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 HappyHorse — an open-source AI video generator that surpassed ByteDance’s Seedance
Google released Gemma 4 on Hugging Face: multimodal models for local inference
Yandex SpeechKit, BotHub and Speech2Text: which speech synthesis services were compared in the 2026 review
IBM and Masters launched AI search across the archives and shot-by-shot analytics for viewers
IBM and Masters updated the tournament's digital platform: viewers can now search moments from 50+ years and get AI analysis of every shot almost in real time.
WACV 2026 in Tucson showed Computer Vision's shift toward multimodality and synthetic data
A report from WACV 2026 in Tucson captured the main shifts in Computer Vision: multimodal models, synthetic data, more efficient compute, and notable posters from…
YouTube Shorts rolls out AI avatars with voice cloning to all users
YouTube has opened access to personal AI avatars for Shorts to all creators — a digital twin with a cloned voice can now appear in videos instead of you.
AvatarBox on HeyGen turns photos into talking videos right in Telegram in 2 minutes
AWS showed how to embed an AI agent's live view in React via Bedrock AgentCore
Alibaba released the Happy Horse video generator — it took first place in global benchmarks
Microsoft veteran ran a transformer on a 6 MHz PDP-11 with 64 KB of memory
Russia tests autonomous patrol robots for surveillance in penal colonies
A pilot with autonomous patrol robots has been launched in two Russian correctional facilities to test their effectiveness and integration into existing security…
ByteDance unveils an AI-designed drug candidate against IL-17 for autoimmune diseases
ByteDance unit Anew Labs has for the first time unveiled an AI-designed drug candidate: an oral molecule against IL-17 for autoimmune diseases.
Google added prompt-based control of AI avatars to Vids and video export to YouTube
ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of Seedance 2.0
Falcon Tech explained how machine vision for cities grew into a network of 4,000 systems
Falcon Tech showed how Moscow's video monitoring system grew out of parking enforcement
Memory card makers cut speeds amid flash memory shortage
Demand from AI systems has pushed flash memory into short supply: memory card makers are reducing model speeds and capacities, while retail prices have risen by up…
Alibaba unveils Happy Oyster — an AI model for generating interactive 3D worlds
Alibaba has launched Happy Oyster, a world model for creating interactive 3D scenes and video, as the company seeks to strengthen its position in gaming, film, and…