Instagram AI Transitions Turn Still Photos Into Video
Instagram new AI Transition feature generates animated in-between frames from still photos, creating seamless video Stories without filming.
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Midjourney V8 Alpha Adds Relax Mode and 4x Faster SREF
Midjourney has enabled relax mode for V8 Alpha and rolled out a significantly faster style reference system. The update gives Standard, Pro, and Mega subscribers access to unlimited V8 generations through relax queues, alongside a new SREF pipeline that runs 4x faster.
WordPress.com Opens MCP to AI Content Agents
WordPress.com now lets AI agents draft posts, build pages, manage comments, and organize content through its expanded Model Context Protocol integration.
Flowtonik Ships AI-Powered DAW for Music Producers
Stems Labs has launched Flowtonik, a macOS digital audio workstation with built-in AI assistants for stem generation, mixing, arrangement, and natural language editing.
xAI Grok Batch API Adds Image and Video Generation
xAI expanded its Grok Batch API to support image generation at two cents per image and video generation at five cents per second, all at 50 percent off standard rates.
Adobe Firefly 5 Launches With Custom Model Training
Adobe opened Firefly Custom Models to public beta, letting creators train private AI models on their own images, plus Firefly Image Model 5 and 30-plus third-party integrations.
ElevenLabs Music Marketplace Lets Creators Sell AI Tracks
ElevenLabs launched a Music Marketplace inside ElevenCreative where creators earn money each time their AI-generated tracks are licensed, with three pre-cleared commercial tiers.
OpenAI Acquires Astral to Boost Codex Python Tools
OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty. The team joins Codex, which has 2M+ weekly users. All tools remain open source.
Microsoft MAI-Image-2 Debuts at No. 3 on Arena
Microsoft shipped MAI-Image-2, a text-to-image model that debuted at number three on the Arena.ai leaderboard with strong photorealism and unusually reliable in-image text rendering.
Xiaomi MiMo-V2 Ships Multimodal and TTS Models
Xiaomi has launched the MiMo-V2 family, featuring a multimodal model that processes audio, images, and video alongside a TTS engine capable of contextual emotion and singing synthesis.
AI Recreates Val Kilmer for Posthumous Film Role
Val Kilmer will appear in As Deep as the Grave through a fully AI-generated performance, marking the first movie role created entirely with generative AI.
OpenAI Parameter Golf Offers $1M for AI Compression
OpenAI has launched Parameter Golf, an open research competition offering $1M in computing credits to whoever can compress AI models into just 16MB with only 10 minutes of training time.
Anthropic Publishes What 81,000 People Want from AI
Anthropic has published the largest multilingual qualitative AI study ever conducted, interviewing 81,000 people across 159 countries in 70 languages about what they want from AI.
CorridorKey Ships Open-Source AI Green Screen Tool
Corridor Digital co-founder Niko Pueringer releases CorridorKey, an AI chroma keyer that handles hair, motion blur, and transparency at VFX-production quality.
MiniMax M2.7 Ships Self-Improving 10B Agent Model
MiniMax, the company behind the Hailuo video generation platform, released M2.7 with 10 billion activated parameters and built-in self-improvement capabilities.
Google Stitch Brings Vibe Design to UI Creation
Google Labs launched Stitch, a free AI-native design platform that translates natural language descriptions into high-fidelity UI designs through what the company calls vibe design.
BandM8 Turns One Instrument Into a Full Band with AI
BandM8 debuts at NVIDIA GTC with a music-to-music AI platform that generates real-time MIDI accompaniment from a single instrument.
Apple Blocks Vibe Coding Apps From App Store
Apple is blocking App Store updates for AI vibe coding apps like Replit and Vibecode, enforcing existing rules against on-device code execution that could reshape mobile AI development.
Rebel Audio Launches AI Podcasting Platform
Rebel Audio has launched out of stealth with $3.8 million in seed funding and Mark Burnett as advisor, positioning itself as the Canva of podcasting for first-time creators.