Doja Cat fans assumed they’d stumbled upon a trove of new music when a slew of supposedly unreleased songs from the artist hit their X timelines earlier this week. Various accounts posted the “leaked songs” and claimed they were scrapped from Vie, the rapper’s fifth studio album, released last year, and its predecessor, Scarlet. At … Read more
StoReel, the AI-native short-form drama platform, has unveiled Canvas, an end-to-end production and monetization environment aimed at the next wave of microdrama creators. The launch comes on the heels of a $34 million seed and user-acquisition financing round and represents the company’s push toward a full-stack ecosystem linking creators, technology, and audiences. Canvas collapses what … Read more
Computing power, distribution and directable generative video AI. Those are the key challenges facing the Chinese film industry when it comes to AI, according to speakers at the Shanghai International Film Festival‘s SIFFORUM panel on “Smart Tech, Immersive Worlds, The Next Film Revolution.” According to Yan Yijun, VP of AI foundational model builder MiniMax, compute … Read more
More than 40 years after its original release, Boy George and Culture Club have rerecorded their chart-topping hit, “Karma Chameleon,” using AI to recreate the vocal characteristics of the original 1983 recording. Alongside digital formats, the release will be available on vinyl in red, gold and green, the colors referenced in the song, featuring reimagined … Read more
The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival opened on June 12 with the launch of a new Technology Creation and Fabrication Unit and a parallel press conference for the Shanghai High-Tech Films and Televisions City, held in the city’s Songjiang district. The event drew senior officials and industry figures to mark what organizers billed as a … Read more
Warner Music Group on Wednesday announced its acquisition of the startup Sureel AI, a platform that uses a technology called “AI DNA” in an effort to protect creative projects and other intellectual property — including music, voices, likeness and performance — from unauthorized use and monetization by AI training models. Terms of the deal were … Read more
Alexis Goldstein has a simple pitch to American voters. Let her take out the data centers. There’s more to it, of course. Goldstein has a long background in the finance and tech worlds, and a host of ideas on where public money that’s being used for tax breaks to Big tech should be spent. But … Read more