Jensen Huang made $172 billion selling AI chips. He just gave $75 million to an art school.
Jensen Huang made $172 billion selling AI chips. He just gave $75 million to an art school.

Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco. The $75 million is a matching gift, and it has already spurred over $100 million in ad…

Bentley hired an orchestra to solve the EV silence problem. Drums were the answer.
Bentley hired an orchestra to solve the EV silence problem. Drums were the answer.

Bentley recorded a V8 in a studio, analysed it, and discovered that rhythm, not mechanical tone, is what makes the engine emotionally compelling. To test the theory, the team set up parabolic speakers with the V8 playing on one side and a live drummer …

Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking
Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking

Face AI, a Los Angeles-based face swap platform, announced a major update to its video face swap feature on Friday. The update improves facial tracking, expression preservation, and scene stability across changing lighting, camera angles, and partial f…

Google used Veo and Gemini to reconstruct the greatest goal Pelé ever scored, which was never filmed
Google used Veo and Gemini to reconstruct the greatest goal Pelé ever scored, which was never filmed

On August 2, 1959, Pelé scored what he called the greatest goal of his career: three consecutive sombreros over defenders, a knee flick past the goalkeeper, and a header into the net, all without the ball ever touching the ground. It was never filmed. …

Midjourney turns the tables, demanding the studios suing it reveal their AI
Midjourney turns the tables, demanding the studios suing it reveal their AI

The studios suing Midjourney say it trained AI on their characters without permission. Midjourney’s answer: prove you do not do exactly the same thing. The AI image generator wants a US federal judge to intervene. It has asked the court to force the st…

ElevenLabs is bringing Stan Lee back from the dead with AI voice cloning and digital cameos
ElevenLabs is bringing Stan Lee back from the dead with AI voice cloning and digital cameos

ElevenLabs has struck a deal with Stan Lee Universe to add Stan Lee’s voice and likeness to its platform, making the late Marvel co-creator the latest deceased cultural icon to be digitally resurrected by AI. The partnership puts Lee’s voice on the Ele…

Reallusion bets that 3D artists directing AI models will beat text prompts for professional filmmaking
Reallusion bets that 3D artists directing AI models will beat text prompts for professional filmmaking

Reallusion, the 3D animation software company behind iClone and Character Creator, has launched AI Studio, a production platform that pairs traditional 3D scene-building with generative AI video models. The centrepiece is a direct integration with Byte…

Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.
Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.

Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to a San Francisco KFRC radio crew f…