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AI-Generated Music Surges 44%

AI-generated music is surging on Deezer, comprising 44% of daily uploads, with efforts underway to combat fraud through AI-detection technology.

Krishna Debuts at NAB Show 2026

Microsoft and Galleri5 unveiled the AI-native production workflow for 'Krishna' at NAB Show 2026, spotlighting the shift to AI-driven cinema.

Fortnite Developers Can Make AI Characters Now

Fortnite developers can make AI characters now — just don’t try to date them

Latest From The Post - The Washington Post

Groups concerned that AI could evade human control are recruiting content creators to warn the masses about the dangers of smarter machines.

Evidence Mounts That AI-Written Books Are Consuming the Publishing Industry

Evidence mounts that AI-written books are consuming the publishing industry: in 2025, the number of self-published books jumped by 40% YoY, from 2.5 million to 3.5 million.

China’s Netflix Expects AI to Create Bulk of Shows in Five Years

IQiyi Inc. expects AI to create the bulk of its films and shows in five years, a monumental industry shift that spurred the Netflix-style streaming service to begin the biggest corporate overhaul since its 2010 inception.

Polarization by Default: Auditing Recommendation Bias in LLM-Based Content Curation

arXiv:2604.15937v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed to curate and rank human-created content, yet the nature and structure of their biases in these tasks remains poorly understood: which biases are robust across providers and platforms, and which can be mitigated through prompt design. We present a controlled simulation study mapping content selection biases across three major LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) on real social media datasets from Twitter/X, Bluesky, and Reddit, using six prompting strategies (\textit{general}, \textit{popular}, \textit{engaging}, \textit{informative}, \textit{controversial}, \textit{neutral}). Through 540,000 simulated top-10 selections from pools of 100 posts across 54 experimental conditions, we find that biases differ substantially in how structural and how prompt-sensitive they are. Polarization is amplified across all configurations, toxicity handling shows a strong inversion between engagement- and information-focused prompts, and sentiment biases are predominantly negative. Provider comparisons reveal distinct trade-offs: GPT-4o Mini shows the most consistent behavior across prompts; Claude and Gemini exhibit high adaptivity in toxicity handling; Gemini shows the strongest negative sentiment preference. On Twitter/X, where author demographics can be inferred from profile bios, political leaning bias is the clearest demographic signal: left-leaning authors are systematically over-represented despite right-leaning authors forming the pool plurality in the dataset, and this pattern largely persists across prompts.

From Vulnerable Data Subjects to Vulnerabilizing Data Practices: Navigating the Protection Paradox in AI-Based Analyses of Platformized Lives

arXiv:2604.15990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper traces a conceptual shift from understanding vulnerability as a static, essentialized property of data subjects to examining how it is actively enacted through data practices. Unlike reflexive ethical frameworks focused on missing or counter-data, we address the condition of abundance inherent to platformized life-a context where a near inexhaustible mass of data points already exists, shifting the ethical challenge to the researcher's choices in operating upon this existing mass. We argue that the ethical integrity of data science depends not just on who is studied, but on how technical pipelines transform "vulnerable" individuals into data subjects whose vulnerability can be further precarized. We develop this argument through an AI for Social Good (AI4SG) case: a journalist's request to use computer vision to quantify child presence in monetized YouTube 'family vlogs' for regulatory advocacy. This case reveals a "protection paradox": how data-driven efforts to protect vulnerable subjects can inadvertently impose new forms of computational exposure, reductionism, and extraction. Using this request as a point of departure, we perform a methodological deconstruction of the AI pipeline to show how granular technical decisions are ethically constitutive. We contribute a reflexive ethics protocol that translates these insights into a reflexive roadmap for research ethics surrounding platformized data subjects. Organized around four critical junctures-dataset design, operationalization, inference, and dissemination-the protocol identifies technical questions and ethical tensions where well-intentioned work can slide into renewed extraction or exposure. For every decision point, the protocol offers specific prompts to navigate four cross-cutting vulnerabilizing factors: exposure, monetization, narrative fixing, and algorithmic optimization. Rather than uncritically...

LLMbench: A Comparative Close Reading Workbench for Large Language Models

arXiv:2604.15508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMbench is a browser-based workbench for the comparative close reading of large language model (LLM) outputs. Where existing tools for LLM comparison, such as Google PAIR's LLM Comparator are engineered for quantitative evaluation and user-rating metrics, LLMbench is oriented towards the hermeneutic practices of the digital humanities. Two model responses to the same prompt are side by side in annotatable panels with four analytical overlays (Probabilities for token-level log-probability inspection, Differences for word-level diff across the two panels, Tone for Hyland-style metadiscourse analysis, and Structure for sentence-level parsing with discourse connective highlighting), alongside five analytical modes, Stochastic Variation, Temperature Gradient, Prompt Sensitivity, Token Probabilities, and Cross-Model Divergence, that make the probabilistic structure of generated text legible at the token level. The tool treats the generated text as a research object in its own right from a probability distribution, a text that could have been otherwise, and provides visualisations including continuous heatmaps, entropy sparklines, pixel maps, and three-dimensional probability terrains, that show the counterfactual history from which each word emerged. This paper describes the tool's architecture, its six modes, and its design rationale, and argues that log-probability data, currently underused in humanistic and social-scientific readings of AI, is an important resource for a critical studies of generative AI models.

Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams

The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with an AI model.

Struggle Premium : How Human Effort and Imperfection Drive Perceived Value in the Age of AI

arXiv:2604.15324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI enters creative practice, audiences face growing uncertainty in judging authenticity and value. This study examines the Struggle Premium, the added value attributed to perceived human effort, by analyzing how visible effort cues influence evaluations of human- and AI-generated creative works. We surveyed 70 university students, focusing on process videos, time documentation, written explanations, and imperfections. Process-oriented cues, especially videos and time spent, most strongly shaped authenticity and value judgments, while imperfections had limited impact. Participants showed a clear preference for human-made works, with 72.9% willing to pay more. Notably, effort cues also improved perceptions of AI-generated content, suggesting that process transparency can partially bridge authenticity gaps. These findings extend the effort heuristic to algorithmic creativity and inform the design of transparent human-AI creative systems.

Filmmakers defend Val Kilmer movie made with AI | Reuters

The makers of a new film with an AI-generated performance by late actor Val Kilmer defended their work on Thursday and said they believed their approach demonstrated an ethical path to future use of the technology.

Creator Economy Update: Amazon Affiliate Cuts, AI Agents, India Creator Bill

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4. 7 with dramatically better vision (3. 75 megapixel images), improved taste for slides and documents, and file memory that persists across sessions.

Federal Court Temporarily Freezes Nexstar’s Merger With Tegna

The judge said the two television companies could not combine operations while an antitrust lawsuit proceeded. Nexstar said its deal was already done.

r/generativeAI on Reddit: Grok used to be my go-to for free AI videos… what are people switching to now?

Sadly there’s nothing out there. Free website based AI video is dead.

Seeking Help, Facing Harm: Auditing TikTok's Mental Health Recommendations

arXiv:2604.14832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recommender systems on social media increasingly mediate how users encounter mental health content, yet it remains unclear whether they distinguish help-seeking from distress expression. We conduct a controlled 7-day audit of TikTok's "For You" page using 30 fresh accounts and LLM-guided agents that vary initial search framing (distress- vs. help-initiated) and interaction strategy (engaged, avoidant, passive). Across 8,727 recommended videos, interaction behavior dominates exposure outcomes: engagement rapidly saturates feeds with mental health content (~45% of daily recommendations), while avoidance and passive viewing reduce but do not eliminate exposure (~11-20%). Search framing mainly shifts composition rather than volume--help-initiated searches yield more potentially supportive material, yet potentially harmful content persists at low but non-zero levels, including content in the Suicide/Self-Harm category. These findings suggest limited sensitivity to user intent signals in TikTok's recommendations and motivate context-aware safeguards for sensitive topics.

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to leave streaming service

Chair’s decision to not seek re-election ‘not as a result of any disagreement’, company says in filing Reed Hastings, the Netflix chair, is leaving the streaming service he co-founded almost 30 years ago as the company regains its footing after losing out on a $72bn (£53bn) deal for Warner Bros Discovery. In a 14-page letter to investors released on Thursday, Netflix said Hastings would not stand for re-election at its annual meeting in June and planned to focus on philanthropy and other pursuits. Continue reading...

