The week in generative media · Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026
On October 15–16, 2026, a crawler identifying itself as "trellis2-data-sourcing/1.0" and linked to a Roblox researcher's email address swept through nearly the entire catalogues...
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The Akuna Group, chaired by actor Sir Idris Elba, has opened applications for "From Script to Screen with AI," a free 50-week AI filmmaking training program targeting emerging c...
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Now in its second year, AI Film Festival Japan 2026 held its awards ceremony at Tokyo Innovation Base in the Marunouchi district on November 1, drawing more than 730 submissions...
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Speaking at Evolution Mallorca, where he received the festival's Cinematography Icon Award, three-time Oscar-nominee Matthew Libatique told Variety that AI could realistically d...
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Suno has launched Suno MCP, a Model Context Protocol tool that allows users to generate music directly from within AI assistants including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The tool,...
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Scroll SoL-Engine has released Open-H3-Regenerate-2K, an open-source video refinement model that takes low-resolution video drafts — from 384P up to 768P — and regenerates them ...
Researchers from UC San Diego and collaborating institutions have proposed "Know, then Draw," a two-stage learning paradigm for text-to-image generation that separates semantic ...
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Universal Music Group CEO Sir Lucian Grainge used the company's quarterly earnings call to sound a fresh alarm about the scale of AI-generated music flooding streaming platforms...
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AI music startup Suno is pushing to compel Apple to testify in its ongoing litigation with major record labels, arguing that Universal Music Group and Sony Music use their catal...
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Spotify is targeting a Q1 2027 launch for an AI-powered tool that would let users create covers and remixes, according to a Financial Times report citing people familiar with th...
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A new paper from Mattia Scardecchia and Sherry Yang proposes that video world models can be significantly improved by optimizing their latent spaces for temporal predictability ...
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Two high-profile AI film projects have stumbled commercially and critically within days of each other, pointing to a shared weakness that goes deeper than image quality. China's...
