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Cocomelon's Studio Tells Its Artists to Start Experimenting With AI

Moonbug Entertainment, studio behind Cocomelon and Blippi, issued generative AI guidelines requiring human authorship and legal review of all AI use.

Moonbug Entertainment, producer of Cocomelon, Little Baby Bum, Blippi, and Mia's Magic Playground, shared its 'Studio AI Bible' and generative AI policy with 404 Media. The guidelines permit AI for ideation, storyboarding, and utility tasks but require substantial human creative input on core elements, legal approval of every tool, and a 'provenance and isolation' filing system to preserve copyright. A spokesperson said generative AI is not currently used in aired episodes. Moonbug content has hundreds of millions of YouTube subscribers, with Cocomelon spinoffs on Netflix, a Universal movie in development, and a Disney+ move planned next year.

404 MediaAug 27, 15:33 UTC · 20d agoAI industry

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Kaspersky SecurelistDec 13, 13:00 UTC · Dec 13, 2012AI industry

With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again

Apple's rebuilt Siri, powered by Google Gemini models in iOS 27, finally handles complex multi-step and on-screen-context requests, per TechCrunch review.

Apple's iOS 27 ships a redesigned Siri built on Google's Gemini models, supporting multi-step instructions, on-screen context, file/message/email lookups, and camera viewfinder queries. Siri AI gets a dedicated app with chat history, plus settings for voice and expressiveness. Apple Intelligence also adds natural-language Shortcuts creation and automatic password rotation in the Passwords app.

TechCrunch · AISep 14, 17:10 UTC · 2d agoAI industry

How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules

OpenAI profiles César de la Fuente's lab using ChatGPT and Codex alongside deep-learning models to accelerate antimicrobial molecule discovery.

OpenAI published a case study on bioengineer César de la Fuente's lab, which uses ChatGPT and Codex for hypothesis brainstorming, code writing, dataset processing, and bridging knowledge gaps across biology, chemistry, and computer science. The lab's deep-learning models scan genome and protein databases for antimicrobial peptide candidates, potentially cutting initial searches from years to hours. Bacterial antimicrobial resistance was associated with about five million deaths in 2021, a toll projected to roughly double by 2050.

OpenAI NewsSep 10, 16:00 UTC · 6d agoAI industry1

Sure, Meta’s AI Muse works, but it sure creeps me out

Hands-on review finds Meta's Muse AI agent completes shopping and email tasks but surfaces personal Instagram API data beyond user-visible ad-topic settings.

Meta launched Muse, its first agentic AI productivity assistant, which performs tasks like shopping, email management, trip planning, media generation, and creating webpages or documents via a cloud-based virtual computer. The Verge's hands-on found it successfully deleted thousands of promotional emails and completed an Amazon purchase, but it also revealed detailed personal interests inferred from Instagram and Facebook account API data that is not visible in the apps' ad-topic settings. Meta says Muse only exchanges data needed for third-party integrations and does not share information with advertisers; the reviewer frames privacy unease as the main adoption hurdle.

The Verge · AIupdated Sep 10, 19:50 UTC · 6d agofirst Sep 10, 15:00 UTC · 6d agoAI industry 2 sources1

Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening

TechCrunch argues Apple Watch's Live Rewind and Siri Recap normalize always-listening AI, raising consent and legal questions despite privacy safeguards.

Analysis of Apple's new Apple Watch AI features contends that Live Rewind, which transcribes the previous 15 seconds of audio, and Siri Recap, which generates high-level conversation notes, are pushing consumers toward accepting always-listening technology. The piece acknowledges the accessibility value of on-device Audio Intelligence, which alerts deaf or hard-of-hearing users to sounds like sirens, alarms, doorbells, and crying babies. It also raises concerns about consent, the evidentiary status of text-only transcripts in court, and cultural effects of pervasive capture, noting competitors like Friend, Amazon's Bee, and Plaud in the AI transcription space.

TechCrunch · AISep 9, 20:24 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

NVIDIA Brings Real-Time AI to Broadcast, Sports and Global Streaming at IBC

NVIDIA expanded its AI for Media suite at IBC 2026, adding NIM microservices for synthetic video detection, body pose, frame generation, upscaling and HDR.

At IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, NVIDIA announced a major expansion of NVIDIA AI for Media, a collection of GPU-accelerated SDKs, NIM microservices and blueprints for broadcast and streaming workflows. The Synthetic Video Detector (SVD) NIM microservice reaches 99.3% accuracy on text-to-video and 97.7% on image-to-video content, while Video Frame Generation boosts frame rates 2x-4x and Video Super Resolution adds 10-bit support; TrueHDR converts SDR to HDR at up to roughly 2,000 nits. Partners including Dalet, TwelveLabs, Wowza, Vizrt and Ross Video are integrating the new services into verification, compliance and live-production workflows.

NVIDIA BlogSep 9, 16:00 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

Recreating a 70-year love story frame by frame

Google DeepMind and filmmakers used generative image restoration and performance capture to recreate a couple's unrecorded past in the documentary 'Love, Rendered'.

Google DeepMind partnered with Primordial Soup, Darren Aronofsky's creative venture, on 'Love, Rendered,' a documentary short directed by Academy Award-nominated Liz Garbus. The film follows Burt and Ethelle Shatz, married over 70 years, as AI recreates their unrecorded first meeting amid Burt's cognitive decline. The team restored black-and-white photos with generative models and mapped the couple's present-day mannerisms onto younger likenesses using performance capture models. Google also highlights photo restoration and colorization capabilities in the Gemini app.

Google · AISep 9, 16:00 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know

TechCrunch updates its plain-English glossary defining common AI terms from AGI and agents to chain-of-thought reasoning.

TechCrunch maintains a regularly updated glossary of AI terminology, defining terms such as AGI, AI agents, API endpoints, chain of thought, coding agents, compute, deep learning, and diffusion. It highlights 'opaque recurrence', the reasoning technique in OpenAI's new Astra model that has drawn attention from AI safety researchers. The piece is an educational living document rather than new research or a product announcement.

TechCrunch · AISep 7, 19:24 UTC · 9d agoAI industry1

Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip

Roland launched Melody Flip, a DAW plugin that generates genre-themed MIDI loops rather than complete songs like Suno or Udio.

Roland's Melody Flip is a DAW plug-in offering around 250 genre-based 'Palettes' for generating melodies, chord progressions, basslines, and drum patterns, either from scratch or derived from a reference track. Users can control genre, note density, BPM, and key but cannot use text prompts, and outputs are simple loops with General MIDI-style tones intended for MIDI export into a DAW. The launch follows well-received hardware releases like the SH-4d, Gaia 2, and TR-1000, though music-community sentiment toward generative AI may limit goodwill.

The Verge · AISep 4, 17:51 UTC · 12d agoAI industry