On the Creativity of AI Agents

arXiv:2604.13242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs), particularly when integrated into agentic systems, have demonstrated human- and even superhuman-level performance across multiple domains. Whether these systems can truly be considered creative, however, remains a matter of debate, as conclusions heavily depend on the definitions, evaluation methods, and specific use cases employed. In this paper, we analyse creativity along two complementary macro-level perspectives. The first is a functionalist perspective, focusing on the observable characteristics of creative outputs. The second is an ontological perspective, emphasising the underlying processes, as well as the social and personal dimensions involved in creativity. We focus on LLM agents and we argue that they exhibit functionalist creativity, albeit not at its most sophisticated levels, while they continue to lack key aspects of ontological creativity. Finally, we discuss whether it is desirable for agentic systems to attain both forms of creativity, evaluating potential benefits and risks, and proposing pathways toward artificial creativity that can enhance human society.

Form Without Function: Agent Social Behavior in the Moltbook Network

arXiv:2604.13052v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Moltbook is a social network where every participant is an AI agent. We analyze 1,312,238 posts, 6.7~million comments, and over 120,000 agent profiles across 5,400 communities, collected over 40 days (January 27 to March 9, 2026). We evaluate the platform through three layers. At the interaction layer, 91.4% of post authors never return to their own threads, 85.6% of conversations are flat (no reply ever receives a reply), the median time-to-first-comment is 55 seconds, and 97.3% of comments receive zero upvotes. Interaction reciprocity is 3.3%, compared to 22-60% on human platforms. An argumentation analysis finds that 64.6% of comment-to-post relations carry no argumentative connection. At the content layer, 97.9% of agents never post in a community matching their bio, 92.5% of communities contain every topic in roughly equal proportions, and over 80% of shared URLs point to the platform's own infrastructure. At the instruction layer, we use 41 Wayback Machine snapshots to identify six instruction changes during the observation window. Hard constraints (rate limit, content filters) produce immediate behavioral shifts. Soft guidance (``upvote good posts'', ``stay on topic'') is ignored until it becomes an explicit step in the executable checklist. The platform also poses technological risks. We document credential leaks (API keys, JWT tokens), 12,470 unique Ethereum addresses with 3,529 confirmed transaction histories, and attack discourse ranging from template-based SSH brute-forcing to multi-agent offensive security architectures. These persist unmoderated because the quality-filtering mechanisms are themselves non-functional. Moltbook is a socio-technical system where the technical layer responds to changes, but the social layer largely fails to emerge. The form of social media is reproduced in full. The function is absent.

Adobe Launches Firefly AI: Revolutionizing Creative Cloud with Conversational Workflow and AI Integration

Adobe has unveiled Firefly AI Assistant, promising to streamline workflows across Creative Cloud apps by using natural language commands.

Adobe embraces conversational AI editing, marking a ‘fundamental shift’ in creative work

Adobe is integrating conversational AI into its editing tools, signaling a major change in how creative professionals work.

Strategic Response of News Publishers to Generative AI

arXiv:2512.24968v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative AI can adversely impact news publishers by lowering consumer demand. It can also reduce demand for newsroom employees, and increase the creation of news "slop." However, it can also form a source of traffic referrals and an information-discovery channel that increases demand. We use high-frequency granular data to analyze the strategic response of news publishers to the introduction of Generative AI. Many publishers strategically blocked LLM access to their websites using the robots.txt file standard. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that large publishers who block GenAI bots experience reduced website traffic compared to not blocking. In addition, we find that large publishers shift toward richer content that is harder for LLMs to replicate, without increasing text volume. Finally, we find that the share of new editorial and content-production job postings rises over time. Together, these findings illustrate the levers that publishers choose to use to strategically respond to competitive Generative AI threats, and their consequences.

Adobe’s new Firefly AI Assistant wants to run Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and more from one prompt

