George Washington, according to Aronofsky’s Primordial Soup. (Picture: screenshot)Aronofsky used DeepMind’s tools to recreate the American Revolution for its 250th anniversary, and it looks none too shabby for an early stage AI production.
The short movies try to track specific days on the calendar to those of 250 years ago, will run through the year, and are made by Aronofsky’s AI studio Primordial Soup, with himself executive producing.
It would be ridiculously expensive to make the sets, hire extras and put them all in time-corrected garb for a two-minute short, so this is one of the few places where AI might make sense — not to mention recreating historical figures.
The film shorts aren’t all «AI slop,» though, as they use unionized voice actors for all speech.
Twoepisodes are already up. The movies are made with the help of Salesforce and distributed by Time Studios, a subsidiary of Salesforce.
Just one of many creative uses of Veo3.1. Jelllyfish in the backseat of a car.Announced late last week, Google Flow is coming to Workspace.
Flow is a wrapper for AI generated videos, using the popular Veo 3.1 — one of the most advanced generators out there.
The expanded access is for Business and Enterprise (9 million users), and Education plans — which has 170 million users.
These plans can now also access the popular Nano Banana Pro service, letting users generate pictures from anything they can imagine.
The Flow service was previously reserved for Gemini Pro and Ultra users, who could generate 8 second, high quality 4K AI videos in widescreen or vertical formats, and daisy chain them for even longer ones.
The service now dwarves OpenAI’s Sora 2 service, which had 6 million total downloads in January 2026.
Staring down a mountain of slop, Instagram thinks it might be more useful to label authentic content than flagging AI. (Picture: generated) While both AI and smartphone cameras are getting better at mimicking super polished productions, Mosseri says that this content left Instagram years ago.
The new currency is untouched, grainy, raw footage, he writes on Threads — because it is harder to fake and offers instant authenticity. But even this is vulnerable to AI.
Becoming more sceptical — Over time we are going to move from assuming what we see is real by default, to starting with skepticism when we see media, and paying much more attention to who is sharing something and why they might be sharing it, he writes.
You might remember Runway as the lab behind AIFF — the AI film festival, where part of the prizes was generation tokens in their app.
They are framing their new release as a David v. Goliath moment, where «a team that fits onto two school buses» outperforms trillion dollar companies on the Artificial Analysis Text to Video Leaderboard.
The old SIMA was good at following instructions, but the second version now has access to Gemini models and can explore 3D worlds on its own, with zero advance training.
That’s great for video games, where it can think and perform complex reasoning around its goals.
Learning from concepts
It can also learn across games, taking cues from «mining» in one game and transferring it to «harvesting» in another, meaning it can iterate and get better over time.
OpenAI is looking for ways to make money off of their astronomical success with Sora 2. (Picture: OpenAI)In a blog post today, the OpenAI CEO says they have reached out to copyright holders about their content — and that they will «make some missteps» on the road to making money off the Sora 2 app.
— We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rightsholders, and other interested groups, Altman writes in his blog.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 introduction sure looks impressive.
The idea is that people can use the latest and greatest video generation tool to insert themselves in scenes along with their friends — with so-called «cameos.»
The new video model should be significantly better at adhering to physics, and could be a «ChatGPT-3.5-moment for video,» OpenAI says.
Image-to-video generation comes to Veo 3
After opening up Veo 3 worldwide for Gemini Pro users and teasing the feature last week, it’s finally gone live globally.
It is now possible to upload a picture and have it animated in an 8-second 720p video if you are a Gemini Pro ($20/month) or Ultra ($250/month) user.
Simply upload a photo, add any instructions for the scene you want to create, and two minutes later you should have a nicely animated video. Google also says they have generated over 40 million videos since Veo 3’s inception in May. More at Google’s blog and on 9to5Google.
In coming update, Youtube will demonetize «inauthentic» content
In a battle against «AI slop,» as in mass produced, unoriginal content chruned out at scale and made by AI tools, Youtube is now saying they will clarify their position on «inauthentic» content on July 15. They already have an extensive page on AI tools, but requires their use to be «original» and «authentic» and is seeing a lot of misuse. These videos will likely be demonetized shortly. More at Youtube’s policy updates, and Gizmodo bemoans AI slop, as usual.
Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs promises a cure for every disease
Isomorphic Labs president Colin Murdoch has spoken to Fortune about his ambitions to use AI discovery to find cures for just about anything. They are a spinoff from the AlphaFold unit and are «collaborating with AI to design drugs for cancer,» «right now,» he says.
The next stage is doing human trials on some of the drugs they have discovered, which can be a long and cumbersome process, but is crucial to getting the drugs approved.
«We’re staffing up now. We’re getting very close,» says Murdoch, and «we’re making good progress.» Read the full interview at Fortune.
Are you ready for a new wave of Veo 3 videos? It just got cheaper and available to more users. (Picture: Google)Using the famous video generator Veo 3 just got a whole lot cheaper, moving from being exclusively available on the $250 Ultra plan to being included in the $20 Pro plan.
Veo 3 is also now available in India, Indonesia and all of Europe, Google’s Josh Woodward tweets:
A frame from Jacob Adler’s «Total Pixel Space,» winner of the Grand Prize at the AIFF awards. (Picture: screenshot.)In just three short years, AI has gone from being vilified in Hollywood to having its own AI film festival. It’s not quite Cannes yet, but look at the jury, and you’ll find an important list of industry insiders and VFX veterans.
6,000 submissions
Run by Runway, an ai art company focusing on film shorts, and offering a $15,000 grand prize, it showcases independent creators using AI in their projects, a far cry from the accusations of AI stealing creative jobs.
I den siste Indiana Jones-filmen brukes kunstig intelligens til å forynge Harrison Ford. Det du ser på skjermen er kunstig. (Bilde: Disney/via Variety.)Fremveksten av kunstig intelligens har gjort det mulig å scanne inn skuespillere og bruke “likheten” deres i fremtidige produksjoner — og dette vil de ha beskyttelse mot.
Markedet har også endret seg dramatisk mot strømming av innhold de siste årene, og nå krever skuespillerne bedre betaling for populære produksjoner på for eksempel Netflix.
Etter brudd i forhandlingene i går kveld om akkurat disse tingene, blir nå skuespillerne med skribentene i en storstreik i USA, for første gang siden 1960.
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