22 Oct 2026 · 3,485 works · 751 news indexed
News
Short original briefs on AI in culture, each linking out to the original reporting rather than reproducing it.
Film11 Jun 2026
Companies in India, China and beyond are making AI microseries cheaply and at scale with strong retention, and Harlequin and others are bringing the format to the US.
Business10 Jun 2026
Warner acquires a company that detects copyrighted music in AI training data and outputs, and will keep it open to the wider market.
Legal & Policy10 Jun 2026
Google says musicians licensed their songs to it by uploading to YouTube, and asks for their Lyria 3 training suit to be dismissed.
Legal & Policy10 Jun 2026
Udio wants the total number of files it trained on redacted; Sony says the figure shows the scale of copying and belongs in public.
Film10 Jun 2026
BIFAN's milestone edition adds an AI content summit and puts 38 AI-made films and 28 XR works in a record 321-title programme.
Industry10 Jun 2026
The guild called the director's support for AI storyboarding a betrayal of film crews, arguing the models were trained on artists' work without consent.
Legal & Policy9 Jun 2026
The Darcos Bill would presume an AI model used a work unless its developer shows otherwise. It has passed the Senate but may be stuck in the Assembly.
Industry8 Jun 2026
CISAC's centenary assembly adopted a declaration asking governments and tech firms to keep human creators protected and paid as AI spreads.
Creators7 Jun 2026
Sega says generative AI helped make background assets for the Crazy Taxi revival; some fans balk while others praise the disclosure.
Creators5 Jun 2026
Fans are reporting AI clips that show other fans kissing and cuddling real idols, including a minor, as agencies weigh legal action.
Industry5 Jun 2026
Members backed the new studio deal by 91%, locking in rules that make producers justify any synthetic performer against both a human actor and a paid digital replica.
Creators4 Jun 2026
A Steam disclosure revealed AI use in early development of the Tomb Raider remake; the studio says the final game is human-made.
Music4 Jun 2026
After online critics claimed his new single was AI-written, the country singer called the accusation false and said the song simply lists what he likes to do.
Business4 Jun 2026
Hasbro's new Sixth Wall studio licenses how characters like Optimus Prime talk and behave in AI experiences, starting with 12 voiced characters on ElevenLabs.
Business3 Jun 2026
Suno doubled its valuation in seven months on a Bond-led round while Universal and Sony pursue it in court.
Film2 Jun 2026
The Hairspray director says every shot was made by people after early viewers claimed to spot AI imagery, though an AI-named vendor sits in the credits.
Legal & Policy1 Jun 2026
A New York model says a retailer turned a simple catalogue shoot into AI images she never agreed to; she has since dropped the case to settle privately.
Film29 May 2026
The AI-generated thriller stars a digital double of Avni, made with his consent, in a story about an actor who sells his likeness.
Creators29 May 2026
Days after his Punky Duck series was unveiled as one of Amazon's first AI animation projects, the Book of Life director dropped it and apologised.
Business28 May 2026
A deal with Stan Lee Universe puts the late Marvel co-creator on ElevenLabs' celebrity voice marketplace, its reading app and its image generator.
Film28 May 2026
Ash Koosha's 75-minute film about the Tehran protests is billed as the first fully AI live-action feature picked by a major festival.
Creators28 May 2026
Loryn Brantz says BuzzFeed broke assurances by handing her character to an AI-assisted Amazon series; BuzzFeed says it owns the IP and she declined to join.
Models28 May 2026
ElevenLabs' new music model adds section-by-section regeneration, and the company says its training data was all licensed.
Creators28 May 2026
Laurie Segall's 16-part series traces the owner of a huge deepfake porn site, shut in 2025, and goes straight to Hilton's TikTok audience.