Adobe today launched its most ambitious AI offensive to date, unveiling the Firefly AI Assistant — a new agentic creative tool that can orchestrate complex, multi-step workflows across the company's entire Creative Cloud suite from a single conversational interface — alongside a raft of new video, image, and collaboration features designed to position the company at the center of the rapidly evolving AI-powered content creation landscape. The announcements, which also include a new Color Mode for Premiere Pro, the addition of Kling 3.0 video models to Firefly's growing roster of third-party AI engines, and Frame.io Drive — a virtual filesystem that lets distributed teams work with cloud-stored media as though it lived on their local machines — represent Adobe's clearest signal yet that it views agentic AI not as a feature upgrade but as a fundamental reshaping of how creative work gets done. "We want creators to tell us the destination and let the Firefly assistant — with its deep understanding of all the Adobe professional tools and generative tools — bring the tools to you right in the conversation," Alexandru Costin, Vice President of AI & Innovation at Adobe, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch. The stakes could hardly be higher. Adobe is fighting to convince Wall Street, creative professionals, and a wave of well-funded AI-native competitors that its decades-old software empire can not only survive the generative AI revolution but lead it. How Adobe turned a research prototype into a 100-tool creative agent The centerpiece of today's announcement is the Firefly AI Assistant, which Adobe describes as a fundamentally new way to interact with its creative tools. Rather than requiring users to manually navigate between Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, Lightroom, Express, and other apps — selecting the right tool for each step of a complex project — the assistant lets creators describe an outcome in natural language. The agent then figures out which tools to invoke, in what order, and executes the workflow. The assistant is the productized version of Project Moonlight, a research prototype Adobe first previewed at its annual MAX conference in the fall of 2025 and subsequently refined through a private beta. "This is basically [Project] Moonlight," Costin confirmed to VentureBeat. "We started with all the learnings from Moonlight, and we engaged with customers. We looked internally. We evolved that architecture to make it more ambitious." Under the hood, Adobe says it has assembled roughly 100 tools and skills that the assistant can call upon, spanning generative image and video creation, precision photo editing, layout adaptation, and even stakeholder review through Frame.io. The system is built around a single conversational interface inside the Firefly web app where users describe what they want and the assistant maintains context across sessions. Pre-built Creative Skills — purpose-built, multi-step workflow templates such as portrait retouching or social media asset generation — can be run from a single prompt and customized to match a creator's own style. The assistant also learns a creator's preferred tools, workflows, and aesthetic choices over time, and understands the content type being worked on — image, video, vector, brand assets — to make context-aware decisions. Crucially, outputs use native Adobe file formats — PSD, AI, PRPROJ — meaning users can take any result into the corresponding flagship app for manual, pixel-level refinement at any point. "We always imagine this continuum where you can have complete conversational edits and pixel-perfect edits, and you can decide, as a creative, where you want to land," Costin said. The Firefly AI Assistant will enter public beta in the coming weeks, though Adobe did not specify an exact date. Why Wall Street is watching Adobe's AI pricing model so closely For a company whose AI monetization story has faced persistent skepticism from investors, the pricing structure of the Firefly AI Assistant will be closely watched. Costin told VentureBeat that, at launch, using the assistant will require an active Adobe subscription that includes the relevant apps — meaning users who want the agent to invoke Photoshop cloud capabilities, for instance, will need an entitlement that includes the Photoshop SKU. Generative actions will consume the user's existing pool of generative credits, consistent with how Firefly credits work across the rest of Adobe's platform. "To use some of these cloud capabilities from Photoshop and other apps, you need to have a subscription that includes access to the Photoshop SKU," Costin explained. "You'll be consuming your credits when you use generative features." He acknowledged, however, that the model could evolve: "As we better understand the value of this — and the costs of operating the brain, the conversation engine — things might change." The question of whether Adobe can convert AI enthusiasm into meaningful revenue growth is anything but theoretical. When Adobe reported its most recent quarterly results in March, it touted 10% year-over-year revenue growth to $6.4 billion and disclosed that annual recurring revenue from AI standalone and add-on products had reached $125 million — a figure CEO Shantanu Narayen projected would double within nine months. Adobe adds Chinese AI video models to Firefly, raising commercial safety questions Alongside the assistant, Adobe is expanding Firefly's roster of third-party AI models to include Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni, two video generation models developed by Kuaishou, the Chinese technology company. Kling 3.0 focuses on fast, high-quality production with smart storyboarding and audio-visual sync, while the Omni variant adds professional controls for shot duration, camera angle, and character movement across multi-shot sequences. The additions bring Firefly's model count to more than 30, joining Google's Nano Banana 2 and Veo 3.1, Runway's Gen-4.5, Luma AI's Ray3.14, Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2[pro], ElevenLabs' Multilingual v2, and others. When asked whether Adobe had concerns about integrating a model from a Chinese tech company given the current geopolitical climate, Costin was direct: "We think choice is what we want to offer our customers." He explained that Adobe's strategy distinguishes between its own commercially safe, first-party Firefly models — trained on licensed Adobe Stock imagery and public domain content — and third-party partner models, which carry different commercial safety profiles. "For some use cases, like ideation, non-production use cases, we got requests from customers to support some external models," Costin said. "If I'm in ideation, I might be more flexible with commercial safety. When I go into production, I’d want to have a model that gives you more confidence." This raises an important nuance for the agentic era. When the Firefly AI Assistant autonomously selects which model to use for a given task, the commercial safety guarantees may vary depending on which engine it invokes. Costin pointed to Adobe's Content Credentials system — the metadata-and-fingerprinting framework developed through the Content Authenticity Initiative — as the mechanism for maintaining transparency. "The agentic power — and the fact that the assistant has access to all of those models — means it could decide to use a model that carries different content credentials," he acknowledged. "But with the transparency of content credentials, the user will know how a particular piece of content was created and can decide whether that's commercially safe or not." Adobe offers commercial indemnity for its first-party Firefly models but applies different indemnity levels for third-party models — a distinction that enterprise buyers, in particular, will need to carefully evaluate. Inside Adobe's active collaboration with Nvidia on long-running AI agent infrastructure Adobe's agentic ambitions also intersect with its strategic partnership with Nvidia, announced earlier this year at Nvidia’s GTC conference. When asked whether the Firefly AI Assistant's agentic capabilities are built on NVIDIA's agent toolkit and NeMo infrastructure, Costin revealed that the collaboration is active but has not yet made it into a shipping product. "We're in active discussions — investigating not only Nemotron," Costin said. "They have this technology called Open Shell and Nemo Claw, which give us the ability to efficiently run long-running agentic workflows in a sandboxed environment." He said the technology would become increasingly important as Adobe pushes the assistant to handle longer, more autonomous creative tasks — but cautioned that "it's not shipping yet. It's being actively explored." For Nvidia, which is building an ecosystem of enterprise AI agent platforms with partners like Adobe, Salesforce, and SAP, the partnership could eventually serve as a high-profile proof point for its agent infrastructure stack in the creative vertical. For Adobe, the ability to run complex, long-duration agentic workflows efficiently and securely in sandboxed environments could be the technical foundation that separates the Firefly AI Assistant from lighter-weight chatbot integrations offered by competitors. The partnership also signals Adobe's recognition that the computational demands of agentic AI — where a single user request may trigger dozens of model calls and tool invocations — require infrastructure partnerships that go well beyond what a software company can build alone. Premiere Pro's new color grading mode and the tools Adobe is shipping today Beyond the headline AI assistant announcement, Adobe's broader set of updates reflects a company trying to strengthen its position across every phase of the content creation pipeline. Color Mode in Premiere Pro may be the most significant near-term upgrade for working editors. Entering public beta today, Color Mode is described as a first-of-its-kind color grading experience built specifically for the way editors — rather than dedicated colorists — think and work. Adobe notes that it was developed through an extensive private beta with hundreds of working editors, and that participants reported they "actually enjoy color grading" — a sentiment suggesting Adobe may have found a way to democratize one of post-production's most intimidating disciplines. General availability is expected later in 2026. The Firefly Video Editor gains audio upgrades including the Enhance Speech feature migrated from Premiere and Adobe Podcast, direct Adobe Stock integration with access to more than 800 million licensed assets, and simple color adjustment controls with intuitive sliders and one-click looks. On the image editing front, Adobe introduced Precision Flow, which generates a range of semantic variations from a single prompt and lets users browse them via an interactive slider — a novel approach that Costin described as "the best slider-based control mixed with the best semantic understanding of not only the existing scene, but what the scene could be." AI Markup complements this by letting users draw directly on images to specify where and how edits should be applied. After Effects 26.2 adds an AI-powered Object Matte tool that dramatically accelerates rotoscoping and masking — create accurate mattes of moving subjects with a hover and click, refine with a Quick Selection brush, and perfect edges with a Refine Edge tool. Frame.io Drive wants to kill the shipped hard drive and make cloud media feel local Rounding out the announcements, Frame.io Drive addresses one of the most persistent pain points in distributed video production: getting media from point A to point B without losing hours — or days — to downloads, syncing, and shipped hard drives. Frame.io Drive is a desktop application that mounts Frame.io projects to a user's computer so media appears in Finder or Explorer and behaves like local files. The underlying technology, called Frame.io Mounted Storage, streams media on demand as applications request it, while local caching ensures smooth playback. The product builds on streaming technology provided by Suite Studios, and the real-time file access capability is included with every Frame.io account. Adobe emphasized that all content lives solely within Frame.io and is never shared with third parties. The move positions Frame.io not just as a review-and-approval tool at the end of the production pipeline but as the central media layer from the very beginning of a project — from first capture through final delivery. If successful, the strategy could significantly deepen Adobe's lock-in with professional video teams by making Frame.io the single source of truth for distributed productions. Frame.io Drive and Mounted Storage will roll out in phases, with Enterprise customers gaining access starting today and accounts on other plans following shortly. Others can join a waitlist. Adobe's biggest challenge isn't building the AI — it's convincing creators to trust it Taken together, today's announcements paint a picture of a company executing aggressively across multiple fronts — but also one that is navigating a complex moment. Adobe first introduced Firefly in March 2023 as a family of generative AI models focused on image and text effects, with a strong emphasis on commercial safety through training on licensed Adobe Stock content. In the two years since, the company has rapidly expanded into video generation, multi-model access, and now agentic workflows — a trajectory that mirrors the broader industry's shift from standalone AI features to AI-native systems. But the competitive field has grown dramatically. Runway, Pika, and a host of AI-native video generation startups have captured mindshare among creators. Canva has aggressively integrated AI into its design platform. And the emergence of powerful foundation models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic — the latter of which Adobe says it will integrate with Firefly AI Assistant capabilities — means the barrier to building creative AI tools has never been lower. Adobe is also navigating these product ambitions against a complex corporate backdrop: the impending departure of CEO Shantanu Narayen, an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in Acrobat Reader (CVE-2026-34621) that had been used by hackers for months before being patched this week, a U.K. antitrust investigation over cancellation fees, and a recent $75 million lawsuit settlement. Adobe's response, articulated clearly through today's launches, is to lean into what it believes is its deepest moat: the integration of AI into a set of professional-grade, category-leading applications that no startup can replicate overnight. Costin framed the agentic transition as empowering rather than threatening to creative professionals, comparing Creative Skills to a next-generation version of Photoshop Actions — the macro-recording feature that has long allowed power users to automate repetitive tasks. "We want to help our customers become — from the ones doing all the work — to be creative directors, doing some of the work, but most importantly, guiding the assistant in executing some of those creative visions," he said. It is a compelling pitch — and, in its own way, a revealing one. For three decades, Adobe made its fortune by selling the tools that turned creative vision into finished pixels. Now it is asking its customers to let an AI agent handle more of that translation, trusting that the human role will shift from operating the tools to directing the outcome. Whether creators embrace that bargain — and whether Wall Street rewards it — will determine not just Adobe's trajectory but the shape of an entire industry learning to create alongside machines.

Can the traditional British tabloid survive the digital age?

Social media feeds, AI summaries and influencer-driven content are luring readers away

Sustained YouTube scraping claim in US a boost for creators; questions remain

Artificial intelligence music generator Udio failed to shrug off a claim that its YouTube scraping for AI training violates the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Udio will continue to face DMCA claim over YouTube scraping, US judge orders

A US judge declined to dismiss claims that AI music company Udio violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by scraping songs from YouTube.

Ad Companies Settle With F.T.C. Over Claims of Harm to Conservative Sites

WPP, Dentsu and Publicis settled claims they colluded on policies to combat misinformation, denying ad revenue to publishers on the right.

Trump's AI image of himself as Jesus-like figure follows feud with Pope Leo | Reuters

April 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump posted an AI -generated image of himself as a Jesus-like figure on Sunday, drawing widespread criticism even from some religious conservatives who typically support him, before deleting ​the post on Monday.

Publicis posts 4.5% net revenue organic growth

Publicis on Tuesday reported first-quarter net revenue organic growth of 4. 5%, meeting company-provided consensus and outpacing advertising industry peers, as AI and acquisitions drove gains in key markets, including the U. S.

AI Influencers at Coachella

AI influencers are 'everywhere' at Coachella, as reported by The Verge.

Opinion | Can you spot a fake political ad? AI is making it harder.

Opinion | AI-generated political ads are coming. We’re not ready. - The Washington Post Democracy Dies in Darkness By Darrell M. West You’re reading Superintelligent, a newsletter about AI. Click here to get the full edition in your inbox. Darrell M. West is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation and co-editor in chief of TechTank.

