Today in Generative Media

Zuck's surreal AI app; Schneier fears manipulative AI; Students add typos to AI papers

News and Opinion

• Mark Zuckerberg’s surreal new AI app is the future (Vox)

• Infosec guru Schneier worries corp AI will manipulate us (The Register)

• College Students Are Sprinkling Typos Into Their AI Papers on Purpose (Futurism)

• Google is using AI to identify scammy websites on Chrome when you click on them (CNN)

• Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors (The Register)

• Particle brings its AI-powered news reader to the web (TechCrunch)

• A.I., Art, and Copyright: The Human Element That Makes All the Difference (Library of Congress Blog)

Software

• LTX Studio just launched their most advanced video model yet including: → Camera motion control → Keyframe animation → 30x faster renders → Open Source (X)

• Now playing: Motion 2.0 in 720p 🎬 (Leonardo.AI on LinkedIn)

• Avatar IV is here and it changes everything. The most advanced avatar model we’ve ever built. Upload one photo and a script. That’s it. (X)

• ACE-Step: A Step Towards Music Generation Foundation Model (HuggingFace)

• 🦙🎧 LLaMA-Omni 2: LLM-based Real-time Spoken Chatbot with Autoregressive Streaming Speech Synthesis (GitHub)

• Build rich, interactive web apps with an updated Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google Keyword blog)

  • Teaching Gemini to write its name. (X)

• Making complex text understandable: Minimally-lossy text simplification with Gemini (Google Research blog)

• Kevin-32B = K(ernel D)evin: It's the first open model trained using RL for writing CUDA kernels (X)

Research

• GUAVA: Generalizable Upper Body 3D Gaussian Avatar (project page)

• PrimitiveAnything: Human-Crafted 3D Primitive Assembly Generation with Auto-Regressive Transformer (project page)

• SuperEdit: Rectifying and Facilitating Supervision for Instruction-Based Image Editing (project page)

• LiftFeat: 3D Geometry-Aware Local Feature Matching (arXiv)

Misc

• AIFF 2025 Finalists Announced (RunwayML AI Film Festival)

• The Whole AI Catalog for TV and Film Writers, Producers, and Executives (The Writers Room on Substack)