Today in Generative Media

Amazon licenses NY Times AI data; AI video's giant leap; AI's Napster moment

News and Opinion

• The Times and Amazon Announce an A.I. Licensing Deal (New York Times)

• AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed? (Ars Technica)

• AI’s Napster Moment May Be Next (Hollywood Reporter)

• No One Knows How to Deal With 'Student-on-Student' AI CSAM (404 Media)

• Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point (New York Times)

Software

• An experimental FLUX Kontext model that can combine two input images (Replicate)

• DeepSeek R1-0528 arrives in powerful open source challenge to OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (VentureBeat)

• Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools (Anthropic)

• Introducing Layout Sketch for Gen-4 References. (X)

Research

• Chain-of-Zoom: Extreme Super-Resolution via Scale Autoregression and Preference Alignment (project page)

• Frame In-N-Out: Unbounded Controllable Image-to-Video Generation (project page)

• NoKSR: Kernel-Free Neural Surface Reconstruction via Point Cloud Serialization (project page)

• EPiC: Efficient Video Camera Control Learning with Precise Anchor-Video Guidance (project page)

Misc

• We are almost halfway through these predictions, and it's pretty clear that they are all becoming true faster than expected. (X)