The week in generative media · Oct 19 – Oct 26, 2026
Music rights company Reservoir has filed separate lawsuits against AI music-generation platform Suno and AI company Anthropic, alleging copyright infringement of more than 1,050...
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Romain Gavras, the director behind the widely circulated "Storm" music video for Yung Lean and Gener8ion, says an avalanche of AI-generated deepfake imitations of the video—some...
Higgsfield, the generative AI platform for synthetic video creation, has topped up its $400 million Series B round — originally closed in August at a $5.4 billion valuation — wi...
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AGC International, the sales and distribution arm of AGC Studios, has acquired worldwide distribution rights to "Gods Don't Give Gifts," an AI-assisted animated sci-fi feature d...
Sony and Universal Music have filed an opposition in Boston federal court against Lightspeed Venture Partners' motion to quash a subpoena, seeking to compel the Suno investor to...
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AI video tools like Runway's Act-One and Act-Two can transfer a human performance onto a generated character—capturing motion and timing from a single-camera phone take—but that...
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A new analysis by Frank Houbre of Outerframe Studio cuts through the marketing around AI video "draft mode," arguing that the feature doesn't reduce render costs — it only reduc...
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Kling has pulled ahead of Runway in both commercial scale and core video-generation performance. The Chinese platform, backed by Kuaishou, is running at an annualized revenue pa...
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Abundantia Entertainment's AI studio division, Abundantia aiON, has announced Beta Builder as the first title from its Rs 100 crore partnership with AI video technology company ...
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Canva has launched its first in-house image generation model, rolling it out to all users on the platform. The company says the model delivers improved performance and greater c...
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