Microsoft
Microsoft ships a live transcription model at $0.54 an hour
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming returns partial text in about 100 milliseconds, and two new voice models join it for real-time agents.
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HeyGen
HeyGen's first video model sells from 1 cent a second
HeyGen Video is a fine-tune of MiniMax's H3 model and generates 5 to 15 second clips with their own audio, at half its regular price through October.
Nikon
Nikon re-reviews its microscopy video winner over AI use
The 2026 Small World in Motion winner says AI only colored the footage after imaging; critics point to a SynthID watermark on the clip.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs doubles its valuation to $22B in a tender offer
A $300 million employee share sale led by Wellington and T Rowe Price values the voice AI company at twice its February round.
wan
Wan 3.0 tops AI video's blind Elo leaderboard
Google's Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 sits eighth at Elo 1116, as of October 2, 2026, on an updated board that pins Kling 3.0 Pro at 1000.
grok
xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite ships from $0.02 a second
The xAI video model carries per-resolution rates of $0.02 at 480p, $0.03 at 720p and $0.14 at 1080p, the same tiers its flagship model and fal.ai list.
kelly-clarkson
Kelly Clarkson wants a separate chart for AI music
The singer told the Las Culturistas podcast on September 30 that she loves AI but does not think AI acts should chart against humans, and fans pushed back.
luma
Luma's Ad Variants turns one static ad into five sizes
Luma's new Ad Variants tool resizes and translates one approved static ad into five placements and any language, while keeping the logo, headline and CTA intact.
higgsfield
Higgsfield's Genjutsu Restyle redraws videos in 20+ styles
The new mode, model ID higgsfield/genjutsu/restyle/v1.0, launched September 30 and bills per second of source video from $0.318 at 480p to $1.632 at 1080p.
Runway
Project Continuum guide: Runway's AI operating system explained
Runway Labs wants your computer to render its own interface instead of shipping apps. Its own build calls itself a real-time video operating system at v0.0.1-alpha. Here is what it does, what it runs on, and what is still broken.
Trumbone
Trumbone Indigo adds Scene DNA to keep shots consistent
The music-video platform now writes a reference picture for every object or place a script returns to, and it is on every plan today.
Tilly Norwood
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt says Tilly Norwood is not an actor
He compared the AI performer to Donald Duck and argued that a performance requires a performer, as SAG-AFTRA writes rules for synthetic actors.
Utopai
Utopai Studios opens PAI, built around its No. 2 video model
The studio says its Utopai X model sits second on Artificial Analysis' text-to-video leaderboard, nine points behind Alibaba's Wan 3.0.
Tavus
Tavus says 48% of testers mistook its Griffin model for a human
The San Francisco lab calls Griffin the first model to pass a video Turing test, and says the full release waits on safety work.
Google
Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders only
Google's new frontier model ships first to a vetted security programme, with a 1 million token output limit and a video decoder that got 2.7x faster.
CapCut
CapCut and Massive Studios are making three AI holiday shorts
The trio of animated films is drawn by artists first and animated with Seedance 2.5 second, and all three will be free to watch on Christmas Eve.
Studio Jadu
Masoud Loghmani launches Studio Jadu for AI animation
The former YouTube and TikTok monetisation executive is backing solo artists and small teams with an AI production tool, and sharing the revenue their shows earn.
VideoGen
VideoGen raises $3.3M as it passes 5 million users
The Y Combinator-backed platform sells finished, editable videos rather than clips, and says its agents now work in more than 190 countries.
MForMedia
Dubai's MForMedia signs AI production pact with Arcana Labs
The Dubai producer will embed Arcana Labs' software in its workflows, train staff on it, and co-produce Arabic-language originals under a new partnership.
deepfakes
Why state AI deepfake laws may not stop a fake video
Thirty-one states now have election deepfake laws, and a new analysis of two of them shows how much fabricated video can still reach voters legally.