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Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project

Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project

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AI video generation startup Luma has launched Innovative Dreams, a production company built in partnership with Wonder Project, a streaming service that produces religious films and TV on Amazon Prime.  The tie-up’s first show will be called “The Old Stories: Moses,” starring British actor Ben Kingsley and set to launch this spring on Prime Video.  “Innovative Dreams is a production services company where seasoned filmmakers from Director Jon Erwin’s team and Luma’s creative technologists work with great studios and filmmakers to help them realize ambitious ideas,” Luma said Thursday in a social media post.  The company envisages creative teams collaborating in real time with Luma Agents to make changes to sets, props, and lighting, as well as bring in footage of human actors. Luma Agents are the company’s recently launched tools designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and audio. “This is a significant improvement over the current virtual production and performance capture processes where things come together only in post,” Luma’s post said. “This is the leverage of AI — not …

iPhone 18 Pro Variable Aperture Camera Enters Production

iPhone 18 Pro Variable Aperture Camera Enters Production

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Apple has started ramping up its supply chain for a new variable aperture camera system expected to debut in the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max this September, reports Korea’s ETNews. Apple has never implemented a variable aperture on an iPhone. From the iPhone 14 Pro through the iPhone 17 Pro, the main camera uses a fixed ƒ/1.78 aperture, meaning the lens remains fully open at all times when capturing images. In contrast, a variable aperture lets the camera control how much light reaches the sensor. In low-light conditions, it opens to admit more light, while in bright scenes, it closes to avoid overexposure. This should also give users more control over depth of field. In December 2024, Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo was first to say that that the main rear camera on both ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ models will offer variable aperture. A report from October 2025 said Apple was moving ahead with plans to bring the technology to next-generation iPhones and was discussing components with suppliers. According to industry sources cited by …

Frontier models are failing one in three production attempts — and getting harder to audit

Frontier models are failing one in three production attempts — and getting harder to audit

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AI agents are now embedded in real enterprise workflows, and they’re still failing roughly one in three attempts on structured benchmarks. That gap between capability and reliability is the defining operational challenge for IT leaders in 2026, according to Stanford HAI’s ninth annual AI Index report. This uneven, unpredictable performance is what the AI Index calls the “jagged frontier,” a term coined by AI researcher Ethan Mollick to describe the boundary where AI excels and then suddenly fails. “AI models can win a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad,” Stanford HAI researchers point out, “but still can’t reliably tell time.”  How models advanced in 2025 Enterprise AI adoption has reached 88%. Notable accomplishments in 2025 and early 2026:  Frontier models improved 30% in just one year on Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE), which includes 2,500 questions across math, natural sciences, ancient languages, and other specialized subfields. HLE was built to be difficult for AI and favorable to human experts. Leading models scored above 87% on MMLU-Pro, which tests multi-step reasoning based on 12,000 human-reviewed questions …

Production Wraps Ahead of 2027 Release

Production Wraps Ahead of 2027 Release

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The Legend of Zelda touched down in Sin City on Monday, with Sony teasing the upcoming video game adaptation during the studio’s CinemaCon presentation. First-look images from director Wes Ball’s live-action film had been released in November, and at CinemaCon, president of Sony’s motion picture group Sanford Panitch announced that the movie had recently finished principal photography. Sony did not reveal new images or details about the feature that counts Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto and Avi Arad as producers. “We just wrapped production on Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda — based, perhaps, on the most beloved gaming franchise of all time that sold over 180 million copies in four decades,” Panitch said. “It has been produced by the creator himself, Miyamoto, along with Avi Arad, and it’s directed by Wes Ball, whose most recent Planet of the Apes movie was a box office hit.” The exec continued, “The film releases worldwide May 7th, 2027. We and the legion of fans everywhere cannot wait. And video game adaptations continue to be a significant focus for us.” …

Lightship to quadruple electric travel trailer production in CO

Lightship to quadruple electric travel trailer production in CO

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All-electric RV developer Lightship said it is significantly expanding its production footprint to “meet surging demand” for its flagship travel trailer, which will see a streamlined configuration process. It’s been a minute since we shared any Lightship news, and it’s always welcome. The all-electric recreational vehicle startup has been mostly quiet the past nine months or so following the official start of production of its flagship travel trailer, the AE.1. Those builds began with a configuration of the AE.1 called Cosmos Edition. After opening sales of the AE.1 Cosmos Edition in late 2024, Lightship reported strong demand – a trend that appears to have continued given today’s update below. The launch edition version of the Lightship travel trailer completely sold out during early production, but the company announced two additional versions: AE.1 Atmos and AE.1 Panos – each designed to meet different traveler needs and price points. Advertisement – scroll for more content Today, Lightship announced it has revamped its AE.1 configurations to simplify its lineup for customers while expanding trailer production to keep up …

