19 Oct 2026 · 3,036 works · 710 news indexed
News
Short original briefs on AI in culture, each linking out to the original reporting rather than reproducing it.
Film25 Sep 2026
Particle 6 brings in Rob Minkoff to lead Storm Dogs, a toddler-and-dogs adventure mixing live action with AI-built animal characters, aimed at production in 2027.
Film25 Sep 2026
Days after an essay urging Hollywood to embrace AI, the DreamWorks co-founder says he will build a studio or platform pairing top talent with AI tools.
Legal & Policy25 Sep 2026
Michael Smith's lawyers say his bot-streamed AI songs harmed no single artist; guidelines suggest 46 to 57 months, in what will be the first US sentence of its kind.
Music25 Sep 2026
The late Punjabi star's Signed to God tour starts on 9 October with a 20-25 minute hologram set; his father says AI will not be used to recreate his voice.
Film25 Sep 2026
Infinite Loop Media says its weretiger feature went from concept to screen in under a year using AI throughout, with humans approving every creative call.
Business25 Sep 2026
The AI video workspace says its run rate hit $1 billion 18 months after launch, driven mostly by creative agencies using models from Google, ByteDance and others.
Platforms25 Sep 2026
The streamer now flags AI-identified tracks, which it says make up 0.38% of streams, most of whose plays it treats as fraudulent.
Industry25 Sep 2026
The first dedicated AI voice company in DDEX wants voice-model identity, consent and permitted uses written into music's metadata standards.
Music25 Sep 2026
Citing reggaeton's roots in Jamaican dancehall, the UK-based executive says the island's creators must be credited and paid as labels license AI firms.
Industry25 Sep 2026
The UK actors' union says a deal with producers on consent and pay for AI use is close, and asks government for personality rights for everyone.
Creators24 Sep 2026
A YouTuber says Kalshi copied his video and used AI to make him white for an ad; Kalshi says the ad is old and it no longer runs AI ads showing people.
Industry24 Sep 2026
An animator and a Directors Guild of Canada policy lead weighed junior jobs, artistic control and consent at the Ottawa festival's industry conference.
Business24 Sep 2026
The Prime Focus-owned company, built on DNEG and Metaphysic technology, raised $150 million and is preparing interactive digital humans.
Film24 Sep 2026
A small team turned a concert-hall story for children into a fully animated film using AI-assisted capture from phone video, cutting animation time sharply.
Industry24 Sep 2026
Sound-effects libraries and film sound veterans launch a petition-led coalition against AI scraping and unlicensed use, though some founders already license data to AI firms.
Platforms24 Sep 2026
The distributor adds pre-release fraud signals to its Mila-built models, with human review, fingerprinting and AI disclosure in metadata.
Legal & Policy24 Sep 2026
UMG's complaint says DistroKid delivered 12 million tracks to one streamer in six months, including bulk Suno output sold as human music, and seeks up to $150m over 1,000 works.
Platforms24 Sep 2026
YouTube will pair voice matching with face matching to catch AI impersonations of enrolled creators, and bring likeness detection to its mobile app.
Music24 Sep 2026
Italy's radio chart now excludes tracks made mostly by AI, using uploader declarations and Ircam Amplify's detector, though stations may still play them.
Legal & Policy24 Sep 2026
A Chinese court ruled an AI-assisted micro-drama is a protected work and, for the first time, weighed token and AI-tool costs when setting damages.
Platforms24 Sep 2026
Spotify detailed a Muse connector that lets US and Canadian adults build playlists and play music by asking Meta's agent, while Amazon pushes back on agentic access.
Music24 Sep 2026
A prolific Chinese act denies it is AI as fans, a rival band and a producer weigh in, raising questions platforms still cannot answer about AI-assisted songs.
Industry24 Sep 2026
The fourth Starting Pixel Live, on 14 October in London, adds AI to its previs and digital-human programme and favours live demos over panels.
Models24 Sep 2026
Google's new speech models take line-by-line acting direction, design voices from text and clone one from 30 seconds of audio if the speaker has consented.