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Alibaba Launches Happy Shrimp, The World's Latest AI Music Creator
Partnering with Chinese major TAIHE MUSIC GROUP, Alibaba's AI music generator Happy Shrimp uses artificial intelligence to make fully produced songs.
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Hi3D V3.0, the First Commercially Available AI 3D Model with 2048³ Voxel Resolution, Launches with 48 Hours of Free Access for Everyone
BEIJING, Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hi3D, the all-in-one AI 3D creation platform, announces the launch of Hi3D V3.0, the first commercially available AI 3D model with 2048³ voxel resolution. Dramatically reducing the manual mesh repair needed before a model enters the production pipeline, Hi3D V3.0 closes the gap between raw AI output and implementation in gaming, film, 3D printing, industrial design, and more. Beyond increasing resolution from the 1536³ standard to 2048³ - for 2.37x the total voxel count - i…
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Marine agency AI art contest sparks backlash
Strong criticisms were lobbed at the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources after it announced the results of an AI art contest held to mark National Dugong Conservation Day on Monday, with the winning image showing a dugong with what appeared to be four legs.
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Saber’s CEO apologized to former Rideshare “Stimulator” writer Stella Sacco.
After saying to This Week in Videogames that he would have been “happy to replace her with AI,” Sacco says CEO Matthew Karch emailed her and “apologized unreservedly for the awful way he spoke about me in the press.” You can read her full statement below. Sacco, a former lead writer on the recently-announced Rideshare “Stimulator”, had claimed that “Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development.” CEO Matthew Karch denied that Saber “replaced any writers with AI.” The game uses AI for voices, music, a…
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The backlash against gen AI in video games proves voting with your wallet works
As anti-AI clauses show up in legal contracts, the gaming community's voice is being heard loud and clear – though some devs might not be happy about it
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Google Finally Lets You Remove Gemini's Visible AI Watermark
Google now lets Gemini users remove visible watermarks from AI images, videos and music while keeping SynthID and C2PA data.
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Google's Gemini app adds a toggle to disable AI watermarks, with some exceptions
Gemini now lets you toggle off visible watermarks on Nano Banana images, Omni videos, and Lyria music, though the feature remains restricted in certain countries.
You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks
Google will now allow users to remove visible watermarks from images, videos, and music generated with Gemini and its other AI tools.
Spotify will now label AI creators posing as human artists
Spotify, one of the largest streaming companies in the world, says it will soon start labeling AI profiles posing as human artists.
Researchers Are Using AI to Help Find Art Looted by the Nazis. Here's How It Works.
The tool can search scattered archives for clues, but experts still have to verify any possible restitution claims.
Twitch data sharing with Amazon sparks gamer backlash
Twitch will share user data with Amazon for AI training by default, sparking privacy concerns and backlash from the gaming community. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Twitch sparks gamers' wrath with Amazon AI sharing deal
PARIS (FRANCE) - Livestream gaming giant Twitch has raised hackles among its millions of users after declaring it will share their data with its parent company Amazon, to better train the online retailer's AI models.
Suno Partners with BMG
Two of three major labels are suing AI-music giant Suno, but the company is partnering with the fourth-largest music company, BMG
‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected
The appeal of Roku is that, whatever you happen to want to watch, there will almost certainly be a live channel for it. Just want to watch Little House on the Prairie? There’s a channel for it. Just want to watch Duck Dynasty? There’s a channel for that too. Purely want to watch nothing but local news from Wisconsin? Guess what: there’s a channel for that too. But despite this wealth, a section of the population was still to see its needs fulfilled. What about people who hate plot and vision and the sight of peo…
Spotify to launch badge identifying AI music
Streaming giant Spotify said Tuesday it would launch a new "AI Persona" badge in mid-September clearly identifying content producers that are AI-generated and not real people. The move is the Swedish company's latest effort to be transparent about how the music on its platform was made, amid growing concern across the music industry over AI-generated content overwhelming streaming catalogues.
