Disney Movie 'Prom Pact' CGI Background Actors Mocked, Sparking Debate

Disney and Nvidia Partner to Launch Newton Physics Engine for Robotics Innovation

At the 2025 GTC conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that Nvidia is collaborating with Disney Research and Google DeepMind to develop a physics engine called "Newton." This engine aims to simulate robot movement in real-world environments, providing technological support for future entertainment robots. Image note: Image generated by AI, image licensing service provider Midjourney. Disney will be among the first companies to utilize Newton technology, and this technology is expected to be applied to its...

HeyGen Launches New Digital Human Technology Integrated with Sora, Performance Surpassing Real Actors

Recently, HeyGen announced the integration of its digital human model with OpenAI's Sora model, attracting widespread attention in the industry. This technological breakthrough indicates that we are on the verge of experiencing unprecedented AI-driven 'talking virtual avatar' videos. These virtual avatars not only seamlessly blend into the scenes generated by Sora but also, in certain aspects, surpass the performances of real actors, bringing limitless possibilities to video creation. For a long time, traditional video shooting has relied on real actors, which incurs high production costs.

Google Gemini is Forcing Contractors to Evaluate AI Responses Outside of Their Expertise

Cloud software company ServiceTitan lists Microsoft's and OpenAI's LLM as risk factors

Disney Launches New AI and Mixed Reality Business Division

Disney Formed New Team to Coordinate the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality

The Walt Disney Company is exploring applications in its film, television, and theme park divisions and is currently forming a new team to coordinate the company's use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and mixed reality. The newly established technology support office will be led by Jamie Voris, the Chief Technology Officer of Disney Studios, who was responsible for developing Disney applications for the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality device. Eddie Drake will

SAG-AFTRA and AI Startup Ethovox Reach Agreement to Protect Actors' Voice Rights

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has recently signed an agreement with the AI company Ethovox to protect actors' rights in artificial intelligence voice models. The primary goal of this agreement is to establish a responsible framework for the use of AI in the entertainment industry, ensuring that actors' rights are upheld in the new technological era. Under this agreement, actors will receive upfront payments when recording their voices and will share in subsequent revenues. This means that actors will be compensated fairly when their voices are used in AI models.

Disney Develops New AI Image Codec with Significant Compression Efficiency Improvement

Disney Launches New AI Image Compression Method: Preserves Image Details but Risks 'Hallucinations'

Goodbye Voice Actors? ByteDance's PersonaTalk Achieves Accurate Voiceover with Perfect Expression Details!

Recently, ByteDance developed an AI model called PersonaTalk, which can provide precise voiceovers for videos while perfectly synchronizing lip movements and speaking styles. PersonaTalk is a two-stage framework based on attention mechanisms, comprising geometric structure and facial rendering components. In the first stage, it uses a mixed geometry estimation method to extract the facial geometric coefficients of the speaker from a reference video. It then extracts and encodes audio features from the target audio and learns personalized speaking styles from geometric statistical features.