oracle
Oracle plans Media Fabric, bundling AI video and streaming
Oracle says the platform, combining Creative Studio, AI Media Models and Video Edge, arrives within 12 months; the media models are in beta.
Business
Deals, funding, lawsuits and the money behind AI video.
microsoft
Microsoft and Epic fire DMCA takedowns at AI-built game ports
Epic took down a browser Fortnite port on October 10, and Microsoft has chased Minecraft, Call of Duty and Halo ports while its own AI director called such training theft.
anthropic
Elvis Presley rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 songs
The licensing platform Authentic Brands Group and its co-plaintiffs allege Anthropic trained Claude on the songs without permission and stripped songwriter credits.
ghana
Ghana's National Film Authority faces backlash over AI video
The breast cancer awareness video used real Ghanaian actors' voices but visuals made entirely with AI, and critics said it bypassed local production crews.
ByteDance
ByteDance folds its Xiaoyunque short-drama app into Jimeng
The CapCut unit keeps Xiaoyunque's standalone entry point, but its operations now report to Jimeng's head of operations and marketing.
Wonder Studios
Wonder Studios signs TV deal for AI-made indie films
The Foundation Distribution agreement puts films on Roku, Samsung TV and Amazon as stand-alone titles, starting with Beyond the Loop season two.
Utopai Studios
Utopai Studios raises $60M at $1B, The Information reports
The Mountain View studio is fielding offers that could value it at up to $3 billion, and it plans three feature films in theaters in 2027.
no-fakes-act
NO FAKES Act stalls in the Senate after Cruz objects
The RIAA's chief executive says the voice and likeness bill has a real shot in the lame-duck session, but its House companion has sat untouched since May.
meta
Meta makes advertisers liable for its AI edits to ads
The revision adds an AI Features section and takes effect November 20, after Meta pushed the date back from October 30 following publisher objections.
NationA
NationA raises 8.5 billion won for AI video platform
The South Korean company says the Series A takes its cumulative funding to 11.7 billion won, while Seoul Economic Daily puts the raise at about $5.9 million.
Mississippi
Mississippi AG tells Colom to pull fake AI video of Hyde-Smith
Attorney General Lynn Fitch said the posts appear to violate a 2024 deepfake-election law and warned of an injunction if they were not removed.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's AI ad law requires disclosure on deceptive ads
Governor Josh Shapiro signed Senate Bill 806 on October 22, 2026; it takes effect December 21 and lets the attorney general seek civil fines up to $3,000.
canva
Canva ships Craft, its first in-house image model
The design platform's first from-scratch model is trained on its own templates, and Canva says it ranks fourth on the DesignArena image leaderboard.
collage
Ex-UTA agent Dante DeSario launches Collage as AI studio broker
The Beverly Hills firm closed an undisclosed seed round, and Deadline lists eight AI-native studios, from Asteria to Secret Level, as launch clients.
Equity
Equity warns over AI rights assignment in game casting
The UK performers' union says it cannot name the game or studio under an NDA, and has not seen the detailed terms it is advising members to scrutinize.
spain
Spain's conservative opposition ran a fake AI election ad
One person whose likeness the fabricated video used filed a legal challenge, as a majority of nine legal experts told El País the ad was not illegal.
bona-film-group
China's first AI feature film opens to weak ticket sales
Bona Film Group's fully AI-generated feature sold 80,000 yuan in advance tickets against a forecast of under 150,000 yuan and a production cost over 10 million yuan.
OpenArt
OpenArt says annual revenue nears $200M with 8 million users
The AI creative platform hired Salesforce's former global brand chief, Scott Larson, and says headcount grew to 80 from 20 in a year.
deepfakes
EU Socialists draft a bloc-wide ban on harmful deepfakes
The group's tech objectives, seen by POLITICO, would put the duty to stop deepfakes on platforms and AI providers, and name no mechanism for the ban.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield adds Nvidia and TCV to its Series B extension
Nvidia and TCV's money builds on an August round that valued Higgsfield at $5.4 billion, and the size of the new investment was not disclosed.