Anthropic
Judge hears Anthropic's fair use defense on Claude lyrics
U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee pressed both sides on market harm, one of the four fair use factors, and questioned the publishers' threat claim.
Business
Deals, funding, lawsuits and the money behind AI video.
sarvam
Sarvam pays creators to dub videos into 10 Indian languages
Approved creators get monthly credits to dub their videos through Sarvam Content Studio, plus payment when a promotional video crosses an undisclosed view milestone.
arizona
Arizona court tosses 10.5-year sentence over AI victim video
The Court of Appeals held that a video of a shooting victim, scripted by his sister and voiced by AI, was not reliable enough for sentencing.
wga east
WGA East gives writers Cloak to make scripts unreadable to AI
The guild's more than 7,500 members get the tool free, while non-members pay $10 on top of a $25 script registration that lasts 10 years.
runway
Runway joins Claude Marketplace with Runway Creative
Eligible enterprise customers can apply part of an existing Anthropic commitment to Runway Creative, and neither company has published who qualifies.
midjourney
Midjourney must hand over video training data to the studios
Studios suing Midjourney get a file-level look at a shipped AI video model's training data under an agreed protocol, not a ruling, and their damages claim is unquantified.
getup
GetUp posts a fake AI video to push a political ad ban
The advocacy group's petition to ban lifelike AI-generated depictions of people or events that never existed had more than 17,300 signatures as of October 16.
mcp
This week in media MCPs: Unity ships 32 skills and two servers retire
Runway and ElevenLabs retired their local MCP servers in the same week Unity shipped 32 official skills for coding agents. Every media-creation MCP server and skill pack we track, with the date each figure was read.
decart
Amazon in talks to buy AI video startup Decart for $7B
The Wall Street Journal reports a roughly 75 percent premium on Decart's May valuation, weeks after Anthropic walked away from a $6 billion deal.
Felix Film
Felix Film edits animator job listing over generative AI
The Mitaka studio said it has not decided to use generative AI for images and is studying its potential future use.
World
World ID for banks launches with no bank customer named
World ID for Zoom is now generally available through the Zoom Marketplace, with Bain Capital, Pantera Capital and VanEck Funds among five design partners.
applovin
AppLovin sued over AI video ad tool and model claims
The proposed class covers investors who acquired AppLovin securities between Feb. 12 and Aug. 5, 2026, after the company posted 53% quarterly revenue growth.
deepfakes
Audit finds 46 women MEPs targeted by sexual deepfakes
The EU's nudifier ban takes effect December 2, but 119 MEPs say it needs enforcement and the research finds no removal deadline for platforms.
Kling 4.0
Adobe will bring Kling 4.0 to Firefly for brand campaigns
Kling AI showcased the model at Advertising Week New York with WPP and Adobe, which added Kling 3.0 and 3.0 Omni to Firefly in April.
Japan Actors Union
Japan actors union publishes first AI voice guidelines
The voluntary rules require a performer's consent before training, generation and release, pay for AI voice use, and fresh permission for AI dubbing.
deepfake authentication
Iowa Supreme Court: a deepfake claim does not bar video evidence
The court affirmed a Woodbury County sexual abuse conviction, finding circumstantial detail in the video sufficient to authenticate it under Iowa Rule of Evidence 5.901.
openai
OpenAI and Meta warn judges deepfakes evade detection
The Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules is weighing a draft Rule 901(c) after a March survey found just 15 of 931 responding judges had faced a deepfake challenge.
deepfake
Colorado deepfake ad of Sen. Cathy Kipp draws free-speech fight
The Independence Institute says the fake video is satire exempt from disclosure; the state elections division says satire must be grounded in humor.
sonilo
Sonilo raises $11M to build video-native AI audio
The San Francisco startup, founded by veterans of TikTok's AI and music teams, says its Sound World Model reads footage to generate matching music and sound effects.
Runway
Baseten hosts Runway's video models with a 99.99% uptime SLA
Enterprise customers license Runway's closed weights directly and run Gen-4.5 or Aleph 2.0 single-tenant, though no licensee or price has been named.