The week in generative media · Jul 27 – Aug 3, 2026
Munich Regional Court has ruled that AI music generator Suno infringed copyright by using copyrighted music to train its model without licensing or compensating rightsholders. T...
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Yash Raj Films (YRF) and Google will co-host an AI filmmaking workshop for India's creative community on August 4 at YRF Studios in New Delhi. The session will offer hands-on tr...
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Google Labs screened short films from the fourth cohort of its Flow Sessions artist residency at New York's Metrograph theater, featuring work by 11 filmmakers who used Google F...
A coalition of major music labels and distributors — including the major labels alongside Believe, BMG, Concord, and HYBE — has put forward a proposed framework that would estab...
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Google has expanded its Spaces platform — billed as a "vibe coding" tool — by integrating Flow Music, giving users the ability to generate and edit songs and split recordings in...
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Beeble AI, founded by a team of AI researchers with no prior film industry experience, is gaining traction in professional production with SwitchX—a video-to-video diffusion mod...
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AI music generation platform Suno is facing a proposed class action lawsuit filed on July 24 in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, stemming from a data bre...
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Fish Audio has secured a $52 million seed round to expand its AI voice model technology, which already serves more than 8 million users across both open-source and hosted deploy...
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FAL has released 3DREAL Strong v2, an open-source LoRA adapter for the LTX 2.3 video model that translates grey-box 3D blockouts into photorealistic footage while preserving exa...
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Smallest.ai has closed a $13 million funding round to develop ultra-fast voice AI models capable of producing phone calls that sound convincingly human. The company's core ambit...
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A new report from Luminate Intelligence, titled "AI & Media: Audience Attitudes," finds that US consumers are broadly hesitant about AI-generated or AI-assisted content in enter...
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Midjourney has acquired Co-Star, the popular astrology app, marking a notable step outside the AI image and video generation space where the company built its name. The deal sig...
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