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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP via Getty Images After Sora 2 was used to relentlessly churn out depictions of Japanese anime and video game characters, the creators of those characters are striking back. On October 28, a group representing Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, and other major Japanese publishers submitted a written request to OpenAI demanding that it stop using their copyrighted content to

Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard’s “Country Digital Song Sales” chart in the United States — once again highlighting how ubiquitous algorithmically generated music is becoming. The song, titled “Walk My Walk,” by a fictional group called Breaking Rust, tells an incredibly generic story about a man who has “been beat down” and got “mud on my jeans,” yet perseveres through it all. The song was accompanied by an AI slo

In recent times, video generative models have emerged as a focal point of attention, unlocking a realm of fresh creative opportunities. Despite this, the velocity of these models remains a significant obstacle to their broader adoption. State-of-the-art generative models, while impressive in their capabilities, are hampered by sluggishness and computational demands due to their iterative diffusion processes. To address this issue, in a new paper AnimateDif

AI Generated Video (Screenshots). Source: Instagram; TikTok; YouTube Earlier this year, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos bragged that generative AI is going to open the way for a paradigm shift in the way humans create art. “We’re confident that AI is going to help us and help our creative partners tell stories better, faster and in new ways — we’re all in on that,” he told CNBC in an interview. That might sound well and good in the board room. But here in the rea

Roblox / Futurism A video game executive has sparked a fierce debate surrounding the widespread use of generative AI in the industry by claiming that “Gen Z loves AI slop.” In a recent tweet, interactive video game company Genvid CEO and former Square Enix director Jacob Navok said that “for all the anti-AI sentiment we’re seeing in various articles, it appears consumers generally do not care.” Navok pointed to the “biggest game of the year,” called “Steal

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Mike Coppola / Getty Images for Samsung Steam, the video game storefront used by over a hundred million gamers every month, requires that developers disclose if their products use AI-generated content. Someone at Valve, however, apparently forgot to ask Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney if he’d be okay with this policy first. In a discussion on social media, Sweeney — whose company makes the megahit game For

To bring the vision of robot manipulators assisting with everyday activities in cluttered environments like living rooms, offices, and kitchens closer to reality, it’s essential to create robot policies that can generalize to new tasks in unfamiliar settings. In a new paper Gen2Act: Human Video Generation in Novel Scenarios enables Generalizable Robot Manipulation, a research team from Google DeepMind, Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University pre

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty Images Did Nick Park wake up and put on the wrong trousers this morning? In a recent interview with Radio Times, the creator of the beloved claymation series “Wallace and Gromit” said his animation studio, Aardman, would “embrace” AI — albeit in a “cautious” manner. “When ‘Toy Story’ came out [in 1995], we thought, ‘How long have we got?’ But we’ve managed to survive CGI,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Grok, the flagship chatbot created by the Elon Musk-founded AI venture xAI and infused into X-formerly-Twitter — a platform also owned by Elon Musk — continues to be used by trollish misogynists, pedophiles, and other freaks of the digital gutters to non-consensually undress images of women and, even more horrifyingly, underage girls. The women and girls targeted in these

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Images It was only yesterday that Elon Musk announced that SpaceX had acquired his AI company xAI, a merger that catapulted the rocket maker into being the most valuable private company in the world, but raised significant questions about bringing two firms with vastly different missions under the same wing. Now, the freshly-joined entity is facing one of its first maj

Published on February 19, 2026 at 08:02 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Google After generating images and videos, why not now tackle music? The Gemini app and its web version can now «create» 30-second songs from a simple text query. Including in French. Gemini is now capable of generating 30-second songs from a prompt. Just type what comes to mind, optionally indicate a music style (reggae, opera, electro, metal...), and let the bot do its job, in French, English,

Dr. Dre, the pioneering rapper and seven-time Grammy-winning producer behind hit songs like Tupac’s “California Love” and Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady,” is very much pro using artificial intelligence tools to make music. In an interview with the New York Times, Dr. Dre and Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine spoke about artificial intelligence’s recent foray into music production, with the producer characterizing those who oppose AI song generation

Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, in New York. Credit: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki Artificial intelligence is a matter of design — not destiny. That's the message from ten philanthropic foundations aiming to loosen the grip that the technology's moneyed developers, fueled by an investing frenzy, hold over its evolution. Launched Tuesday under the name Humanity AI, the coalition

Credit: Markus Winkler from Pexels India has proposed sweeping new regulations to govern artificial intelligence, aiming to curb a surge in misinformation and deepfake videos in the world's most populous nation. The Ministry of Information Technology announced the proposed amendments, citing "the growing misuse of technologies used for the creation or generation of synthetic media." "Recent incidents of deepfake audio, videos and synthetic media going vira

A Tesla car charges at a home in San Francisco, Aug. 25, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File As the United States rapidly builds massive data centers for the development of artificial intelligence, many Americans are concerned about the environmental impact. Worries about how AI will affect the environment surpass concerns about other industries that worsen climate change, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs

Published on March 26, 2026 at 14:24 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © 01net After Sora, the "adult mode" of ChatGPT: OpenAI isn't done with its spring cleaning. After having promised it for this start of the year and then postponed, the startup indefinitely suspends the development of ChatGPT's ability to generate erotic conversations. The "side quests," as OpenAI calls them, are no longer in good odor. After announcing the closure of Sora, its AI video generation pl

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more By Gabriel Cunha, Oracle AI expertArtificial intelligence is undergoing a transition phase. After years in which the advancement of large language models, the so-called LLMs, was driven by increased computational power, data availability, and model growth, the industry is now facing a more complex question: how far these architectures can evolve and whether they will be sufficient to achieve General Artific

Disney / Futurism On Tuesday, news emerged that OpenAI was canning its chaotic and controversial text-to-video AI app, Sora. The app, which was announced to much fanfare late last year, has struggled to retain users, with downloads plummeting. The stream of uninspired AI slop wasn’t just and rife with copyright-infringing material— the costs to keep it running were also enormous, even for a company the size of OpenAI. In short, we can think of a litany of

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Errich Petersen / Getty Images for SXSW; Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has finally dished on Disney’s reaction to his decision to kill the company’s AI video generator app, Sora — scuttling a billion dollar deal the two giants had planned. Given the amount of money Disney was prepared to invest, and the suddenness of the decision, speculation abounded on the drama behind the sce

Published on April 13, 2026 at 14:30 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © TinyCorp/Naïm Bada for 01net Apple has buried the Mac Pro at the end of March. Two weeks later, a Hong Kong studio offers the Macs what Apple had denied them for six years: an external GPU, finally. Apple Silicon Macs now accept external graphics cards. Apple has officially approved TinyGPU, a driver developed by TinyCorp, which allows connecting AMD and NVIDIA GPUs via Thunderbolt or USB4. The ann