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Google now requires advertisers to disclose AI-generated ad content across Search, YouTube, and Discover - three weeks before EU AI Act Article 50 enforcement begins.

Apple filed suit against OpenAI on July 10, alleging a coordinated scheme to steal iPhone trade secrets through recruiting tactics and unauthorized file downloads.

ByteDance's July 2026 flagship image generation model with native 2K output, editable layer separation, multilingual text in 14 languages, and precision region editing.

Midjourney has asked a federal judge to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose their own AI training practices - using the studios' conduct as a fair-use and unclean-hands defense in a high-stakes copyright case.

Google DeepMind's multimodal video generation model that creates 10-second clips with native audio from text, images, or video inputs - and lets you refine results through conversation.

Paul Meade, Apple's VP for the Vision Pro and smart glasses, is joining OpenAI's io hardware division - the most senior hardware engineering defection yet in a two-year talent war that is reshaping who builds the next computing platform.

Kuaishou's Kling 3.0 is the first commercially available AI video model to ship native 4K at 60fps, with multilingual audio, multi-shot storyboarding, and a $0.075/s API.

xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is the #1-ranked image-to-video model on Artificial Analysis, generating 720p clips with native audio at $0.14/s - 86% cheaper than Sora 2 Pro.

ByteDance's top-ranked AI video generation model with native joint audio-video synthesis, multi-shot support, and multimodal reference inputs across up to 12 files per generation.

Alibaba's open-source video generation model with MoE architecture, native audio, first-and-last-frame control, and 1080p output up to 15 seconds.

HappyHorse-1.0 is Alibaba's 15-billion-parameter video generation model that ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis, producing 720p-1080p clips with joint audio-video synthesis in a single forward pass.

SkyReels V4 is Skywork AI's unified multi-modal video model that jointly generates 1080p/32FPS video and synchronized audio from a single dual-stream diffusion transformer.