First published on Sept. 29, 2025 at 8:33 a.m. PT.

During the Zurich Film Festival, Van der Velden, who owns Xicoia, unveiled Tilly Norwood, which is nothing more than code with no real-life counterpart. The AI even has an Instagram page, complete ...

This week has been nothing short of a gauntlet of devastating news stories that have completely ruined my mood. Whether it’s learning that Elon Musk is the first person to be worth $500 billion on the ...

Eline Van Der Velden is launching AI Talent studio Xicoia to create, manage and monetize a new generation of hyperreal digital stars.

Tilly Norwood, a new AI "actress" created by artificial intelligence production studio Particle6, is making waves in the entertainment industry.

Calling Tilly Norwood an "actress" is a slippery slope and an insult to every real actor, but we can't help ourselves.

Please stop taking away our human connection.” Whoopi Goldberg, Melissa Barrera, and others echoed the disgust, and SAG-AFTRA weighed in with a statement condemning the very idea of agencies signing a ...

The Trade Desk insists its OS is still coming; TikTok Shop is becoming a grocery store; and for AI studios, bad press is still press.

The Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists released a scathing statement responding to news about an AI-generated actress.

Eline van der Velden's Xicoia aims to launch digital stars and is in talks with Hollywood actors to recreate personas on screen ...

Anthropic, OpenAI dub Newsom’s AI bill ‘meaningful’ and ‘critical’ California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed one of the first U.S. bills regulating AI companies into law Monda ...

British acting union Equity has spoken out against the new AI created actress called Tilly Norwood. The union says the tool is not a real performer. It is built from the work of real actors. Equity ...