The week in generative media · Oct 5 – Oct 12, 2026
ChatGPT has been generating cartoon images bearing the forged signatures of working New Yorker cartoonists — including Brendan Loper, Harry Bliss, Emily Flake, Joe Dator, Pat By...
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The AI Movie Awards (AIMA) festival is heading to London for its second edition on November 7–8, 2026, marking its first move outside Spain after a debut in Magaluf, Mallorca th...
Sony Music has sent takedown requests to platforms for more than 260,000 AI-generated tracks impersonating major artists on its roster, including Harry Styles, Adele, and Michae...
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At the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) in Busan, Kling AI hosted a panel of directors and producers who argued that cinematography expertise — art direction, framing, lighti...
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Filmmaker Abhik Banerjee's AI short film Sitara, produced in collaboration with Tamasha Studios and Rollsound Studios, has taken second place at Kazakhstan's Astana AI Film Fest...
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Researchers from Caltech and World Labs have introduced LoGo, a post-training method designed to address a persistent failure mode in camera-controlled video generation: 3D inco...
Italy's consumer watchdog has launched an investigation into AI music platform Suno, raising concerns about several provisions in its terms of service. The probe focuses on pric...
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Researchers have released Sphere Encoder 2, a follow-up to the original Sphere Encoder autoencoder that generates images by decoding random points sampled from a high-dimensiona...
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Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and TNO have introduced Loop Flow Transformers (LiFT), a new family of generative model architectures that replaces stacking many di...
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Midjourney is rolling out a "Thinking Mode" for image generation on its Alpha platform, applying extended reasoning to improve prompt accuracy, typography, and overall image coh...
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DittoDub has released Native 6, its new default AI dubbing model, supporting 109 languages and 126 dialect options. The model is designed to preserve a creator's voice, energy, ...
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Ben Affleck founded InterPositive in 2022 after years of hands-on involvement in visual effects, machine learning, and GPU-driven workflows. Concerned that generic AI models lac...
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