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Nov 14Sat
  1. Modal Blog20

    Scaling Intelligence: A landmark commission and exhibition

    Modal and Gray Area opened Scaling Intelligence, an exhibition of 11 new artworks made with machine intelligence and cloud-scale compute, with Modal supporting the artists through engineering help and compute credits. The artists were selected through a global open call for practices that use AI with intention and imagination, and their works include a satellite searching for a nonexistent island, a robot arm that flips off passersby, and a choir of nine AI models that learn from visitors singing along.

  2. Hacker News AI58

    I filed one complaint. An airport took its AI signer down

    The author, a DeafBlind accessibility writer, filed an ADA Title II and Section 504 complaint against Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on 12 October after two recordings showed its AI ASL signer on train screens announcing a different time and destination than the written text. Fourteen days later the airport said it had removed the signed announcements from train boarding screens and would restore them only after a review that includes Deaf ASL users, with the complaint referred to the FAA. The vendor did not answer the author's question about what input drives the signed output, and Kentucky declined the open records request on residency grounds.

Nov 11Wed
  1. Hacker News AI58

    Hollywood Has Flipped on GenAI, 'If You Don't Have an AI Strategy, Don't Bother'

    Weta FX CEO Daniel Seah said Hollywood studios went from barring any generative AI use in early 2024 to telling vendors since the third quarter of this year that "if you don't have an AI strategy, don't bother to work with us." Weta signed a partnership with Taiwan's TAICCA at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest, and is working with Taiwanese studio Moonshine on artist-layer tools, while CTO Kimball Thurston said Weta uses outside video models such as Kling AI and ByteDance's Seedance where clients permit, hosted outside China for security reasons. Seah said Weta does not intend to replace artists or employees with AI, and the deal will have TAICCA and Taiwan's Ministry of Culture identify young talent for possible Weta internships in Wellington, Melbourne and Vancouver.

Nov 10Tue
  1. Google Blog AI40

    We’re bringing Adobe’s creative and productivity tools closer to your everyday Google apps.

    At Adobe MAX, Google announced an expansion of its partnership with Adobe that will bring Adobe's creative and productivity tools into Google products, and Google's frontier AI models into Adobe's apps. Planned integrations include a direct pathway from Google Drive and Gmail into Adobe Acrobat with an "Edit with" entry point in file previews, expanded Adobe connectors in Gemini and Gemini Enterprise, Adobe creative tools in AI Mode in Google Search, and Adobe's CX Enterprise Coworker agent in Gemini Enterprise. Adobe and Google DeepMind will also explore new editing capabilities for creative professionals, starting with an image model for Photoshop that could enable near-real-time edits.

  2. Hacker News AI55

    Xinhua Unveils Bionic Humanoid Robot News Anchors with Ubtech – Unite.ai

    Xinhua News Agency unveiled two bionic humanoid robot news anchors, Xinyu and Xinyan, developed with UBTECH and presented on November 5, 2026, at the Artificial Intelligence and Chinese Modernization forum in Beijing, which Xinhua describes as the world's first of their kind. The robots connect to Xinhua Yudian, the agency's AI current-affairs information agent and authoritative corpus, and UBTECH supplied bionic skin, embodied-intelligence hardware, an operating system, an emotional large model and full-robot manufacturing. Xinhua's Qian Tong framed the robots as a new editorial role supporting journalists with information presentation, multilingual output and live interaction, while planned uses include research and study bases, city reception venues, overseas cultural exchanges and deep-space exploration reporting.

  3. The Decoder58

    Disney bets on Adobe's Firefly to create brand-safe AI models for its entertainment empire

    Disney and Adobe announced a multi-year partnership at Adobe's MAX conference, under which Disney gets early access to new Adobe technology for its theme parks, cruise line, and ESPN content. Adobe will use Firefly Foundry to build custom models trained on Disney characters, environments, and visual styles to produce commercially safe, production-ready output, while Disney's Imagineering division already uses Firefly for theme park development. The deal also covers Walt Disney Studios' StudioLAB and ESPN Edge, where AI is meant to boost fan engagement for sports content and unlock new uses for ESPN's archive.

  4. The Verge · AI40

    Disney and Adobe are building generative AI tools together

    Disney and Adobe announced a multiyear partnership at Adobe's MAX conference to develop proprietary "artist-led" generative AI models for Disney's production pipeline, giving Disney early access to Adobe technologies for its theme parks, cruise line, and ESPN content. Through Adobe Firefly Foundry, the models will be customized on Disney properties and trained on character attributes, environments, and visual styles to produce commercially safe, production-ready outputs. Adobe noted Disney's Imagineering R&D division already uses the Firefly platform for theme park development.

Nov 8Sun
  1. Hacker News AI33

    AI Live Speech Rewriting Patent

    Microsoft has filed a patent application (US 2026/0341309 A1) for a system that uses AI to identify and replace words in live speech based on a user profile, then redraws the speaker's mouth in the video so the lips match, with short blended transitions hiding the seams. The same setup could act as a translator, swapping words in languages missing from the profile and redrawing lips to match, with a delay of a few seconds. The filing names AR glasses, phones, tablets and video cameras as possible devices, and notes the examiner's first review rejected the claims as filed.

