Today in Generative Media

AI filmmaking becomes mainstream; Midjourney lawsuit is different; AI rewrites history

News and Opinion

• For some in the industry, AI filmmaking is already becoming mainstream (NBC News)

• Why the Studios’ Midjourney Lawsuit Is Different (CopyrightLately)

• A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. (New York Times)

• OpenAI and Microsoft are teaming up with Harvard’s libraries to train AI models on 600-year-old books (Fortune)

• ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development (Futurism)

• AI is disrupting the advertising business in a big way — industry leaders explain how (CNBC)

• Sam Altman Says "Significant Fraction" of Earth's Total Electricity Should Go to Running AI (Futurism)

• Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub (The Register)

Software

• Cosmos-Predict2 Now Supported in ComfyUI! (ComfyUI blog)

• We’re expanding our Gemini 2.5 family of models (Google Keyword blog)

• Introducing Adobe LLM Optimizer — own your brand’s presence in AI-powered search and discovery. (Adobe)

Research

• LoRA-Edit: Controllable First-Frame-Guided Video Editing via Mask-Aware LoRA Fine-Tuning (project page)

• World-consistent Video Diffusion with Explicit 3D Modeling (project page)

• Product of Experts for Visual Generation (project page)

• Personalized Preference Fine-tuning of Diffusion Models (arXiv)

• DINOv2 Meets Text: A Unified Framework for Image- and Pixel-Level Vision-Language Alignment (arXiv)

• ConceptAttention: Diffusion Transformers Learn Highly Interpretable Features (arXiv)

Misc

• Studio Execs are now using Chat GPT to evaluate screenplays. (BlueSky)

• A big AI question is why, as LLMs get bigger, their values seem to increasingly converge on the same preferences, and this holds for Musk’s Grok and China’s DeepSeek, too. (X)