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🎬 Google's 4K Is an Upscale, Not a Render 💸 $300 a Month Still Buys Ghost Frames
Cocomelon's studio writes its AI rules, and Instagram's First Draft trims Reels in one tap.
🇦🇺 Australia Bans AI-Only Songs From Its Charts 🎬 YouTube Reworks Likeness Claims
Plus Wan 3.0 goes generally available with 30% off, and one ControlNet for five conditions.
📉 LinkedIn Cuts Generic AI Views by 40% 🔍 Watermarking Is Now Infrastructure
Directed prompts beat vague ones in a controlled Kling test, with the credits counted.
🎞️ Edit Video by Talking to It 🏷️ Apple Music Punts AI Labeling to the Record Companies
Monday turns out to be peak creation day, and ComfyUI now hands your node graph to an agent.
🚦 YouTube Draws Its AI Monetization Line, and 🇪🇺 Brussels Draws a Much Harder One
Three new limits on what you can publish, and three receipts on what you can build.
🫥 Google will hide the watermark, not the tracking
Wan3.0 does 30 seconds in one pass, Suno v5.5 remaster degrades, Seedance 2.5 vs 2.0 tested.