Higgsfield
Higgsfield awards $1,000,000 to 14 AI short films
The top prize of $500,000 went to Listen to Meh, a dialogue-free Argentine comedy about a sheep that will not leave a gaucho's roof, chosen by a four-person jury.
Geraldo Levi Glick
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anthropic
Claude will not recreate a specific existing video game
An Anthropic staffer confirmed a new prompt rule against game clones, and developers report the same guardrails also refusing routine reverse-engineering work.
SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA and WGA ask judge to reject AI's fair use defense
Actors, musicians and writers unions filed a joint brief in the OpenAI copyright case, saying a blanket exemption would void the AI terms they bargained for.
Boss
London director's AI feature Boss chases a cinema release
Jenny Krakovsky wrote, directed and scored the 1960s Liverpool crime caper alone on a laptop, and is now seeking a commercial theatrical run.
gen-z
Gen Z backlash: 72% acted against AI-made marketing
73 percent of Gen Z adults call AI-made people and voices in ads unacceptable, per Bentley-Gallup, while comments and consumer testing split.
higgsfield
Higgsfield tells ComfyUI to pull its open-source challenge
Comfy says it will not comply and the challenge stays up, with winners due November 6; Higgsfield has made no public statement.
AI video
Strait of Hormuz iPhone video is AI-generated, fact-checkers say
The clip rode the real October sinking of the GFS Pride, but detectors found a SynthID watermark and visual glitches.
Meta
Meta's AI ad terms leave advertisers no opt-out
The revised terms have no switch-off for their AI liability, the one exit is to stop advertising on Meta, and the arbitration opt-out closes around December 20.
Resilia
Resilia ran 8,000-plus AI cartoon musical ads, CNN reports
CNN reports the oregano brand ran thousands of fully sung animated ads, several on premises it describes as racist or antisemitic, and that Google and Meta removed some.
microsoft
Microsoft and Epic fire DMCA takedowns at AI-built game ports
Epic took down a browser Fortnite port on October 10, and Microsoft has chased Minecraft, Call of Duty and Halo ports while its own AI director called such training theft.