MONITOR
THE DEFINITIVE SOURCE FOR VIDEO AI TOOLS, NEWS, BENCHMARKS, AND EXPERT EVALUATIONS
Get the latest model rankings, product launches, and evaluation insights delivered to your inbox.
Disney's $1B OpenAI Deal Splits Hollywood on AI's Future
The entertainment giant's equity investment and character licensing agreement with OpenAI validates generative video while weaponizing copyright against competitors, creating a two-tier system where paying AI companies get legal protection and others face litigation risk.
Researchers Release Tool That Makes Objects Vanish From Video—Including Their Shadows
A new framework called Object-WIPER removes unwanted elements from footage without retraining models, raising questions about evidence authenticity as video manipulation becomes trivially easy.
AI2 Drops Molmo2: Open Video Models That Actually Know Where Things Are
The Allen Institute releases vision-language models with pixel-perfect grounding capabilities, trained on 9 million videos without using proprietary model outputs—and they're beating Gemini at its own game.
Google Flow Hits Workspace: Your Corporate Training Videos Just Got Cinematic
Google's AI video generator Flow, previously locked behind premium subscriptions, rolled out to millions of Workspace users this week—bringing Hollywood-grade effects to the humble product demo.
Wikipedia's Paid API Gambit: Tech Giants Now Pay for What They Used to Scrape
After years of bandwidth-crushing bot traffic, Wikipedia has formalized paid enterprise deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon for structured access to its text and multimedia archives.
Wikipedia's Big Tech Shakedown Finally Arrives
After years of free scraping that strained servers, Wikipedia has formalized paid deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon for enterprise API access to its vast text and multimedia archives.
Wikipedia Strikes AI Data Deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon
The nonprofit encyclopedia is converting its biggest bandwidth drain—AI scrapers harvesting video and text—into paid enterprise partnerships.
Pulitzer Winner Leads Copyright Revolt Against AI Giants, Targets Musk's xAI
Six prominent authors including John Carreyrou are abandoning class-action settlements to pursue individual lawsuits worth up to $150,000 per book against major AI companies.