Today in Generative Media

Creatives tackle AI; Odyssey AI's backpack cameras; "Anti-AI" camera apps; AI dating

News

• Stand-Up, Drama and Spambots: The Creative World Takes On A.I. (New York Times)

• This generative AI startup is strapping cameras to people’s backs (TechCrunch)

  • A New Frontier for Generative Models: Learning from Our World (Odyssey)

• Now there’s an ‘anti-AI’ camera app for Android, too (The Verge)

• Are A.I. Clones the Future of Dating? I Tried Them for Myself. (New York Times)

• Europe asks for input on banned uses of AI (TechCrunch)

• OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users (Bloomberg)

• Tech giants are investing in ‘sovereign AI’ to help Europe cut its dependence on the U.S. (CNBC)

Software

• Apple’s AI-powered Final Cut Pro 11 is now available (TechCrunch)

• Google’s Gemini AI now has its own iPhone app (The Verge)

• VIDU: Empowering Creators to Express Themselves and Create Effortlessly with Advanced AI Technology. (Vidu AI)

• Play AI is a game-changer for film dialogue! It makes text-to-speech feel lifelike, great for crafting dialogue scenes. (X)

• Video AI for Developers World-class APIs and infrastructure for video AI. (Sieve)

• sieve/background-removal: High quality background removal for images and videos (Sieve)

Research

• Adaptive and Temporally Consistent Gaussian Surfels for Multi-view Dynamic Reconstruction (project page)

• Moving Off-the-Grid: Scene-Grounded Video Representations (project page)

Misc

• Control comes last this time. But it's coming. (X)