<p>Have you ever watched a food scene on TV and thought, wow, I wish I could cook that at home? Maybe it was the il timpano in &#8220;Big Night,&#8221; or the beef bourguignon in &#8220;Julie &amp; Julia.&#8221; Whatever your show-inspired craving, you&#8217;re in luck — if you buy a 2025 Samsung TV, that is. During [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple is allowing anyone to access its Apple TV+ streaming service for free from Friday through Sunday. The company announced the weekend of free streaming earlier this week alongside a short video featuring its most popular TV shows, including &#8220;Severance,&#8221; &#8220;Slow Horses,&#8221; &#8220;Shrinking,&#8221; and more. It&#8217;s worth noting that this is the first time that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple is allowing anyone to access its Apple TV+ streaming service for free from Friday through Sunday. The company announced the weekend of free streaming earlier this week alongside a short video featuring its most popular TV shows, including &#8220;Severance,&#8221; &#8220;Slow Horses,&#8221; &#8220;Shrinking,&#8221; and more. It&#8217;s worth noting that this is the first time that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Spotify announced Thursday the launch of its new “Partner Program” that lets popular podcast hosts monetize their video content. Spotify’s new program gives qualifying creators on its platform opportunities for extra income beyond just advertising revenue, such as video payouts. The program was initially announced back in November and is officially available in the U.S., [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Spotify announced Thursday the launch of its new “Partner Program” that lets popular podcast hosts monetize their video content. Spotify’s new program gives qualifying creators on its platform opportunities for extra income beyond just advertising revenue, such as video payouts. The program was initially announced back in November and is officially available in the U.S., [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. But seven months later, this feature has yet to see the light of day. Called Media Manager, the tool would &#8220;identify copyrighted text, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ah, 2024: the year we debated how to pronounce “hawk tuah,” pondered the health benefits of eating rocks, and held space for a Broadway showstopper. It was a year when the discourse could feel shockingly pure and joyful — at least for a few minutes, before we all came tumbling back down to reality. Online [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TuSimple has completed its pivot away from autonomous trucking to AI animation and gaming with a rebrand. The company shall henceforth be known as CreateAI.&nbsp; The rebrand comes as TuSimple is embroiled in controversy over the company’s plans to move its remaining U.S. assets to China to fund the new business, which it initially announced [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amazon announced on Wednesday new accessibility features for Fire TV, including a notable &#8220;Dual Audio&#8221; capability for the newly launched Fire TV Omni Mini-LED Series, which was unveiled in November. The new feature allows one user to listen through a hearing aid while others in the same room can enjoy audio through the TV&#8217;s built-in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Odyssey, a startup founded by self-driving pioneers Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, is developing an AI-powered tool that can transform text or an image into a 3D rendering. The tool, dubbed Explorer, is similar in some ways to the so-called world models recently demoed by DeepMind,&nbsp;World Labs, and Israeli upstart&nbsp;Decart. Given a caption like &#8220;a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A lot of YouTube videos have flashy, misleading titles and thumbnails, such as &#8220;BREAKING NEWS&#8221; or &#8220;The president steps down,&#8221; to bait the user into watching the video, which has non-related content. YouTube said Wednesday that it is now cracking down on such videos — especially if videos cover topics like breaking news or current [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A lot of YouTube videos have flashy, misleading titles and thumbnails, such as &#8220;BREAKING NEWS&#8221; or &#8220;The president steps down,&#8221; to bait the user into watching the video, which has non-related content. YouTube said Wednesday that it is now cracking down on such videos — especially if videos cover topics like breaking news or current [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Five years later sounds like a half-baked sequel to a well-known zombie flick franchise. But it&#8217;s a reference to how long it&#8217;s taken a data access complaint against Netflix to deliver a penalty decision in the European Union. The fine that&#8217;s &#8212; finally &#8212; been issued under the bloc&#8217;s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI says it has no plans to release an API for Sora, its AI model that can generate reasonably realistic videos when provided with a text description or reference image. During an AMA with members of OpenAI&#8217;s dev team, Romain Huet, head of developer experience at OpenAI, said that a Sora API isn&#8217;t in the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>YouTube on Monday announced it will give creators more choice over how third parties can use their content to train their AI models. Starting today, creators and rights holders will be able to flag for YouTube if they&#8217;re permitting specific third-party AI companies to train models on the creator&#8217;s content. From a new setting within [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google DeepMind, Google&#8217;s flagship AI research lab, wants to beat OpenAI at the video-generation game — and it might just, at least for a little while. On Monday, DeepMind announced Veo 2, a next-gen video-generating AI and the successor to Veo, which powers a growing number of products across Google&#8217;s portfolio. Veo 2 can create [&hellip;]</p>

<p>YouTube is experimenting with a new way to engage fans by giving creators the ability to post voice notes and reply to comments on their videos, the company announced on Monday. The ability to post voice notes is limited to certain creators in the U.S. for the time being. YouTube says they&#8217;ll only be able [&hellip;]</p>

<p>While I have fond memories of past efforts to combine VR content with real-world locations, I’d assumed the pandemic had put those ambitions to an end. If I wanted VR in 2024, I thought I’d have to buy a headset, and it would be a largely solitary experience at home or in the office — [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s bringing its viral NotebookLM app to the enterprise via a new service for Google Cloud customers, Agentspace.</p>

<p>Meta is open sourcing a method to watermark AI-generated videos. Called Meta Video Seal, the company says it&#8217;s robust against compression and edits.</p>