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16 stories taggedgenerative-ai.

Elon Musk wants Grok to make a full-length Odyssey film before the year is out
The billionaire says his AI image and video platform will produce a 'historically accurate' version of Homer's epic. A three-minute clip is already circulating. Here is what we actually know.

Meta Is Testing an AI App That Writes Bedtime Stories for Your Kids
StoryKit lets parents generate personalised children's stories at the tap of a button. But is handing the world's oldest human tradition to a chatbot actually a good idea?

Neill Blomkamp Made a 13-Minute AI Film. Critics Say It Shows the Limits, Not the Promise.
District 9's director used ByteDance's video generator to create Nightborne, a sci-fi short built entirely from AI-generated clips. The result has sparked more backlash than buzz.

Sony Sues Udio Over More Than 30,000 Songs in Major AI Music Copyright Case
After a judge blocked Sony from expanding its original lawsuit, the record label has filed a fresh case targeting a vast catalogue of tracks the AI music tool allegedly copied without permission.

Adobe's Indigo Camera App Adds AI Editing Tools, But Skips Its Own AI Models
The iPhone app that promised a film-camera feel is testing generative AI photo editing powered by Google, not Adobe's own technology.

A Struggling Artist Used Suno Hundreds of Times on One Song. The Result Actually Works.
1010Benja fed his own vocals and lyrics into an AI music tool, edited the output, fed it back in, and repeated that cycle roughly three hundred times. The song is good. That is the uncomfortable part.

Christopher Nolan Says AI Is a Trojan Horse Everyone Can Already See Through
The director of 'The Odyssey' argues public suspicion of AI, especially among young people, is healthy and exactly what the technology deserves.

xAI Sues Its First User Over Child Sexual Abuse Images Made With Grok
After months of pressure over its chatbot's ability to generate illegal imagery, Elon Musk's AI company helped arrest a South Carolina man and is now taking him to court.

Roblox Lets Anyone Build a Video Game by Typing a Sentence
A new mobile feature called Build turns a plain-text description into a playable game. No coding required. Here is what it does, what it cannot, and why some developers are worried.

One Layer Does the Job: Apple Research Finds a Smarter Way to Teach AI to Generate Images
A new technique from Apple ML Research lets image-generating AI borrow knowledge from a separate visual understanding model, using just a single adapted layer. The result: sharper, more accurate pictures without the usual trade-offs.

Apple Intelligence Gets the Green Light in China, Powered by Alibaba's AI
Chinese regulators have approved Apple's AI features for the country, with local tech giant Alibaba supplying the underlying models. It is a significant moment for Apple in one of its biggest markets.

South Korean Researchers Used AI to Design DNA That Folds Itself into Tiny Shapes
A new AI model cuts the hardest part out of DNA origami, the decades-old technique for sculpting genetic material into nanoscale structures with medical and scientific uses.

George Lucas Says AI Is the Future of Film-Making and Critics Are Like Luddites Who Rejected Cars
The Star Wars creator, now 82, told an interviewer that artificial intelligence makes films easier to produce and that resistance to it is pointless. His comments put him firmly on one side of Hollywood's sharpest debate.

An AI 'actor' is getting her own feature film. Does that make you want to watch it?
Particle6's digital creation Tilly Norwood is headlining a movie called Misaligned. The project raises a question the press releases won't answer: what does human storytelling mean when the lead character has never been human?

An Australian song hit No 1 on radio. Now people are asking if AI made it.
Josh Fawaz's cover of 'Like a Prayer' climbed to the top of Australia's national airplay chart. Music experts say it sounds like generative AI produced it, not a human.