Published on: 2025-06-10 00:00:56
Everyone knows that James Cameron gets super excited about ocean exploration. But for his next project, he’s going even lower than that. Cameron just announced that his company, Lightstorm, has acquired the rights to The Devils, a new book by Joe Abercrombie that follows a high-ranking demon who takes a group of evil beings on a mission in Hell. “How do I describe The Devils?” Cameron wrote in a press release via his social media. “A sharply witty horror adventure? An epic battle between good a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 12:20:31
A platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, Character.AI announced on Monday that it is rolling out a slate of multimedia features. These features include AvatarFX, Character.AI’s video-generation model, plus Scenes and Streams, which allow users to use these AI tools to create videos using their characters and then share them on a new social feed. “Character.AI started as 1:1 text chat and today we’re evolving to do so much more, inspired by what our users have told [
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Font of the Day May 31, 2025 C i r k a Designed by Nick Losacco, Pangram Pangram The *GCU Subtle Knife drifted through the edge of a dying star system, its Mind preoccupied with the philosophical implications of a particularly tricky game of 12-dimensional chess. Outside, the remnants of a rogue comet streaked past, trailing a faint glow. “You know,” mused the drone Frivolous Intent, “if we nudged that comet just right, we could spell ‘Oops’ in plasma across the system. It’d be hilarious.” The
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 16:52:00
A hot potato: As if we didn't already know how much CEOs love the job-cutting, cost-slashing, investor-pleasing benefits of AI, chief executives are now using the technology to create avatars of themselves in earnings calls. Klarna's CEO recently did it, and now Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has followed suit. Yuan used an AI avatar of himself via Zoom Clips, the company's asynchronous video creation tool. The clip, which you can see here at around the 2:40 mark, shows a realistic-looking recreation of th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 22:50:40
Later this year, James Cameron is taking us all back to Pandora with Avatar: Fire & Ash. To prepare that, and also to make a lot more money, Disney’s bringing The Way of Water back to theaters. The aquatic sequel will get a new theatrical run starting October 3 and wrapping on October 10. At time of writing, Disney hasn’t revealed whether this “limited engagement” will feature anything extra like extended or deleted scenes or a special look for Fire & Ash. Still, if you’re a fan of the movie, j
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 09:34:16
In Brief CEOs are now so immersed in AI, they’re sending their avatars to address quarterly earnings calls instead of themselves, at least partially. After the Klarna CEO’s AI avatar appeared on an investor call earlier this week, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan followed suit, also using his avatar for initial comments. Yuan deployed his custom avatar via Zoom Clips, the company’s asynchronous video creation tool. “I am proud to be among the first CEOs to use an avatar in an earnings call,” he — or rather
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 16:33:38
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Tech company CEOs aren’t just making their companies AI-first: this week, they’re using AI avatars to replace themselves in earnings calls. Buy now, pay later company Klarna featured the AI version of CEO and co-founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski in an 83-second about its Q1 2025 results, as reported by TechCrunch. The video’s description says that his “AI avatar” is presenting
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 05:59:13
When the world needed him most, he got delayed once again. Paramount Pictures announced the second delay for The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender, the upcoming movie that follows the journey of Aang and Team Avatar after the events of the beloved animated series that was released in 2005. Instead of January 30, 2026, the new film will make its way to movie theaters on October 9, 2026, as first reported by Variety. Paramount Pictures didn't provide a reason for the delay, but this setback foll
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 09:25:53
Two years ago, VFX artists across Marvel, the Avatar franchise, and Disney all seperately voted to form their own unions. With the help of the IATSE, the three worker groups have now “overwhelmingly” voted to ratify contracts which ensure better conditions for staff working on these respective projects. Both contracts—Marvel and Disney fall under one agreement, and Avatar team Lightstorm has its own—offer minimum wage increases and access to IATSE’s pension plans and meal penalties. In terms of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 08:00:00
