Ancestra actually says a lot about the current state of AI-generated videos

Ancestra actually says a lot about the current state of AI-generated videos

After watching writer / director Eliza McNitt’s new short film Ancestra, I can see why a number of Hollywood studios are interested in generative AI. A number of the shots were made and refined solely with prompts, in collaboration with Google’s DeepMind team. It’s obvious what Darren Aronofsky’s AI-focused Primordial Soup production house and Google…

YouTube is plugging Veo 3 AI videos directly into Shorts

YouTube is plugging Veo 3 AI videos directly into Shorts

YouTube is bringing its Veo 3 AI video generation model, which my colleague Allison Johnson recently called “a slop monger’s dream,” to YouTube Shorts later this summer, according to a Cannes Lions keynote from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan. Shorts creators can already take advantage of the previous-generation Veo 2 model to generate backgrounds with Dream…

Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox has an AMD chip inside and is ‘not locked to a single store’

Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox has an AMD chip inside and is ‘not locked to a single store’

Microsoft is confirming today that it’s working on a next-gen Xbox console in partnership with AMD. Xbox president Sarah Bond made the announcement in a minute-long video posted to YouTube, promising to deliver “an Xbox experience not locked to a single store or tied to one device.” Bond says Microsoft is partnering with AMD for…