iQIYI Introduces AIGC to Assist Content Operations: Over 700,000 AIGC Operational Materials Across All Platforms


New York-based Kaltura acquired Israeli startup eSelf.ai for approximately $27 million. eSelf focuses on developing AI-powered digital human technology that can engage in conversations. Its products will be integrated into Kaltura's enterprise video and learning tools. The company was founded in 2023, and its founding team previously successfully sold a previous startup to Snap.
China's broadcasting authority mandates AI-generated short animations to undergo pre-release review by March 2026, requiring all existing content to be retroactively approved or removed.....
Amazon launched an upgraded AI assistant, Alexa+, which is now available in the Amazon Music app for early users. The new version supports conversational music discovery, increasing song exploration rate to three times that of the previous version, and boosting recommended playback by nearly 70%, showcasing the potential of generative AI to reshape music consumption and breaking past limitations of only performing basic commands.
The Moonshot team has launched the Kimi Linear model, achieving a technological breakthrough in the AIGC field. The model uses a hybrid linear attention architecture, improving the speed of processing long contexts by 2.9 times and decoding speed by 6 times. Its performance surpasses the traditional Softmax attention mechanism, showing excellent results particularly in scenarios such as context processing and reinforcement learning.
At the Midea Group Visionaries Conference, Steve Zhou, co-founder of Zhiyuan Robots, predicted that artificial intelligence is rapidly moving toward general intelligence (AGI), which may be initially achieved after GPT-6. He reviewed the development of AI over the past decade, from the application of computer vision in 2015 to the emergence of an AGI prototype in 2025, highlighting the rapid progress.