Nov 4Wed
  1. The Verge · AI15

    Those Jeff Bezos hair transplant photos are very fake

    Viral images of Jeff Bezos and Jason Statham with fuller hair circulating on X, Threads and Bluesky are photo edits, not real hair transplants. The Verge confirmed via reverse image search that the Bezos photo derives from 2023 pictures and the Statham image from a 2011 paparazzi shot, and none of the tested images carried Content Credentials or SynthID markers.

Nov 3Tue
  1. NVIDIA Newsroom34

    Cities Worldwide Build and Scale AI Services With NVIDIA Physical and Agentic AI

    NVIDIA and its partners are expanding physical AI and AI agents to cities worldwide, using shared computing infrastructure so city departments and local developers can build services without each acquiring their own resources. Examples include 1MillionBot's resident-service agents in Spain, LiveX's conversational AI hosts in the San Francisco Bay Area, K2K's shared vision AI infrastructure in Wrocław, and ITMAX's SamurAI V2 vision agents in Malaysia targeting 17,000+ cameras by 2027. Digital twins and local AI factories also feature, such as Honeywell's Nemotron-powered plant cognition at Dangote's Lekki refinery and Cires Technologies' sovereign AI factory at Morocco's Tanger Med port.

  2. Google Blog AI22

    The latest AI news we announced in October 2026

    Google recapped its October 2026 AI updates, led by the global rollout of the Gemini 4 Argon frontier reasoning model and the announcement of Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model yet for long-horizon engineering and cybersecurity defense, now in pre-release testing with the U.S. government and trusted cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program. The month also brought Genie 4 for real-time interactive world simulation with native audio, the Google Fitbit Edge fitness tracker, a global expansion of SynthID Detector, and a quantum computing breakthrough in which "magic state cultivation" on the Willow processor cut errors roughly 40-fold. Other items included AMIE results published in The Lancet, the Playground gaming platform, EmbeddingGemma 2, the first AI response from a Project Suncatcher satellite, and Research@ 2026 announcements.

Nov 2Mon
Oct 30Fri
  1. Hacker News AI47

    AI microdrama edit of Neighbours worries actors and crew

    Former Neighbours actors and crew have raised concerns about a Fremantle and RoseBerry Media project that uses AI to scan decades of episodes and re-edit old footage into short vertical micro-dramas for mobile viewers, starting with footage of Margot Robbie. The companies say the tool only identifies material from original broadcast footage and that human editors approve every stage, but actors including Matt Werkmeister and Sam Clark say they were not approached and are unsure of their rights under contracts signed before streaming and AI existed. Sound recordist Bruce Findlay compared the process to "cutting up a Picasso," and the MEAA union said workers should be consulted before their likeness or expertise is used.

  2. Hacker News AI31

    Disney Files Patents for AI That Form Emotional Bonds Using Guest Memories

    Disney Enterprises filed two patents on June 29, 2026 for emotionally responsive AI interactive characters that elicit a reminiscence from a guest, predict memory features using a trained machine learning model, and compare them against a character memory bank to generate a response, adding a new "hallucinated memory" node when no match meets a threshold. The second patent, from an overlapping team, uses the same memory-matching system but has the character generate and perform a song, poem, or dance based on a mood modifier derived from the matched memories. Disney has made no announcements about these patents, and the article notes the technology may never be used or could take years.

Oct 29Thu
  1. Hacker News AI58

    Prime's first AI-generated show is here, and it's a Vaseline-smeared mess

    Prime Video has premiered Castle Walls, a two-episode, 17-minutes-each series set in the 11th century around Alamut Castle, produced by Turkish studio Ay Yapım using generative video tools and billed as the first end-to-end AI-created series on a major streaming platform. The reviewer describes its visuals as looking like Vaseline-smeared Madame Tussauds creations melting in the sun, with overloaded cinematic imagery and banal dialogue, though the production used human voice actors and human screenwriters Kerem Deren and Çisil Hazal Tenim.

Oct 22Thu
  1. NVIDIA Blog25

    NVIDIA Transforms European Retail, From Digital Discovery to Physical Operations

    European retailers are using NVIDIA-accelerated open models and physical AI across commerce and fulfillment, including Shopify post-training NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for its Sidekick GraphQL subagent, which it says surpasses a leading frontier model in accuracy on an internal benchmark while cutting serving costs by 90% and delivering responses 7x faster. Otto Group extended its autonomous warehouse initiative, built with Reply on NVIDIA Omniverse and running on Google Cloud, to its largest fulfillment center in Haldensleben, Germany, and Nebius is showcasing three early-access NVIDIA retail blueprints at GTC Berlin. Other cited deployments include Zooplus with Infosys, Photoroom with Vestiaire Collective, L'Oréal with Omi and NVIDIA ALCHEMI, Mirakl, ALLSIDES, and CATCHES with AMIRI.

Oct 15Thu
  1. Google Research58

    Research@ 2026: 10 ways we're amplifying human ingenuity

    At its Research@ event in Mountain View, Google Research outlined 10 updates, including expanded early access to Google Earth AI's experimental geospatial capabilities, a multi-agent orchestrator for reproducing prior methods, and public access to its Deep Review verification system. Other highlights include the Synaptics Astra SR200 Series chip with Google's co-designed Coral NPU, upcoming integration of TimesFM and TabFM into Gemini for business, and a Lancet study in which 98 patients consulted AMIE ahead of urgent care visits. Google.org is also providing $10 million in funding for crisis resilience and public health work.