Today in Generative Media

Google AI's Hollywood makeover; Klarna's AI CEO; Anthropic's Claude 4 backlash

News and Opinion

• Inside Google’s plan to have Hollywood make AI look less doomsday (Los Angeles Times)

• Klarna used an AI avatar of its CEO to deliver earnings, it said (TechCrunch)

• Anthropic faces backlash to Claude 4 Opus behavior that contacts authorities, press if it thinks you’re doing something ‘egregiously immoral’ (VentureBeat)

• DOGE Used a Meta AI Model to Review Emails From Federal Workers (Wired)

Software

• Your AI Powered VFX Toolkit. The most advanced AI powered visual effects tools on the market. (Slapshot)

• Recraft was just ranked the top performing image generation tool in Project Odyssey Season 2, one of the biggest AI film competitions. (LinkedIn)

• Now you can select who speaks in your video with our new Face Selection tool. (X)

• DiffusionExplorer: Learn about diffusion and flow models with interactive visualization

• Document AI, powered by the world’s best OCR. (Mistral)

• Splat Viewer beta: A responsive and composable component for displaying Gaussian splats. (PlayCanvas)

• Rork builds complete, cross-platform mobile apps using AI and React Native.

• Introducing Claude 4 (Anthropic)

• Google Embraces MCP (The New Stack) Google today announced that the SDK for its Gemini models will natively support the Model Context Protocol from Anthropic.

Research

• 3DTown: Constructing a 3D Town from a Single Image (project page)

• PromptHMR: Promptable Human Mesh Recovery (project page)

• The Hallucination Tax of Reinforcement Finetuning (arXiv)

Misc

• insert or remove items or characters in your videos all while matching the consistency and style of your scene. (X) [Google Veo]

• Fun thought experiment: Can we estimate an upper bound on the Veo3 model size based on the Google AI Ultra subscription price? (X)

• The new [Runway] Gen-4 update has a similar feature to the new Claude. If it detects you are doing something out of distribution, it will contact the relevant film festivals and submit an entry for you. (X)

• Trying to keep up with AI news (BlueSky)