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🎨 Image & Video Generation

Generative AI for images, video, and creative media — Sora, DALL·E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and more.

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Importance:NewsAdobe Photoshop AI

Adobe adds new AI tools to Photoshop, sparking fresh backlash

Adobe has announced new AI tools for Photoshop built on an updated Firefly generative model. The launch comes amid continuing controversy over copyrighted material and generative AI. Source: mashable.com

Importance:Launchcreative workspace

MixVio AI debuts one creative workspace spanning 26 generation routes

MixVio AI has launched a unified workspace that brings 26 AI generation routes together. Selected workflows accept up to 50 multimodal reference files and can produce 30-second 1080p video with natively synchronized audio. Source: manilatimes.net

Importance:LaunchAPI

Guide: setting up the GPT Image 2.5 API, comparing Flare and Sunburst

A step-by-step tutorial walks through configuring the GPT Image 2.5 API. It compares the Flare and Sunburst options, covers pricing, offers Python and Node code examples, and ends with a complete Flask project. Source: tech-insider.org

Importance:Newsspatial intelligence

AMD to buy World Labs in $8.2B all-stock deal; Fei-Fei Li to be chief scientist

AMD has signed a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco spatial-intelligence company co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li. The all-stock deal is valued at $8.2 billion, and Li will join AMD as chief scientist. Source: storagereview.com

Importance:NewsMidjourney prompts

Author tests 25 Midjourney-style Halloween prompts on selfies

A writer tried 25 Midjourney-style Halloween prompts on personal selfies for 2026. The piece shares test notes, a comparison of prompt tools, and tips for creating spookier results. Source: perfectcorp.com

Importance:NewsSora Safety

OpenAI's Sora tightens limits on depicting real people over safety concerns

OpenAI is restricting how Sora can depict real people and adding other strict safeguards aimed at preventing misuse of the video generator. Source: mashable.com

Importance:NewsAI Video Technology

AI video matures as the model itself fades into the background

AI video is moving past flashy demo clips. Kling, Veo, Seedance, Runway and other players are now competing on control, cost, consistency and production readiness rather than raw wow factor. Source: forbes.com

Importance:OpinionPlatform Review

Higgsfield, valued at $5.4B: what the AI platform offers and what video costs

A review of Higgsfield AI covers its video and image generation models, Cinema Studio, Marketing Studio, API, plans and pricing. The platform was tested on a real-world use case. Source: incrypted.com

Importance:NewsAI Video Applications

Runway launches AI agent that builds ad videos and tracks their performance

Video-generation startup Runway is pushing further into advertising with a new AI agent. It can produce ad variations and analyze how they perform across platforms. Source: adweek.com

Importance:LaunchAnime Models

PixAI launches Tsubaki.3 and explains how it keeps AI anime styles diverse

PixAI's in-house foundation model handles illustrations, manga pages and video, and the company has published a technical report on preserving style diversity. It is also open-sourcing Tagger 1.0 for anime researchers. Source: floridatoday.com

Importance:NewsM&A/World Models

AMD to acquire World Labs for $8.2B; Fei-Fei Li becomes chief scientist

AMD has agreed to purchase the spatial-intelligence lab World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $8.2 billion. Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as its chief scientist. Source: mixed-news.com

Importance:NewsM&A/World Models

AMD agrees to $8.2B deal for Fei-Fei Li's World Labs

The proposed $8.2 billion acquisition would fold World Labs' world-model research into AMD's chip plans. The move comes as AMD competes with Nvidia. Source: therundown.ai

Importance:NewsM&A/World Models

AMD snaps up world-model startup World Labs in $8.2B stock deal

Chipmaker AMD is acquiring World Labs, a startup specializing in spatial intelligence, for about $8.2 billion, paid entirely in stock. World Labs develops world models. Source: the-decoder.com

Importance:ResearchDiffusion Models

Diffusion Controller: a lightweight network to tightly steer AI image generation

Researchers present Diffusion Controller, a small 'steering damper' network that guides image generation more precisely. The approach aims to unify and simplify AI image generation while following prompts significantly better. Source: research.google

Importance:NewsVideo Generation

Audio-first workflow fixes AI video dialogue shots

After nine failed dialogue shots, the author changed one thing: lock the audio duration first, then build the AI-generated video around that performance. Source: hackernoon.com

Importance:NewsLegal/Copyright

AI copyright lawsuits: what happens when machines learn from culture?

The rapid rise of AI has pulled the entertainment industry into a wave of legal disputes. Record labels, film studios, publishers and authors are among those involved. Source: wsws.org

Importance:NewsVideo generation scale/production

Scaling video production for a music festival with AI

Agency Monks produced 10,195 personalized videos and thousands of AI-generated transitions for Boomtown 2026, running the workloads on NVIDIA HGX H200 GPUs in Crusoe Cloud's Iceland data center. Source: crusoe.ai

Importance:LaunchAnime-specific model and tools

PixAI Unveils Tsubaki.3, Detailing How It Keeps AI Anime Art Stylistically Diverse

PixAI's new in-house foundation model handles illustrations, manga pages, and video generation, and comes with a technical report on preventing style collapse. The company also open-sourced Tagger 1.0 for the wider anime AI research community. Source: kitsapsun.com

Importance:LaunchMultimodal video creation workspace

HeyVigo Debuts Infinite Canvas Workspace for Multimodal AI Video

The new tool combines images, video, text, audio, and reusable assets into a single connected visual workspace with AI-assisted production features. Source: einnews.com

Importance:OpinionIndustry trends in visual production

How AI Is Merging Static Images and Video Into One Creative Workflow

Visual content creation once required many separate steps — concept art, then manual animation, then editing. AI tools are now collapsing that chain into a single, faster process. Source: techbullion.com