ByteDance introduces Safeguards to Seedance 2.0 following legal threats from Disney and Paramount and warnings from the Motion Picture Association and SAG-AFTRA.
ByteDance released Seedance 2.0 in February 2026, enabling multimodal AI video generation with audio. Hollywood groups including the Motion Picture Association and SAG-AFTRA condemned the model over copyright concerns.
Roblox 4D creation is now in open beta, letting creators and players generate functional, physics-driven 3D objects with Cube-powered schemas.
X moves to block Grok image generation after UK, US, and global probes into non-consensual sexualised deepfakes involving real people.
The Grok AI Controversy drives global action as regulators respond to non-consensual sexualised images, including outputs involving apparent minors, and platforms tighten access.
Alibaba’s new Qwen-Image-2512 targets enterprise image generation with accurate text, layout control, and open-source deployment options.
OpenAI launched GPT Image 1.5 with faster generation, more reliable multi-step edits, stronger text rendering, and a redesigned ChatGPT Images workspace built for practical use.
Adobe integrates Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express into ChatGPT, bringing conversational image, design, and PDF editing to roughly 800 million weekly users.
Google released Nano Banana Pro, the Gemini 3 Pro Image model from Google DeepMind, delivering high-fidelity visuals, multilingual on-image text, and SynthID-backed AI image verification across the Gemini app, Search, Workspace, Ads, and developer tools.
