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ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 in Beijing, saying the AI video model can generate 30-second clips from up to 50 reference materials, up from 12 for Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/bytedance-unveils-seedanc…

ByteDance Unveils Seedance 2.5 Video Model
ByteDance on Tuesday unveiled Seedance 2.5, its new AI video generation model, at a conference in Beijing. The model upgrades its predecessor, Seedance 2.0, which was widely hailed as a major breakthrough for AI videos. The Chinese tech giant said Seedance 2.5 can generate a video up to 30 seconds long. It allows users to include up to 50 reference materials—such as images, videos and audio

Video-KI: ByteDance gibt Vorschau auf Seedance 2.5 mit 30-Sekunden-Clips
Mit Seedance 2.5 plant ByteDance laut einer Vorschau längere Videoclips und verbesserte multimodale Eingaben. Das Modell soll zudem natives 4K unterstützen.

Video-KI: ByteDance gibt Vorschau auf Seedance 2.5 mit 30-Sekunden-Clips
Mit Seedance 2.5 plant ByteDance laut einer Vorschau längere Videoclips und verbesserte multimodale Eingaben. Das Modell soll zudem natives 4K unterstützen.

ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 in Beijing, saying the AI video model can generate 30-second clips from up to 50 reference materials, up from 12 for Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/bytedance-unveils-seedanc…

ByteDance Unveils Seedance 2.5 Video Model
ByteDance on Tuesday unveiled Seedance 2.5, its new AI video generation model, at a conference in Beijing. The model upgrades its predecessor, Seedance 2.0, which was widely hailed as a major breakthrough for AI videos. The Chinese tech giant said Seedance 2.5 can generate a video up to 30 seconds long. It allows users to include up to 50 reference materials—such as images, videos and audio

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A former U.S. Marine reservist and seven others were sentenced Tuesday to decades in prison over a shooting last year that wounded a police officer during a demonstration at a Texas immigration detention center.
Prosecutors called the crime an act of terrorism and said the eight were linked to a leftist militant group, antifa.
The defendants’ attorneys denied any antifa ties and family members expressed shock and anger over the stiff sentences.
Benjamin Song, the Marine reser…

8 convicted in Prairieland shooting and protest are sentenced to decades in federal prison
Eight protesters accused by the Justice Department of having ties to antifa have been sentenced to decades in federal prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center. A police officer was wounded in the July 4 shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas. A former U.S. Marine Corps reservist convicted of attempted murder in the shooting was sentenced Tuesday to 100 years in prison, which is the maximum punishment. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, one of …

Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-…

Google Strikes Tough Negotiating Stance With Publishers on AI Licensing
Google is tightening the screws on news publishers. In recent months, the tech giant has been pitching publishers on a pilot program to test new AI features in Google News. The program, announced in December with initial partners such as The Washington Post and The Guardian, offers publishers ...

Notion plans to shut down its Gmail client Notion Mail on September 22 and go "all in" on AI agents to run inboxes, saying 50% of users do not open the inbox (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/25/notion-shutti…

Notion shutting down its AI-powered email client, including Mac and iOS apps - 9to5Mac
Last year, Notion expanded its productivity suite to include Notion Mail, an AI-powered email client. Today, the company announced that...

AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezo…

Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down
Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for humans to complete but too challenging for computers.