He studied Arabic and Sharia law in Cairo. And when war broke out in Gaza, Mr. Taal, 31, found himself increasingly drawn to the protests on Cornell’s campus, he said in a phone interview this week.

Its latest model, GPT-4o, released earlier this week, includes an advanced image-generation feature that lets users create visuals in the unmistakable aesthetic of Studio Ghibli—think misty forests, ...

With Snow Bear, I wanted audiences to feel the intimacy of hand drawn images, to experience that magic and remember why we fell in love with animation in the first place.” Blaise began drawing ...