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Friday • June 27, 2025
Runway is going to let people generate video games with AI
After Making Inroads in Hollywood, Runway is Entering the Gaming Market
This week, I was granted access to a new interactive gaming experience that Runway plans to make available to everyone as soon as next week, according to CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela. The consumer-facing product is currently quite barebones, with a chat interface that supports only text and image generation, but Valenzuela says that generated video games are coming later this year.
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Wednesday • June 18, 2025
Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1
Midjourney Announced on Wednesday the Launch of Its Much-Anticipated AI Video Generation Model, V1
The launch of V1 puts Midjourney in competition with AI video generation models from other companies, such as OpenAI’s Sora, Runway’s Gen 4, Adobe’s Firefly, and Google’s Veo 3. While many companies are focused on developing controllable AI video models for use in commercial settings, Midjourney has always stood out for its distinctive AI image models that cater to creative types.
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Tuesday • June 17, 2025
SiriusXM and Narrativ Partner on AI Voice Replication for Audio Ads
The Partnership Aims to Cut Production Time and Costs, While Compensating Voice Actors
SiriusXM Media has signed a multi-year agreement with artificial intelligence startup Narrativ to use voice replication technology in its audio ads. The deal enables the satellite and online audio platform to replicate voice actors’ performances and produce localized ad campaigns at scale—a move aimed at reducing production costs and turnaround times, according to Lizzie Collins, senior vice president of B2B marketing and ad innovation, SiriusXM Media.
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Monday • June 16, 2025
TikTok Launches New AI-Powered Ad Creation Tools, Integrations With Adobe and WPP
TikTok’s Announced Some New AI-powered Elements for Its TikTok Symphony Brand Creation Platform
First off, TikTok’s rolling out its own version of text-to-video, which will generate AI video using TikTok’s own AI tools. TikTok’s also adding a new image-to-video creation option, which will turn your still image assets into video updates. Both of these options are similar to Google’s Veo tools, and Meta’s in-development text-to-video option, providing more ways to build video assets.
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Wednesday • May 28, 2025
Odyssey’s new AI model streams 3D interactive worlds
Available on the Web in an “Early Demo,” The Model Generates and Streams Video Frames Every 40 Milliseconds
Odyssey, a startup founded by self-driving pioneers Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has developed an AI model that lets users “interact” with streaming video. Available on the web in an “early demo,” the model generates and streams video frames every 40 milliseconds. Via basic controls, viewers can explore areas within a video, similar to a 3D-rendered video game.
“Given the current state of the world, an incoming action, and a history of states and actions, the model attempts to predict the next state of the world,” explains Odyssey in a blog post. “Powering this is a new world model, demonstrating capabilities like generating pixels that feel realistic, maintaining spatial consistency, learning actions from video, and outputting coherent video streams for 5 minutes or more.”
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Thursday • May 8, 2025
Product Innovation and Services Growth Drove Yelp’s First Quarter 2025 Results
Net Revenue Increased by 8% Year Over Year to $359 Million
“Our first quarter results demonstrate the strength of our services business and the progress we’ve made against our product roadmap,” said Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp’s co-founder and chief executive officer. “Services revenue increased by 14% year over year in the first quarter, achieving the 16th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, and we continued to see momentum in our product-led strategy. We recently rolled out 15 new features and updates to enhance the consumer experience and help businesses manage their operations more efficiently. Looking ahead, we’re excited about the lineup of AI advancements on our roadmap that will further transform the Yelp experience and streamline operations for local businesses. We believe that these efforts will unlock new opportunities for growth and enable us to deliver long-term value to our shareholders.”
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