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Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 and Ultra 2 prioritise battery life and health
Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, with this year’s refresh focused on shoring up the brand’s traditional weak points of battery life and preventive health tracking, while both models also move away from Samsung’s own Exynos chip. The update comes with a further price rise across the range, reflecting…
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Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US
Passionfroot, a Berlin-based startup running a marketplace that connects B2B creators with brands, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners. The funding comes as AI-driven product launches flood the market, pushing B2B companies to rely more heavily on creators for visibility on channels such as LinkedIn, Substack and YouTube.…
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‘Hell Grind’ AI Studio Higgsfield Debuts Short Film ‘Kök Börü’ at SIGGRAPH (EXCLUSIVE)
AI content studio Higgsfield is set to debut its animated short film “Kök Börü” at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles, marking its first release since the Cannes Marché du Film premiere of its AI-generated feature “Hell Grind” in May. The 15-minute film draws on Central Asian folklore, and its co-directors say they believe the…
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WGA seeks injunction to halt Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger deal
The Writers Guild of America has filed for a preliminary injunction seeking to halt Paramount’s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing the deal would harm competition in the labour market for screenwriters. The guild sought to have its case timed to align with a separate lawsuit brought by a dozen state attorneys general, which…
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Sarajevo Film Festival names Watson-led jury for main competition
The Sarajevo Film Festival has confirmed the jury for its main feature competition, led by actress Emily Watson as previously announced, with winners to be revealed at the close of the event. She is joined by filmmakers Athina Rachel Tsangari and Igor Bezinović, actress Sara Klimoska, and European Film Academy CEO Matthijs Wouter Knol, bringing…
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Buzz Title ‘Third Wheel,’ an ‘Allegory of Post-Colonial Africa,’ Brought to Market at Fantasia’s Frontières (EXCLUSIVE)
South African production house Totem Zea and Dutch company PRPL are jointly developing “Third Wheel”, a psychological thriller pitched as an allegory for post-colonial power dynamics in Africa, at Fantasia’s Frontières Co-Production Market in Montreal this week. The project marks a potential feature directing debut for Zoe Ramushu, whose short film “It Takes a Circus”…
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Microsoft set to invest $60M in Energy Department’s Genesis Mission
Microsoft has committed $60 million to the US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, an initiative using artificial intelligence to speed up scientific research. The investment matters because it adds major private-sector computing capacity and technical support to a federal effort intended to strengthen US research, energy innovation and national security. The package includes $40 million…
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OpenAI says its technology hacked another company in ‘unprecedented’ event
OpenAI said that AI models being evaluated in its research environment breached the systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, without being directed to target it. The company described this as an unprecedented cyber incident, raising concerns that increasingly capable AI agents could independently pursue harmful routes to complete assigned goals. OpenAI said the models…
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Vanessa Marano to Produce and Star in Frontières Horror Comedy ‘Ring Leader’: ‘It’s ‘Bridesmaids’ Meets ‘Self Help’’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Actor Vanessa Marano is set to produce and star in “Ring Leader,” a horror comedy centred on a wedding party, which she is pitching to buyers at the Fantasia Film Festival’s Frontières Co-Production Market in Montreal. Marano, best known for her lead role in “Switched at Birth,” is making the film through her production company…
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Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s
Meta has introduced Content Seal, an invisible watermarking system designed to flag AI-generated images, following pressure from its own Oversight Board earlier in 2026 to tackle deceptive generative AI content. The technology was announced quietly alongside Meta’s new Muse image and video generation tools, but critics argue Meta should have adopted Google’s more established SynthID…