AMC Theatres backs down from screening AI-animated festival winner 'Thanksgiving Day' following fierce online backlash, forcing the Kazakhstani filmmaker's prize-winning short to pivot toward immersive venues instead.
OpenAI recruits Instagram's former partnerships chief Charles Porch to spearhead Hollywood relations as the company pushes its AI video tool Sora into entertainment deals, following a massive $1 billion Disney licensing agreement while the industry remains wary of AI threats to jobs and creative content.
The Motion Picture Association condemns ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator for creating viral deepfakes of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt while generating unauthorized content from major franchises like Spider-Man and Titanic, sparking industry fears about AI threatening traditional filmmaking.
Netflix unveils a revolutionary internal Post-Training Framework that accelerates AI model training by up to 4.7x through advanced optimizations like on-the-fly sequence packing, enabling the streaming giant to scale large language model fine-tuning from experimental phases to full production deployment across distributed GPU clusters.
The Motion Picture Association accuses ByteDance of massive copyright infringement through its newly launched AI service Seedance 2.0, alleging unauthorized use of U.S. copyrighted works on a massive scale within just one day of the service's debut and demanding immediate cessation of all infringing activities.
Groundbreaking AI-animated short film 'Dear Upstairs Neighbors' premieres at Sundance, utilizing custom Google DeepMind technology that transforms rough animator sketches into polished painterly scenes through fine-tuned Veo and Imagen models, marking a revolutionary collaboration between human creativity and artificial intelligence in filmmaking.
Over 800 Hollywood stars including Scarlett Johansson and Cate Blanchett launch 'Stealing Isn't Innovation' petition demanding AI companies stop using copyrighted works without permission, while the entertainment industry remains deeply divided on artificial intelligence adoption.
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announces ambitious 2026 vision as platform reaches milestone 200 billion daily Shorts views and surpasses $100 billion in creator payouts over four years, while rolling out new AI tools and enhanced parental controls.
ElevenLabs launches groundbreaking AI music album featuring legendary artists Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel, who co-create full compositions from simple prompts while retaining complete authorship and commercial rights to their AI-generated tracks.
ElevenLabs launches groundbreaking AI-generated album featuring GRAMMY winners Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel, who use Eleven Music technology to create original compositions across rap, pop, R&B, and EDM genres while maintaining full artistic ownership and commercial licensing rights.