Synthesia
Synthesia's ChatGPT plugin turns documents into videos
The plug-in is live on every Synthesia plan and uses the company's Syren format by default, with generation billed as normal Synthesia credits.
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Vibe
Vibe says Higgsfield can launch a streaming TV ad in one chat
The integration runs on the Model Context Protocol, so Higgsfield's agent Supercomputer calls Vibe's ad tools directly; financial terms were not disclosed.
Runway
How to add Runway Dev to Claude Code, Codex and Cursor
One install wires your coding agent to your Runway Dev account, so it can read your models, prices and credit balance and build the integration itself.
deepfakes
AI slopaganda ads flooded the midterms with $187 million
The Wesleyan Media Project counted 289 AI-generated or AI-enhanced ads, and CNBC found YouTube, Meta and X each police them differently.
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.
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.
YouTube
How to use YouTube's 30-day cleanup window to save your channel
Eligible channels facing termination over certain spam violations can now edit or delete flagged videos, wipe the whole library, or appeal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.