Amazon
Amazon in talks to buy Decart for about $7 billion, WSJ reports
The price would be a premium of about 75% on the nearly $4 billion valuation Decart carried after its May 2026 round, and follows Anthropic's September walk-away.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt says AI is trained to hijack intimacy
In a New York Times Opinion video, the UN's first global advocate for human-centric digital governance said the real concern is the people building the models.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs opens its Singapore hub with 25 staff
The AI voice company valued at $22 billion says its Singapore team could reach 100 employees in a few years and plans to train its models on Singlish.
Reallusion
Reallusion and Escape.AI partner on a 3D-to-AI pipeline
The multi-year deal puts Reallusion's Character Creator and iClone 3D tools inside Escape.AI's creator platform, which splits CTV revenue 50/50 and lets creators keep their IP.
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MBZUAI's WorldGuide makes AI video plan its own next steps
The UAE university's model plans each step from the clip it just generated, scoring 33.33 percent task success against 29.90 percent for MiniMax-H3.
Abundantia Entertainment
Abundantia AiOn to become a standalone AI studio in 2027
Founder Vikram Malhotra told Deadline the division will develop and produce its own films and that its first slate starts rolling out in early 2027.
Artlist
AI series The Arc cost $38,000 in AI credits for 83 minutes
The five-episode series averaged about $7,600 in credits per episode, with scenes generated mainly with Seedance and Kling and eight to 10 generations per shot.
Motionflare
Motionflare Film mode makes a TV-style commercial from a URL
The maker says it writes the brief, plans the shots and renders believable people in real places, with voiceover and sound built into the picture.
Cappu Films
Cappu Films takes worldwide sales on AI-rebuilt Overstake
Writer-director Stas Mareev shot it as a live-action feature and is rebuilding its environments with generative AI for a buyer pitch in Busan.
Koyal AI
Koyal AI and Waveband say Jamlok is the first AI horror film
The poster was unveiled on October 10 at Uncanny India in New Delhi, and the makers plan to finish the multilingual film in about three months.
Netflix
Netflix says it has used AI on about 300 titles
Korean director Kang Yun-sung told the same Busan panel that AI workflows can cut a feature film's production budget by 30% to 40%.
California
AI ad performers now need a label in New York, California next
California's law takes effect January 1, 2027 and covers AI voices; New York's has been in force since June 9 and exempts audio-only ads.
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Runway now sells rival models inside OpenAI's Marketplace
Luma AI cut the credit rates it charges for ByteDance's Seedance models on Dream Machine, a reduction the outlet ChatPicture put at as much as 73 percent.
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Sidhu Moose Wala hologram tour opens without AI
Producers say the effect is Pepper's Ghost, a 2D projection, and that no AI was used after a 2024 AI attempt looked gimmicky.
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck says he used AI on Animals and won't say where
He said at Bloomberg's Screentime event that the AI work was mostly in post-production, on a thriller Netflix put in select theaters and on streaming October 9.
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Prime Video takes global rights to AI film Çukur: Vartolu
Ay Yapim's Singapore-based AI Yapim generated every frame over human actors' performances, and Variety's report did not include financial terms or a release date.
Nvidia
Nvidia in talks to acquire or invest more in Reflection AI
The Financial Times reported early-stage talks that could end in a full purchase, an acqui-hire, or a deeper investment in the $800 million-backed startup.
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage refused Amazon's AI waiver for Spider-Noir
The actor says he is "probably not" working with Amazon again, and the studio canceled Spider-Noir after one season in September.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield Katana builds video edits from a reference in Claude
The tool runs inside Anthropic's Claude through Higgsfield's MCP connector and turns an uploaded clip into editable motion graphics.
Kling
Kling 4.0: what ships today and what is still a promise
Kuaishou's next video model was announced on September 28, but only a lighter Flash tier is usable while the full model waits on a date.