Everything Is A Story: Journalist Nick Bilton Thinks AI Might End Humanity & How Stories Could Save Us

This conversation explores the power of story — how tech titans like Jobs, Dorsey, and Musk wield narrative as a weapon, and why AI may be the first technology capable of wiping us off the face of the planet.

Elon Musk, Who Owns X, Appears to Post on TikTok

A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.

r/isthisAI on Reddit: Is this ai? Someone posted it in my university art class that does traditional art, not digital. Seems they also took a picture of the "drawing" rather than save it directly too.

The reason I suspect ai is because the entire artstyle and lining look like something from typical ai generated content. The circles within the motion also seem to be in random spots/not consistent.

US FTC in Settlement Talks with Ad Companies

The US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies in a boycott probe, according to the Wall Street Journal.

How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia? A Multi-Dimensional Textual and Structural Comparison

arXiv:2510.26899v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The launch of Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk's xAI, was presented as a response to perceived ideological and structural biases in Wikipedia, aiming to produce "truthful" entries using the Grok large language model. Yet whether an AI-driven alternative can escape the biases and limitations of human-edited platforms remains unclear. This study conducts a large-scale computational comparison of 17,790 matched article pairs from the 20,000 most-edited English Wikipedia pages. Using metrics spanning lexical richness, readability, reference density, structural features, and semantic similarity, we assess how closely the two platforms align in form and substance. We find that Grokipedia articles are substantially longer and contain significantly fewer references per word. Moreover, Grokipedia's content divides into two distinct groups: one that remains semantically and stylistically aligned with Wikipedia, and another that diverges sharply. Among the dissimilar articles, we observe a systematic rightward shift in the political bias of frequently cited news media sources, concentrated primarily in entries related to history and religion, and literature and art. More broadly, the findings indicate that AI-generated encyclopedic content departs from established editorial norms, favoring narrative expansion over citation-based verification, raising questions about transparency, provenance, and the governance of knowledge in automated information systems.

Meta poised to surpass Google in digital ad revenue

Meta is poised to surpass Google in digital ad revenue for the first time.

AI companies lean on Cox opinion in seeking dismissal of US copyright suits

Singapore AI firm Nanonoble argued that the Walt Disney Company’s contributory copyright infringement claims against it should be dismissed following the Supreme Court’s decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment.

Yes, But Not Always. Generative AI Needs Nuanced Opt-in

arXiv:2604.09413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper argues that a one-size-fits-all approach to specifying consent for the use of creative works in generative AI is insufficient. Real-world ownership and rights holder structures, the imitation of artistic styles and likeness, and the limitless contexts of use of AI outputs make the status quo of binary consent with opt-in by default untenable. To move beyond the current impasse, we consider levers of control in generative AI workflows at training, inference, and dissemination. Based on these insights, we position inference-time opt-in as an overlooked opportunity for nuanced consent verification. We conceptualize nuanced consent conditions for opt-in and propose an agent-based inference-time opt-in architecture to verify if user intent requests meet conditional consent granted by rights holders. In a case study for music, we demonstrate that nuanced opt-in at inference can account for established rights and re-establish a balance of power between rights holders and AI developers.

FTC in Settlement Talks With Ad Companies in Boycott Probe

The government began an inquiry last year into whether ad firms were funneling client dollars away from certain media platforms.

Is AI the greatest art heist in history?

New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it In 2026, its easy to see why generative AI is bad. The internet has nicknamed its excretions “slop”. The CEOs of AI companies prance about on stage like supervillains, bragging that their products will eliminate vast swathes of work.

Your Article About AI Doesn't Need AI Art

Your article about AI doesn’t need AI art

‘It has your name on it, but I don’t think it’s you’: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify

Fraudulent music streams have long been a scourge for the industry, but experts say generative AI has supercharged it

The Iranian Lego AI Video Creators

The Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their virality to 'heart'.

New Singer Dominating iTunes Chart Is AI; Soundbreak Puts Songwriters in Control

The latest generation of AI video tools can do almost anything except, it seems, behave the way musicians actually need them to.

How VC Money and Israel Outrage Derailed a Hot Hollywood Startup

After Sequoia Capital valued Mubi at $1 billion, a left-wing revolt sent the indie film company into a tailspin.

China issues draft rules to tighten oversight of AI virtual humans

China has released draft rules for digital virtual-human services, setting requirements for labeling, filing, and security assessments to balance innovation with regulatory oversight.

Imaginae Studios Unveils AI-Driven Series Animating Paintings

Imaginae Studios, Fremantle's AI-native IP label, launches its first project, 'Art Awakens,' a series animating famous paintings via generative AI.

A ProPublica strike spotlights tensions over AI in newsrooms - The Washington Post

Newsrooms around the country have struggled to set rules for AI . At ProPublica, which specializes in investigative journalism, the issue is especially fraught.

Reform UK voters least likely to see social media posts from family and friends, study finds

Thinktank says algorithms are fuelling isolation and division after analysing posts shown to social media users Reform UK voters are the least likely to see posts from friends and family on social media and most likely to see content from brands and news organisations, a study has found. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank said algorithms were fuelling isolation and division

Our Lab just posted a new research report from Zimran Ahmed about how the game industry is adapting to AI. He spoke to people at 20 different studios and found a wide range of approaches to adapt (or failures to adapt) to AI at the organizational level.

Our Lab just posted a new research report from Zimran Ahmed about how the game industry is adapting to AI. He spoke to people at 20 different studios and found a wide range of approaches to adapt (or failures to adapt) to AI at the organizational level. https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and-insights/beyond-copy-paste/

Over the Rainbow: The Intersection of AI and Entertainment

Paid Program: Over the Rainbow: The Intersection of AI and Entertainment # Over the Rainbow: The Intersection of AI and Entertainment Thanks to a close collaboration between creatives and technologists, a classic film became a modern immersive experience. Entertainment is one of the United States’ most successful industries, with American entertainment and media accounting for roughly a third of the global market. AI is poised to play a critical role in shepherding a new era of creativity for this industry, as illustrated by a partnership between Google and Sphere to bring “The Wizard of Oz” to life. In this interview, Jennifer Koester, president and chief operating officer, Sphere, and Oliver Parker, vice president, global generative AI GTM, Google Cloud, discuss the opportunities for AI to enhance the creative process, the importance of emotionally fulfilling entertainment experienc

The influencer economy’s invisible workers are first in line for the AI chop - Digital Trends

AI is starting to replace the hidden global workforce of clippers, editors, and virtual assistants that helped creators manufacture “organic” reach at scale.

taste.md - Pablo Stanley

So when tech people say “taste is the moat”... I think what they’re actually noticing is that AI defaults to the average. It converges on the most expected answer.

Adobe’s 30-Day Free AI Window Closed Today. Now Nobody Knows What an Edit Costs. | by Rahul Roy | Apr, 2026 | Medium

The counter hit zero this morning. Adobe’s 30-day window of unlimited generative AI in Photoshop ended on April 9, and now the credit system is back in play. I opened Photoshop earlier and sat there for a second before running a Generative Fill, genuinely unsure whether the action I was about to take would cost me one credit or ten.

Disney Planning Layoffs Under New CEO Josh D’Amaro

The entertainment company is preparing to eliminate as many as 1,000 positions in the coming weeks.

~77% of all new "Success" self-help books on Amazon are likely written by AI

A study suggests that a vast majority of new self-help books on Amazon are AI-generated, with some authors publishing at a rate of over one book per day.

77% of New Success Self-Help Books Are Likely Written by AI

~77% of all new 'Success' self-help books on Amazon are likely written by AI, with 1 author, Noah Felix Bennett, publishing a stunning 74 books in mid-2025 alone, at a rate of >1 per day.

77% of Success Self-Help Books Written by AI

~77% of all new 'Success' self-help books on Amazon are likely written by AI.

EU, UK digital rules fall short on AI overviews risks for news media, think tanks say

The EU’s Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act, as well as the UK’s Online Safety Act, are not equipped to tackle the impact of AI overviews on news media companies.

TikTok Invests in AI Data Center

TikTok is set to build a second €1 billion data center in Finland to localize data and enhance privacy, addressing European regulatory concerns.

