21 Oct 2026 · 3,484 works · 740 news indexed
News
Short original briefs on AI in culture, each linking out to the original reporting rather than reproducing it.
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.
Film24 Sep 2026
iQIYI and Guangdong TV will fund 100 AI documentaries in a year, starting with 12 titles including an AI take on a long-running Cantonese food series.
Film24 Sep 2026
Nelonen and Warner Bros. Finland's new crime series stages all its reconstructed cases with AI, directed by humans and aimed at an international version.
Film24 Sep 2026
iQIYI unveiled 350-plus titles at iJOY and said AI will drive both live-action and AIGC films, including a new AIGC film theatre with Peter Pau.
Music24 Sep 2026
After a season of fan complaints that its goal song was AI-generated, the NHL team is replacing it on October 1.
Creators24 Sep 2026
Cheap face-swap apps have turned a 2022 COLORS performance into a meme template, raising familiar questions about likeness and footage used without permission.
Creators23 Sep 2026
The 20-year-old singer said on Weverse that a viral clip of her using a slur in a fake podcast interview was AI-generated, and asked fans to remember performers can be hurt.
Business23 Sep 2026
Patreon's co-founder and two of its senior leaders move to OpenAI to build tools for creators, with a first look promised at DevDay on September 29.
Music23 Sep 2026
Recording as Indreba, she turns Lewis Carroll's Alice into a psychedelic tale of falling for a chatbot, and says she now uses AI on her vocals.
Platforms23 Sep 2026
YouTube will let creators A/B test whole videos, rotate thumbnails by audience and build AI-made homepage feeds, as it leans on Gemini across Studio and viewing.
Industry23 Sep 2026
Sony Music has joined ARIAM, the media coalition led by a former Netflix executive, days after suing Suno again, making it the one major aligned with a policy bloc rather than a licensing deal.
Film23 Sep 2026
The Muscat AI Film Festival takes AI and hybrid shorts of up to seven minutes, with screenings in November and awards at the Royal Opera House in January 2027.
Legal & Policy23 Sep 2026
After the Kantara actor complained of morphed AI images and videos, Bengaluru's cyber police traced three suspects, seized their phones and took them to court.
Film23 Sep 2026
The streamer says the three-season series mixes generative AI with live actors and is built on its NadouPro platform; its cost claims come without figures.
Music23 Sep 2026
Muse's frontman says he met Zuckerberg and agreed a trademark split over the name, after fans accused Meta of taking the band's handle for its AI agent.
Film23 Sep 2026
The studio's Filipino-inspired animated feature ends with a rights reservation against AI training that cites the EU's text and data mining opt-out.
Legal & Policy23 Sep 2026
With 430,000 micro-dramas released this year and over 90% made with AI, China's NRTA promises funding for human-acted work and tighter AI labelling.
Film23 Sep 2026
The singer narrates ENA's November series and also appears as a generated double in scenes reconstructing medical events that were never filmed.
Music23 Sep 2026
A study of 263 musicians links hostility to AI tools like Suno with older grievances over streaming pay, platform power and vanishing venues.
Industry23 Sep 2026
Regulators chose 11 AI-assisted Korean shows, including de-ageing and AI-idol formats, to promote to buyers at the Asia TV Forum & Market in December.
