Character.AI
Disney bids $20M for Character.AI's code in bankruptcy
Disney Worldwide Services is the stalking horse bidder for a perpetual license to Character.AI's training, safety and serving code and nine patents, not the app.
Business
Deals, funding, lawsuits and the money behind AI video.
Apple
Apple loses bid to dismiss YouTube AI scraping suit
Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco let the DMCA anti-circumvention claim proceed, rejecting Apple's argument that publicly available YouTube videos have no access controls.
Brazil
Brazil's electoral court judge orders pro-Lula AI video pulled
Substitute judge Marco Aurélio Bellizze gave government lawyer Jorge Messias 24 hours to delete the unlabeled video and left any fine to a later ruling.
Thomson Reuters
Third Circuit rules ROSS's AI training was not fair use
The court held 2,243 Westlaw headnotes are copyrightable and found ROSS's use of them to train its legal AI minimally transformative at best.
Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas will star in Utopai's AI-enabled film Cortés
Paul Mignot directs from an Oscar-nominated Nicholas Kazan script; the Paris production is a co-production with Ex Machina Studios and is set for 2027.
Astra Studios
Astra Studios and VerSe launch Astra-Spark AI alliance at MIPCOM
The deal pairs Astra Studios, backed by India's Hombale Group, with VerSe Innovation's SparkStation, which the companies describe as an AI Content Operating System.
meta
Delhi High Court orders Meta to remove AI deepfakes
Justice Vikas Mahajan gave Meta 72 hours to take down the identified posts, reels and channels, and restrained unauthorized use of the actor-politician's likeness.
clueso
Clueso raises $10M Series A led by Dharana Capital
The California and Bengaluru company says more than 1,000 businesses use its agents and that the round brings total funding to $12 million.
Meta
Meta ships Muse Wonder frontier models at $4 per million tokens
The stronger Muse Wonder Full model is not sold through the Meta Model API and unlocks only on Muse Code subscriptions at $50 and $200 a month.
Sora
Report: OpenAI in talks to license Sora to a filmmaker startup
The Information reported the stealth startup is led by Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, former Sora research lead Bill Peebles and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa.
Amazon
Amazon in talks to buy Decart for about $7 billion, WSJ reports
The price would be a premium of about 75% on the nearly $4 billion valuation Decart carried after its May 2026 round, and follows Anthropic's September walk-away.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs opens its Singapore hub with 25 staff
The AI voice company valued at $22 billion says its Singapore team could reach 100 employees in a few years and plans to train its models on Singlish.
Reallusion
Reallusion and Escape.AI partner on a 3D-to-AI pipeline
The multi-year deal puts Reallusion's Character Creator and iClone 3D tools inside Escape.AI's creator platform, which splits CTV revenue 50/50 and lets creators keep their IP.
Meta
Oversight Board calls Meta's AI deepfake rules inadequate
The Board overturned Meta in two cases and ordered two videos removed; Meta said it will comply within seven days.
Abundantia Entertainment
Abundantia AiOn to become a standalone AI studio in 2027
Founder Vikram Malhotra told Deadline the division will develop and produce its own films and that its first slate starts rolling out in early 2027.
Cappu Films
Cappu Films takes worldwide sales on AI-rebuilt Overstake
Writer-director Stas Mareev shot it as a live-action feature and is rebuilding its environments with generative AI for a buyer pitch in Busan.
Koyal AI
Koyal AI and Waveband say Jamlok is the first AI horror film
The poster was unveiled on October 10 at Uncanny India in New Delhi, and the makers plan to finish the multilingual film in about three months.
Netflix
Netflix says it has used AI on about 300 titles
Korean director Kang Yun-sung told the same Busan panel that AI workflows can cut a feature film's production budget by 30% to 40%.
prime-video
Prime Video takes global rights to AI film Çukur: Vartolu
Ay Yapim's Singapore-based AI Yapim generated every frame over human actors' performances, and Variety's report did not include financial terms or a release date.
Nvidia
Nvidia in talks to acquire or invest more in Reflection AI
The Financial Times reported early-stage talks that could end in a full purchase, an acqui-hire, or a deeper investment in the $800 million-backed startup.