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Indie games are missing their Steam launch dates as Valve's approval queue stretches to weeks. Developers blame AI slop; Valve cites submission volume and says more changes are coming.
Microsoft's new extension lets Bing users turn AI-generated answers off with a toggle. There is a catch: installing it makes Bing your default search engine.
The Caine Prize for African Writing has vindicated Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza after rigorous internal review dismissed AI writing allegations against his $10,000 award-winning story The Blue Fighter. The controversy, sparked by AI detection tool findings, prompted the organization to introduce mandatory AI declarations and new policies for future submissions.
CD Projekt Red partnered with AI company Respeecher to modify the voice of Jacek Rozenek, Geralt's Polish voice actor, for The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past expansion. Rozenek suffered a stroke in 2019 that significantly altered his voice, making it noticeably deeper and gruffer than his original 2014 performance.
Israeli-American AI startup Spines secured $64 million in new funding to expand its AI-powered book publishing platform that reduces publishing time from 18 months to weeks. The hybrid publisher reports 400% year-over-year growth and has published over 8,000 authors using AI agents for editing, design, translation, and marketing.
Adobe unveiled sweeping AI-driven updates at its MAX 2026 conference in Miami, introducing agentic AI capabilities, Model Context Protocol integrations for Creative Cloud apps, and major Firefly enhancements. The company is enabling third-party AI agents from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to directly edit Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and After Effects projects while showcasing experimental tools like Project Deep Brush for context-aware painting and Project Scene Sweep for precise multishot video edits.
Instagram launched Effect Builder, a web-based AI tool that lets US users create custom Instagram filters using simple text descriptions. Available through the Edits platform for users 18+, the tool requires no coding skills and allows creators to design, preview, and publish AI filters for Instagram Stories with full creator attribution.
Skydance CEO David Ellison declared AI could surpass CGI as the film industry's most transformative technology during his first earnings call leading the merged Paramount and Warner Bros. empire. While championing AI's creative potential, he emphasized premium hand-crafted storytelling will remain valuable in a world of AI slop.
Major talent agency CAA and ad giant Ogilvy have launched ECHO, an AI platform for marketers that creates AI-generated celebrity advertising using digital replicas of celebrities. The platform promises to cut production costs by 75 percent while ensuring talent maintains control through explicit approval requirements and visible watermarks on all AI-generated ads.
Elvis Presley Enterprises and Eminem's publisher Eight Mile Style filed separate lawsuits against Suno, seeking $169M in combined damages. The complaints accuse the AI music generator of unauthorized use of music catalogs and voice replication, with evidence of stream ripping from YouTube.
Disney and Adobe announced a multi-year partnership to develop proprietary generative AI models tailored to Disney's characters and franchises. The collaboration will deploy AI tools across Disney's theme parks, cruise lines, Walt Disney Studios, and ESPN to accelerate creative workflows and compress development timelines from months to hours.
AI video generators are transforming content creation by turning written descriptions into moving visuals within minutes. Tools like Adobe Firefly and Meta Vibes use diffusion models and transformers to interpret text prompts and generate short video clips, eliminating the need for cameras, crews, and extensive editing for many use cases.
LeBron James sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bron AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup, after it used an AI-generated version of his likeness in a promotional video without permission. The controversy highlights legal risks for startups using AI-generated celebrity endorsements and could result in significant damages for unauthorized use.
Paris-based Physicl has raised $10 million in seed funding from Inovia Capital to create high-fidelity 3D environments and synthetic training data for robots. The startup's Studio platform offers 10,000 3D environments and 100,000 assets to help AI models for robots overcome edge cases like unusual lighting or cluttered scenes, with early customer SpAItial cutting error rates by over half.
Three foreign nationals were charged by the DOJ for using AI voice cloning and deepfake technology to impersonate corporate executives and attorneys. The sophisticated wire fraud operation targeted employees with authority over large transfers, stealing over $129 million from hospitals, banks, and companies worldwide before laundering funds through cryptocurrency.
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