Genie 4: Research Preview, Native Audio, and Two-Minute Cap
Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 4 with native audio and two-minute simulations. The research preview is live for testers ahead of Ultra access in coming weeks.
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Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 4 with native audio and two-minute simulations. The research preview is live for testers ahead of Ultra access in coming weeks.
OpenAI's Sept 21 note: 100 ad variants from one prompt, and one engineer shipping a feature in a day. Object swaps are the useful part. The 'in a day' line is the part to test.
Germanidis said Runway went from about $100 million ARR in April to $200 million in September. The same day, the Kinetix team in Paris joined to work on robotics. Enterprise video is the invoice. World models are the pitch.
DataEye says 89 of Douyin's top 100 dramas in May were AI-generated. China's Q1 short-drama flood is 95% synthetic. The hit rate is brutal.
How Midjourney, OpenAI's image generation in ChatGPT and the API, and open-weight Stable Diffusion differ in workflow, control, licensing and cost model, based on official documentation, with a guide to choosing.
KOMCA reversed its ban on AI-assisted music registration, but requires strict disclosure. Here's what creators need to know about the new rules.
The District 9 director used Seedance 2.0 to create a 13-minute sci-fi horror short, directing frame by frame through text prompts. It's the most significant endorsement of AI filmmaking from a major director yet.
Meta Superintelligence Labs launches Muse Image, its first in-house AI image generator. Free, integrated across Instagram and WhatsApp, and built to reason through prompts — but the way it taps into public Instagram photos has raised eyebrows.
Krea AI has open-sourced Krea 2, its aesthetic-first image model, as two checkpoints: RAW for LoRA training and Turbo for 8-step inference. Here's how the architecture, the license, and the day-one ecosystem stack up.
From text-to-music-video to AI-powered editing suites, a new wave of tools is automating music video production. Here's what's available, how they compare, and what it means for creators.
AI video tools are moving beyond single-prompt clips to full multi-scene narrative workflows with character consistency, visual continuity, and parallel generation. Here's how the technology evolved and how creators are using it.
Snap is spinning off a generative AI video team into Dotmo, a company building AI models for interactive gaming. How the licence-and-equity deal works, Bobby Murphy's role, and why AI spin-offs are used to manage cost.
In a June 2026 video, Epic Games showed how Fortnite artists start from hand-drawn designs and 3D block-outs, then use its internal GenMedia Bridge tool with Nano Banana and GPT Image for rendering and variations. Here is what the video shows, what Epic said, and what remains unanswered.
Epic Games breaks the silence on AI-generated assets in Fortnite, revealing a hybrid human-AI workflow for character skin and concept art design. The disclosure comes amid a wave of generative AI controversies across major game studios.
Indian startup Avataar AI releases Varya, a video generation model distilled from Alibaba's open-source Wan 2.2, delivering 10x speed gains, dramatically lower costs, and deep cultural adaptation for the Indian market — backed by the government's $1.2B India AI Mission.
In 2026, AI video tools evolve from generating clips to orchestrating multi-scene narratives with character persistence and story awareness.
Midjourney V7 and DALL-E 4 are the most prominent AI image generation tools in 2026. This article provides a comprehensive comparison across image quality, user experience, features, and use cases to help professional creators make informed choices.
Stop getting lost in buzzwords. This guide explains how AIGC (Generative AI), AI, ML, DL, and LLMs fit together, plus a practical checklist for choosing tools without getting burned.