Canva acquires Cavalry and Mango AI to dominate motion design

Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Canva announced the acquisition of Cavalry and Mango AI on Monday to strengthen its animation and marketing capabilities. UK-based Cavalry develops 2D motion animation tools for advertising, marketing, gaming, and generative art. Mango AI was building rei…

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Facebook Adding AI Profile Picture Animations and Story Editing Tools

Juli Clover / macrumors - Meta today announced several new AI features for popular social network Facebook. The capabilities will be available for profile pictures, photos, posts, stories, and more.Meta AI's image editing tools can be used to animate a profile picture, adding moti…

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Roblox’s 4D creation feature is now available in open beta

Lauren Forristal / techcrunch - Roblox's highly anticipated 4D creation feature has officially arrived in open beta.

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Adobe reverses decision to discontinue Animate after "a lot of confusion and angst"

Scharon Harding / arstechnica - Despite the about-face, some customers think "the damage is done."

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Adobe Animate is shutting down on March 1st as company focuses on AI.

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Google debuts ‘Project Genie’ that can generate interactive worlds

Matthew Mountjoy / mobilesyrup - Google is now making its its world generating model available to the general public under the name Project Genie. According to 9to5Google, the model either uses a prebuilt world or lets you describe the environment you want to create, how you want to expl…

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The year’s first Nintendo Direct focuses on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - Nintendo has announced its first Direct presentation of 2026 will be focused entirely on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. On Twitter, the company confirmed that the stream will be held on Sunday, Jan. 25 at 6 a.m. PT/9 a.m. ET on YouTube. It’s rather unusual…

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Adobe Firefly Gets New AI Video Creation Tools and Models

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Adobe announced a major update to its Firefly AI platform, with new tools and other capabilities for video creation.The post Adobe Firefly Gets New AI Video Creation Tools and Models appeared first on Thurrott.com.

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Mirelo Raises $41M in Seed Funding

FinSMEs / finsmes - Mirelo, a Berlin, Germany-based audio company generating synchronized sound effects for videos, raised $41M in Seed funding. The round was led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Atlantic.vc and TriplePoint Capital. Angel in…

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Runware nets $50M Series A for ‘one API for all AI’ platform

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - UK-based AI workload startup Runware hasraised a $50 million Series A round led by Dawn Capital, with participationfrom Speedinvest, Comcast Ventures, and existing investors including InsightPartners,...

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New Runway Gen-4.5 AI Video Model Dethrones Google Veo 3 and OpenAI Sora 2

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Runway has released Gen-4.5, a new AI video model that has claimed the top spot on independent benchmarks, outperforming Google's Veo 3 and OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro.The post New Runway Gen-4.5 AI Video Model Dethrones Google Veo 3 and OpenAI Sora 2 appeared fi…

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Apple’s New Holiday Ad Misses the Mark, and Fans Aren’t Impressed

Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Apple has released its annual holiday ad, and it’s not as good as the videos from the past. The new spot, called “A Critter Carol,” features a group of handmade woodland puppets who find a lost iPhone 17 Pro, film themselves singing a friendship song, and…

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie shoots for the stars in first trailer

Charles Pulliam-Moore / theverge - The first full Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer has finally landed, and it looks like Nintendo and Illumination are doing it big for their next animated feature. Though there are a few shots of the Mushroom Kingdom and a very miniscule Bowser (Jack Black)…

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Studio Ghibli and other Japanese publishers want OpenAI to stop training on their work

Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - OpenAI's approach to working with copyrighted content is to ask forgiveness, not permission.

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OpenAI moves Sora to paid model, discovers concept of paying for content

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI is shifting Sora from free to paid video generation after discovering that the 30 free videos per day model isn't sustainable.The article OpenAI moves Sora to paid model, discovers concept of paying for content appeared first on THE DECODER.

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Blumhouse is adapting Something is Killing the Children for a live-action film and animated series

engadget - The hit horror comic series Something is Killing the Children is headed to the big (and small) screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Blumhouse is developing a live-action movie and adult animated series based on the comics. There are no details yet…

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Microsoft revives the Clippy idea with Mico, Copilot's expressive new AI face

techspot - Microsoft has released major updates to its Copilot digital assistant that include the introduction of Mico, an animated avatar that gives the AI a human touch by reacting with real-time expressions during voice interactions.Read Entire Article

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Google Launches New Veo 3.1 AI Video Model And Improved Editing Capabilities In Flow

bgr - Google's new Veo 3.1 AI video generation model supports enhanced realism, more narrative control, better audio, and powers new editing features in Flow.

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Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name

Iain Thomson / theregister - Yep, we're sure that will win folks over Microsoft is testing talking avatars for Copilot to see if users feel more at ease chatting with a face instead of just a text box. Our US Editor tried them out, only to find the digital stare was more creepy than …

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