This weekend in Generative Media

AI in talent negotiations; Sphere's 'Wizard of Oz' debut; Screenwriters wrestle with AI

News and Opinion

• AI Becomes Hollywood’s New Secret Weapon in Talent Negotiations: ‘The Data Doesn’t Lie’ (Variety)

• Hollywood's biggest AI debut? Las Vegas Sphere's 'Wizard of Oz' (Reuters)

• Screenwriters are wrestling with AI's role in Hollywood — and what it means for the future of storytelling (Business Insider)

• I'm a creative who landed a Hollywood job thanks to AI. Here's my advice on how to use the tech to boost your career. (Business Insider)

• The Hobbyist Restorer Who Rocked the Art World With an A.I. Innovation (New York Times)

• How WIRED Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer (Wired)

• You Can Now Edit Images in Google Photos Using Only Your Voice (PetaPixel)

Software

• MovieFlo.AI combines the power of storytelling and the world’s best video models in one intuitive workflow.

  • Mystic Moose is an AI Entertainment studio, created by game industry veterans from LucasArts, ILM, Activision & Electronic Arts. The company is developing MovieFlo.AI, a revolutionary tool for storytellers and filmmakers. (mysticmoose.io)

• Today we're releasing a number of updates and new features to bring even more control, flexibility and speed to your creative workflows within Runway. Learn more below. (X)

• Today we're adding Voices to [Runway] Act-Two, giving you even more control and expressiveness within your workflow. With Voices, you can easily change how your performance sounds to better suit your generated character. (X)

• Whisk is expanding to 77 new countries, AND we're also adding the power of Veo 3. (X)

• Adobe just changed the game with Turntable in Illustrator Beta In seconds, you can turn a 2D vector illustration into a smooth 3D rotation. (X)

• Chatbang is a simple tool to access ChatGPT from the terminal, without needing for an API key. (GitHub)

• Anthropic bundles Claude Code into enterprise plans (TechCrunch)

Research

• 4DVD: Cascaded Dense-view Video Diffusion Model for High-quality 4D Content Generation (project page)

• OmniSVG: A Unified Scalable Vector Graphics Generation Model (project page)

• Lightweight and Accurate Multi-View Stereo With Confidence-Aware Diffusion Model (IEEE)

• VolGen: Volumetric Latent Diffusion Models for 3D Object Generation (IEEE)

• Splat4D: Diffusion-Enhanced 4D Gaussian Splatting for Temporally and Spatially Consistent Content Creation (arXiv)

• Restage4D: Reanimating Deformable 3D Reconstruction from a Single Video (arXiv)

Misc

• Train a Wan 2.2 I2V 14B LoRA with AI Toolkit (YouTube)

• An incredible 100 million videos (!) have been made by creators using Veo3 in the Flow tool (X)

• Calling the AIFF films "empty" or "perfume ads" is just perfect. It means we are on track. (X)

• AI is the great filter. It won’t replace artists. It’ll expose who never was one. (X)

• A full minute of emotive, pristine singing—in Japanese, no less. And it's able to be generated in less than 6 seconds with our new model. (X)

• Character turn-around with qwen-image-edit (X)

• Billionaires Fight Club Vol.2 (X)

• high stakes (X)