Category: AI Video & Visuals

The role of smart cropping in your cross-platform video strategy Smart Crop makes your videos look polished on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and ad networks. Each platform has a different aspect ratio. TikTok’s vertical aspect ratio is 9:16, Instagram feed format is square 1:1, YouTube’s widescreen 16:9 format, and ad placement ratios are custom. Otherwise, your […]

highlights AI illustration, video, and music tools power creativity with speed, variation, and collaboration. The platforms differ in their automation and control, balancing ease of use with professional precision. Hybrid workflows show that by 2025, AI will become a partner rather than a replacement in the creative process. By 2025, the application of artificial intelligence […]

Video: A rare look inside the data center boom fueled by AI The servers are kept neatly organized and secure behind locked cages with rows of loud blaring sounds and constant surveillance. Update date: January 16, 2026, 6:02 p.m. Source link

Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact-checking charity, has exposed two viral videos as misinformation. Some falsely claim to be conducting anti-government demonstrations in Iran. The other appears to be a British MP addressing the House of Commons. Both videos reached millions of viewers across social media platforms. The first video went viral on X and […]

Holywater positions itself as the “Netflix” of vertical streaming. holy water Holywater, a vertical streaming company founded in Ukraine and backed by Fox Entertainment, is raising a new $22 million funding round to expand what CEO Bogdan Nesvit has publicly described as “the first Netflix on mobile built for short-form episodic vertical video.” The company […]

Artificial intelligence tools are driving the creation of online child sexual abuse material, according to a new study documenting the rise in photorealistic AI material, including content known as CSAM. Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK-based group, detected a record 3,440 AI videos of child sexual abuse last year, an increase of […]

Thanks to Skild’s new AI models, robots are learning from videos to perform tasks. The system allows robots to learn skills by observing videos of humans and performing tasks such as opening doors, watering plants, assembling boxes, and even cooking with less than an hour of robot-specific training data. The company says its Skild Brain […]

The company raised $80 million in a Series A extension round. What’s the story? San Francisco-based AI video generation startup Higgsfield has raised $80 million in a Series A extension round. The funding, led by Accel, GFT Ventures, and Menlo Ventures, increases the company’s valuation to more than $1.3 billion. The new capital will be […]

Turn your static images into cinematic animations with these powerful image to video AI tools. It used to be the case that animation software could be complex and take hours of keyframing to get the photos animated.  This, combined with the learning curve, turned most people away from it. Now, one photo can be converted […]

AI video startup Higgsfield announced on January 16 that it has secured an $80 million Series A extension with investment from Accel, AI Capital Partners (the U.S. arm of Alpha Intelligence Capital), Menlo Ventures, and others. This brings the total Series A funding to more than $130 million, and the company’s valuation to more than […]