Goldenrod launched a real-time financial platform that categorizes a production's qualified spend as it lands and packages the final rebate submission for state film commissions, with coverage live in Texas, Louisiana…
Universal Music Group has licensed its artist catalog to ElevenLabs to build an AI-powered music platform where fans can remix and mash up official tracks and generate new interpretations of them. The licensing agreem…
AFM's 2026 Market gains a dedicated 15,000-square-foot venue, The AFM House, that puts its AI and technology programming and a new theatrical-exhibition track under one roof for every registered badge holder. The indo…
The platform where AI filmmakers find, fine-tune, and deploy open image and video models is set to change hands. Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, and neither compa…
Matriarch, the self-funded Los Angeles studio from Verena Puhm, is developing its own audience-response technology alongside its film and series slate rather than adding it to a traditional studio later. Puhm told Dea…
Disney named five growth-stage companies to its 2026 Accelerator cohort, and two of them build generative AI directly for film and series production: Promise and OpenArt. Both startups now enter a four-month program t…
Disney is putting digital creators on a Hollywood red carpet and opening its Burbank studio lot for a new two-day gathering called Created in LA. The event, which Disney describes as its fi
Netflix disclosed that generative AI workflows were used in roughly 300 of its titles in 2026, the clearest number the company has put on its production-side AI use so far. The figure app
LTX is spinning off from Lightricks to operate as an independent company built around open "world models," AI systems designed to understand and simulate physical and virt
AV Stumpfl is bringing its PIXERA media-server community to Nashville for Base Camp 2026 , a three-day user gathering running October 26 to 28, 2026. The company fr
A world model and GenAI hackathon, Worlds in Action Hack [02-LA]: SIGGRAPH Edition , runs July 18-19, 2026 at the Arizona State University California Ce
Sony Pictures Entertainment is investing $100 million in Cosm for a minority stake in the immersive venue company, according to The Hollywood Reporter . SPE chairman and CEO Ravi Ahuja will join Cosm
Martin Scorsese has signed on as an advisor to Black Forest Labs , the AI lab behind the FLUX image model family, with the company framing his role around using its tools for pre-produc
Google is putting a reported $75 million into A24 and pairing the studio with Google DeepMind to develop AI filmmaking tools, according to the companies' research p
DreamWorks' MoonRay Keynote Headlines ASWF Open Source Days in LA June 22, 2026 The Academy Software Foundation released the full schedule for Open Source Days , its annual open source program for motion picture and media technology. The event runs July 19-20, 2026 at the J.W
DreamWorks' MoonRay Renderer Becomes an ASWF-Hosted Project May 19, 2026 DreamWorks Animation's MoonRay renderer — the path-tracing engine behind every DreamWorks feature film since 2019 — has joined the Academy Software Foundation as an official hosted project. For VFX a
Chinese short-video platform Kuaishou is preparing to spin off its Kling AI video generation business into a standalone company at a target valuation near $20 billion, according to The Information . The unit i
Viewers Downgrade Art When Told It's AI, Even When It's an Actual Monet May 16, 2026 A viral X post asked followers to explain, in as much detail as possible, what made an "AI-generated Monet" inferior to a real Monet painting. The image was a real Monet. The cr
Sony issued a clarification about the AI Camera Assistant feature on its Xperia 1 VIII flagship phone, one day after its launch announcement drew thousands of negative replies from photographe
Netflix's INKubator Brings GenAI-Native Animation Pipelines to Shorts and Specials May 16, 2026 Netflix has been building an internal animation studio called INKubator (INK) that will produce short-form animated content using generative AI, The Verge reported . The unit launc
Atomos used NAB 2026 to launch the Sumo PRO-19 monitor/recorder/switcher , wireless production headphones , a rack-mount Shogun AV-19 , an advanced PTZ controller , and a CF E
The Visual Effects Society has launched VFX Women Who Lead , a new initiative chaired by Neishaw Ali (founding partner, CEO, and executive producer of Spin VFX ) that aims to address systemic barriers fa
Wonder Project, the faith-and-family streaming platform behind House of David , has partnered with generative AI lab Luma AI to launch Innovative Dreams , a production company and R
Avid and Google Cloud have signed a multi-year partnership to embed Gemini models and Vertex AI into Avid Media Composer and Content Core, Avid's new cloud-native SaaS platform, acco
