DuckDuckGo launches free AI image editing on Duck.ai, letting users upload and edit images via text prompts powered by OpenAI, with privacy protections that strip metadata and IP addresses before processing — no account required.
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.
ByteDance launches Seedance 2.0, an advanced AI video generator that creates realistic 15-second clips with audio from text and image prompts, featuring complex multi-subject scenes with accurate physics and camera movements, though users are already exploiting it to create unauthorized celebrity and copyrighted character content.
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.
AI video company Runway secures $315 million in Series E funding at a $5.3 billion valuation from investors including General Atlantic, Nvidia, and Adobe to develop revolutionary 'world models' technology that can perceive and interact with the physical world.
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.0, a groundbreaking AI video model that creates cinematic-quality videos from text prompts, sparking massive stock surges across Chinese media companies with some hitting daily price limits as the technology democratizes professional video production.
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.0, a groundbreaking AI model that simultaneously processes 12 different files to generate videos with automatic sound effects and can mimic camera movements from reference footage, triggering a 20% stock surge as the AI video generation battle intensifies.
EPFL scientists breakthrough 'error recycling' method teaches AI to learn from its own mistakes, enabling unlimited-length video generation that maintains quality for minutes instead of the previous 30-second limit without requiring extra computing power.
Meta launches standalone Vibes app featuring exclusively AI-generated videos in TikTok-style format, directly challenging OpenAI's Sora while planning premium subscriptions for enhanced video creation capabilities.