Wonder Twin powers, activate:

Introducing Runway Aleph 2.0.

Edit videos using AI, keeping camera and motion all consistent.

Select specific frames in your video to reprompt with GPT Images 2.0 or Nano Banana 2, then apply it to the entire video.

Here’s my full tutorial: pic.twitter.com/csCZ8KLal1

— Jerrod Lew (@jerrod_lew) May 27, 2026

This is the first time I can recall watching a genuine narrative (not a handful of gee-whiz demo shots) made with AI & not really caring about the production details. We’re turning the inevitable corner where it’s just the quality of ideas & narrative that’ll matter—not so much how the proverbial sausage was made.

WE FOUND SOMETHING IN… [THE DEAD MALL]
Seedance 2.0 Omni-Reference

A girl gang and their scooter storms into an abandoned mall at 2 a.m. Inside, they stumble on something that has no business being there. Instead of running, they stay, and what follows spirals into total,… pic.twitter.com/fC25Q24w8H

— DAN · MXVDXN (@mxvdxn) May 1, 2026

Is it still brainrot if it’s really skillfully done, like several of these clip-bombing bits from FuruFuru? Check it out & be the judge:

I am obsessed with this Japanese man using AI video to put himself into movies

(he’s on IG at @ai_am_furufuru) pic.twitter.com/ePeVPkpEG4

— Justine Moore (@venturetwins) May 3, 2026

You can now check if a video was edited or created with Google AI directly in the Gemini app.

Just upload a video and ask something like, “Was this generated using Google AI?” Gemini will scan for the imperceptible SynthID watermark across both the audio and visual tracks and use its own reasoning to return a response that gives you context. For example, it might say: “SynthID detected within the audio between 10-20 secs. No SynthID detected in the visuals.”

Uploaded files can be up to 100 MB and 90 seconds long.

Check out this super cool mashup between Google Maps & my new product, Veo (video generation):

280 billion Street View images + generative AI = Maps Imagery Grounding.

At #GoogleCloudNext, we announced that brands can now generate beautiful AI visuals, all anchored in Street View.

For example, when storyboarding, filmmakers can visualize a scene – like a spaceship taking… pic.twitter.com/epwc0GvAm2

— Miriam Daniel (@miriamkdaniel) April 22, 2026

The team writes,

With Maps Imagery Grounding, a film studio can use a laptop to quickly visualize a scene at a specific place, like Washington Square Park in New York City—before scouts ever set foot on set. It’s easy to use: just type a prompt like “generate an image of a futuristic spaceship hovering in front of the Washington Square Arch” into the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and enable grounding with Google Maps Imagery in settings. In seconds, you can storyboard your creative vision with an accurate image—and you can even use Veo to animate the scene.

I had no idea! And yet here “I” am, thanks to this new-to-me feature. In at least this first test, the visual likeness is very good, the gestures are a little off, and the voice is that of someone else (not shocking, as the creation flow asked me to read aloud only a couple of numbers):

Spending four minutes listening to Diplo’s thoughts on how art will be made going forward, and specifically on the value of quirky, messy, world-experiencing humans will be a good use of your time, I promise. The machine needs us ghosts.

if you are a creative you need to adapt or just like give up and become an uber driver until everyone has a waymo. I know it’s not cool or classy to speak like this but i’m not gonna candy coat the future – it is what it is . sorry for bad new’s my purist . there will always need… https://t.co/SXswII51wv

— diplo (@diplo) April 14, 2026

I’ve been sending this video to friends & family to explain what the heck it is I actually, y’know, do for a living. (It’s somehow related to enabling all this!)

Here’s a good summary from Gemini:

• Digital Clones for A-listers (0:33–1:56): The Creative Artist Agency (CAA) is helping actors create and store secure digital doubles of their likeness and vocal inflections. This serves as a “vault” to protect their intellectual property and assert rights against unauthorized use.
• Deep Voodoo’s AI Innovations (2:15–3:54): Founded by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park, this studio uses proprietary facial scanning and AI to perform tasks like real-time de-aging for projects like the TV series Before and Billy Joel‘s recent music video.
• Production Efficiency and Ethics (6:03–7:40): Director Darren Aronofsky and filmmaker Eliza McNitt utilized Google’s Veo 3 model for the short film Ancestra. AI allowed them to create complex cosmic visuals and even recreate a newborn baby digitally to avoid the ethical concerns of filming with a real infant.
• Commercially Safe AI Tools (8:00–9:10): Asteria Film Company, co-founded by Natasha Lyonne and Bin Moser, focuses on building “commercially safe” AI models trained strictly on licensed materials to avoid copyright infringement, emphasizing that learning to use AI is an essential skill for modern filmmakers.
• The Human Element (4:48–5:13): Despite the rapid evolution of AI, industry unions like SAG-AFTRA emphasize that human performers bring a unique, special quality to projects that algorithms cannot replicate, advocating for guardrails to ensure AI serves as a tool for creators rather than a replacement.