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Google DeepMind introduced Genie 4, a new world model in research preview that you can steer with text prompts while a simulation runs and that generates its own audio, from ambient sound to dialogue. Google's trusted…
Kling AI made Kling 4.0 fully available through a refreshed creation interface on kling.ai and through MCP and CLI access, according to its launch post on X. The MCP and CLI routes open Kling 4.0 to agent and command-…
Fox Nation is launching "Houdini: Back from the Dead," a three-part series in which an AI-generated Harry Houdini answers interview questions on camera like a documentary subject, according to Variety. The production…
fal launched FLUX 3 Max, a post-trained version of Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 that generates a 10-second video in about 12 seconds, according to fal's FLUX 3 Max page. fal says that speed lets you try twenty takes of a…
BytePlus introduced Seedance 2.5 4K, a video model whose Draft mode lets creators test shots on what the company calls lower-cost 480p previews before generating the final version in 4K, according to its announcement…
BytePlus launched OmniHuman 2.0, an avatar video generation model that turns a single image and an audio track into up to five minutes of performed video in one continuous shot, according to its OmniHuman product page…
Ideogram has launched Ideogram Vector, which the company calls its first vector model, to generate editable SVG files from a text prompt or convert an existing image into a scalable vector. Because the output is vecto…
Prime Video introduced Prime 360, an AI-powered virtual camera system that reconstructs recorded basketball action as a 3D scene and shows replays from angles its physical broadcast cameras can't capture. Virtual view…
Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to pursue a court-supervised sale of all or substantially all of its assets, according to the company's own update. Disney has agreed to bid $20 million for a non-exclusive…
DiffHDR, a research framework from Texas A&M University, Eyeline Labs, and Netflix, converts ordinary 8-bit low dynamic range video into HDR by generating plausible radiance in regions the original footage blew out or…
Atlas turns footage from a few ordinary cameras into a space-time capture that can freeze action and generate new viewpoints after filming. In its Atlas launch post, World Labs says the model reconstructs spatial stru…
Blackmagic Design released DaVinci Resolve 21.1, a free update that connects AI assistants including Claude, Claude Code, and ChatGPT Codex to the editing application so editors can direct post-production work with pl…
Maxon is showing a first look at features planned for October across its Maxon One lineup, led by AI-powered relighting in Red Giant and procedural fur in Redshift. The preview of upcoming updates sits alongside capab…
Beeble launched SwitchX 2.0, an update to its video-to-video model that generates at native 4K in 10-bit color and handles shots up to 20 seconds. That pushes the tool past its 1080p output to finishing-length sequenc…
Strada lets remote video teams work with large files stored on local drives instead of first uploading them to centralized cloud storage. Creator and filmmaker Mark Fischbach, known as Markiplier, has made an investme…
Christy Anzelmo says AI has reversed the way visual effects artists work. Instead of building an image step by step and refining as they go, compositors now start from the result they want and trace back to the data o…
A Yoruba-language sci-fi feature reached completion using AI for roughly 80% of its visuals, with human direction and live-action performance covering the rest. The result is a finished, more-than-three-hour hybrid-AI…
Topaz Labs has released Hyperion 2.5, a new video model that converts 8-bit SDR footage into 10-bit ProRes or 16-bit EXR. The release gives colorists and VFX artists more data to push in a grade or composite, targetin…
AI models can take an image, generate an audio track, cut it into a video, and lip-sync a character in one automated pass. What they still can't do, according to Justine Moore, is judge whether any of it is good.
Ellenor Argyropoulos says she used to get death threats over her AI filmmaking. She says the reaction has flipped in the space of about a year and a half, and now studios and well-known directors are the ones who brin…
WorldClaw, a new paper from Tencent Hunyuan, describes a text-to-3D system that builds large, explorable scenes and returns editable, instance-level assets rather than a single locked render. The method leans on plann…
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…
LTX-2.5 generates connected shots that hold character, environment, lighting, and voice across cuts, then outputs native 4K HDR and a RAW workflow for professional color and finishing. The open-weights model runs on h…
Custom LoRA training for MiniMax H3 is now live on fal, and the company demonstrated it with Realism People, an open-source LoRA it says pushes the model toward photorealistic humans.
Doug Liman's Bitcoin was scheduled as a 72-day physical shoot across 213 locations in roughly 18 countries. The production shot it in 21 days on one gray stage instead. Producer Ryan Kavanaugh of KavBro Pictures says…
More than 10,000 complete AI-made dramas were published in one month, mostly in China, India, and Southeast Asia, according to Sophia Xing, founder of Plot Party. Her company runs a self-serve platform for making AI m…
Volinga has added 4D Gaussian Splatting support to its Unreal Engine workflow, letting animated splat captures play back in real time inside the engine.
MiniMax detailed H3, a general-purpose omni-modal model that the company says understands text, images, video, and audio in a single system, then generates video with native stereo audio at up to 2K resolution and 15…
Dreamina has launched Seedance 2.5, which it calls a new cinematic video model, in an announcement on X. The company positions the release around native long-form generation and direct plugins for two core 3D applicat…
Ideogram launched P-Image, a family of image models co-developed with PrunaAI, according to the company's announcement on X. The company says pricing starts at $0.003 per image, the models render native 1K and 2K outp…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, a new top-tier model built to run long, multi-step agents, and it lands at the same price as the previous Opus model. Opus 5 is available now across Claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude…
