Topic: ai video generation
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My Slippery Slope Into Sora's World
OpenAI's new Sora app enables users to create ten-second AI-generated videos from any concept, including digital cameos of people, and has quickly become a top free app on the Apple App Store. Public and internal reactions are mixed, with concerns about misinformation from hyper-realistic videos ...
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Adobe Firefly adds AI video editing and third-party models
Adobe has upgraded its Firefly AI app with a new video editor, allowing users to make precise, prompt-based modifications to specific elements like colors or objects without regenerating the entire video. The platform is expanding its generative capabilities by integrating third-party AI models, ...
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Runway's First World Model Unveiled with Native Audio in Latest Video AI
Runway has launched GWM-1, a foundational "world model" that simulates real-world physics to enable reasoning and planning, advancing beyond simple video generation for applications like robotics. The core GWM-1 technology is being deployed through three specialized applications: GWM-Worlds for i...
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OpenAI's Disney Deal Brings Mickey Mouse & Marvel to Sora
OpenAI and Disney have partnered to integrate iconic characters and worlds from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars into OpenAI's AI models for generating videos and images. The collaboration enables users to create short social videos and images through simple prompts, using a vast library of a...
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Sora Arrives on Android in the US, Canada, and More
Sora AI video generator is now available on Android in several countries, expanding its reach after a successful iOS launch and aiming to significantly increase global downloads. The app includes features like "Cameos" for personalized videos and a social feed for sharing, positioning it as a com...
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Are Deepfakes Rewriting History?
OpenAI's Sora text-to-video app raises ethical concerns by enabling the creation of convincing deepfakes of deceased public figures, which can spread historical misinformation and distress families. Legal protections exist against unauthorized use of a person's likeness, but enforcing these laws ...
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OpenAI's Sora Surpasses 1 Million Downloads
Sora, OpenAI's social AI video app, achieved over one million downloads in under five days, outpacing ChatGPT's initial adoption despite being invite-only and launching on iOS in the U.S. and Canada. The app features a "cameos" function for personalizing videos and has generated a mix of memes, d...
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OpenAI's Sora Sparks Unexpected Copyright Controversy
OpenAI's Sora video generation tool sparked copyright debates, leading to a policy shift from opt-out to letting rightsholders control usage after unauthorized characters like Nazi SpongeBob emerged. The platform introduced granular user controls for digital likenesses and improved watermarking t...
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Create Deepfakes of Friends with OpenAI's New Video App
OpenAI's new Sora app enables users to create AI-generated deepfakes of friends with explicit consent, currently available on an invite-only basis in the U.S. and Canada. The app features "cameos" where users can grant permission for others to produce videos using their likeness, with co-ownershi...
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OpenAI's Deepfake TikTok Blurs Reality Beyond Recognition
OpenAI's Sora 2 AI video tool generates highly realistic deepfake videos, including convincing clips of real people, raising concerns about digital authenticity and misinformation. The platform features significant upgrades such as synchronized audio generation, improved accuracy, and a social ap...
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OpenAI's New Social App for AI Video Creation
OpenAI is developing a standalone social app for its Sora 2 AI video model, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed where all content is AI-generated, including a "For You" page and options to like, comment, or remix videos. The app includes an identity verification system allowing users to incorpo...
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How AI Models Create Videos
AI video generation is now widely accessible through platforms like Sora and Veo 3, enabling creators to produce content from text prompts but raising concerns about authenticity and environmental impact. The process often requires multiple attempts to refine outputs, as initial results can vary ...
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Showrunner Aims to Use AI to Restore Lost Orson Welles Footage
Showrunner is using AI to recreate the lost footage from Orson Welles' *The Magnificent Ambersons*, which was drastically cut by the studio against his wishes. The project combines generative AI with historical research, using Welles' notes and digital face-swapping to approximate the original ca...
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Google's Veo 2 Brings AI Video Generation to Gemini Advanced Users
Google has officially launched Veo 2, its advanced AI video generation model, for Gemini Advanced and Google One AI Premium subscribers. This rollout allows users to create high-resolution, eight-second MP4 video clips at 720p directly from text prompts...
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AI-Generated Kids in Disturbing Sora 2 Videos Spark Alarm
Advanced AI video generators like OpenAI's Sora 2 are being used to create and spread photorealistic, suggestive videos of children, highlighting a critical regulatory gap and urgent need for safeguards. The legal status of AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is murky, but reports of ...
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Will AI Influencers Crash the Creator Economy?
The rapid rise of AI-generated content is forcing a critical discussion about authenticity and ethics in the creator economy, as tools have lowered the barrier to creating convincing but often deceptive videos. AI is enabling both low-effort content farming for revenue and more sinister scams, in...
