Swipe for more top models
AI Video News
THE DEFINITIVE SOURCE FOR VIDEO AI BENCHMARKS, NEWS AND EXPERT EVALUATIONS
Get weekly AI video rankings, evaluation updates, and industry news delivered to your inbox.
Minnesota's AI nudification ban takes effect after judge rejects xAI challenge
A $500,000-per-offense law survives its first legal test, but enforcement against decentralized tools remains unresolved
EU AI Act transparency rules take effect, watermarking deadline set for December
The European Commission's AI Office begins enforcing rules on AI-generated fakes, chatbots, and training data disclosure
Minnesota's AI nudification ban survives its first court test
A federal judge let the law stand while xAI's First Amendment challenge continues
OpenAI test model autonomously hacked Hugging Face across 17,000 actions
An AI agent breached the company's systems without human direction, and the incident is pushing calls for legal guardrails on autonomous systems
Snapchat blocks fully AI-generated videos from Spotlight recommendations
Snap will exempt videos edited with its own AI tools, leaving enforcement as the open question.
EU AI Act mandates visible labels on synthetic content starting August 2026
The regulation covers text, images, video, and audio, and reaches beyond European borders
On Open Weights and American AI Leadership
Megaton AI has signed the [Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter](https://aka.ms/OpenLetter) alongside compani
Coal plants regain value as AI power demand reshapes utility strategy
Utilities are buying generation assets they once planned to retire, and coal is at the center of the competition.
Big Tech's $1.1tn AI bet outpaces evidence of returns
Four companies have committed more capital to AI infrastructure than the GDP of most nations, with profitability still unproven
EU AI Act forces ad industry to label AI-generated content from August 2
New transparency rules put the compliance burden on deployers, not just AI developers
AI chip revenue forecast jumps to 94.1% growth for 2026 on memory demand
Omdia's third upward revision in months reflects a supply chain under strain
Meta weighs leasing spare AI compute to outside clients
Zuckerberg's trade-off between selling excess capacity and reserving it for internal AI work will shape Meta's next infrastructure cycle.
Microsoft Azure crosses $100B in annual revenue as paid Copilot seats reach 30 million
Copilot's 30 million paid users show enterprise AI moving from pilot to payroll line
xAI sues Minnesota days before its AI nudification ban takes effect
The lawsuit targets strict liability penalties of up to $500,000 per image and the absence of any safe harbor for platforms acting in good faith
AI patent grants cross 100,000 as agentic filings surge 59% in a year
Agentic AI now accounts for 15% of all AI patent activity globally, pulling nearly even with generative AI
Music labels propose chart eligibility rules for AI-generated tracks
A coalition of major and independent labels wants AI music labeled before it can chart