Today in Generative Media
Reddit sues Anthropic; OpenAI fights court order to keep all chats; NATO for News?
News and Opinion
Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for breach of contract, ‘unfair competition’ (CNBC)
OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats (Ars Technica)
“NATO for News”: Is a Joint Effort by Media Companies the Way to Go in the Age of AI? (Hollywood Reporter)
5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest — and it wasn’t ChatGPT. (Washington Post)
AI chatbots deliver minimal productivity gains, study finds (ComputerWorld)
The AI future is already here (Business Insider)
Why AI is still making things up (Axios)
Facing a Changing Industry, AI Activists Rethink Their Strategy (Wired)
US removes ‘safety’ from AI Safety Institute (The Verge)
Why I have slightly longer timelines than some of my guests: Continual learning is a huge bottleneck (Dwarkesh Patel on Substack)
Software
Introducing Modify Video (Luma AI)
Subgraphs Are Coming to ComfyUI! 🎉 (ComfyUI blog)
Google quietly paused the rollout of its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature (The Verge)
Introducing our Dev Mode MCP server: Bringing Figma into your workflow (Figma)
Whisper is an AI-powered jet engine for writing (SixColors)
Advanced audio dialog and generation with Gemini 2.5 (Google Developers Blog)
Research
WorldExplorer: Towards Generating Fully Navigable 3D Scenes (project page)
Neural Inverse Rendering from Propagating Light (project page)
LayerFlow : A Unified Model for Layer-aware Video Generation (project page)
IllumiCraft: Unified Geometry and Illumination Diffusion for Controllable Video Generation (project page)
The Matador dataset is a material image dataset with hierarchical labels (project page)
Generative Sparse-View Gaussian Splatting (CVPR Open Access PDF)
PatchVSR: Breaking Video Diffusion Resolution Limits with
Patch-wise Video Super-Resolution (CVPR Open Access PDF)
GPAvatar: High-fidelity Head Avatars by Learning Efficient Gaussian Projections (CVPR Open Access PDF)