Today in Generative Media - 11/11/25

#1 country song in the US is genAI; NFL uses AI to predict injuries; Sora costs $15M/day

News and Opinion

• The No. 1 Country Song in America Is AI-Generated (Newsweek)

• How the NFL is using AI to predict injuries (Washington Post)

• OpenAI Could Be Blowing As Much As $15 Million Per Day On Silly Sora Videos (Forbes)

• What parents need to know about Sora, the generative AI video app blurring the line between real and fake (ABC News)

• Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce (Washington Post)

• They Fell in Love With A.I. Chatbots — and Found Something Real (New York Times)

• fal Announces Acquisition of YC-Backed AI Startup Remade (Business Wire)

• Exclusive: Time launches new AI agent (Axios)

• Wharton AI expert says young job seekers need to focus on something other than skills (Business Insider)

• Why Google’s File Search could displace DIY RAG stacks in the enterprise (VentureBeat)

Software

• SGLang Diffusion: Accelerating Video and Image Generation (LMSys)

• Our video editing model Lucy-Edit just got way better. 2× faster, half the price (and open source). (X)

• vafipas663 / Qwen-Edit-2509-Upscale-LoRA (HuggingFace)

• Anime2Real is a Qwen-Edit Lora designed to convert anime characters into realistic styles (civitai.com)

• SuperScaler Pipeline for ComfyUI: An all-in-one, multi-pass generative upscaling and post-processing node designed to simplify complex workflows and add a professional finish to your images. (GitHub)

• Kimi-k2-thinking is incredible. So I built an agent to test it out, Kimi-writer. It can generate a full novel from one prompt, running up to 300 tool requests per session. (X) [Code on GitHub]

Research

• MeshPad: Interactive Sketch-Conditioned Artist-Reminiscent Mesh Generation and Editing (project page)

• FastGS: Training 3D Gaussian Splatting in 100 Seconds (project page)

• GaussianProperty: Integrating Physical Properties to 3D Gaussians with LMMs (project page)

• OpenSubstance: A High-Quality Measured Dataset of Multi-View and -Lighting Images and Shapes (project page)

• SteerX: Creating Any Camera-Free 3D and 4D Scenes with Geometric Steering (project page)

Misc

• 100M Gaussians. Streamed on a single RTX 3090 (X)

• 100 Million splats , a whole town, rendered in real time without any preprocessing in M2 MacBook Air. (X)

• This is the most badass AI video I’ve seen so far (X)