For years, big tech companies like Amazon and Google have been trying to make virtual try-ons engaging to encourage consumers to shop more online. Startups also tried to solve for inspiration and fit in fashion using AI. A new startup called Doji is now entering this space with an app designed to make apparel try-ons both fun and social. It does so by creating your avatar and then serving you different looks that may inspire you to buy new clothes. So far, early adopters have been impressed by
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-10 05:10:14
Hey HN, this is Lina, Andrew, and Sidney from Lemon Slice. We’ve trained a custom diffusion transformer (DiT) model that achieves video streaming at 25fps and wrapped it into a demo that allows anyone to turn a photo into a real-time, talking avatar. Here’s an example conversation from co-founder Andrew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeYp5xQMFZY . Try it for yourself at: https://lemonslice.com/live (Btw, we used to be called Infinity AI and did a Show HN under that name last year: https://new
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-10 20:10:14
Hey HN, this is Lina, Andrew, and Sidney from Lemon Slice. We’ve trained a custom diffusion transformer (DiT) model that achieves video streaming at 25fps and wrapped it into a demo that allows anyone to turn a photo into a real-time, talking avatar. Here’s an example conversation from co-founder Andrew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeYp5xQMFZY . Try it for yourself at: https://lemonslice.com/live (Btw, we used to be called Infinity AI and did a Show HN under that name last year: https://new
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-27 04:15:13
The second season of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender will reintroduce audiences to Toph Beifong, a 12-year-old blind Earthbender who becomes Aang’s teacher. Like with characters from the last season, the live-action version of Toph (played by Miya Cech) will come with some changes and tweaks. During the red carpet for the sci-fi film Marshmallow, Cech talked about her approach to her upcoming role. Speaking with The Direct, she reiterated her Toph would be slightly older than her animated
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-29 04:36:55
What happens when AI doesn’t just generate content, but embodies it? AI has already mastered the ability to produce realistic photos, videos, and voices, passing the visual and auditory Turing Test. The next big leap is in AI avatars: combining a face with a voice to create a talking character. Can’t you just generate an image of a face, animate it, and add a voiceover? Not quite. The challenge isn’t just nailing the lip sync — it’s making facial expressions and body language move in tandem. It
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-03 08:00:04
It's 2025, so it should be no surprise that another organization has sold its soul (entered into a licensing deal with an AI company) for an undisclosed sum. A new partnership allows UK-based Synthesia to access Shutterstock's content library for training its latest AI model, EXPRESS-2. This deal isn't the first of its kind for Shutterstock, which previously teamed up with OpenAI to sell stock images made using AI generator DALL-E 2. Synthesia creates avatars for corporate videos about topics s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-12 04:30:00
Genies has been investing heavily for this moment. The culture-focused avatar technology company is revealing its user-generated content tools that let anyone create custom AI avatars. Genies raised $150 million in 2022, and it has been busy ever since building out the tech stack for what it calls Parties, or gaming platforms driven by AI avatars, user-generated content, and personalized gameplay. In an exclusive interview, Genies CEO Akash Nigam gave GamesBeat a look under the hood at Genies’
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-24 20:15:56
It’s a good time to be a fan of the Avatar franchise, between Nickelodeon’s all-new upcoming animated series Avatar: Seven Havens and Netflix’s (unrelated but adjacent) live-action series returning for a second and third season. The third part of the current Avatar media triangle is Nick’s upcoming trilogy of animated feature films, with the exciting news today that Steven Yeun (Invincible, Mickey 17) is joining its voice cast. Before you connect too many dots—because as fans well know, Yeun pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-24 23:00:00
A few years ago, several startups with a specific focus on digital avatars appeared because of all the metaverse buzz. While that buzz died down, generative AI has given a new life to avatars as it is easier to spin up different virtual identities. Companies are trying out different use cases for avatars, including D-ID and Synthesia in the enterprise space, Zoom for meetings, Glance for fashion, Praktika for learning, and TikTok and Captions in the creator space. However, Isaac Bratzel, who cr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-16 00:00:00
Akool, a startup doing AI-driven avatar content creation, announced enhancements to Akool Streaming Avatars that connect avatars with AI models. Akool has added advanced video generation technology that now seamlessly integrates with large language models (LLMs) to help model builders create dynamic, 2D lifelike avatars. With the ability to upload a photo and provide a voice recording, customers can create a personalized avatar that becomes a natural extension of the LLM, making interactions w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-14 18:52:53