43% of AI-generated code changes need debugging in production, survey finds

43% of AI-generated code changes need debugging in production, survey finds

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The software industry is racing to write code with artificial intelligence. It is struggling, badly, to make sure that code holds up once it ships. A survey of 200 senior site-reliability and DevOps leaders at large enterprises across the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union paints a stark picture of the hidden costs embedded in the AI coding boom. According to Lightrun’s 2026 State of AI-Powered Engineering Report, shared exclusively with VentureBeat ahead of its public release, 43% of AI-generated code changes require manual debugging in production environments even after passing quality assurance and staging tests. Not a single respondent said their organization could verify an AI-suggested fix with just one redeploy cycle; 88% reported needing two to three cycles, while 11% required four to six. The findings land at a moment when AI-generated code is proliferating across global enterprises at a breathtaking pace. Both Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have claimed that around a quarter of their companies’ code is now AI-generated. The AIOps market — the ecosystem of …

iPhone Fold Production Pushed Back, But Fall 2026 Launch Still on Track

iPhone Fold Production Pushed Back, But Fall 2026 Launch Still on Track

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Production on the iPhone Fold is behind schedule, but the device is still slated to launch in fall 2026, reports DigiTimes. The site says that production has been pushed back by “roughly one to two months,” but Apple has not communicated any launch delays to suppliers. Apple is still planning for a 2026 launch, which suggests a tighter production schedule. Apple planned to begin ‌iPhone Fold‌ mass production in June 2026, but mass production has now slipped to early August. Some rumors have suggested that Apple is having more manufacturing problems than expected with the Engineering Validation Test phase that the ‌iPhone Fold‌ is in right now, but other rumors suggest that won’t lead to delays. Last week, Japanese site Nikkei said that the engineering delays could cause Apple to delay the launch of the ‌iPhone Fold‌ until 2027, but Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman said the ‌iPhone Fold‌ remains on track to launch “around the same time” or “soon after” the iPhone 18 Pro models in September 2026. DigiTimes‘ report reconciles the two separate launch timing …

Key Events This Week: PPI, Industrial Production, Q1 Earnings, Iran War

Key Events This Week: PPI, Industrial Production, Q1 Earnings, Iran War

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When it comes to the week ahead, clearly the Iran conflict will be the main focus, but there are a few other things to look out on the calendar. First, the Q1 earnings season will start to kick off, with this week’s releases including several US financials. DB’s equity strategists have a full preview, and they argue that the bottom up-analyst consensus for S&P 500 earnings growth accelerating into the mid-teens (16%) is justified by a favorable macro environment (full preview here). They expect growth to come in even stronger at 19%, with growth broadening across sectors, albeit clearly led by megacap growth and tech, along with the financials. In terms of this week’s releases, we’ll hear from Goldman Sachs today, BlackRock, JPMorgan and Citigroup on Tuesday, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley on Wednesday, and Netflix on Thursday. Otherwise, we have a few more data releases this week that will give us a fuller picture of how the global economy performed in Q1. In the US, this week’s highlights include the PPI inflation reading, …

electric articulated haul trucks reach production [video]

electric articulated haul trucks reach production [video]

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In a move that Volvo is calling a world’s first, the company has begun regular production of its new A30 and A40 Electric model articulated haul trucks – making the first time electric articulated haulers of this size have moved from a pilot stage into serial production. First shown at last year’s Bauma construction show, the game-changing Volvo A30 Electric articulated hauler promised promised to be both the first vehicle of its kind in what is both a key industrial segment for Volvo and a milestone for BEVs once it reached production. Now, that time has come. “Starting serial production of electric articulated haulers of this size is a proud moment for Volvo CE,” explains Melker Jernberg, President of Volvo CE. “It shows that our ambition to lead the transformation of our industry is backed by real execution. This milestone proves that electric solutions are ready to meet the demands of heavy, high-productivity applications, and that meaningful change is underway.” Rolling down the line A30 Electric assembly line; via Volvo CE. The new Volvo A30 Electric …

Masters Gnomes a Hot Commodity at Augusta National Amid Speculation This Is Final Year of Production

Masters Gnomes a Hot Commodity at Augusta National Amid Speculation This Is Final Year of Production

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — John James arrived at Augusta National an hour before the gates opened to patrons for the 90th Masters — all for the purpose of securing a 13 1/2-inch tall gnome. “Had to have one,” said James, who was attending the Masters from Wyckoff, New Jersey. “It’s a novelty.” This is the 10th and perhaps final year Augusta National will sell the limited edition gnome, which features the traditional old man with a white beard in colorful golf attire. Each year’s gnome is different, with the 2026 edition featuring the character dressed in khaki pants with a white-and-green striped polo shirt and blue vest holding an umbrella in one hand and a Masters-themed cup in the other. The gnomes have become wildly popular — and increasingly valuable — over the last decade. With only about 1,000 available each day, the gnomes regularly sell out within an hour each morning at the merchandise shop before being restocked the following day. This year’s gnome sells for $59.50 plus tax and is only available at …