Higgsfield
Higgsfield says it crossed a $1 billion revenue run rate
The AI video startup says it reached a $1bn run rate 18 months after launch, and published every prompt behind its 95-minute feature film.
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Runway
Runway launches an AI agent for paid ad creative
Runway Ads generates video and image variants, publishes approved ones to Meta, Google and TikTok, then rebuilds the next batch from what earned spend.
deepfakes
Varanasi police call a viral temple dance video AI-generated
The force says the clip was circulated to damage its image, and a case has been registered over it while the festival it claims to show stays under scrutiny.
Eloelo
Eloelo opens Dolphin AI, an agentic studio for multi-shot video
The Bengaluru company's platform plans a script into scenes, keeps characters and wardrobes steady between shots, and plugs into Claude and ChatGPT over MCP.
Instagram
Instagram puts an AI video assistant inside its Edits app
The assistant reads a creator's retention, likes, shares and comments and names what to change, and extra usage comes with a Meta One subscription.
ComfyUI
ComfyUI 0.38 adds a 480p draft render for Seedance 2.5
The release also adds identity-preserving video-to-video on Wan 2.1 and VACE models, a new quantization format, and removes the retired Sora nodes.
Sand.ai
Wangsu pays 300M yuan for 4.4% of video startup Sand.ai
The Shenzhen filing values Sand.ai near $1 billion, roughly 196 times what the video-model maker's first half of 2026 annualises to.
General Intuition
World-model startup General Intuition raises $220M at $6.2B
A year after spinning out of game-clip platform Medal, the lab says its MIRA model renders training footage at 20 frames per second across four players.
XPRIZE
AI short The Gifted wins the first Future Vision XPRIZE
Jeff Synthesized's film about a boy who rebuilds his late mother from her texts took the top prize from more than 2,500 entries.
AMD
AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion
The chipmaker gets the spatial-intelligence lab behind Marble, and founder Fei-Fei Li joins AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
Suno
The "model laundering" case against Suno could reach AI video models
Universal and Sony say Suno's v6 inherited infringement from models trained on their recordings, and the same distillation step built this week's few-step video releases.
OpenAI
OpenAI's DevDay ships always-on agents and a cheaper GPT-6.1
dots run on GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer and reach more than 4,000 apps, while GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra results at a fifth of the price.
AI LENS
AI LENS screens three films shot through a generative camera
The University of Nottingham research project generates imagery in real time while a cast and crew shoot, and its first three films get a free screening on September 29.
few-step distillation
Few-step distillation explains this week's open video models
Four papers posted on September 28, 2026, Elastic Forcing, PDMD, DuoMatching and MILD, each attack the same training bottleneck in video generation.
Google
Google makes Live Avatar generally available in Gemini Enterprise
The feature layers generated video, lip-sync and facial expressions onto Gemini 3.8 Live's speech model, and it supports 97 languages, Google said in a Cloud blog post.
Bona Film Group
Sanxingdui: Future Past sets October 23 China release date
Bona Film Group's AIGMS team says the 100-minute AI-produced sci-fi feature drew on 1.2 million source images over about two years of production.
Google Flow
Google Flow's six new tools list no credit costs or plan terms
The September 23 post lists no credit costs, quotas or plan terms for the six, and a secondary write-up names caption accuracy and in-image text as the checks.
Kling 4.0
Kling 4.0 doubles its AI video clip length to 30 seconds
Kuaishou's video unit says Kling 4.0 is in testing with selected users, a lite version is open to annual subscribers, and the full model ships in October.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs v4 targets performed dialogue for AI video
The new model stacks direction tags, follows the scene it is in and clones a voice from ten seconds of audio, and its Turbo variant answers in about 150 milliseconds. Dialogue was the last unperformed layer of a generated scene.
kling
Kling AI sells 1.14% to China's state AI fund for 1.4bn yuan
Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen are competing with vouchers and rent, while China's film regulator cleared the 90-minute AI feature Sanxingdui: Future Memories for cinemas.