Content Platform GenAI Regulation via Compensation

arXiv:2604.06194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The use of Generative AI (GenAI) for creative content generation has gained popularity in recent years. GenAI allows creators to generate contents that are increasingly becoming indistinguishable to the human--generated counter--part at a much lower cost. While GenAI reshapes the competitive landscape of the contents market, the original creators were typically not compensated for their works that were used in the GenAI training. On the other hands, the wide--spread adoption of GenAI threatens to replace the human--generated shares of contents on content platforms, contaminating training data source for future GenAI models. In this paper, we argue that an unregulated usage of GenAI can also be harmful to the platform by causing a contents distribution distortion which can lower the consumers' engagement and the platform's profit. We show that a simple economically--driven creator compensation scheme, can incentivize more creation of high--value human--generated contents, without the need for an AI--detector. This reduces the data pollution for future GenAI training, while improves the consumer engagement and the platform's profit.

r/gaming on Reddit: Steam files suggest Valve is developing internal 'SteamGPT' AI bot — aimed at tackling customer support tickets and CS2 anti-cheat

Valve has 400 employees running a platform with 130 million active users. There's no version of that math where humans are handling most support tickets. The question was never 'will they use AI ,' it's whether they'll be honest about it or keep letting people think a person read their message.

Suno and major music labels reportedly clash over AI music sharing

Music labels and AI music generator Suno are in a dispute regarding the sharing and training of AI-generated music.

AI K-Pop Startup Galaxy Aims for IPO in Seoul, New York

Humanoid robots dressed in black, luxury hip-hop outfits snap into formation, moving in perfect sync to K-pop songs. It’s a simulation inside an office styled as a crash-landed spacecraft in the heart of Seoul’s financial district, complete with towering astronauts and floating robotic jellyfish.

Could AI ads be exposing your business to risks? - Lexology Pro

AI-generated ads are often cheaper and faster to produce, but the legal, regulatory and reputational risks cannot be ignored. Here’s how companies can ensure their AI-enabled marketing is responsible and complaint.

The Literary Job AI Can’t Replace

Ghostwriting is good, actually—when it’s done by humans.

Project GENIE: Building Playable Worlds

The Sequence Knowledge #838: Project GENIE: Building Playable Worlds from Pixels, a new development in AI technology.

Google's AI Ad Machine Rewrites Search Rules As Brands See Up To 80% Revenue Boost: 'Not Some Zero-Sum Game' | Benzinga

Google's AI Ad Machine Rewrites Search Rules As Brands See Up To 80% Revenue Boost: 'Not Some Zero-Sum Game' | Benzinga Skip to main content ## Market Overview Tickers, Articles and Keywords: ## Tickers ## Articles ## Keywords Search by keyword... googlecse  {{following ? "Following" : "Follow"}} 472 Comments Share: The ad industry spent years debating whether AI would hollow out Google‘s GOOG) GOOGL) business. Instead, Google handed advertisers an AI toolkit and turned it into an opportunity. The company’s latest numbers tell the story plainly: ad revenue of $82.28 billion in Q4 2025, up 13.5% year over year, with total annual revenue crossing $400 billion

Bryson DeChambeau Leads Investor Group to Acquire Sportsbox AI

Bryson DeChambeau is spearheading an investor group that is acquiring Sportsbox AI, a company specializing in AI technology and 3D motion capture for mobile sports and fitness coaching and training applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but DeChambeau said the transaction is worth eight figures.

Spotify's AI Playlists Can Now Help You Discover Podcasts Using Prompts

Just describe the kind of podcasts you want to listen to, and Spotify will suggest shows. Looking for new podcasts? An update to Spotify’s Prompted Playlists feature might help. Prompted Playlists began rolling out to listeners in the US and Canada earlier this year. At launch, the AI-powered feature allowed you to find music using simple prompts, meaning you didn't need …

Report Reveals Creative Job Losses in California Not Linked to AI - El-Balad.com

Recent research from the Otis College of Art and Design highlights significant job losses within California’s creative economy that are not directly linked to the rise of generative AI. The report, titled “Creative Disruption: AI and California’s Creative Economy: 2022–2025,” sheds ...

BLK-Assist: A Methodological Framework for Artist-Led Co-Creation with Generative AI Models

arXiv:2604.03249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents BLK-Assist, a modular framework for artist-specific fine-tuning of diffusion models using parameter-efficient methods. The system is implemented as a case study with a single professional artist's proprietary corpus and consists of three components: BLK-Conceptor (LoRA-adapted conceptual sketch generation), BLK-Stencil (LayerDiffuse-based transparency-preserving asset generation), and BLK-Upscale (hybrid Real-ESRGAN and texture-conditioned diffusion for high-resolution outputs). We document dataset composition, preprocessing, training configurations, and inference workflows to enable reproducibility with publicly available models to illustrate a privacy-preserving, consent-based approach to human-AI co-creation that maintains stylistic fidelity to the source corpus and can be adapted for other artists under similar constraints.

Top record labels and start-up Suno hit impasse in AI-generated music talks

One executive says there is ‘no path’ towards licensing deal under current proposal

Can Humans Tell? A Dual-Axis Study of Human Perception of LLM-Generated News

arXiv:2604.03755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can humans tell whether a news article was written by a person or a large language model (LLM)? We investigate this question using JudgeGPT, a study platform that independently measures source attribution (human vs. machine) and authenticity judgment (legitimate vs. fake) on continuous scales. From 2,318 judgments collected from 1,054 participants across content generated by six LLMs, we report five findings: (1) participants cannot reliably distinguish machine-generated from human-written text (p > .05, Welch's t-test); (2) this inability holds across all tested models, including open-weight models with as few as 7B parameters; (3) self-reported domain expertise predicts judgment accuracy (r = .35, p < .001) whereas political orientation does not (r = -.10, n.s.); (4) clustering reveals distinct response strategies ("Skeptics" vs. "Believers"); and (5) accuracy degrades after approximately 30 sequential evaluations due to cognitive fatigue. The answer, in short, is no: humans cannot reliably tell. These results indicate that user-side detection is not a viable defense and motivate system-level countermeasures such as cryptographic content provenance.

Savannah Guthrie Returns to ‘Today’

The anchor joined the show’s cast on Monday for the first time since the disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, Nancy, who remains missing.

Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.

From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything.

I Tested Netflix’s First Open-Source AI Model. It Erased Objects From Video and Rewrote the Physics. | by PIXIPACE | Apr, 2026 | Medium

Netflix dropped VOID on April 3rd, 2026. It stands for Video Object and Interaction Deletion. That’s the dry version.

Netflix - yes Netflix - jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene.

Influcio

AI marketing Agent for result-driven influencer campaign.

AI design platform Picsart launches a creator monetization program

Picsart is introducing a new program to help creators monetize their work on the AI-powered design platform.

AI and empathy define the next era of marketing systems | MarTech

The real opportunity with AI is not scale alone, but designing experiences that reduce friction and support both customers and teams.

The Future of Content Creation: Scaling Faceless YouTube Channels with YouTube Publisher AI Agent | by Malik Abualzait | Apr, 2026 | Medium

Sign up Get app Sign up # The Future of Content Creation: Scaling Faceless YouTube Channels with YouTube Publisher AI Agent 3 min read 14 hours ago -- Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size The digital content landscape is shifting beneath our feet. We are moving away from manually edited videos towards Autonomous Content Pipelines. The era of the “Faceless YouTube Channel” has arrived, and it’s being powered by sophisticated AI agents that can think, create, and publish without human intervention. At the forefront of this revolution in the Middle East is Malik Abualzait, an AI architect and expert whose latest project, YouTube Publisher AI, is setting a new standard for what’s possible in automated media production. ## The Visionary Behind the Tech: Malik Abualzait Based in the heart of the tech-evolving Middle East, Malik Abualzait has been engineerin

AI Risk Compression: How Data Is Transforming Product and Creative Strategies | Outlook Respawn

Anurag Choudhary explains how AI-driven analytics, predictive models, and rapid testing are transforming risk, investment, and team structures in creative tech.

Los Angeles Emerges as Major AI Hub With 10 Standout Companies Leading Innovation in 2026

LOS ANGELES — Once known primarily for Hollywood glamour and entertainment, Los Angeles has solidified its position as a thriving center for artificial intelligence innovation in 2026, attracting talent, investment and ambitious startups that blend cutting-edge technology with the city's creative

Digital Extremes Rejects AI in Game Development

Digital Extremes has pledged to avoid AI-generated content in its games, emphasizing a commitment to human craftsmanship and community trust.

Diffusion Models Explained: The Science Behind AI-Generated Images - Neural DeepLearn Academy

According to a McKinsey report on generative AI adoption, AI-generated visual content is projected to reduce creative production costs by 30–40% for large brand campaigns. The same report identified visual media as the category with the highest near-term ROI from generative AI investment. Medical research is an emerging application. At institutions affiliated with the NIH, researchers are using diffusion ...

FAQ on AI media buying: Platform tools, agency strategy, and how to win in 2026

From automated bidding tools offered by Google, Meta, and Amazon to emerging agentic AI systems designed for end-to-end campaign automation, AI is becoming embedded at every stage of the media buying process.

