Film25 Jul 2026
DreamSnap Studio premieres an AI-made short film on Swami Vivekananda
A Hyderabad studio has used AI-generated visuals to retell Swami Vivekananda's road to his 1893 Chicago speech.
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Business24 Jul 2026
GEMA launches PLAI, a licensed dataset for training music AI
GEMA is licensing about 180,000 cleared recordings as AI training data, paying contributing publishers and offering developers legal certainty.
Legal & Policy24 Jul 2026
Canada's music publishers join a court test of whether AI can be an author
Music Publishers Canada has intervened in the Suryast case, arguing only humans can be authors but AI-assisted work can still be protected.
Film24 Jul 2026
Higgsfield shows Kök Börü, a 15-minute hybrid AI and hand-drawn animated short, at Siggraph
The AI video company's first animated short mixed generated designs with hand-drawn work and filmed performance, and it claims weeks instead of years.
Film24 Jul 2026
ITV Exposure documentary uses AI reconstructions built from consenting actors' licensed likenesses
ITV's Liquid Bomb Plot documentary staged its reconstructions with AI characters built from actors who licensed their likeness through Twinnin.
Film23 Jul 2026
Report finds AI-made microdramas win paying viewers as well as live action
Holywater's own data shows its AI-generated vertical shows convert subscribers at nearly the same rate as its live-action ones, in a $150 billion market.
Creators23 Jul 2026
Refik Anadol's DATALAND opens in Los Angeles with an AI rainforest exhibition
The first AI art museum's opening show turns data from 16 rainforests into an immersive, biometric-responsive exhibition.
Business22 Jul 2026
Darren Aronofsky's AI studio Primordial Soup files to raise $15 million
An SEC filing shows the director's AI film venture has sold about $11 million of a planned $15 million equity round.
Film22 Jul 2026
Agent Kim Reactivated airs a three-minute action flashback generated entirely with AI
Morpheus Studio generated a full action scene for the SBS drama, including So Ji-sub's face, after two months and more than 2,000 shots.
Industry22 Jul 2026
BAFTA opens 2027 Film Awards entries with a clause on checking AI use and a bar on AI actors
BAFTA's 2027 rules let it ask entrants how generative AI was used and say an AI performer such as Tilly Norwood can never win, alongside longlist and voting changes.
Legal & Policy22 Jul 2026
German court says an AI comic version of a dog photo doesn't infringe the original
A German court ruled that turning a photographer's underwater dog shot into an AI cartoon kept only the unprotected idea, not her creative choices.
Film22 Jul 2026
Chinese drama Overdo swaps its AI-made opening for live action after viewer backlash
After viewers panned its AI-generated title sequence as cheap and plastic, the Overdo team apologised and reshot the opening in live action.
Film22 Jul 2026
Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make a full-length AI Odyssey film by the end of 2026
Musk promised a feature-length, 'historically accurate' AI Odyssey from xAI's video tool, after months of attacking Christopher Nolan's version.
Platforms22 Jul 2026
Deezer says half its daily uploads are fully AI-made and will start removing fraud tracks
With AI tracks now over half of daily uploads, Deezer will delete ones tied to streaming fraud or left unplayed for six months.
Platforms21 Jul 2026
TikTok tests Likeness Detection so US creators can find AI deepfakes of their face
An opt-in TikTok trial verifies creators by ID and selfie, then finds AI videos using their face so they can report them.
Industry21 Jul 2026
SOCAN approves Musical AI as its partner for crediting songwriters whose work shapes AI tracks
Canada's SOCAN has made Musical AI an approved attribution partner, backing a system that estimates whose songs shaped an AI track so they can be paid.
Legal & Policy20 Jul 2026
Indonesia drafts a copyright bill that would regulate AI training and output
Indonesia's draft law would protect only human-led AI work, ban style imitation, require disclosure and make platforms pay for training data.
Platforms20 Jul 2026
TikTok tests a tool that finds AI deepfakes of creators' faces
A limited US test lets verified creators see AI videos that may use their likeness and report them, amid a wave of non-consensual deepfakes.
Film20 Jul 2026
Neill Blomkamp releases Nightborne, a 13-minute short made entirely with AI video
The District 9 director made a 13-minute Seedance short with licensed faces and voices, and plans an AI feature through a new studio.
Business20 Jul 2026
Udio hires BuyDRM to encrypt streams in its licensed 'walled garden'
Udio's DRM deal supplies the stream encryption layer of the download-free service its label settlements require.
Film17 Jul 2026
Disney Jr. and AI animation studio Animaj quietly release preschool series Ozzy Fox
Disney's first original series co-developed with the AI-driven French studio went to YouTube without a press release or word on how AI was used.
Film17 Jul 2026
Netflix says generative AI was used on about 300 titles in the first half of 2026
In its earnings report Netflix disclosed wide use of AI workflows, mostly in post-production, but named only three titles and did not define the term.
Platforms17 Jul 2026
Lorde asks Spotify to let artists opt out of AI song explanations
The singer says an AI-written explainer got one of her songs wrong and limits listeners' own reading; Spotify has removed the text she flagged.
Models16 Jul 2026
Foundry releases SmartRoto, an AI plugin that animates artists' roto splines in Nuke
Foundry's $499-a-year SmartRoto leaves shape drawing to artists and uses a locally run model, trained on licensed footage, to keyframe splines up to four times faster.
