The week in generative media · Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026
AI-generated sci-fi short "The Gifted," directed by Jeff Synthesized, has won the $3.5 million grand prize at the Future Vision Xprize, one of the world's largest film competiti...
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Italian filmmaker and AI creative director Jacopo Reale has won the Best Direction award at the inaugural Astana AI Film Festival 2026 for his AI-generated thriller "The Fractur...
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The three-day final of the Astana AI Film Festival (AAIFF 2026) opened October 1 in Astana, Kazakhstan, with 25 films selected from more than 8,000 submissions by creators acros...
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AI voice generation startup ElevenLabs has doubled its valuation to $22 billion through a $300 million employee tender offer co-led by investment firms Wellington and T. Rowe Pr...
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Google has introduced two new text-to-speech models under the Gemini 3.8 family: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, built for deep creative direction and character voice design, and Gemini 3...
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Analysis by data journalist Joseph Politano, drawing on US Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, finds that American creative industries have shed more than 200,000 jobs over the ...
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Bona Film Group has announced that Sanxingdui: Future Past, a 100-minute hyper-realistic feature film produced using AI throughout its workflow, will hit Chinese cinemas on Octo...
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Utopai Studios has unveiled PAI, a production intelligence platform built specifically for professional film and television, alongside Utopai X, its video generation model. Deve...
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WorldCrafter is a video world model designed to maintain spatial coherence as users navigate generated scenes over time. Rather than relying on explicit depth estimation or geom...
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Suno CEO Mikey Shulman says the AI music generation platform has surpassed 2 million subscribers and $300 million in revenue, offering a rare glimpse into the commercial scale t...
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Midjourney has pushed a round of UI refinements to its alpha platform at alpha.midjourney.com, including style previews in the sidebar so users can see results before generating...
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At TheWrap's TheGrill business conference, writer/director Eliza McNitt and fellow AI filmmakers made the case that humans must remain central to productions even as AI tools re...
