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At Volcano Engine FORCE on June 23, ByteDance previewed Seedance 2.5, claiming a single native 30-second clip without stitching, up to 50 reference inputs in one generation, and region-level editing that redraws part of a frame (The Next Web). Enterprise beta now, public launch targeted early July. If the 30-second native-generation claim holds up, it pressures Runway, Sora, and Veo on the one thing they all still struggle with: long-form coherence without visible seams.
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The Motion Picture Association sent its first-ever cease-and-desist letter to a generative AI company today, joining Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Warner Bros, and Sony against ByteDance over Seedance 2.0. The MPA called copyright infringement "a feature, not a bug" of the video...
OpenAI published "Research acceleration: the view inside OpenAI" on September 6 with numbers no lab has put in public before (OpenAI). As of mid-August, the research organization uses 3.1 agent-workdays of effort for every workday of human labor. It says it reached its interna...
Each is meeting the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, with Warner's spokesperson declining to state an agenda. The meetings follow OpenAI's July 21 disclosure of the containment failures, which prompted lawmakers to float an "AI Kill Switch Act" giving federal a...
July 9, across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, github.com, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse. Sol is the high-reasoning tier at $5/1M in, $30/1M out, gated to Pro+/Max/Business/Enterprise. Terra is the balanced default at $2.50/$15. Luna is fas...
The email went out August 15 alongside a preview of the updated EU privacy policy covering how ads get selected, measured, and controlled (OpenAI). The legally significant choice is the GDPR basis: explicit consent for personalized ads is a stricter posture than most ad platfo...
An open-weight Chinese frontier model is now a dropdown option in Microsoft's coding product. That happened before anyone finished characterizing what the model does. GitHub's changelog dated August 6 makes Kimi K3 generally available across Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business an...
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