The week in generative media · Aug 31 – Sep 7, 2026
Cinema St. Louis has adopted its first formal AI policy, prohibiting the use of generative AI to create any portion of a film's creative content in submissions to its festivals,...
The Television Academy and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) have announced the recipients of the joint 2026 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awar...
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Director Danny Boyle has confirmed that his new film "Ink" — which opened the 83rd Venice Film Festival before screening at Telluride — used AI technology in approximately 30 se...
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Canada's music rights collecting society SOCAN has filed a lawsuit against AI music platform Suno, alleging it copied copyrighted compositions — including Joni Mitchell's "Both ...
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Udio is defending its AI music generation training as fair use in a lawsuit brought by Sony Music Entertainment and nine affiliated labels over more than 30,000 recordings. The ...
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Director Francesco Carrozzini debuts "Be Brave," an 85-minute fully scripted documentary about Diesel founder Renzo Rosso, at the Venice Film Festival — making it among the firs...
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Finnish production company Frame Rate Ltd. has unveiled footagen.ai, an AI-native film workflow platform designed to take productions from screenplay to edit-ready shots while k...
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AI-Media will use IBC 2026 (Sept. 11–14, RAI Amsterdam) to demonstrate its full LEXI Suite — covering real-time captioning, multilingual translation, AI voice, audio description...
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Bibiana Rojas Gómez and Juan David Cárdenas premiere their 80-minute hybrid documentary 'The End of Times' in competition at the 41st Venice Critics' Week on September 9. The fi...
Luca Guadagnino's "Artificial," a film produced in collaboration with OpenAI, has secured premiere slots at both the New York Film Festival (NYFF) and a London film festival. NY...
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Autodesk's Flow Studio — the AI filmmaking tool that grew out of Wonder Dynamics — has launched a new feature called 3D Editor + Canvas. The workspace brings together AI-driven ...
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Gal Gadot is speaking out in defense of her decision to use AI-generated sets and lighting in her upcoming Prime Video action film "The Runner." Appearing on the "Happy Sad Conf...
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