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Eloelo Group launched Dolphin AI at FICCI FRAMES 2026, an agentic AI studio for video production that handles scripting to editing while maintaining character continuity across shots. Built to solve the company's own production challenges after creating over 5,000 dramas, the platform is now open to creators, brands and studios globally.
A Tokyo court ruled that human voices are protected under publicity rights after anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda sued TikTok over AI-generated videos that cloned his distinctive baritone. The landmark AI case marks Japan's first legal defense of vocal identity against unauthorized AI replication.
Parents are using ChatGPT to generate AI school photos and avoid $25-60 fees charged by professional photography services. The viral TikTok trend raises serious questions about privacy risks and copyright law violations, especially when AI is used to remove watermarks from proofs.
BBC's new Director-General Matt Brittin praised a 50-minute AI-generated Doctor Who episode as "pretty good" at a Royal Television Society conference, suggesting AI enables content creation at Hollywood studio standards. This comes despite the broadcaster abandoning AI-generated marketing materials for the show in 2024 after audience backlash, raising questions about the BBC's evolving approach to AI in content creation.
A 30-year-old man in Singapore faces up to 10 years in prison after creating an AI-generated image of a crocodile in Pandan Reservoir. The deepfake triggered public panic and a two-day search operation. Ye Lin was charged with communicating a false message and obstructing justice after allegedly deleting evidence from his Google Gemini app.
The United States has shed more than 200,000 creative jobs across film, TV, publishing, and graphic design over four years, with 50,000 losses in the past year alone. This decline coincides with the rise of generative AI tools, marking one of the worst employment stretches for media workers in modern US history.
Cybercriminals executed an elaborate AI scam targeting Fideuram, Italy's premier private banking institution, using deepfake voice technology and fake WhatsApp messages to impersonate senior executives. The AI-powered deepfake scam resulted in €95 million being transferred to overseas accounts, with €42 million still missing after conversion to cryptocurrency.
Human contractors hired by Microsoft can view Copilot users' uploaded photos with uncensored faces and AI prompts, many sexual in nature. The reviewers assess AI-generated content quality rather than flag harmful material, sparking privacy and ethical concerns about data handling practices in AI development.
A Gartner survey of 297 CISOs reveals that 41% experienced deepfake-related social engineering incidents on audio calls and 36% on video calls in the past year. The findings underscore how AI is amplifying social engineering attacks through synthetic media, forcing enterprise security leaders to rethink detection methods and implement hardened identity verification protocols.
China is building a fast-emerging AI film industry with government subsidies, cheap computing power and rent waivers. Production costs for AI short dramas plunged from 5,000 yuan per minute to just a few hundred yuan in early 2026. But concerns grow over oversupply as 221,900 new AI shows launched on Douyin with only 1,055 gaining significant traction.
Google has launched Gemini Live Avatar for enterprise customers, adding animated or realistic faces to its AI agents. The feature combines real-time video generation with Gemini 3.8 Live's conversational capabilities, enabling lip-synced avatars that handle customer support and business tasks across 97 languages.
ESET's Enterprise Cybersecurity Report 2026 reveals that 85% of Indian enterprises experienced at least one AI-related cyber threat in the past year. AI-generated phishing and deepfake attacks emerged as top threats, while 48% reported data leakage through AI platforms and 40% faced employee misuse of generative AI.
Jeffrey Katzenberg, the former Disney and DreamWorks chief behind hits like Shrek and The Lion King, published a 2,394-word essay on X arguing that Hollywood must embrace AI or risk becoming obsolete. He compares AI resistance to past technological disruptions and predicts AI tools could cut animation costs by 90% within three years.
Google unveiled Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, two AI-driven text-to-speech models that create custom voices from prompts, replicate voices from brief recordings, and follow line-by-line emotional and tonal instructions. Flash TTS topped Hume AI benchmarks with a 71.4 score, while both models now power applications from audiobooks to dubbing with SynthID watermarking and consent verification safeguards.
China's livestream shopping industry confronts slower growth and AI disruption as digital hosts reduce costs by 80-90%. Li Jiaqi, who sold billions to 100 million followers, argues human hosts remain essential despite JD.com offering free AI hosting since December 2025. Regulatory efforts now require disclosure of AI-generated content.
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