Today in Generative Media
USCO on deepfakes; OpenAI pledges AI Safety Institute access; Suno claims fair use
[Ed. note: This newsletter is going on vacation! I’ll be away from my keyboard the next two weeks, so the next edition should appear on Monday, August 19. To all my readers who are researchers, product developers, artists and filmmakers working on generative media, could you maybe just… slow down for a few weeks?! kthxbye]
News
Copyright Office tells Congress: ‘Urgent need’ to outlaw AI-powered impersonation (TechCrunch)
OpenAI pledges to give U.S. AI Safety Institute early access to its next model (TechCrunch)
A.I. Music Startup Suno Fires Back at Record Labels, Admits Training on Copyrighted Music (Rolling Stone)
AI music startups say copyright violation is just rock and roll (The Verge)
Reddit has acquired an AI startup to beef up its ad business in a deal worth around $40 million (Business Insider)
Long After Surviving the Nazis, They Use A.I. to Remind the World (New York Times)
Mark Zuckerberg has brilliantly cornered us (Business Insider)
Zuckerberg says Meta will need 10x more computing power to train Llama 4 than Llama 3 (TechCrunch)
AI has a climate problem — but so does all of tech (The Verge)
Microsoft is losing a staggering amount of money on AI (Futurism)
AI Alan Turing: World-1st interactive hologram of WWII British codebreaker (Interesting Engineering)
Stable Diffusion creators launch Black Forest Labs, secure $31M for FLUX.1 AI image generator (VentureBeat)
Introducing Hedra, the video creation platform, with $10M in funding from Index Ventures, Abstract, and A16Z Speedrun (Hedra blog)
Software
Stability AI speeds up 3D image generation with Stable Fast 3D (VentureBeat) Demo on HuggingFace.
aiOla drops ultra-fast ‘multi-head’ speech recognition model, beats OpenAI Whisper (VentureBeat)
Google Gemini 1.5 Pro leaps ahead in AI race, challenging GPT-4o (VentureBeat)
GitHub Models gives developers new power to experiment with Gen AI (VentureBeat)
For Your Edification: Shutterstock Releases Generative 3D, Getty Images Upgrades Service Powered by NVIDIA (Nvidia blog)
Street Gaussians: Modeling Dynamic Urban Scenes with Gaussian Splatting (GitHub)