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OpenAI's Sora App Now Available on Android
OpenAI has launched the Sora video generation app for Android, making it available in key markets like the U.S., Japan, and Korea through the Google Play Store. A new "character cameos" feature introduces reusable digital avatars that users can integrate into their video projects for enhanced cre...
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MPA Slams OpenAI for Sora 2 Copyright Opt-Outs
The Motion Picture Association demands OpenAI take immediate action against copyright infringement involving its Sora 2 video tool, criticizing the opt-out system for unfairly burdening creators. OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has promised updates to give copyright holders more control but has not commi...
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Google TV's Gemini Update: Generate Images, Videos & Voice Control
Google TV's latest update integrates the Gemini AI assistant, enabling conversational queries and personalized recommendations with a new visually rich interface designed for television. The AI can now directly control TV settings through voice commands, such as automatically adjusting audio to f...
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Cameo Sues OpenAI Over Sora's AI Video Cameos
Cameo has filed a trademark lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the "cameo" feature in its Sora video app causes marketplace confusion and damages its established brand by misleading consumers. The dispute centers on OpenAI's use of the term "cameo" for a deepfake avatar feature, which critics ...
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YouTube's AI Hunts for Deepfakes of Top Creators
YouTube has launched a new tool for Partner Program creators to detect and report unauthorized AI-generated deepfakes that misuse their likeness, accessible via YouTube Studio after identity verification. The feature, currently in development and rolling out gradually, may occasionally flag creat...
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Sora Copycats Still Flood the App Store
The launch of OpenAI's official Sora app led to a surge of fraudulent copycat apps on the App Store, many using the "Sora" or "Sora 2" names to deceive users and bypass Apple's review process. These counterfeit apps, some rebranded from existing ones, have accumulated around 300,000 installations...
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America's Gun Crisis & How AI Video Models Work | The Download
A new federal strategy for children's health focuses on nutrition and physical activity but overlooks gun violence, the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the U.S. Advances in AI video generation by systems like Sora and Veo 3 create realistic content but pose risks such as mark...
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Meta and Midjourney Team Up on AI Image & Video Models
Meta has partnered with Midjourney to license its AI image and video generation technology, integrating it into Meta's AI models and consumer products to better compete with rivals like OpenAI and Google. This move is part of Meta's broader strategy to accelerate AI development through recruitmen...
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OpenAI's Bias Problem & The Making of AI Videos
OpenAI's Sora video app exemplifies the dual potential of generative AI for innovation and copyright issues, requiring creators to enforce their own intellectual property rights. Taiwan has refused a U.S. request to move half its semiconductor production stateside, casting doubt on the stability ...
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Why Some AI Skills Advance Faster Than Others
AI progress varies significantly by skill set, with coding and software development advancing rapidly due to measurable tasks and automated testing, while subjective applications like email writing see slower gains. Reinforcement learning drives this uneven advancement, excelling in areas with cl...
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Disney Sues Google Over 'Massive' AI Copyright Infringement
Disney has sued Google for copyright infringement, alleging its AI models like Gemini were trained on and generate content from Disney's intellectual property without permission. The lawsuit coincides with Disney announcing a major partnership with OpenAI to integrate its characters into AI tools...
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AI's Paradox: Getting Better by Getting Worse
AI image generation is achieving greater realism by deliberately incorporating subtle imperfections, such as the processed aesthetic of smartphone photography, to avoid an artificial look and feel more plausible. This strategy of controlled imperfection extends to video, mimicking formats like se...
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OpenAI Staff Divided Over Social Media Strategy
OpenAI employees are divided over the Sora social media app, questioning its alignment with the company's nonprofit mission to develop AI for societal benefit. Researchers express mixed feelings about Sora's technical achievements, highlighting risks like deepfakes and social media addiction, whi...
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Google Doppl AI Adds Shoppable Discovery Feed
Google has launched an AI-powered, shoppable video feed in its Doppl app, offering personalized outfit recommendations where items can be purchased directly. The feature uses AI to generate content and videos for virtual try-ons, moving away from human influencers to provide hyper-personalized st...
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Google's Veo 3: Create Vertical AI Videos Instantly
Google's Veo 3 AI video generator now supports 1080p resolution and vertical 9:16 format, optimized for mobile and social media platforms. Both Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast models are stable for scaled production, with significantly reduced pricing to encourage adoption. The enhancements enable developer...
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Europe's Top 20 Startup Funding Rounds of 2025 (So Far)
Europe’s startup ecosystem thrived in 2025, with €19 billion invested in AI, biotech, clean energy, and space tech despite global economic uncertainties. Top funding deals included Helsing (€600M for AI-driven defence tech), Isomorphic Labs (€508M for AI drug discovery), and NEoT (€350M for susta...
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