duel
Duel Apologizes for an AI Video of Sneako Praying on Its Blackjack Table
The crypto casino says its own content team made the clip and that an employee was fired; the streamer says he will sue, and no case has been filed publicly.
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meta
Meta Puts AI Video Generation Behind a $7.99 to $499 Subscription Ladder
Core at $7.99 and Premium at $19.99 unlock higher monthly use of Meta AI's Muse image and video generation, and Meta says 15 million subscriptions and trials have been taken.
eu ai act
The EU's AI Video Labelling Rules Are Live: What Article 50 Asks of You
Article 50 has applied since August 2, 2026, with a December 2 deadline for marking systems already on the market and fines up to 15 million euros.
runway
Runway Wants AI Video to Stream as You Prompt It, Frame by Frame
A research post explains how Runway post-trains existing video models to generate causally and stream frames, and what of that is actually live today.
creatify labs
Creatify Labs' Boreal Sells AI Video at 1 Cent a Second, Built for Ads
The advertising-focused model was post-trained on an open 22-billion-parameter base and returns a five-second 720p clip for about $0.05, the company says.
astronex
Astronex-World 1.0 Streams Open World-Model Video on a Single 48GB GPU
The Apache-2.0 release is built on Alibaba's Wan 2.2 prior and generates 832x480 video at 24 frames per second without a render queue, its authors say.
Runway
How GPT-6 and Runway remade an AI short in about a day and a half
We are huge fans of Tim Simmons' Theoretically Media, and this week he rebuilt his 2025 short film by pointing GPT-6 in Codex at Runway's MCP, then finished the cut in DaVinci Resolve without touching the mouse. Watch it, then subscribe to his channel.
LTX-2.5
How to Train Your Own LTX-2.5 LoRA on One GPU, Step by Step
Lightricks' open trainer turns your clips into a small adapter that teaches the 22B video model a style, a face or a camera move. Here is the whole run.
Fountain 0
Fountain 0 Sells a Feature-Length All-AI Odyssey Film for $9.99
The studio behind Tribeca's Dreams of Violets says its second feature ran on Kling and took months of part-time work, and reviewers have not been kind.
Alibaba
Wan 3.0 generates 30 seconds of video in one pass
Alibaba's Wan 3.0 doubles its predecessor's single-pass clip length to 30 seconds, but its per-second price beats or trails Wan 2.7 depending on which platform bills it.
Sora
OpenAI's Sora API Shuts Down Sept. 24: Where Its 4 Biggest Jobs Go Next
OpenAI's Videos API and every sora-2 model ID go dark September 24, and the replacements price per second, not per token, across Google, Alibaba, fal and Black Forest Labs.
Kling 3.0
Kling 3.0's 4K 60fps claim traces to a single press release
Kuaishou confirmed 15-second multi-shot clips and five-language native audio for Kling 3.0; the widely repeated 4K 60fps and six-shot figures trace to a single marketing release.
HiDream
HiDream.ai's HiDream V1 Video Model Debuts at 1080p With Synced Audio
HiDream.ai's new omnimodal model can pick its own clip length between 5 and 20 seconds, and the company says it debuted at No. 4 and No. 8 on two video leaderboards.
Runway
Runway merges its app and API credits into one pool
The change merges credit purchases into one invoice and adds sign-up bonuses for enterprises that commit by December 31, 2026.
The Analog Kid
The Analog Kid Review: An AI Short That Looks Like a Studio Sci-Fi Film
A composer in 2112 hears the machine speak in a photoreal AI short whose night-city craft is a cut above the beat, and whose ending is still unproven.
Jev
What is Jev, the AI model that decides instead of writing
TypeSafe's Jev answers typed questions with calibrated probabilities instead of writing text, and output tokens are billed at zero.
Pocket Entertainment
Pocket FM hits a $500M run rate with AI making 99% of new shows
Parent company Pocket Entertainment reportedly seeks $100 million to $120 million at up to a $2 billion valuation, and says AI made production about 80 times cheaper.
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.
Tilly Norwood
AI actress Tilly Norwood switches to Chinese on Piers Morgan
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 shuts down the Sora 2 video API on September 24
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.