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BusinessVibe says Higgsfield can launch a streaming TV ad in one chat
BusinessGamehaus pays $19.6M in stock for 56% of Anamana
BusinessNew York Times and three papers sue Brave over AI search index
Google Gemini
EU court adviser says Gemini may infringe news publishers' rights
Maciej Szpunar advises declaring the two questions on model training inadmissible, saying training on protected works is, as a rule, freely permitted.
WRLabs
Whisper World and Rembrand merge to form AI video company WRLabs
The largely stock-based deal is expected to close in January and creates a company the two sides say reaches about two billion viewers a month.
Runway
Runway must face YouTube creators' DMCA scraping suit
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled the creators plausibly alleged Runway bypassed YouTube's download protections, letting the DMCA case proceed with no class certified.
AI
Fashion brands sought AI rights over models, Reuters finds
A draft Calvin Klein contract asked models to let their images train AI tools for no extra pay, in a review of more than a dozen photo-shoot agreements.
VerSe Innovation
Spark Station pitches an AI crew that makes a whole film
VerSe Innovation showed the workflows at its SPARK summit in Mumbai with Google Cloud as title partner, and published no price or launch date for them.
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia asks court to test AI fair use stage by stage
The Wikimedia Foundation's 5,831-word brief backs neither side and asks Judge Sidney Stein to weigh each stage of AI use on its own.
iQIYI
iQIYI opens a 110-square-meter AI film studio in Shanghai
Filming began October 28 on the internet feature "Cop in Trouble," with on-set footage syncing automatically to iQIYI's NadouPro platform.
nvidia
DOJ questions Nvidia's $12.93B Hugging Face deal
The department's questions also cover Nvidia's acquisitions, investments and sales practices, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.
Meta
UK competition watchdog investigates Meta's content terms
The CMA is examining whether Meta Platforms, Facebook UK and Facebook Ireland abused a dominant position by imposing the terms on businesses.
Apple
Alibaba's Qwen joins Apple Intelligence in China
Testing opens November 4 in Apple's iOS developer beta, with the public rollout bundled into iOS 27.3 in December and Siri AI left out.
OpenAI
OpenAI cuts funding target to $20 billion, FT reports
The Financial Times reported the round shrank from $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation after some investors cut their allocations.
SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA and WGA ask judge to reject AI's fair use defense
Actors, musicians and writers unions filed a joint brief in the OpenAI copyright case, saying a blanket exemption would void the AI terms they bargained for.
Instagram
Instagram offers creators up to $500,000 to post long video
Business Insider reported payouts from $50,000 to $500,000 for Instagram's new Features format, and Meta has still not promised creators an ad share.
higgsfield
Higgsfield tells ComfyUI to pull its open-source challenge
Comfy says it will not comply and the challenge stays up, with winners due November 6; Higgsfield has made no public statement.
Kling
Kuaishou closes Kling AI financing at reported $18B valuation
The roughly 19.8 billion yuan close is the same transaction reported in July, and Kuaishou keeps control through its Lucky Labs vehicle.
Meta
Meta's AI ad terms leave advertisers no opt-out
The revised terms have no switch-off for their AI liability, the one exit is to stop advertising on Meta, and the arbitration opt-out closes around December 20.
YouTube
YouTube reports 6.5 billion microdrama views in six months
The company is tying its Shorts seasons and episodes to channel memberships, with a members-only episode revamp promised for mobile in the coming weeks.