Google unveils Veo 2, an AI-powered video generation model that creates high-resolution videos with 'cinematic realism' from text inputs, featuring improved physics understanding and human motion rendering, while also offering Whisk Animate for animating images into short videos using Veo 2.
Major tech giants like YouTube and OpenAI are backing a bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress, the NO FAKES Act, which aims to create new federal IP rights to protect against unauthorized AI deepfakes of people's voices and likenesses, aligning artists and tech on AI issues.
YouTube throws its weight behind the 'No Fakes Act' to combat unauthorized AI-generated replicas, allowing individuals to request removal while balancing innovation, as it expands its pilot program enabling creators to detect and remove AI copies of themselves.
Meta's new AI model Maverick tops the LM Arena benchmark, but the optimized version tested raises transparency concerns as it differs from the publicly available model, making real-world performance predictions challenging due to undisclosed customizations.
California releases groundbreaking AI guardrails report by Stanford experts to govern frontier AI models while cementing its dominance as home to 32 of the world's top 50 AI companies and expanding worker training partnerships with NVIDIA.
An AI tool deployed by the Los Angeles Times analyzes articles for potential biases and perspectives, labeling them as 'Voices' and generating 'Insights' that suggest alternative viewpoints, sparking controversy over questionable results implying biases where none exist.