Vidu
ShengShu's Vidu S2 Runs Interactive 720p Avatars and Live Video Edits
The follow-up to Vidu S1 lifts real-time avatar output from 540p to 720p and restyles an incoming camera feed as it plays.
SLOP TV News Desk
Tilly Norwood
Particle6's AI Actress Tilly Norwood Switches to Chinese Mid-Answer on Piers Morgan Uncensored
The glitch came during a press tour for Misaligned that, according to TechCrunch, put the AI character in front of 75 journalists at once.
OpenAI
OpenAI's Sora 2 Videos API, Home of sora-2 and sora-2-pro, to Shut Down on September 24, 2026
OpenAI's deprecations page lists no replacement for the Videos API or any of the five Sora 2 model IDs, six months after developers were first notified.
Adobe
Adobe's Premiere 26.5 Puts Firefly, Veo, Kling, Runway & Luma Video Generation Inside the Timeline
The new Generative Media Tool also generates sound effects, soundscapes and music as editable clips, while Generative Extend widens to footage from 360p to 4K UHD.
SB 1050
California's SB 1050 Requires a Disclosure on Ads That Prominently Feature AI 'Synthetic Performers'
Governor Gavin Newsom signed the SAG-AFTRA-sponsored bill on September 16, over a veto request from 4 national advertising trade groups that called its labeling mandate overbroad.
Pika
Pika Relaunches as a Multi-App Studio With 3-Minute Videos & Automatic Model Routing
Semafor reports the rebuilt Pika turns basic details into an editable shot-by-shot list, while Pika's site now lists Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3 and its own Pika 2.5 side by side.
Manhattan DA
Manhattan DA Seizes Domains of 12 Websites It Alleges Sold AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes of About 1,200 People
District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office calls the court-ordered action the largest known seizure of its kind, says the investigation is ongoing, and has announced no charges.
deepfakes
Fake AI Video of ESPN's Holly Rowe Goes Viral After Texas Game; Arch Manning Apologizes for Laughing
Nobody has publicly identified who made the fabricated clip or which tool produced it, and footage of Manning's reaction passed 20 million views within a day.
MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3 Add-Ons Are Piling Up on Hugging Face: 8-Step LoRAs, a WASD World Model & More
Hugging Face counts 4.3 million downloads of MiniMax's H3 repository in the past month, and September brought HyperFlow, TaoMate-H3, H3-World, RefMods and a faster ComfyUI VAE.
Runway
Runway's API Adds Enhance Frame Rate, Converting Video Up to 120 fps for $0.05 Per 10 Seconds
The new enhance_frame_rate model rides on Runway's existing video upscale endpoint, takes clips of up to 300 seconds and outputs broadcast rates such as 23.98 and 59.94.
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle Says Ink Uses About 30 Seconds of Generative AI - for Old Photos and Newsroom Mice
Speaking to Vanity Fair at Telluride, the Slumdog Millionaire director called AI a useful tool on two conditions: use it respectfully and pay any actor it replaces.
ByteDance
Report: ByteDance Is Building a Real-Time Spatial Video Model on Seedance, Targeting 20 fps
Anonymous sources told Bloomberg that founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the project and a launch could come as soon as October; ByteDance has not commented and nothing is confirmed.
Reply AI Film Festival
Reply AI Film Festival: Robert Gaudette's Grok, Nano Banana & Seedance Short Beats 3,000 Entries
Jiaze Li's 11-minute Website took both the Reply AI Studios Grand Prix and the public vote, while 2xLabs' Centenarian Kindergarten placed third and won AI for Good.
Runway
Runway's Adobe Plugin Puts Gen-4.5, Veo 3.1 & Aleph 2.0 Inside Premiere Pro and After Effects
The free macOS and Windows download also runs Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3.0 Pro, and every generation draws on the credits of an existing paid Runway plan.
Runway
Runway Reaches $200 Million in Annual Recurring Revenue, Doubling Since April, & Adds Kinetix
Co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis disclosed the figure the same day Runway said the team from Paris research lab Kinetix is joining to work on world models for robotics.
MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3 Licence Explained: Who Can Run the Open Weights & What the 4 Excluded Regions Must Do
The MiniMax H3 Community License is royalty-free and allows commercial work, but it carves out four territories, a $20 million revenue ceiling and a ban on training other models.
Seedance 2.5
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 Review Roundup: Where 3 Outlets' Hands-On Tests Agree & Where They Split
SLOP TV has not tested Seedance 2.5; this digest sets six published write-ups from MindStudio, Curious Refuge and CineD against ByteDance's own specs and API prices.
Synthesia
Victor Riparbelli on Talking Avatars, AI Role-Play & What's Next for Synthesia (Ground Level AI)
In Sharon Goldman's podcast interview, the Synthesia CEO says avatar role-play sessions average about 18 minutes, and one customer with 2,000 to 3,000 managers uses them to rehearse hard conversations.
Stability AI
Stability AI Raises $76 Million From All 3 Major Music Groups & Electronic Arts, Reaching $232 Million Total
The August 25 Series B puts Universal, Sony and Warner on the cap table of a company that also makes video models, and adds Coatue's Thomas Laffont to the board.