<p>World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled its first project: an AI system that can generate video game-like, 3D scenes from a single image. Lots of AI systems can turn a photo into 3D models and environments. But World Labs&#8217; scenes are unique in that they&#8217;re interactive — and modifiable. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled its first project: an AI system that can generate video game-like, 3D scenes from a single image. Lots of AI systems can turn a photo into 3D models and environments. But World Labs&#8217; scenes are unique in that they&#8217;re interactive — and modifiable. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A group of Canadian news and media companies filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT maker has infringed their copyrights and unjustly enriched itself at their expense. The companies behind the lawsuit include the Toronto Star, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Globe and Mail, and others that seek to win monetary damages [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As more publishers cut content licensing deals with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, a study put out this week by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism &#8212; looking at how the AI chatbot produces citations (i.e. sources) for publishers&#8217; content &#8212; makes for interesting, or, well, concerning, reading. In a nutshell, the findings suggest publishers remain at the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the music-streaming platform, such as song and artist recommendations, the company announced in a developer blog post on Wednesday. The company appears to be limiting third-party developers from building AI apps using data from Spotify listeners. “As [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Onion, a satirical publication, won a bankruptcy auction earlier this month to purchase conspiracy theorist Alex Jones&#8217; website, Infowars, and other related assets. However, that sale is now in limbo after a federal judge temporarily halted the deal. On Monday, Elon Musk threw yet another wrench in the works, objecting to the transfer of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Onion, a satirical publication, won a bankruptcy auction earlier this month to purchase conspiracy theorist Alex Jones&#8217; website, Infowars, and other related assets. However, that sale is now in limbo after a federal judge temporarily halted the deal. On Monday, Elon Musk threw yet another wrench in the works, objecting to the transfer of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI&#8217;s video generator, in protest of what it&#8217;s calling duplicity and &#8220;art washing&#8221; on OpenAI&#8217;s part. On Tuesday, the group published a project on the AI dev platform Hugging Face seemingly connected to OpenAI&#8217;s Sora API, which isn&#8217;t yet publicly available. Using their authentication tokens — [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI&#8217;s video generator, in protest of what it&#8217;s calling duplicity and &#8220;art washing&#8221; on OpenAI&#8217;s part. On Tuesday, the group published a project on the AI dev platform Hugging Face seemingly connected to OpenAI&#8217;s Sora API, which isn&#8217;t yet publicly available. Using their authentication tokens — [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Spotify on Tuesday introduced a new set of tools for authors and publishers distributing their audiobooks on its platform with the launch of Spotify for Authors. Similar to its existing efforts, Spotify for Artists and Spotify for Creators (previously Podcasters), Spotify for Authors will allow writers and publishers to track insights and analytics about their [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The long-standing feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar is heating up. Drake — via a business entity called Frozen Moments LLC — filed a petition yesterday in a New York Supreme Court accusing distributor Universal Music Group (UMG) of artificially inflating the popularity of “Not Like Us,” Lamar&#8217;s recently released “diss” track directed at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Want to keep up with what everyone&#8217;s talking about on alternative social media sites like Bluesky and Mastodon, but don&#8217;t have time to constantly scroll through their respective apps? A newly launched link aggregation service called Sill may be able to help. The service is similar to the older startup Nuzzel, which was ultimately acquired [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Want to keep up with what everyone&#8217;s talking about on alternative social media sites like Bluesky and Mastodon, but don&#8217;t have time to constantly scroll through their respective apps? A newly launched link aggregation service called Sill may be able to help. The service is similar to the older startup Nuzzel, which was ultimately acquired [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With global content consumption rising and demand for non-English content surpassing that for English movies and shows, IMAX is leveraging AI to scale localization on its original content. The entertainment and media industry grew 5% to $2.8 trillion in 2023, according to a report by PwC. The industry is expected to continue its expansion, though [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With global content consumption rising and demand for non-English content surpassing that for English movies and shows, IMAX is leveraging AI to scale localization on its original content. The entertainment and media industry grew 5% to $2.8 trillion in 2023, according to a report by PwC. The industry is expected to continue its expansion, though [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Brightcove, a cloud platform that helps businesses manage and monetize video content, is being taken private by Italian technology company Bending Spoons in an all-cash deal valued at $233 million. The transaction prices Brightcove at $4.45 per share, translating to a 90% premium on its 60-day average. Founded out of Boston in 2004, Brightcove develops [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s not exactly a secret that Apple has explored the possibility of building a television. Before his death in 2011, co-founder Steve Jobs famously told biographer Walter Isaacson that he’d “finally cracked it,” but no full-fledged Apple TV (as opposed to the Apple TV set-top box) has emerged in the years since. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It may be hard to remember, but George Clooney and Brad Pitt co-starred in a movie, “Wolfs,” that Apple released just two months ago. On Friday, the film’s writer and director, Jon Watts, said that a sequel is no longer happening; in a follow-up interview with Deadline, he explained that he “no longer trusted [Apple] [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It may be hard to remember, but George Clooney and Brad Pitt co-starred in a movie, “Wolfs,” that Apple released just two months ago. On Friday, the film’s writer and director, Jon Watts, said that a sequel is no longer happening; in a follow-up interview with Deadline, he explained that he “no longer trusted [Apple] [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Commission (EC) has quietly closed a longstanding antitrust investigation into Apple over rules it enforces against third-party e-book and audiobook app developers. The EC opened the probe back in 2020 after receiving complaints over how Apple forced competing e-book and audiobook app developers to use Apple&#8217;s own in-app payment system, while also preventing [&hellip;]</p>