ByteDance’s video generation tool Seedance is gaining traction in Hollywood, despite an earlier scandal over a viral deepfake clip. Nilesh Christopher reports for the Los Angeles Times that the Chinese tech giant, best known as the former majority owner of TikTok, has been quietly courting American filmmakers and executives. Earlier this year, a 15-second AI-generated …
Apple has updated its Creator Studio suite with a range of AI-powered features across Pixelmator Pro, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and other apps. Juli Clover reports for MacRumors that the updates span video editing, image creation, audio production, and document tools. For content professionals working with video, Final Cut Pro receives two notable AI …
Google has opened its Gemini Omni Flash model to developers and enterprise customers via API, bringing conversational video editing to professional workflows for the first time. Sam Witteveen reports for VentureBeat that the model, which debuted at Google I/O 2026, lets users generate and refine video clips through plain-language instructions rather than prompt-by-prompt generation from …
ByteDance has confirmed the name and launch window for its next AI video generation model. Ryan Merket reports for RuntimeWire that Seedance 2.5 is set to arrive in early July, bringing three notable upgrades over its predecessor: native 30-second single-shot video output, a dramatically expanded capacity for reference materials, and improved tools for controlling and …
Google has significantly upgraded the AI avatar features in its video creation tool Google Vids. A post in Google Workspace Updates explains that the changes include more preset avatars, broader language support, and new ways to control custom avatars in generated video clips. The number of preset avatars has grown from 23 to 53. The …
Adobe has significantly expanded its Firefly creative platform with agentic AI capabilities, bringing an AI assistant that can execute multi-step creative workflows into both its standalone Firefly studio and its core Creative Cloud applications. The company reports that Firefly AI Assistant, powered by Adobe’s creative agent, is now in public beta across Premiere Pro, Photoshop, …
Runway, the AI video startup behind tools used in Hollywood productions, is betting that the future of artificial intelligence lies not in language but in video and so-called world models. Rebecca Bellan reports for TechCrunch that the company, now valued at $5.3 billion, is pushing into territory that puts it in direct competition with Google …
Chinese artificial intelligence companies have overtaken their American counterparts in AI-generated video, establishing a clear lead in one of the most competitive areas of generative AI. Eleanor Olcott reports for the Financial Times that platforms like ByteDance and Kuaishou now outperform US rivals in quality and ease of use. The advantage stems largely from data. …
Google has announced a series of updates to its AI-powered creative platforms, Google Flow and Google Flow Music. The changes were revealed at Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, and include a new AI model, an agentic assistant, custom tool-building and mobile applications. Google Flow is an AI creative studio that lets users generate, …
Google has launched Gemini Omni, a new artificial intelligence model that accepts text, images, audio, and video as input and produces video output. The company describes it as natively multimodal, meaning a single model handles all content types rather than passing tasks between separate systems. The first release in the family, Gemini Omni Flash, is …