Adobe
Adobe Premiere 26.5 generates AI video right in the timeline
The new Generative Media Tool fills timeline gaps with clips from Firefly or partner models including Google Veo, Kling, Runway and Luma, and makes sound effects and music too.
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SB 1050
California becomes the 2nd state to make ads label AI actors
Governor Gavin Newsom signed the SAG-AFTRA-sponsored bill on September 16, over a veto request from 4 national advertising trade groups that called its labeling mandate overbroad.
Pika
Pika relaunches as a studio that makes 3-minute AI videos
Semafor reports the rebuilt Pika turns basic details into an editable shot list and picks the AI model for each job, and its site lists Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3 and Pika 2.5.
Manhattan DA
Manhattan prosecutors seize 12 websites over AI sexual deepfakes
District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office says the sites sold AI-made sexual deepfakes of about 1,200 people, calls it the largest seizure of its kind and has announced no charges.
deepfakes
Arch Manning apologizes for laughing at an AI fake of Holly Rowe
The fabricated clip shows Texas coach Steve Sarkisian striking the ESPN sideline reporter; nobody has identified who made it, and a video of Manning laughing at it passed 20 million views.
MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3 add-ons multiply as downloads hit 4.3 million a month
September brought Video Rebirth's 8-step HyperFlow speed-up, a keyboard-driven world model called H3-World, TaoMate-H3, RefMods and a faster ComfyUI decoder.
Runway
Runway's API boosts video up to 120 fps for $0.05 per 10 seconds
The new enhance_frame_rate model rides on Runway's existing video upscale endpoint, takes clips of up to 300 seconds and outputs broadcast rates such as 23.98 and 59.94.
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle says his film Ink contains about 30 seconds of AI
Speaking to Vanity Fair at Telluride, the Slumdog Millionaire director called AI a useful tool on two conditions: use it respectfully and pay any actor it replaces.
ByteDance
Report: ByteDance is building a real-time 20 fps Seedance model
Anonymous sources told Bloomberg that founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the project and a launch could come as soon as October; ByteDance has not commented and nothing is confirmed.
Reply AI Film Festival
Grok-and-Seedance short wins Reply AI Film Festival in Venice
Canadian filmmaker Robert Gaudette's A Face Only A Mother Could Love, also made with Nano Banana, beat more than 3,000 entries, while Jiaze Li's Website took the Reply AI Studios Grand Prix.
Runway
Runway now works inside Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
The free macOS and Windows plugin runs Gen-4.5, Veo 3.1, Aleph 2.0, Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3.0 Pro, and every generation draws on an existing paid Runway plan's credits.
Runway
Runway says its revenue run rate doubled to $200M since April
Co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis disclosed the figure the same day Runway said the team from Paris research lab Kinetix is joining to work on world models for robotics.
MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3's free license excludes the US, EU, UK and South Korea
The MiniMax H3 Community License is royalty-free and allows commercial work, but it carves out four territories, a $20 million revenue ceiling and a ban on training other models.
Seedance 2.5
Seedance 2.5 reviews: 30-second shots are useful but costly
SLOP TV has not tested Seedance 2.5; this digest sets six published write-ups from MindStudio, Curious Refuge and CineD against ByteDance's own specs and API prices.
Synthesia
Synthesia CEO says AI avatar role-plays average about 18 minutes
In Sharon Goldman's Ground Level AI podcast interview, Victor Riparbelli says Synthesia's avatars now hold conversations, and one customer with 2,000 to 3,000 managers uses them to rehearse hard talks.
Stability AI
Stability AI raises $76M with all 3 major music labels on board
The August 25 Series B, also joined by Electronic Arts, brings Stability AI's total to $232 million and gives Universal, Sony and Warner a stake in a company that also makes video models.