Film15 May 2026
Netflix hires for INKubator, a generative-AI-native animation unit
Job postings describe INKubator as a GenAI-native studio aiming at shorts, specials and eventually longer work; Netflix says its main animated films stay traditional.
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Music15 May 2026
The Rolling Stones de-age themselves with deepfakes in the In the Stars video
Deep Voodoo, the AI studio from South Park's creators, made Jagger, Richards and Wood look like their late-1970s selves for the Stones' new single.
Music13 May 2026
Study finds listeners hear less story in music labelled as AI, even when a human wrote it
A Stanford and Reed study finds a 'composed by AI' tag alone makes listeners imagine fewer and weaker stories, a result that feeds the AI disclosure debate.
Film12 May 2026
Vertigo Films founders' AI company amersia releases Woven, the system built to make Critterz
Woven started as the in-house pipeline for Critterz, the OpenAI-rooted animated feature, and is now being trialled with media companies.
Creators11 May 2026
YouTube wrongly flags a stop-motion puppet series as AI, and the backlash makes it a hit
A mistaken AI strike pushed two Philadelphia animators on camera, and viewers rallying against AI slop turned Tiny Grandma into a viral hit.
Industry7 May 2026
Golden Globes will accept AI-assisted work if human authorship stays primary
The Globes now require AI disclosure and bar mostly AI-made performances, but set a looser line than the Oscars' human-only rules.
Platforms7 May 2026
Tencent Music removed 250,000 songs in 2025 and now tags AI-generated tracks
Tencent Music's ESG report details mass takedowns, new label ratings, AI detection and tagging, and a licensing-first stance on AI training.
Business6 May 2026
ElevenLabs passes $500M in annual revenue as Jamie Foxx and Eva Longoria invest
The Eleven Music maker says it passed $500M in annual revenue as BlackRock and more than 30 entertainers, including Foxx and Longoria, joined its Series D.
Legal & Policy5 May 2026
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac sues Google after its AI Overview falsely called him a sex offender
The three-time Juno winner says Google's AI summary cost him a gig and seeks $1.5 million, arguing the feature is defectively designed.
Music5 May 2026
Label says an uncredited AI copy of a Stick Figure song went viral and is earning royalties
Ineffable Music Group's founder says an AI remake of 'Angels Above Me' hit Shazam's global chart without credit, and calls for source attribution and revenue sharing.
Industry4 May 2026
Oscars require human authorship for screenplays and human performers for acting nods
The Academy's rules for the 99th Oscars make human authorship and consenting human performers conditions, and let it question entrants about AI use.
Legal & Policy4 May 2026
Delhi High Court bars misuse of Arjun Kapoor's name and likeness, AI deepfakes included
A Delhi court has ordered Google and Meta to pull content using actor Arjun Kapoor's likeness, including sexually explicit AI videos, and to reveal who runs the accounts.
Film2 May 2026
The Devil Wears Prada 2's 'AI' artwork turns out to be hand-painted
Artist Alexis Franklin painted the image of Miranda Priestly that the sequel presents as AI-made, and fans who assumed it was machine output were pleased.
Creators1 May 2026
Gobelins threatens legal action over a K-pop teaser fans say AI-cloned a student film
Paris school Gobelins says a Billlie teaser from Mystic Story copied its students' short Niccolò with AI; the label says a review found no plagiarism.
Platforms30 Apr 2026
Jack Dorsey's diVine revives Vine's archive and bans AI-made uploads
Dorsey's nonprofit-backed Vine revival brings back 500,000 old clips and admits only human-made videos, recorded in the app or proven with C2PA data.
Platforms30 Apr 2026
Spotify's 'Verified by Spotify' badge marks artist profiles as belonging to real people
A green badge will flag human artists whose profiles pass Spotify's authenticity review, with a beta tool giving artists more control over their pages.
Platforms30 Apr 2026
Believe and TuneCore block AI tracks from unlicensed services such as Suno, and license ElevenLabs and Udio
Believe says its detectors can trace a track to the AI service that made it, and it now refuses anything from unlicensed ones like Suno while licensing ElevenLabs and Udio.
Models28 Apr 2026
Anthropic pitches Claude to animation studios and backs the Blender fund
Anthropic added Claude connectors for Blender, Autodesk and Adobe pipelines, became a Blender Development Fund patron and partnered with art schools including RISD.
Platforms28 Apr 2026
Webtoon teams with Genies to turn comic characters into interactive AI avatars
Creators who opt in can have their webcomic characters turned into 3D AI avatars that fans chat with, starting this summer.
Legal & Policy27 Apr 2026
Taylor Swift files voice and image trademarks as a hedge against AI imitation
Two spoken-phrase sound marks and a stage-photo mark could let Swift challenge AI imitations that copyright alone may not cover.
Industry27 Apr 2026
Tokina withdraws its 2025 photo contest winner after Reddit users flag the image as AI
The lens maker pulled the award and promised extra checks; the image bears Google's SynthID mark, though some say only the sky was edited.
Film27 Apr 2026
I'm Popo opens as South Korea's first feature with fully AI-generated visuals
Webtoon artist Kim Il-dong made the 64-minute film largely alone, and the Korea Herald's critic was unimpressed.
Platforms23 Apr 2026
Spotify begins testing AI credits that show how artists used AI on a track
The beta shows AI use in lyrics, vocals or production only when artists disclose it through their distributor, so a missing credit does not mean no AI was involved.
Business22 Apr 2026
Khaby Lame's $975 million AI digital-twin deal stalls as Rich Sparkle's shares collapse
The all-stock deal for Khaby Lame's AI twin may never close, and experts told TheWrap it looks like a pump-and-dump.
