
ByteDance Halts Seedance 2.0 Over Hollywood IP Fight
ByteDance suspended the global launch of its AI video model Seedance 2.0 after Disney, Paramount Skydance, and other studios sent cease-and-desist letters alleging copyright infringement.

ByteDance suspended the global launch of its AI video model Seedance 2.0 after Disney, Paramount Skydance, and other studios sent cease-and-desist letters alleging copyright infringement.

Tencent hosted free OpenClaw installations at its Shenzhen headquarters while the local government rolled out subsidies up to 10 million yuan for companies building on the platform.

CUDA Agent uses reinforcement learning trained on actual GPU profiling data to generate optimized CUDA kernels. It beats torch.compile by 2.11x overall and outperforms Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro by 40 points on the hardest kernels.

A hands-on review of Seedance 2.0, ByteDance's AI video generator that produces photorealistic 15-second clips with synchronized audio - and has triggered cease-and-desist letters from the Motion Picture Association.

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 introduces a dual-branch transformer for simultaneous audio-video generation at 2K resolution, but cease-and-desists from Disney, Paramount, and Warner Bros. threaten its global rollout.