Midjourney has launched its first AI video generation model, V1, which turns images into short five-second videos with customizable animation settings. While it’s currently only available via Discord and on the web, the launch positions the popular AI image generation startup in direct competition with OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo. Read more…
Spain’s newspaper El Pais found an entire fake album on YouTube titled Rumba Congo (1973). And they cite a study from France’s International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers that estimated revenue from AI-generated music will rise to $4 billion in 2028, generating 20% of all streaming platforms’ revenue: Read more…
Apple today introduced Liquid Glass, a new design language that brings transparency and glass shine effects across macOS, iPadOS, iOS, and its other software platforms. Alan Dye, Apple’s VP of human interface, described the update as the company’s “broadest design update, ever” and “the first time we’re introducing a universal Read more…
Over 400 prominent UK media and arts figures — including Paul McCartney, Elton John, and Ian McKellen — have urged the prime minister to support an amendment to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose which copyrighted works they use for training. The UK government proposes to Read more…
Meta is partnering with Blumhouse to launch “Movie Mate” technology that encourages moviegoers to use their phones during theatrical screenings, beginning with an April 30 showing of “Megan” at Blumhouse’s “Halfway to Halloween Film Festival.” The system enables viewers to chat with a Megan-themed AI chatbot, answer trivia questions, and Read more…
It’s a feature-length film “rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender,” reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks. In January Blender.org called Flow “the manifestation of Blender’s mission, where a small, independent Read more…
Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 has broken multiple box office records, becoming China’s highest-grossing film of all time and the first non-Hollywood movie to surpass $1 billion in a single market. Helmed by Yang Yu, known as Jiaozi, the film hit the big screen during the lucrative Chinese New Read more…