Film, music, games: how AI is reinventing creativity.
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Apple has updated Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, and Logic Pro with generative AI tools, adding native rotoscoping, text-driven inpainting, and enhanced drum stem splitting.
At New York Comic Con, actor Nicolas Cage refused an AI waiver for the series Spider-Noir and ruled out future work with Amazon Studios over digital likeness rights.
Anthropic officially filed its S-1 prospectus to list under ticker ANT, disclosing $16.3 billion in annualized revenue run-rate alongside significant copyright liabilities.
Following the rise of AI models, decomp.dev has restricted core features as automated reverse-engineering divides the modding community and sparks licensing disputes.
Anduril and Qualcomm have unveiled BlueChip, a US-manufactured laptop line designed for military and emergency personnel running confidential AI models completely offline.
Developer Simon Willison demonstrates how Claude Opus 5.5 builds multiplayer browser games and standalone canvas engines entirely through targeted prompting.
The Elvis Presley estate and Reservoir Media are suing Anthropic and Suno for hundreds of millions of dollars over alleged copyright infringement in AI training.
The entertainment union IATSE has appointed video engineer Jillian Arnold to the newly created role of Labor and Technology Intelligence Officer to guide artificial intelligence strategy.
Epic Games launches the MegaJam 2026 with substantial cash prizes, but removes mandatory generative AI requirements following sharp pushback from the gaming developer community.
Actor unions in Japan and the UK are pushing back against unauthorized AI voice cloning and buyout contracts that surrender vocal rights to train generative speech models.
With its 'Human Made, Human Paid' campaign, the AFM union demands consent and compensation from Universal, Sony, and Warner regarding commercial AI licensing deals.
AI music platform Suno launched a Live Experiences division led by former Ticketmaster VP Michael Chua, integrating Songkick to bring computer-generated music to physical stages.
Moonshot AI has announced Kimi K3.1 Pro, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 2.8 trillion parameters tailored directly for game engines and parametric 3D pipelines.
Universal Music Group and TYGER have struck a licensing deal enabling AI models to dynamically reshape catalog tracks in real time based on active gameplay.
In its progress report, Spotify announced that it has removed more than 50 million tracks classified as AI-generated slop and spam from recommendations this year.
