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ExplainersHow to make a two-character AI cartoon that hit 21 million views
OpinionGoogle's CRT ad, and the rate limits that made me an Argon man
OpinionSvedka lost the Ad Meter and sold more vodka anyway
ExplainersTencent's WeVisCut edits a long video from a script with a 9B model
ExplainersWorld models guide: Genie 3, GWM and open weights, updated weekly
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Prada
Prada's hand-drawn Christmas ad makes craft the pitch
Prada's Holiday 2026 campaign pairs Glen Luchford's live-action film with frame-by-frame animation led by John Pomeroy, as AI holiday ads draw their own backlash.
AgiWorld
Adobe and UT Austin's AgiWorld builds persistent video worlds
The UT Austin and Adobe Research preprint reports that persistence in a video world model comes from a closed loop between a planning agent and the generator.
open-source
The 5 open-source AI video tools that shipped, ranked by impact
Five tools shipped on or after October 24, 2026, from a tiled MiniMax H3 upscaler to an agent harness that needs at least four H200 GPUs.
antrofrog
How to make a two-character AI cartoon that hit 21 million views
Krea's breakdown of antrofrog's No Ordinary Love names the three tools behind the 59-second short and the stills that hold two cartoon characters together.
Gamehaus
Gamehaus pays $19.6M in stock for 56% of Anamana
The Nasdaq games publisher will issue 24.5 million Class A shares at $0.80 and put $7 million in cash into Techforge, the parent of AI serial platform Anamana.
Brave
New York Times and three papers sue Brave over AI search index
The two complaints, filed in Manhattan federal court, plead five counts each and seek damages, the profits Brave made replacing ads, and an injunction.
Google Gemini
EU court adviser says Gemini may infringe news publishers' rights
Maciej Szpunar advises declaring the two questions on model training inadmissible, saying training on protected works is, as a rule, freely permitted.
Opinion
Google's CRT ad, and the rate limits that made me an Argon man
Gemini 4 Argon scripted the Blender boot animations and the SuperCollider audio, and a Raspberry Pi fed a real vintage television. I set out to do the same thing on Claude and OpenAI. This is the breakdown, and my conversion.
Svedka
Svedka lost the Ad Meter and sold more vodka anyway
The 2026 spot ranked 53rd of 54 in the USA Today Ad Meter and lifted Svedka sales about 23%, so the brand is handing its 2027 ad to a fan contest.
WeVisCut
Tencent's WeVisCut edits a long video from a script with a 9B model
The Tencent and Xidian University agent scores 90.5 on the authors' own 100-task benchmark, close to Claude Opus 5 and at about a thirty-third of its token cost.
openai
OpenAI is betting Hollywood friendships will sell ChatGPT
The New York Magazine profile of Charles Porch describes dinners and personal relationships, months after OpenAI shut down Sora and Google invested in A24.
AI Film Festival Japan
AI Film Festival Japan names winners from 730 entries
Ayano Kotakagari, a creator at Nippon Television's NTV AX-ON, won the top award in the festival's new AI film music and score category.
WRLabs
Whisper World and Rembrand merge to form AI video company WRLabs
The largely stock-based deal is expected to close in January and creates a company the two sides say reaches about two billion viewers a month.
Runway
Runway must face YouTube creators' DMCA scraping suit
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled the creators plausibly alleged Runway bypassed YouTube's download protections, letting the DMCA case proceed with no class certified.
AI
Fashion brands sought AI rights over models, Reuters finds
A draft Calvin Klein contract asked models to let their images train AI tools for no extra pay, in a review of more than a dozen photo-shoot agreements.
world models
World models guide: Genie 3, GWM and open weights, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to world models: what runs in real time, what you can call today, the open weights, the hardware and SLOP TV's coverage.
Seedance 2.5
Seedance 2.5 guide: specs, prices and access, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to Seedance 2.5: what a generation allows, what it costs on each platform, what shipped and SLOP TV's coverage of the model.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield guide: plans, prices and models, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to Higgsfield: what each plan and the API cost, which models it runs, what shipped this month and SLOP TV's coverage of the platform.
Runway
Runway guide: every plan, price and AI model, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to Runway: what each plan costs, which models it runs, what shipped this month and every story we have written about it.
MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3 guide: specs, license and prices, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to MiniMax H3: the open weights and their license, the per-second rates, what the model does and SLOP TV's coverage of it.
VerSe Innovation
Spark Station pitches an AI crew that makes a whole film
VerSe Innovation showed the workflows at its SPARK summit in Mumbai with Google Cloud as title partner, and published no price or launch date for them.
Liquid AI
Liquid AI's LFM3 reads text, video and audio on a phone
Liquid AI's family spans six models near 2 billion parameters on one backbone, and the text model runs in about 1 GB at 4-bit.
heygen
HeyGen API v1 and v2 retire November 1: what to move
HeyGen's own docs disagree by a day on the cutoff, and every legacy v1 and v2 response already names the v3 endpoint it should move to.
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia asks court to test AI fair use stage by stage
The Wikimedia Foundation's 5,831-word brief backs neither side and asks Judge Sidney Stein to weigh each stage of AI use on its own.
HackerTube
Karpathy builds HackerTube from 6,454 videos in two hours
The site lists 6,454 videos Hacker News readers recommend, and Karpathy says he handled only an API key, a server and a domain by hand.
iQIYI
iQIYI opens a 110-square-meter AI film studio in Shanghai
Filming began October 28 on the internet feature "Cop in Trouble," with on-set footage syncing automatically to iQIYI's NadouPro platform.
MANSA
MANSA launches a 30-episode AI zombie microdrama
The studio says it will use the South Los Angeles zombie thriller to test audience demand before paying for live-action production.
nvidia
DOJ questions Nvidia's $12.93B Hugging Face deal
The department's questions also cover Nvidia's acquisitions, investments and sales practices, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.
Meta
UK competition watchdog investigates Meta's content terms
The CMA is examining whether Meta Platforms, Facebook UK and Facebook Ireland abused a dominant position by imposing the terms on businesses.
resemble-ai
Resemble AI finds AI media in 1 of 11 Meta ad files
Two of 3,379 flagged files disclosed AI in the ad copy, and none of the 971 files checked for provenance data carried any.