Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.

Higgsfield AI did not exist before March 2025. Fifteen months on, the video startup is in talks to raise money at a $5bn valuation, four times its worth at the start of the year. The company is seeking $300mn to $500mn, The Information first reported. …

Adobe has spent two years bolting AI onto its software. This week it tried to become the AI layer underneath everything creative and marketing, in five announcements stretched across three days. The headline is an agent inside the apps. The rest of the…
X will now let you ‘react with video’ to posts.
The hedge fund billionaire turned gubernatorial candidate wants to tax California’s ultrawealthy, regulate AI, and keep Silicon Valley happy at the same time. Good luck with that.
The Clips feed aims to enable discovery by offering users a scrollable feed with short snippets of shows and movies.
Divine, a Vine reboot backed by Jack Dorsey’s nonprofit, revives six-second looping videos.
YouTube is rolling out the new AI search feature to Premium subscribers in the U.S. on an opt-in basis.