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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is backing the production of a feature-length animated film created largely with artificial intelligence tools, aiming to prove the technology can revolutionize Hollywood filmmaking with faster timelines and lower costs.The movie, titled “Critterz,” follows woodland creatures on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger, with producers hoping to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2026 before a global theatrical release, they said in statement on Monday.The project has a budget of under $30 million and a production timeline of just nine months — a fraction of the typical $100-200 million cost and three-year…

Cognition AI, the startup behind AI coding agent Devin, has hit a $10.2 billion valuation after raising $400 million, marking a jump from the company’s $4 billion valuation earlier this year, reports Bloomberg.  Founders Fund, the Peter Thiel-backed VC, led Cognition’s latest round, with participation from existing investors like Lux Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Elad Gil, Definition Capital and Swish Ventures. In July, Cognition acquired AI coding startup Windsurf, just days after Google poached the startup’s CEO, co-founder, and research leads. The raise comes after serious growth for Cognition’s core product. The startup’s annual recurring revenue from Devin has climbed…

Galerie Gmurzynska will soon relocate its New York operations to the Fuller Building, at 595 Madison Avenue. The gallery moved into its previous space, at 43 East 78th Street, in 2018; its last show their, per its website, closed at the end of May. Its forthcoming move brings the gallery into the storied Art Deco–style building with an equally important art historical connection. The Fuller was once a hub for New York’s galleries, with previous tenants including Pierre Matisse Gallery, Charles Egan Gallery, André Emmerich, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Hammer Galleries, Tibor de Nagy, and Robert Miller, among others. (The building was…

Salesforce has cut 4,000 customer support jobs and replaced them with artificial intelligence (AI) agents, CEO Marc Benioff said recently.  Benioff made the comments while discussing how the new technology is impacting the $248 billion computer software company’s headcount during an appearance on “The Logan Bartlett Show” podcast that was published on Friday. “I was able to rebalance my headcount on my support,” Benioff said. “I’ve reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000, because I need less heads.” AI has been a boon for Salesforce, with the firm offering Agentforce and other AI-powered tools to its customers and for other…

As Meta’s Edits video app continues to add new features, TikTok’s CapCut is also rolling out some new options, as it seeks to maintain its place as a top video editing app. First off, CapCut recently added a new LinkedIn integration, which enables CapCut users to export videos from CapCut to LinkedIn direct. As you can see in these example screens, posted by social media expert Lindsay Gamble, CapCut’s composer now has a LinkedIn sharing button to facilitate easy posting, so you can easily transition your CapCut creations across to the professional social network. As per LinkedIn: “Now, after you…

Basic AI chat isn’t enough for most business applications. Institutions need AI that can pull from their databases, integrate with their existing tools, handle multi-step processes, and make decisions independently. This post demonstrates how to quickly build sophisticated AI agents using Strands Agents, scale them reliably with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and make them accessible through LibreChat’s familiar interface to drive immediate user adoption across your institution. Challenges with basic AI chat interfaces Although basic AI chat interfaces can answer questions and generate content, educational institutions need capabilities that simple chat can’t provide: Contextual decision-making – A student asking “What courses…

Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration over the unlawful termination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), as its $750,000 grant was restored. Prior to any legal action, Woodmere had requested that the IMLS review its grant termination. The museum confirmed via email that, as it was preparing to go to court on Friday, September 12, its grant was instead restored. Woodmere received a Letter of Reinstatement of the grant on September 4, stating, “The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has completed the termination review process and will be reinstating your federal…

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. ASML (ASML, Financials) is taking a major stake in French startup Mistral AI after leading a $2 billion funding round that values the company at $11.7 billion, people familiar with the deal said. The Dutch chipmaking equipment giant is putting in about $1.5 billion, making it Mistral’s biggest shareholder and securing a board seat. The move ties together two of Europe’s most important tech players as the region pushes to reduce reliance on U.S. and Chinese AI leaders. For ASML, the deal could bring Mistral’s AI tools into its chipmaking systems, while giving Mistral…

Image Credits:Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch Google is expanding AI Mode — its AI-powered Search experience — to five new languages, opening access to additional users around the world, after being limited to English for over six months. On Monday, Google announced that AI Mode will now support Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. The update follows last month’s rollout of the AI-powered experience to 180 new markets in English, after initially launching in the U.S. and later expanding to the U.K. and India. “With this expansion, more people can now use AI Mode to ask complex questions in their…

You knew it was bound to happen, and now, it has. The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI is lending its services to the production of a feature-length animated film called Critterz, which is aiming to be done in time for next year’s Cannes Film Festival. That would put its production time at nine months, which is unheard of for a feature-length animated film, but that’s because it’ll be created using AI. According to the paper, using OpenAI’s resources, production companies Vertigo Films and Native Foreign will hire actors to voice characters created by feeding original drawings into generative AI…