The week in generative media · Sep 21 – Sep 28, 2026
Prediction market platform Kalshi has admitted that an AI-generated advertisement circulating on YouTube was created by repurposing a video from tech creator Elliott Choy withou...
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Nearly a year after its iOS debut, Adobe's Premiere mobile app is now available on Android via the Google Play Store for devices running Android 13 or later with at least 5GB of...
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Turkish arthouse distributor Baska Sinema has picked up domestic theatrical rights to "A Woman Asleep," an 80-minute experimental AI-generated drama directed by Vikki Bardot, wi...
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Adobe has launched a new plugin bringing its creative suite — including Photoshop, Lightroom, Express, and Firefly — directly into Google's Gemini AI assistant. The integration ...
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TheWrap's first-ever AI Creator Day, set for September 29 in Los Angeles, will open with a keynote from Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju, who previously ran Weta Digital and found...
A new research paper challenges one of the foundational assumptions behind image-generation evaluation: that Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) scores are stable enough to reliabl...
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics have introduced Generative Relightable Avatars (GRA), a person-specific method for photorealistic free-view rendering and...
Michael Smith, who defrauded streaming platforms of roughly $8 million by uploading AI-generated songs and using bots to artificially inflate their play counts, is asking for no...
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Researchers have introduced DreamUV, an end-to-end generative framework that reframes UV unwrapping as a flow matching problem. Rather than optimizing traditional geometric ener...
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Insta360 unveiled Spatial Capture for the X6 during the opening of its first North American flagship store in Times Square, with a U.S. rollout set for September 28. The feature...
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Adobe has confirmed that its acquisition of Topaz Labs is now complete, with the AI image and video enhancement company set to continue operating as a standalone brand while its...
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GRAI, an AI music company backed by Khosla Ventures, has acquired Hangout, a social music platform that launched in November 2024 with a catalog of over 100 million licensed tra...
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