Today in Generative Media

Aronofsky, Promise partner with Google; $10M AI music fraud; GenAI reading list

News and Opinion

• Darren Aronofsky Launches AI-Driven Storytelling Venture, As Google Unveils New Gen AI Video Tool (Hollywood Reporter)

• AI Entertainment Studio Promise Inks Deal With Google, Raises Investment from Michael Ovitz’s Crossbeam (Hollywood Reporter)

• ‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case (Wired)

• How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers (NPR)

• The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report on AI Training Errs on Fair Use (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

• Google’s 3D teleconferencing platform, now called Beam, will ship later in 2025 (TechCrunch)

• Google found a way to make virtual meetings suck less (The Verge)

Software

• Fuel your creativity with new generative media models and tools (Google Keyword blog)

• Meet Flow: AI-powered filmmaking with Veo 3 (Google Keyword blog)

• Introducing Viggle LIVE: generate video, capture motion, and swap characters — in real time! With just an image and your webcam, you can transform into anyone live. (Instagram)

  • It's incredibly cool to become any character in seconds. And it runs in the browser, no downloads required! (X)

• Version Zero AI has a splines output solution for AI/ML rotoscoping (Befores and Afters)

• Lyria 2 is Google's latest music generation model, you can generate any type of music with this model. (fal.ai)

• Stitch makes UI creation incredibly simple. No matter your background or expertise, Stitch will help you bring your ideas to life. (Google)

• Jules does coding tasks you don't want to do. (Google)

• Today, we're announcing plans to make VS Code an open source AI editor. (X)

• Announcing Gemma 3n preview: powerful, efficient, mobile-first AI (Google Developers blog)

Research

• BAGEL: The Open-Source Unified Multimodal Model (project page)

• MonetGPT: Solving Puzzles Enhances MLLMs' Image Retouching Skills (project page)

• Mesh Compression with Quantized Neural Displacement Fields (Eurographics)