This weekend in Generative Media - 5/25/26
Trump postpones AI order, Newsom signs one; Utopai's AI studio; Sora halt delays Critterz
News and Opinion
Trump delays executive order on AI oversight hours before planned signing (Washington Post)
California’s Governor Signs A.I. Order Aimed at Protecting Workers (New York Times)
Meet The 25-Year-Old Vying To Become Hollywood’s First AI Movie Mogul (Forbes)
Sora shutdown forces AI film Critterz to miss Cannes (The News International)
The Typo Vibe Shift (The Atlantic) To some, they’re no longer a sign of laziness but proof of human touch.
South African Agency Boundless Delivers Mazda’s First AI-Produced Commercial Using Luma Agents (Luma)
Software
Pi3X Released (GitHub) This improved version eliminates grid artifacts (smoother point clouds), offers more precise confidence scoring, supports conditional injection (camera pose, intrinsics, depth), and enables approximate metric scale reconstruction.
FLUX Erase (Black Forest Labs)
Research
CogOmniControl: Reasoning-Driven Controllable Video Generation via Creative Intent Cognition (project page)
L2P: Unlocking Latent Potential for Pixel Generation (project page)
Enhancing Train-Free Infinite-Frame Generation for Consistent Long Videos (project page) [arXiv]
Large-Scale High-Quality 3D Gaussian Head Reconstruction from Multi-View Captures (project page)
PanoWorld: A Generative Spatial World Model for Consistent Whole-House Panorama Synthesis (project page)
TideGS: Scalable Training of Over One Billion 3D Gaussian Splatting Primitives via Out-of-Core Optimization (project page)
LongCat-Video-Avatar 1.5 (project page)
WavFlow: Audio Generation in Waveform Space (project page)
LumaFlux: Lifting 8-Bit Worlds to HDR Reality with Physically-Guided Diffusion Transformers (arXiv)
Stable Audio 3 (arXiv)