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OpenAI is discontinuing the Sora API on September 24, ending developer access to its video generation model with no successor announced.
The first AI-generated feature film, 'Dreams of Violets,' had its world premiere at Tribeca on June 10 — and the questions it raised for the film industry can no longer be treated as hypothetical.
The inaugural AI Film Festival Monaco opens today at One Monte-Carlo, placing AI filmmaking on European cultural ground alongside policymakers and researchers for the first time.
Amazon MGM Studios has greenlit three Prime Video animated series using its GenAI Creators' Fund — including projects from Jorge R. Gutierrez and BuzzFeed Studios — marking the clearest signal yet that AI-assisted animation production is now a core studio business model.
Tribeca Festival will world-premiere 'Dreams of Violets' on June 10 — the first fully AI-generated feature accepted to a major film festival, made for $2,000 with no actors, sets, or cameras.
A 95-minute fully AI-generated film screened at Cannes this week — the first feature-length AI film at any Cannes-adjacent venue — and it shifts the debate from hypothetical to present-tense.
Tamber launched a DAW-integrated AI music creation platform after raising $5 million, positioning AI as a creative complement to producers — not an author.
A posthumous AI-reconstructed Val Kilmer performance is forcing the Academy to apply — and publicly define — its rule barring performances fully generated by artificial intelligence.
Google.org is funding AI literacy training for 100,000 filmmakers through Sundance — the largest institutional investment to date in AI education for independent and underrepresented creators.
Runway added $40M in ARR in Q2 2026 and is pivoting from AI video tools toward world models — AI systems that learn physics and causality from video rather than text.
Spotify expanded its AI DJ feature to French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese, bringing personalized AI-hosted radio to tens of millions of new users.
The 79th Cannes Film Festival has barred films where generative AI served as the principal authoring tool from competing for the Palme d'Or — the most consequential AI content policy from a major cultural institution to date.
A survey of over 1,100 professional music producers finds AI tools in widespread studio use — but facing a credibility gap. Human creativity, rights, and emotional judgment remain non-negotiable.
Indian film studios are adopting AI faster than Hollywood—using it to cut production costs, dub films into 15+ languages, and reach regional audiences that were previously too expensive to serve.
Over 400 Berklee students petitioned to remove an AI songwriting elective. The authorship anxiety is real. Removing the course is the wrong response to it.
AI composition and production tools are now embedded across music creation, sync licensing, and distribution. The music industry has crossed its AI inflection point, and litigation is not keeping pace with adoption.
'Human Made Mark' launched this week as a verifiable certification that no human creative roles were replaced by AI in a production — arriving as studios race to automate filmmaking without disclosure.
Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela argues AI video tools should push studios toward 50 lower-cost films instead of one $100M tentpole — but the math runs into Hollywood's real bottleneck: audience attention, not production cost.
Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela argues studios should redirect $100 million blockbuster budgets into 50 AI-assisted films—a portfolio diversification argument that reflects where production cost curves are heading.
Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela argues studios should use AI to make 50 films instead of one $100M blockbuster — a portfolio bet on quantity, diversity, and statistical hits.