OpenAI-Backed AI Film Critterz Aims for Cannes Debut in 2026 - OpenAI is lending its generative AI tools and computing resources to an ambitious experiment: making a feature-length animated movie faster and cheaper than Hollywood’s traditional methods. The result, Critterz, is scheduled to debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2026 before a planned global theatrical release.

Google Admits the Open Web Is in ‘Rapid Decline’ Amid DOJ Case - For months, Google has insisted that the open web is thriving, search is healthy, and AI has not harmed publishers’ traffic. Yet in a court filing submitted last week, the company admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline.” However, Google also said the line is “one cherry-picked line that misrepresents” the filing.

Google Cuts Veo 3 Video AI Pricing, Adds Vertical and 1080p Support - Google is making AI video generation with Veo 3 more affordable and versatile, adding vertical format and HD output while cutting prices, designed to make high-quality AI video creation more accessible to developers.




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OpenAI Executives Rattled by Campaigns to Derail For-Profit Restructuring - OpenAI executives are growing concerned that mounting political scrutiny in California could stymie their efforts to become a for-profit company and have discussed a last-ditch option of moving out of the state.

Smart ring maker Oura's CEO addresses recent backlash, says future is a 'cloud of wearables' | TechCrunch - Oura CEO Tom Hale is trying to set the record straight about the smart ring maker’s partnership with the Department of Defense (DoD) and data miner Palantir, which is used by defense, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies in the United States and elsewhere. He explained that the DoD program Oura is involved in requires the company to run its enterprise solution in a separate, secure environment and that the government does not have access to users’ Oura health data.

Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel 'fake'  | TechCrunch - Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans. The realization came while reading (and sharing) some posts from the r/Claudecode subreddit, which were praising OpenAI Codex. He might be right: Data security company Imperva reported that over half of all internet traffic in 2024 was non-human, largely due to LLMs.

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