Character.AI
Disney bids $20M for Character.AI's code in bankruptcy
Disney Worldwide Services is the stalking horse bidder for a perpetual license to Character.AI's training, safety and serving code and nine patents, not the app.
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wavespeedai
AI Cinema Studio turns 18 camera moves into a shot
WaveSpeedAI's new panel writes lighting, lens and a start-to-end camera move into the prompt, while Kling, Runway, Veo and Luma each specify motion differently.
Agnes-Video-2.0-MoE
Agnes Video 2.0 MoE ships open weights under Apache 2.0
The 28.7-billion-parameter model generates video with audio, but its Apache 2.0 label stops at the Agnes core weights and excludes the text encoder and VAE.
Kling
Runway Dev adds Kling 3.0 and O3 video models
The developer platform lists Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro, Kling 3.0 and Kling O3 at 9 to 43 credits per second, with credits selling for one cent each.
AI disclosure
How to label AI video on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and X
Each platform asks whether a viewer could mistake the clip for something real, and the EU's Article 50 adds a legal labeling duty from 2 August 2026.
Nikon
Nikon AI disqualification leaves winner's university disputed
Ars Technica and the BBC place the disqualified entrant at Tsinghua University in China, while PetaPixel lists him at the National University of Singapore.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield says GPT-6 Astra pushed its videos past 10 minutes
The OpenAI customer story published on October 13, 2026 lists no benchmark, no price and no availability date for the longer generations.
Grimes
Grimes' Accelerando video: where AI sits in a 70-person pipeline
Grimes' spokesperson says no AI was used for the song or vocals, while the video credits more than 70 professionals over two to three months, including three AI artists.
Kling
AI video's benchmark shifts to holding a character across cuts
Vendors from Kuaishou to Google now sell reference images, saved characters and keyframes as the inputs that keep a person the same across cuts.
animate
animate skill draws explainer videos in code, no video model
The MIT-licensed plugin draws every frame on one canvas, renders with Playwright Chromium and ffmpeg, and asks you to approve the storyboard before it animates.
gossip-goblin
AI film Gods Don't Give Gifts heads to theaters rated R
The Zack London film, known online as Gossip Goblin, opens December 4 in a limited US and UK run with an Oscar campaign attached.
Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas will star in Utopai's AI-enabled film Cortés
Paul Mignot directs from an Oscar-nominated Nicholas Kazan script; the Paris production is a co-production with Ex Machina Studios and is set for 2027.
Astra Studios
Astra Studios and VerSe launch Astra-Spark AI alliance at MIPCOM
The deal pairs Astra Studios, backed by India's Hombale Group, with VerSe Innovation's SparkStation, which the companies describe as an AI Content Operating System.
Code Video Model
Microsoft's Code Video Model plans shots in code first
The research system writes each shot as a Three.js program, previews it as a low-poly proxy, then has the frozen MiniMax-H3 model render the final clip without retraining.
HiDream
HiDream-O1-Video API ships image-to-video only
HiDream.ai announced HiDream-O1-Video-1.0 on September 17 as a natively omnimodal model, but the HiHarness docs describe a single-image API.
clueso
Clueso raises $10M Series A led by Dharana Capital
The California and Bengaluru company says more than 1,000 businesses use its agents and that the round brings total funding to $12 million.
Meta
Meta ships Muse Wonder frontier models at $4 per million tokens
The stronger Muse Wonder Full model is not sold through the Meta Model API and unlocks only on Muse Code subscriptions at $50 and $200 a month.
Sora
Report: OpenAI in talks to license Sora to a filmmaker startup
The Information reported the stealth startup is led by Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, former Sora research lead Bill Peebles and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa.
Claude Opus 5.5
How Claude Opus 5.5 painted a hand-drawn music video in code
X user NotinReality handed the lyrics and audio to Claude Opus 5.5, which wrote the JavaScript that paints all 156.6 seconds frame by frame.
youtube
YouTube adds AI music as a fourth disclosure trigger
The help page first showed music in YouTube's core disclosure list on October 3, 2026, a day after it sat only among the examples.