Associated Press starts offering buyouts to newspaper journalists amid wider AI transformation of the industry

The News Media Guild, the union that represents AP journalists, said more than 120 staff members received buyout offers on Monday.

ElevenLabs Just Entered the AI Music War — And Suno and Udio Should Be Worried | Kakul Srivastava

ElevenLabs Just Entered the AI Music War — And Suno and Udio Should Be Worried | Kakul Srivastava Agree & Join LinkedIn By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. # Kakul Srivastava’s Post 1d ElevenLabs officially launched their iOS music app last week, and while entering a crowded consumer music AI space seems like a surprising choice for a company with a successful B2B foundational model business, I appreciate what this launch says about what's possible. This product showcases a mindset to do right by artists. It's built on licensed trainin

Suno is a music copyright nightmare

The Verge explores the legal and ethical complexities surrounding Suno, highlighting the potential for copyright infringement in AI-generated music covers.

Digital Extremes Rejects AI in Game Development

Digital Extremes pledges to avoid AI-generated content in its games, reinforcing a commitment to human craftsmanship and community trust.

AI Fact-Checking in the Wild: A Field Evaluation of LLM-Written Community Notes on X

arXiv:2604.02592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models show promising capabilities for contextual fact-checking on social media: they can verify contested claims through deep research, synthesize evidence from multiple sources, and draft explanations at scale. However, prior work evaluates LLM fact-checking only in controlled settings using benchmarks or crowdworker judgments, leaving open how these systems perform in authentic platform environments. We present the first field evaluation of LLM-based fact-checking deployed on a live social media platform, testing performance directly through X Community Notes' AI writer feature over a three-month period. Our LLM writer, a multi-step pipeline that handles multimodal content (text, images, and videos), conducts web and platform-native search, and writes contextual notes, was deployed to write 1,614 notes on 1,597 tweets and compared against 1,332 human-written notes on the same tweets using 108,169 ratings from 42,521 raters. Direct comparison of note-level platform outcomes is complicated by differences in submission timing and rating exposure between LLM and human notes; we therefore pursue two complementary strategies: a rating-level analysis modeling individual rater evaluations, and a note-level analysis that equalizes rater exposure across note types. Rating-level analysis shows that LLM notes receive more positive ratings than human notes across raters with different political viewpoints, suggesting the potential for LLM-written notes to achieve the cross-partisan consensus. Note-level analysis confirms this advantage: among raters who evaluated all notes on the same post, LLM notes achieve significantly higher helpfulness scores. Our findings demonstrate that LLMs can contribute high-quality, broadly helpful fact-checking at scale, while highlighting that real-world evaluation requires careful attention to platform dynamics absent from controlled settings.

The Search Game is Changing: Why Authors Need to Master AI Discoverability.

AI doesn’t just match keywords; it tries to understand context and user intent. Readers are using natural, conversational language to ask for recommendations.

r/generativeAI on Reddit: Now that grok free is dead, what you use to make free AI videos?

Yeah Grok free video gen got quietly killed off which honestly sucks. For free options right now Kling AI has a free tier, Runway gives you some free credits, and Pika is still around with limited free options

AI is rewiring the world’s most prolific film industry | Reuters

Studios in India are responding by deploying AI at a scale unseen elsewhere: creating full-fledged AI -generated films; using AI dubbing to release movies in numerous languages; and recutting endings to suit different markets.

An arms race over disinformation: using AI to detect AI | Cyprus Mail

An arms race over disinformation: using AI to detect AI | Cyprus Mail for Android Install The App # An arms race over disinformation: using AI to detect AI In a world full of deepfakes and fake news, EU-funded researchers are building tools to help journalists tell what’s real and what’s not. By Hannah Docter-Loeb Last winter, as Christmas markets opened across Europe, social media was flooded with alarming videos. Posts claimed that radical Islamists were “invading” Christmas markets. One clip appeared to show people “disrupting” the opening of the Brussels Christmas market, while a separate photo showed a market surrounded by heavy security. The message was clear: Christian traditions were supposedly under threat. But the reality was different. The videos came from peaceful demonstrations, and the photo had be

IBM, Masters use AI to Bring the Fairway to Every Fan

IBM and the Masters Golf Tournament are teaming up to give fans an experience unlike any other.  IBM SVP of Marketing & Communications Jonathan Adashek and Longtime Caddy Jim "Bones" Mackay join Joe Mathieu and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss the economic impact the move could have on the country. Watch the show LIVE every Saturday and Sunday morning. (Source: Bloomberg) Topic group: Adoption & Impact

A folk musician became a target for AI fakes and a copyright troll

A folk artist details their struggle against AI-generated impersonations and the legal challenges posed by copyright trolls.

OpenAI acquires TBPN to accelerate global conversations around AI

What's the point of an AI novel?

Napster is Evolving in the AI Era

Napster CEO John Acunto explains how the company has been reimagined, shifting focus from traditional music streaming to what they call "streaming intelligence." Watch his full interview on Bloomberg This Weekend with hosts Christina Ruffini and Lisa Mateo. (Source: Bloomberg) Topic group: Adoption & Impact

AI is rewiring the world’s most prolific film industry | Reuters

AI is rewiring the world’s most prolific film industry | Reuters Exclusive news, data and analytics for financial market professionalsLearn more aboutRefinitiv Gandhari and Dhritarashtra, characters from the AI-generated series "Mahabharat: Ek Dharmayudh," as seen at the Collective Artists Network's Galleri5 AI production studio in Bengaluru. The show is based on an ancient Hindu epic about a dynastic war between princes. REUTERS/Priyanshu Singh BENGALURU - Welcome to the new-look movie set, where the quiet hum of a coding floor has replaced the cacophony of cameras, clapperboards and shouted directions. The Collective Artists Network, a top talent agency for Bollywood A-listers, has long brokered the careers of real-life superstars. Now, it’s engineering digital ones. In its Bengaluru premises, filmmakers use artificial intelligence tools to Topic group: Adoption & Impact

Sony: AI Gaming Division Acquires Cinemersive Labs To Enhance Visual Computing

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cinemersive Labs, a UK-based machine learning and computer vision company, as the PlayStation business continues to invest in advanced visual computing and immersive gameplay experiences. The post Sony: AI Gaming Division Acquires Cinemersive Labs To Enhance Visual Computing appeared first on Pulse 2.0.

r/gamedev on Reddit: Does Rokoko mocap count as AI?

It&#x27;s honestly a gray area. It is definitely using AI and it is creating animations for you, but assuming you created your own models (or some human did, at least) to attach them to, fundamentally it isn&#x27;t any different from &quot;normal&quot; motion capture, it&#x27;s just a different method of providing input.

OpenAI purchases online tech talk show TBPN

OpenAI said the purchase will be part of its strategy to further the conversation on the changes brought about by artificial intelligence. Read more: OpenAI purchases online tech talk show TBPN

Why OpenAI Decided to Buy ‘TBPN,’ Tech’s Hottest News Show

The tech company’s surprise purchase of the web program underscores its efforts to help shape the narrative about AI.

China proposes rules for digital virtual-human services

China’s cyberspace regulator has released draft measures to govern digital virtual-human services, requiring providers to safeguard personality rights and respect intellectual property.

Chinese actors' body pushes against unauthorized AI use of likeness, voice

China’s actors are pushing for tighter controls on unauthorized AI use of likeness and voice data, as an industry body warned that such practices are infringing legal rights.

OpenAI Just Bought TBPN

OpenAI has bought TBPN, an online talk show that often interviews AI executives and other tech leaders.

Friday April 3 2026: The age of reporters is ending - AI chatbots are the new journalists - opinion.

AI collects information in any realm and on any topic and prepares it for reading (and reporting). With the press of a button, reporters can receive stories without any investigation required before p

AI 'Slop' is Flooding YouTube Kids

AI 'slop' is flooding YouTube Kids, and more than 200 groups and experts are calling for a ban.

Google Vids Revolutionizes Video Creation

Google Vids launches AI-enhanced video creation tools with Veo 3.1, allowing users to generate high-quality videos, custom music, and AI avatars.

OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I.