Netflix dropped a blooper reel this weekend from the first season of its live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender show, giving fans a look at some cute behind the scenes antics while they wait for the next season. The first season was released a year ago, and Netflix announced shortly after that the show had been renewed for two more. There’s no release date yet for the new episodes, but the streaming service said on Saturday that production for the second season is underway. The third season will
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-13 12:30:29
Just a few days ago, we got a peek at Magic: The Gathering’s crossover set with the Final Fantasy series. But the card game’s already announced its next collaboration beyond Square Enix’s RPG megafranchise—it’ll also be releasing cards based on Avatar: The Last Airbender later this year. During this weekend’s MagicCon Chicago event, Wizards of the Coast teased the upcoming set, which will feature “new adventures, iconic art, and an elemental showdown like never before.” Avatar is no stranger to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-13 16:05:36
This week marks the 20th anniversary of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Nickelodeon’s action-fantasy anime that became one of the network’s biggest shows back in the day. And what better way to celebrate a momentous occasion than to finally reveal a new show—Seven Havens, a 2D series with a two-season greenlight and involvement from franchise co-creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. Like the previous shows, Havens will center on another young Avatar coming into their own, in this case a yo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-14 08:00:03
Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting another sequel from original creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. In honor of the series' 20th anniversary, Nickelodeon announced the franchise's next series, Avatar: Seven Havens, one of the first releases from Avatar Studios. The new show will center on a young Earthbender who becomes the next Avatar following Korra. I've been a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender since I was a kid, and I loved watching Aang and his friends go on adventures and l
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 18:40:14
The Avatar franchise’s titular hero is defined by more than just their ability to wield the abilities of all four elements; beyond their martial and spiritual prowess is a transcendental link to previous inheritors of the mantle stretching across thousands of years of history. But as we prepare for the news of a new Avatar show—and with it, the next incarnation of the Avatar—we’ve learned that they’re going to be facing a very different world and reputation, as well as a ramification that has ch
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 18:13:18
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on an AI-powered avatar generator for Play Games profiles. We’ve enabled it before the official rollout to give you an early look. Google is developing an AI-powered avatar generator for the Play Store that will allow you to create a custom avatar for your Play Games profile. We first spotted evidence of this upcoming feature earlier this week, and we’ve now managed to get an early look at how it may work upon release. Authority Ins
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 21:00:23
Yesterday, Nickelodeon and Avatar Studios finally unveiled some concrete details about Avatar: Seven Havens, the new animated spin-off of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. While the news came with comforting details like a lengthy episode count and the involvement of series co-creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, the plot details of the new show have Korra fans bracing for more slander of their favorite hero. Accompanying Seven Havens‘ announcement was some flavor t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 16:29:56
It’s been ten long years since Avatar: The Legend of Korra aired its final episode and over 15 years since Avatar: The Last Airbender bowed out. Now, finally, Nickelodeon has greenlit a sequel series and it sounds pretty awesome. Deadline reports that Avatar: Seven Havens will be a 2D animated 26-episode followup that chronicles the rise of the next Avatar after Korra. Franchise creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are developing the series, so we know it's in good hands. The plot sou
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 17:39:15
is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Rumours about the next mainline Avatar series have been circulating ever since Nickelodeon announced that Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko were returning to lead Avatar Studios. But now, we finally know a bit more about where the franchise is heading after The Legend of Korra. Today, Nickelodeon announced that the Avatar saga (w
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