed that AI-generated tracks now account for more than half of all content uploaded to its platform daily, with over 90,000 such tracks being submitted every day...
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Filmmaker Dave Clark, cofounder and chief creative officer of Promise, is using generative AI to tackle a persistent Hollywood problem: showing studios what a film can look like...
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Runway has introduced Media Router, a new AI tool that automatically selects the optimal generative model for a given image, video, or audio creation task. Developers can set th...
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Hugging Face Diffusers now natively integrates Nunchaku Lite, a 4-bit quantization engine built on the SVDQuant method, allowing developers to load pre-quantized text-to-image m...
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