OpenAI said the deal would help it “create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes A.I. creates.” Topic group: Labor & Society

Netflix - yes Netflix - jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies. Just imagine this. As the director of the multi-million dollar epic Car Crash III: Suddenest Impact, you've just finished filming the finale where your star, Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi.… Topic group: Adoption & Impact

OpenAI: Acquisition Of TBPN To Expand AI Media And Global Conversation

OpenAI has announced that it has acquired TBPN, a fast-growing media company focused on daily conversations around technology, business, and artificial intelligence. The move is aimed at accelerating

OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for 'low hundreds of millions'

ChatGPT maker moves into broadcasting with deal for TBPN after it had pledged to abandon ‘side-quests’

OpenAI Buys Tech Talk Show TBPN in Rare Move Into Media

OpenAI has acquired the online technology talk show TBPN, an unusual purchase for the artificial intelligence model developer aimed at driving the conversation around AI.

AI animation studio Toonstar, HarperCollins team up on animated book projects | Reuters

Artificial intelligence powered animation studio Toonstar on Thursday unveiled ​a multi-year partnership with News Corp -owned ‌HarperCollins to produce a slate of original animated series based on se

Google Introduces Veo 3.1 Lite Video Generation Mode

Google introduces a lower-cost version of Google’s Veo video generation model, continuing the trend of improving efficiency and accessibility in AI-driven content creation.

Why is gaming becoming so expensive?

We are paying more for a PlayStation so that idiots can use ChatGPT to mislead people on dating apps — something is rotten in the state of gaming.

Huge glass skyscraper envisioned for Trump presidential library in AI video | Reuters

Republicans appear to be utilizing the technology more frequently than Democrats, following ​the lead of Trump&#x27;s White ​House, which has released ⁠scores of AI -generated videos and gaming-inspired memes on social media that do everything from disparaging protesters to hyping up the Iran war.

#1009 AI game-making with web3 rewards - by Jon Jordan

And both combine AI game-making with some level of web3 rewards.

Two-thirds of under-16s with accounts on Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok kept access despite ban

Meta, Tiktok and Google being investigated for allegedly disobeying Australia’s social media ban The Australian government has accused big tech firms like Meta, TikTok and Google of disobeying the landmark ban on under-16s using social media, after the country’s online safety office warned many children had accounts. A survey of 900 Australian parents found around a third (31%) said their children still had one or more social media accounts after the ban, compared to 49% before the laws. Continue reading...

OpenAI's $1B Disney Deal

OpenAI's $1B Disney blindside is a significant economic development in the AI sector.

Sett raises $30M to grow agent-based AI platform for game studios

Sett, a startup offering artificial intelligence for the gaming industry, said today it has raised $30 million in new funding to accelerate product development and support the global expansion of its platform. Founded in 2022, Sett’s platform is designed to automate content creation and optimization for mobile game studios and addresses the need to continuously […] The post Sett raises $30M to grow agent-based AI platform for game studios appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

AI Music and Art

AI has touched every part of the music industry, from sample sourcing and demo recording, to serving up digital liner notes and building playlists.

OpenAI's Erotica Retreat

OpenAI spent the last year trying to be everything — a video platform, a shopping portal, even a purveyor of AI erotica. Now it's racing to become a thing that makes money.

I Stress Tested SoloEnt AI, a desktop writing tool on a 1000-Chapter Novel.

Every project gets a SOLOENT.md file, a living document that stores your world rules, character logic, tone and constraints.

r/isthisAI on Reddit: Is this AI? I found it on TikTok and the comments are pretty split.

It is AI , look at cats clothing when it gets splashed.

Why the Verdict Against Meta and YouTube Could Change Social Media

In a landmark case, a jury found Meta and YouTube guilty of creating products that were addictive.

OpenAI: Sora Video Generation App Shutdown Signals Strategic Shift Away From Media

OpenAI is shutting down its Sora AI video-generation app and related services, marking a significant pivot away from consumer-facing media tools.

Keir Starmer says UK will ‘have to act’ to curb addictive features of social media

In his strongest intervention yet, PM says some features ‘shouldn’t be permitted’, while education secretary says things ‘are going to change’.

Why AI Can Imitate Language More Easily Than Cinema

The fantasy only looked plausible because it piggybacked on the success of language models.

The OnlyFans inheritance: how its owner’s death could reshape the porn money-making machine

Leonid Radvinsky’s widow has been left with a crucial role in deciding what happens to the business that made her husband a billionaire

Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite

Large language models elevate expert consensus and moderate views, in sharp contrast to social platforms. AI may be a moderating influence on political discourse.

The Best AI Video Generators for 2026

AI video generators help you turn your prompts into believable videos, complete with audio. We've tested all the top services to help you choose the one that does the best job with the fewest tweaks. How We Choose the Best AI Video Generators Evaluation how AI video generators handle our test prompts, which you can learn more about below, is a major part of how we decide which apps make this list.

Actors Union Is Bargaining for ‘Tilly Tax’ On AI Film Characters

As adoption of artificial intelligence in the US outpaces efforts to regulate it, organized labor is providing an important check on how the technology gets used, according to the head of the Hollywood actors’ union.

Why Every AI Cyberpunk Factory Scene Needs Human Figures

Cyberpunk is one of those style labels that AI reads with a lot of confidence and a lot of latitude. Drop the word into a prompt and you’ll get something with neon, something with grit, probably some rain-slicked surfaces and a colour palette that leans hard on blue and magenta.

Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia

Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy edits Wikipedia has banned the use of artificial intelligence in the generation or rewriting of content for its voluminous online encyclopedia. In a recent policy change, Wikipedia said that the use of large language models (or LLMs) “often violates” its core principles and will not be allowed. The English language version of Wikipedia has more than 7.

r/fantanoforever on Reddit: Pitchfork has AI writing its content now: see Kanye West story today

Listing true events but getting a detail like a date wrong is a very careless-human sort of error. An AI sort of error would be something like making up an event that didn’t happen at all but sort of sounded like something that would happen to a famous artist.

An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.

AI-assisted stories accounted for nearly 20% of Fortune's web traffic in the second half of 2025.

OpenAI's US ad pilot exceeds $100 million in annualized revenue in six weeks | Reuters

Open AI &#x27;s ChatGPT ads pilot in the United States has crossed the $100 million annualized revenue mark within six weeks of launch, a company ​spokesperson said on Thursday, pointing to robust early demand for the ‌ AI startup&#x27;s nascent advertising business.

The AI Content Industrial Complex - by Mara Dettmann

So when AI entered the content game, it didn’t just nullify the cost and effort of creating content – it also shifted how the content is consumed even more (Cloudflare’s CEO said at SXSW that AI bot traffic is on track to exceed human traffic by 2027).

Wikipedia Cracks Down on AI

Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing

Mirage Raises $75 Million in Funding

Mirage, a New York City-based AI video creation platform, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, increasing its total funding to over $175 million. This capital will help the company expand its global presence.

Autodesk Unveils AI-Driven Upgrades

Autodesk unveils AI-driven updates for Maya, 3ds Max, and more, enhancing animation, texturing, and workflow efficiency.

OpenAI Shuts Down Sora AI Video App

OpenAI shuts down Sora AI video app as Disney exits $1B partnership

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

Wikipedia's English site has banned AI-generated text, except for editing and translation aids under strict review, to preserve accuracy and verifiability.

Signal AI Acquires Memo for Readership Data

Signal AI, a leader in AI-driven reputation and risk intelligence, has acquired Memo, the first platform providing readership data directly from publishers. This acquisition aims to integrate real readership metrics into Signal AI's services.

Wikipedia cracks down on contributors using AI to generate content

Wikipedia has banned contributors from using artificial intelligence tools to create content for its platform through a recent policy update. The recently announced new guidelines reflect increasing concern within the Wikipedia community that AI-generated text conflicts with the platform’s standards on citing reliable and verifiable sources. In the update, Wikipedia noted that text generated by large language […] The post Wikipedia cracks down on contributors using AI to generate content appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Snapchat Investigated in Europe Over Child Safety Policies

Regulators in Brussels accused the social media platform of maintaining a weak age-verification system, and steering younger users toward inappropriate experiences.

Juries Take the Lead in the Push for Child Online Safety

A pair of verdicts held social media companies accountable for harming young users, highlighting a growing backlash as Congress struggles to pass legislation.

r/SunoAI on Reddit: Suno AI and EleveLabsmusic

this is a general discussion about suno AI and 11 Labs music. I&#x27;ve been using suno since it&#x27;s Inception and I&#x27;m currently a top tier member at its…

r/fantanoforever on Reddit: After claiming that bully wont use any Ai, ye suddently decides to ise the AI bully potatoes for the music video of PREACHER MAN. What are your thoughts?

Most likely ai.

Disney's Big Bets on Metaverse and AI Aren't Going Well

Less than a week into his tenure as Disney's newly-appointed CEO, Josh D'Amaro is already dealing with two separate crises that have cast a shadow over the company's future plans.

