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…
Cloudflare, a major web infrastructure company, will now track and verify the authenticity of images across its network through Content Credentials, a digital signature system that documents an image’s origin and editing history. The technology, developed by Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative, embeds metadata showing who created an image, when it Read more…
Mikey Shulman, the CEO and founder of the AI music generator company Suno AI, thinks people don’t enjoy making music. “We didn’t just want to build a company that makes the current crop of creators 10 percent faster or makes it 10 percent easier to make music. If you want Read more…
ChatGPT maker OpenAI released its AI-generated video tool called Sora for general use by its paying customers Monday. The company then said it would do wide testing with creatives and red-teaming with security experts before its release to the public. “We don’t want the world to just be text,” OpenAI Read more…