AI Video
Text-to-video generation is one of AI's fastest-moving frontiers: OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo, Runway, Kling and others turn a couple of sentences into increasingly realistic clips. It is reshaping advertising, film and the debate over authorship and deepfakes. Here is all our coverage of AI video: model releases, quality, pricing and industry shifts.
Alibaba releases a translator with 2.8-second latency across 60 languages
Alibaba introduced a model for real-time translation of video and speech simultaneously across 60 languages — with minimal latency and preservation of the speaker’s…
Google Introduces Gemini Omni Flash — Model for Creating Video from Text and Images
Google launched Gemini Omni Flash — an AI model that creates high-quality video content from text, images, and audio recordings, edits video through natural…
DeepMind's Project Genie Learns to Simulate Real Places from Google Street View
DeepMind has expanded Project Genie access to Google AI Ultra subscribers worldwide and integrated the ability to simulate real places through Street View.
YouTube Shorts Remix: Google Lets Users Reimagine Videos with Gemini AI
OpenAI Unveiled Tools to Verify Authorship of AI-Generated Content
Alibaba unveils Zhenwu M890 — an accelerator optimized for AI agents
Google Reveals Scale: 3.2 Quadrillion AI Tokens Per Month, Sevenfold Growth
Google updated Project Genie to create 3D worlds from Street View
Google added Street View panorama integration to Project Genie, allowing AI to generate interactive 3D spaces based on real locations in a matter of seconds.
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Meta is laying off 1,000 employees amid record profits to buy silicon chips, while the Vatican prepares a historic tract on protecting the soul from algorithms.
AudioHijack: How Hidden Sounds Force AI to Execute Malicious Commands
Penn created a hybrid particle for ultra-fast, energy-efficient AI
Young Asian entrepreneurs profit from hateful AI content on Facebook
Yandex updated Alice AI's image generator to create images with Russian text
Amazon launched AI podcast generator based on content from 200+ publications
Amazon introduced Alexa Podcasts, a new feature for Alexa+ subscribers that generates full podcast episodes on demand using licensed content from 200+ publications.
Brussels approved AI Act compromise: ban on intimate deepfakes and delay
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a compromise on the AI Act: they pushed the deadline to December 2027, eased requirements for small…