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Epic Games pivots staff to AI acceleration for Unreal teams

Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney said the company has a huge pivot underway, moving developers internally to retool for maximum AI acceleration. The goal is not to do the same work with fewer people but to enable everyone at Epic to build more and better stuff, with benefits extended to all teams using Unreal Engine. The shift at a major Unreal and Fortnite company can reshape how game studios adopt AI workflows.

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Suno launches v6 AI music models with Warner Music, BMG

Suno Inc. released new AI music models in partnership with Warner Music Group and BMG that let users generate tracks inspired by licensed music from participating artists. Flagship v6 (precise generation) and exploratory v6-Wild are for Pro ($8/month) and Premier ($24/month) subscribers; free v6-mini is for all users, with the platform moving fully onto v6. Suno previously settled a Warner copyright suit, signed licensing deals, and recently raised over $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation. Licensed, opt-in artist models matter as a commercial path for AI music after lawsuits and streaming-platform pushback over uncompensated training and unlabeled AI tracks.

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Entertainment6mo ago

NVIDIA Lyra 2.0 — AI converts single images into explorable 3D worlds

NVIDIA Research released Lyra 2.0, a framework that generates persistent, explorable 3D worlds from single images at scale. The system maintains per-frame 3D geometry to prevent temporal inconsistencies and uses self-augmented training to correct drift, allowing users to walk through generated environments, look back, and drop robots into them for real-time simulation. This solves the longstanding problem of AI models 'forgetting' spatial layouts over time, enabling reliable 3D environments for robotics simulation, VR/AR applications, and immersive content creation.

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Entertainment7mo ago

Humanoid robot learns tennis in 5 hours, hits 90% success rate vs humans

Researchers trained a humanoid robot to play tennis using only 5 hours of motion capture data, achieving a 90% success rate hitting balls traveling over 15 m/s (34 mph) and sustaining multi-shot rallies with human players. The LATENT project demonstrates how minimal training data can enable complex physical tasks in robotics. This represents a significant breakthrough in data-efficient robotics training that could accelerate AI adoption in sports, entertainment, and physical labor applications.

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Entertainment7mo ago

Peacock launches AI-powered vertical video with Andy Cohen avatar narrator

Peacock unveiled an AI-driven feature called "Your Bravoverse" that creates personalized vertical video playlists from 5,000+ hours of Bravo content, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen. The system uses computer vision and AI agents trained on fan behavior to generate over 600 billion possible viewing variations, launching on mobile this summer. The platform is also adding AI-powered vertical live NBA broadcasts and expanding mobile gaming with AI-assisted mystery games. This represents streaming services adopting social media formats and AI personalization to compete for mobile attention and drive engagement.

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Entertainment8mo ago

ByteDance — faces backlash over AI-generated Hollywood icons

ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0, which transformed Hollywood icons into AI-generated 'clip art', prompting significant backlash from the entertainment industry over copyright and artistic integrity concerns. The company is now reconsidering its approach in response to the criticism, revealing tension between AI capability deployment and creative industry protection. This signals growing resistance to unauthorized AI use of celebrity likenesses and established creative assets in Entertainment.

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Entertainment8mo ago

Humanoid robots starred in China's Spring Festival Gala

Multiple Chinese robotics firms including Unitree Robotics, MagicLab, Noetix Robotics, and Galbot showcased humanoid robots performing choreography, martial arts, and everyday tasks during China's largest televised event, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, on February 18, 2026. Unitree's models demonstrated significantly improved agility and fluid movements compared to their performances the previous year, while MagicLab's robots performed alongside human pop stars and Noetix showcased androids designed to look like real people. This mass-market entertainment showcase of advanced robotics signals that AI-powered humanoid performers are transitioning from research demonstrations into commercially viable entertainment assets that can draw millions of viewers and drive consumer demand.

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Entertainment8mo ago

World Labs raises $1B for Marble — 3D world generation from text/images

World Labs has secured $1 billion in funding from investors including NVIDIA, AMD, and Autodesk to advance their spatial intelligence platform. Their flagship product Marble is a multimodal world model that generates explorable, persistent 3D worlds from text, images, or video inputs, with a public API now available for developers. The company positions this technology for applications across storytelling, creativity, robotics, and scientific discovery. This represents a major breakthrough in making high-fidelity 3D world generation accessible to creators without specialized technical skills.

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Entertainment8mo ago

Lyria 3 — Google's AI generates full songs from text prompts or photos

Google DeepMind launched Lyria 3, an AI music generation model that creates full musical tracks from text prompts (including haikus, stories, or phrases like 'Check your email') or photos. The model features high customization with extended character limits, supports diverse genres beyond pop music, and integrates with Gemini App to suggest lyrics matching themes. Rolling out in beta today for 18+ users, it positions the Gemini App as a pocket-sized recording studio with multimodal input capabilities. This democratizes music creation by making professional-quality music generation accessible to anyone with a smartphone.

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Entertainment8mo ago

Warner Bros sues ByteDance over AI video tool copying DC characters

Major studios are drawing battle lines around AI training data, signaling that entertainment IP will become the defining constraint on generative video capabilities. This legal pushback could fragment AI video tools into heavily restricted commercial versions versus open-source alternatives, fundamentally reshaping how realistic video content gets created and distributed. The outcome will determine whether AI democratizes video production or reinforces studio gatekeeping through copyright enforcement.

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Entertainment8mo ago

Fanvue raises $22M Series A for AI creator tools at $100M ARR

Fanvue's AI-powered creator platform hitting $100M ARR signals the industrialization of parasocial relationships through automation. Voice cloning, predictive analytics, and messaging agents are turning individual creators into scalable entertainment brands, fundamentally shifting the economics from authentic human connection to AI-mediated audience management. This represents the first major commercialization of AI in the creator economy at scale.

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Entertainment8mo ago

AI Miles Morales Trailer Goes Viral with Holland Stars

AI video tech crafts hyper-realistic live-action Miles Morales trailer featuring Tom Holland, Garfield, Maguire, blurring AI fiction with Hollywood reality. This viral hit signals AI's power to disrupt film production, slashing costs and timelines for VFX-heavy content. Expect studios to adopt AI tools at scale, reshaping entertainment creation.

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Entertainment8mo ago

Humanoid robots perform live kung fu on Chinese New Year Gala

Humanoid robots performed a synchronized kung fu martial arts routine live on China's Spring Festival Gala, viewed by hundreds of millions, featuring precise spatial control, dynamic balance adjustments, and real-time coordination. The performance showcased cutting-edge AI control systems, advanced actuators, and high-speed feedback loops, with significantly improved joint articulation, formation timing, and balance recovery compared to last year's debut appearance. This represents a major leap in robotics performance capabilities within just 12 months of development. The live demonstration on the world's most-watched television event signals the cultural integration and maturation of humanoid robotics technology.

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Entertainment8mo ago

LightBar — $2+ bounty hunters crowdsource AI copyright enforcement

This weaponizes content discovery at scale, turning IP protection from reactive legal battles into proactive surveillance networks. Studios now have distributed armies hunting AI training violations, fundamentally shifting power dynamics toward content owners and potentially constraining open AI development. Expect this model to expand beyond Hollywood as any IP holder can now crowdsource enforcement, making AI training data exponentially more legally risky.

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