This weekend in Generative Media
DNEG's AI disruption; Midjourney's videos use Disney IP; Music biz hunts AI songs
News and Opinion
AI Content Creation Is The Foundation Of DNEG CEO Namit Malhotra’s Disruption (Forbes)
‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit (Wired)
The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs (The Verge)
US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn't want to pay for it (The Register)
How the advertising industry plans to coexist with generative AI (Fast Company)
Cannes Briefing: What the ad industry isn’t saying about AI (Digiday)
Solar Company Sues Google for Giving Damaging Information in AI Overviews (Futurism)
Google’s Gemini transparency cut leaves enterprise developers ‘debugging blind’ (VentureBeat)
YouTube Announces Expanded Access to Generative AI Creative Tools (Social Media Today)
These Startups Are Helping Businesses Show Up In AI Search Summaries (Forbes)
Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says (Axios)
MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours (Ars Technica)
Software
Seedance 1.0 Pro, a high quality video generation model developed by Bytedance. (fal.ai) A video generation model that offers text-to-video and image-to-video support for 5s or 10s videos, at 480p and 720p resolution (replicate.com)
Graph-Code: A Multi-Language Graph-Based RAG System (GitHub)
Research
Sparse Representation and Construction for High-Resolution 3D Shapes Modeling (project page)
Vid2Sim: Generalizable, Video-based Reconstruction of Appearance, Geometry and Physics for Mesh-free Simulation (project page)
AllTracker: Efficient Dense Point Tracking at High Resolution (project page)
Introducing Polaris-4B-Preview and Polaris-7B-Preview, the most powerful open-recipe reasoning models to date. (project page)
Misc
Diabolus Ex Machina: This Is Not An Essay (Amanda Guinzberg on Substack)