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Grok’s image tools get a professional upgrade with templates, precise editing, and an Arena number two ranking

SpaceXAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on Thursday, making editing a first-class capability rather than an afterthought. The update adds a magic wand tool that changes only the region a user points at, segmentation for selecting precise areas to modify, and background removal that exports subjects with transparency. Multi-reference editing accepts up to five input […]

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The team behind Paddington 2 could’ve made a Star Wars droid movie

Paul King and Simon Farnaby, the directing and writing team behind Paddington 2, were approached by Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars film. The pair pitched a story centered entirely on a droid, with none of the franchise’s established characters. It did not happen. Farnaby revealed the project in a Variety interview promoting his latest […]

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Jensen Huang made $172 billion selling AI chips. He just gave $75 million to an art school.

Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco. The $75 million is a matching gift, and it has already spurred over $100 million in additional private support from alumni and donors including leaders in the Bay Area […]

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Bentley hired an orchestra to solve the EV silence problem. Drums were the answer.

Bentley recorded a V8 in a studio, analysed it, and discovered that rhythm, not mechanical tone, is what makes the engine emotionally compelling. To test the theory, the team set up parabolic speakers with the V8 playing on one side and a live drummer on the other. Walking between the two revealed striking similarities in […]

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Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking

Face AI, a Los Angeles-based face swap platform, announced a major update to its video face swap feature on Friday. The update improves facial tracking, expression preservation, and scene stability across changing lighting, camera angles, and partial face occlusions like glasses and hats. Queued videos now process in under a minute. The tool targets social […]

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Google used Veo and Gemini to reconstruct the greatest goal Pelé ever scored, which was never filmed

On August 2, 1959, Pelé scored what he called the greatest goal of his career: three consecutive sombreros over defenders, a knee flick past the goalkeeper, and a header into the net, all without the ball ever touching the ground. It was never filmed. For 67 years, the “Gol da Rua Javari” existed only in […]

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Midjourney turns the tables, demanding the studios suing it reveal their AI

The studios suing Midjourney say it trained AI on their characters without permission. Midjourney’s answer: prove you do not do exactly the same thing. The AI image generator wants a US federal judge to intervene. It has asked the court to force the studios suing it to reveal how they use AI internally, Variety reported. […]

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ElevenLabs is bringing Stan Lee back from the dead with AI voice cloning and digital cameos

ElevenLabs has struck a deal with Stan Lee Universe to add Stan Lee’s voice and likeness to its platform, making the late Marvel co-creator the latest deceased cultural icon to be digitally resurrected by AI. The partnership puts Lee’s voice on the ElevenLabs Iconic Marketplace for commercial licensing and on the Eleven Reader app, where fans […]

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Reallusion bets that 3D artists directing AI models will beat text prompts for professional filmmaking

Reallusion, the 3D animation software company behind iClone and Character Creator, has launched AI Studio, a production platform that pairs traditional 3D scene-building with generative AI video models. The centrepiece is a direct integration with ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0, currently the top-ranked AI video model on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. The pitch is straightforward. AI video […]

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Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.

Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to a San Francisco KFRC radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments on December 8, 1980, hours before Lennon was shot and killed, […]

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