Training Data and AI-Related News

Meta and YouTube were found liable and must pay $3 million in compensation to a woman who argued the companies were to blame for her social media addiction.

Google Lyria 3 Pro Revolutionizes AI Music

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro, an AI tool for generating up to three-minute songs with detailed structure control, integrated across its creative platforms.

Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case

Meta and YouTube have been found negligent in a landmark social media addiction case, according to a report on Hacker News.

Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds

Jury in Los Angeles awards plaintiff damages of $6m, with Meta to pay 70% and YouTube the remainder Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Meta and YouTube have been found liable for deliberately designing addictive products that hooked a young user and led to her being harmed, a jury ruled on Wednesday. Jurors found the tech companies to be both negligent and having failed to provide adequate warnings about the potential dangers of their products. The jury awarded the plaintiff in the case damages of $6m, with Meta to pay 70% and YouTube the remainder.

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The big idea is finding and sharing the ways AI is changing journalism by gathering some insight from folk at the sharp end. We want to know about the good, the bad and the ugly of AI In the newsroom.

Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 Employees, Citing Fortnite Slump

The cut represents about 20 percent of the video game company’s work force, a spokeswoman said.

Domain Capital Raises $768 Million Fund to Tap Surging Entertainment Demand

The firm is expanding its entertainment investments with a new artist-management venture and financing agreements with major studios.

OpenAI shutters controversial AI video generator Sora

Reports suggest Disney's $1bn equity investment into OpenAI will not progress. Read more: OpenAI shutters controversial AI video generator Sora

The Missing Layer: Why Most Brands Aren’t Ready to Govern Their AI Content Operations | by Kajetan Kai Malinowski | Mar, 2026 | Medium

The brand with an inconsistent voice across channels? AI will produce that inconsistency at ten times the volume. The team with a loose fact-checking habit?

OpenAI closes Sora video-making app and cancels $1bn Disney deal

The move comes less two years after the launch of the AI video app sent shockwaves through the media industry.

OpenAI is Shutting Down Sora

OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its powerful AI video model, app and API

OpenAI to end Disney deal and Sora video app

CEO Sam Altman is shifting AI start-up’s strategy to focus on its core products

Martin Sorrell Says S4 Capital’s Future Depends on AI Adoption at Scale

EXCLUSIVE: Sorrell said he is “starting to see green shoots” as he looks to AI to get the advertising company out of a slump.

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini Entered the WSJ Bracket Pool. One Might Actually Win.

The AI ringers struggled at first. But soon, they were calling upsets, picking against the crowd—and beating the humans.

AI could be a blockbuster — just not for film companies

Film studios may find that the advantages they reap from investing in new technology get competed away

MuQ-Eval: An Open-Source Per-Sample Quality Metric for AI Music Generation Evaluation

Distributional metrics such as Fréchet Audio Distance cannot score individual music clips and correlate poorly with human judgments, while the only per-sample learned metric achieving high human correlation is closed-source. We introduce MUQ-EVAL, an open-source per-sample quality metric for AIgenerated music built by training lightweight prediction heads on frozen MuQ-310M features using MusicEval, a dataset of generated clips from 31 text-to-music systems with expert quality ratings. Our simpl...

Capcom's AI Strategy: Boosting Game Development

Capcom confirms AI will enhance development speed but not appear in final game assets, maintaining human-crafted content. The company disclosed this strategy amid increased industry scrutiny.

Chinese Voice Actors Challenge AI Voice Misuse

Chinese voice actors are pushing back against unauthorized use of their voices for artificial intelligence training and monetization, spotlighting tensions between rapidly advancing speech technology and the protection of vocal rights.

I've Been Using AI Video Tools in My Creative Workflow for About 6 Months

I've been using AI video tools in my creative workflow for about 6 months and I want to give an honest assessment of where they're actually useful vs where they're still overhyped.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Here - Now What?

Were hearing real concerns from every direction. Writers, artists, and musicians are worried about their work being scraped and replicated without permission. Workers across industries are asking a very direct question: Will AI take my job—or redefine it out from under me?

OpenAI Taps Former Meta Executive to Lead Ad Push

Dave Dugan is joining the AI company, which is seeking stronger ties to brands in an effort to boost its nascent ad business.

Engineering Formula One: cloud and AI are changing the game

The era when advanced technologies, like the cloud, were confined to one or more industries is long gone now. At this age, tech is in every industry, and sports is one of them for sure. Tech is leaving its fingerprints in every sport, but no sport comes close to the level of technology used seen […] The post Engineering Formula One: cloud and AI are changing the game appeared first on MENA TECH.

Google is quietly rewriting headlines in search with AI

Recent media reports claimed that Google has begun altering news headlines in its search results, replacing them with personalized, AI-generated versions. After previously testing this approach in the Google Discover feed, the company is now experimenting with it in the traditional “ten blue links” format. According to The Verge, Google’s search engine has shortened some headlines […] The post Google is quietly rewriting headlines in search with AI appeared first on MENA TECH. Topic group: Economics & Markets

Authors Seek Final Nod For Settlement With Anthropic

Book authors asked a US federal judge to grant final approval to their $1.5 billion settlement with Anthropic to resolve copyright claims over AI training.

This was kind of fun. Codex: 'download nethack, add new items that would make the game easy to win and make me feel powerful'

This was kind of fun. Codex: 'download nethack, add new items that would make the game easy to win and make me feel powerful'

Amazon MGM Gets a Much-Needed Hit With 'Project Hail Mary'

The movie, which stars Ryan Gosling, is on pace to be the company's highest-grossing domestic film.

Microsoft's New Gaming Chief on Revived Xbox and AI

Microsoft's new gaming chief promises a revived Xbox and no 'soulless AI slop'.

Google Search Now Using AI to Replace Headlines

Google Search is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with AI-generated summaries.

Meta Amplifies AI Role in Facebook, Instagram Moderation

Meta is accelerating its use of AI for content moderation on Facebook and Instagram, while human experts will oversee critical decisions.

I Won an Award at a $500K Global AI Film Event

A user shares their experience of winning an award at a $500K global AI film event.

Microsoft's New Gaming Chief on Revived Xbox and AI

Microsoft's new gaming chief promises a revived Xbox and no 'soulless AI slop'.

Eight States Seek Restraining Order to Stop $6.2 Billion Nexstar-Tegna Combination

The states have previously argued the deal would result in too much concentration in some local TV markets.

Your X Posts Are Training Elon Musk's AI. Here’s How to Stop It

The platform's Grok chatbot scrapes your posts by default. Fortunately, there are some easy steps you can take to stop feeding the beast. Elon Musk's xAI controls Grok, an AI chatbot integrated within the X (or Twitter, as most of us still call it) social media platform.

Nvidia and Adobe team up to bring digital twins into the marketing machine

Generative artificial intelligence is transforming content creation, but companies that make physical products need more than just images — they need pixel-perfect brand fidelity at scale.

Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes

Mediahuis suspends Peter Vandermeersch, who says he ‘fell into trap of hallucinations’, after investigation by newspaper where he was once editor-in-chief

AI driving Daily Beast profitability | Brutal traffic month for top US publishers

And he spoke about how AI is driving both direct licensing revenue and indirect revenue by letting them do a lot more with a small number of people.

Producing 1-Minute Prolog Videos with AI | by Kenichi Sasagawa | Mar, 2026 | Medium

As I mentioned in a previous post, AI has improved rapidly — once you give it direction, it can generate solid scripts.

Blue Moon and AI - Get Reel with Richard Walter

Still More on AI --The Magnificent Ambersons · Mar 12 • Richard Walter · More On (What Else? ) A. I.

Google Offers Opt-Out for UK Publishers on AI Overviews

Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews. One search engine switch to rule them all in Google's response to UK competition watchdog.

BMG Sues Anthropic Over AI Training Data

BMG Rights Management has sued AI firm Anthropic in California, alleging copyright infringement over the use of song lyrics to train its Claude language model.

Adobe's AI Image Generator Can Now Be Trained on Your Own Art

Adobe is launching customizable AI image generators that can mimic specific artistic styles and character designs.

AI Resurrects Val Kilmer

A new film, As Deep As The Grave, will use AI to digitally resurrect Val Kilmer in a role he was originally cast for, with his family's approval.

AI Film Competition Awards $500K

Higgsfield's AI Film Competition awarded $500,000 to creators from 139 countries, marking a major shift towards AI-enabled, decentralized filmmaking.

Pop Mart and Sony Announce Labubu Movie Directed by Paul King

Pop Mart and Sony announced on Thursday that they were developing a feature film about the fuzzy trinkets. “It’s completely ruthless marketing,” one expert said.