Today in Generative Media

Trump dismisses AI copyright worries; AI search grows fast; AI slop hits bug bounties

News and Opinion

• Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech (Wired)

• AI Search Is Growing More Quickly Than Expected (Wall Street Journal)

• AI slop and fake reports are exhausting some security bug bounties (TechCrunch)

• Google AI Overviews are killing the web, Pew study shows (again) (The Register)

• A new study just upended AI safety (The Verge)

• NIH to Limit AI Use, Cap P.I. Grant Applications at 6 per Year (Inside Higher Ed)

• Partner Who Wrote About AI Ethics, Fired For Citing Fake AI Cases (Above The Law)

Software

• Proton is launching a privacy-focused AI (The Verge)

• Higgs Audio V2: Redefining Expressiveness in Audio Generation (GitHub)

• HOWTO: Use Qwen3-Coder (or any other LLM) with Claude Code (via LiteLLM) (Reddit)

Research

• Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past (Google DeepMind blog)

• StreamME: Simplify 3D Gaussian Avatar within Live Stream (project page)

• Ultra3D: Efficient and High-Fidelity 3D Generation with Part Attention (project page)

• Dens3R: A Foundation Model for 3D Geometry Prediction (project page)

• OmniAvatar: Efficient Audio-Driven Avatar Video Generation with Adaptive Body Animation (project page)