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Reddit is testing a new AI feature that automatically converts text posts and comments into audio-visual content. The AI voice reading highlights the original text in real-time and notes 'authentic dialogue' with AI voice acting. An old post from r/boardgames dating back 8 years has been adapted into a 3-minute video, exploring new ways of content consumption.

AI video creation platform Higgsfield completes $400 million in Series B funding, with a valuation reaching $5.4 billion, more than four times the $1.3 billion valuation from eight months ago. The round was led by DST Global, with participation from Goldman Sachs Alternative Investment Fund and others. The company was founded in 2023 by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov, offering AI image and video generation tools. It gained attention after its AI-generated movie premiered at Cannes and the New York Film Festival.

Google introduces a feature letting users turn off visible watermarks when generating images, videos, and music. Revealed by Gemini lead Josh Woodward, it will roll out to models like Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria, first on Gemini web and Google video products.....

AI video generation platform Higgsfield secures $400 million in funding from DST Global, Goldman Sachs, Intel, and others, raising its valuation to $5.4 billion, a fourfold increase from its $1.3 billion valuation eight months ago. The company, founded just two years ago, is accelerating its expansion of enterprise subscription business, speeding up commercialization, and aiming for annualized revenue of $700 million. The founder is Alex Mashrabov, former executive at Snapchat.

The Google AMIE medical AI system has achieved breakthroughs in real-time clinical video consultation, capable of comprehensively capturing diverse information such as patients' speech, cough, and gait, demonstrating expert-level diagnostic capabilities. The system is based on Gemini and Project Astra architecture, employing a multi-agent collaboration model, marking a key step toward multimodal clinical practice in medical AI.

Alibaba's Qianwen App launched paid plans for pro users on Aug 11, offering office assistant subscriptions and AI video generation quotas. Three tiers: Flagship ¥128/mo (¥1499/yr) with 20x quota; Elite ¥49/mo (¥568/yr) with 5x quota; Advanced ¥19/mo (¥200/yr) with 2x quota.....

Volcengine launches Seedance2.5 API, upgrading instruction following, long narrative, realism, and audio-visual quality over v2.0. It natively supports 30-second video generation, up to 50 multimodal references, precise video editing, and support for 10+ languages. Optimized image quality, sound, lighting, camera movement, and aesthetics, pushing AI content toward cinematic long-form storytelling.....

Adobe expands partnership with OpenAI, enabling ChatGPT users to access over 70 creative apps like Photoshop and Premiere for photo editing, video production, PDF generation, and more. Based on the OpenAI Apps SDK, the integration, which began with partial tools last year, will cover nearly the full suite from August 6, with plugins added via settings.....

ByteDance's Jimeng AI integrates Seedance 2.5 model, launches Maya & Blender plugins, accelerating shift to pro film/3D creation. Single video generation length doubled to 30s.....

JD.com open-sourced JoyAI-Video-Edit, a real-time streaming video editing model enabling interactive "watch-and-edit" creation, breaking the traditional edit-after-footage mode. With processing synchronized to playback, it solves key real-time editing challenges and achieves world-class performance, leading the industry.....

OpenAI hosted a summer-camp-style event for influencers at Wildflower Farms, a luxury resort in New York's Hudson Valley. The 140-acre estate charges over $2,000 per night on weekends. A 30-seat long-table dinner featured warm lighting and glowing signs, creating a brand-promo atmosphere. Invited content creators posted videos of the tightly scheduled gathering.....

Musk recommends the new version of Grok, and publicly tests it with an AI-generated video of Kobe. Grok not only analyzes each frame of the video and the dialogue, accurately extracting details such as the Mamba Spirit, but also finally determines it to be a deepfake, demonstrating strong video understanding and interactive capabilities.

On August 3, MiniMax open-sourced multimodal video model H3, integrating text, image, video, and audio contexts with strong generalization. Generates 4-15s videos at 24fps, 32kHz stereo, supporting various aspect ratios.....

xAI upgrades the video model Imagine Video 1.5 with new image reference, voice reference, text-only video generation, and native 1080p output, enhancing character consistency and scene control. Text-to-video and 1080p features are now available on all platforms of Grok Imagine. Image and voice references are first available to US SuperGrok Heavy/Plus users, with broader coverage planned for the future.

ByteDance's Seed team released Seedance 2.5, an audio-video model enabling one-shot generation up to 30s with seamless multi-round extension. It refines textures, lighting, and skin details, removing plastic feel for near-real footage, empowering various industries.....

PhiZero's physical world model revolutionizes video generation by overcoming the physical biases of pixel prediction. It introduces the concept of 'physical language,' allowing AI to explicitly reason before generating videos, achieving more stable and coherent simulation of physical laws, and is regarded as a key breakthrough toward embodied intelligence.

ByteDance launches Seedance 2.5, doubling video generation length from 15 to 30 seconds. Available on Jimeng AI and Doubao Pro, with API via Volcano Engine, it serves film, ads, education, and industry. Built on multimodal audio-video joint generation, it advances long narrative, multimodal reference, and editing, marking AI video's shift to long-form creation.....

MiniMax launches the multimodal generation model H3 and promises to fully open-source it soon. The model supports any combination of text, image, video, and sound input, and can generate high-definition videos with native stereo audio. Users only need to provide reference materials to drive the creation.

Tencent Video is beta-testing its AIGC platform WorkSolo, featuring three creation modes: AI short dramas, interactive film/TV, and free canvas. It combines free trial, membership subscriptions, and credit-based computing. Using AI features consumes credits; members can buy discounted top-up packs, with monthly or annual subscriptions available.....

AI accelerates vulnerability discovery; popular product flaws could double by 2026. US NVD has already logged 45,207 vulnerabilities this year, nearing last year's total, which itself was a record in 2025. AI acts as both a magnifying glass for security teams and an accelerator for hackers, escalating the vulnerability warfare.....