India
India will publish an AI regulation paper within a month
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the paper will focus on safety, deepfakes and a human-first approach, with industry carrying most of the responsibility.
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IICT
Four AI-enabled Indian short films premiere with YouTube
The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies and YouTube screened the films in Mumbai, part of a program announced in November 2025.
Chandigarh
Chandigarh court orders Facebook to suspend 3 AI video pages
Civil Judge (Junior Division) Kuldeep Singh ordered the three pages suspended ex parte until a hearing on October 22, after ruling the videos went beyond healthy public criticism.
Denmark
Denmark moves to ban sharing AI deepfakes without consent
Culture minister Zenia Stampe's bill targets platforms that fail to remove lifelike copies of a person's face or voice, and would protect performers too.
WorldPlay2
WorldPlay2 turns one image into a playable browser world
The weights landed on October 6 under a non-commercial license, and a hosted version went live on Reactor the next day.
Fable
Gods Don't Give Gifts moves to December 4 for Oscar bid
Its trailer debuts in theaters on October 9 and a Los Angeles billboard push follows in November, as Fable submits the film for Best Animated Feature.
Spira Maxima
Spira Maxima turns a script into a finished social video
Spira AI says the model bakes a presenter, B-roll, captions and music into one pass, and that its agents can post it to TikTok, Instagram and X.
xAI
Eighth Circuit pauses Minnesota's AI nudification ban
The St. Louis appeals court froze the first-in-the-nation law in a one-sentence order on October 2, while xAI's First Amendment challenge continues.
60 Minutes
60 Minutes aired an AI version of its own correspondent
CBS had Runway build the synthetic studio intro, which the show says took about five minutes, then told viewers no more AI content is coming.
ai video
Publisher claims Japan's first AI video magazine at 1,760 yen
Asuka Publishing's AI Douga Saizensen carries 12 interviews and copyright guidance from a lawyer whose firm the publisher says sits on the justice ministry's AI legislation committee.
ByteDance
ByteDance must face YouTubers' DMCA suit over AI training scrape
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley denied ByteDance's motion to dismiss on October 2, holding the creators plausibly alleged a lost-advertising injury tied to circumvention.
sag-aftra
SAG-AFTRA animation deal tightens AI rules for voice actors
Members vote until October 29 on a four-year contract that would require a studio to get a voice actor's consent before dubbing a performance with a cloned voice.
AI video
Bethesda shuts down a viral AI-made Fallout game
The browser game, built with Claude Opus 5.5, drew 3.5 million views before ZeniMax sent a cease-and-desist over the Fallout name.
AI video
Arizona court throws out a sentence over an AI victim video
The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld the manslaughter conviction but ordered a new sentencing hearing, saying the AI depiction of the victim prejudiced the trial judge.
AI video
Malaysia warns of legal action over a fake AI video of Mahathir
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission is reviewing a 27-second TikTok clip that mixes real footage of the former prime minister with AI-generated scenes of him and his late wife.
ai-film
Super Me, an AI feature, premieres at SHAIKE in La Ciotat
Mr Press's AI-made feature Super Me gets its world premiere October 3 at the Eden Théâtre, co-produced by SHAIKE and Fernando Meirelles.
ai-film
Terrarium's horror shoot swaps sets for 15 to 20 AI artists
Variety reported that Jason Zada's AI-hybrid horror film shoots actors on bare soundstages while 15 to 20 AI artists generate every location and prop around them.
ai-ads
SKF brings back Greta Garbo as an AI spokeswoman for bearings
The Swedish bearings maker says Garbo's family and the estate's licensing firm Harriet Brown & Company approved the AI campaign, built with Seedream, Nano Banana Pro, Seedance and Kling.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Bombay High Court blocks AI deepfakes of Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Justice Madhav Jamdar's interim order names 18 defendants, including Meta, Google and Amazon, and restrains the use of her name, image and voice.
White House
Trump signs a voluntary AI safety accord with six tech chiefs
The four-step pledge adds outside audits and board oversight for frontier models, and it leaves deepfakes, synthetic performers and AI video untouched.