Germany
Germany's cabinet approves a bill criminalizing sexual deepfakes
The draft adds new crimes for damaging deepfakes, fake profiles and covert tracking, and lets courts order platforms to remove content and block accounts.
Business
Deals, funding, lawsuits and the money behind AI video.
India
India will publish an AI regulation paper within a month
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the paper will focus on safety, deepfakes and a human-first approach, with industry carrying most of the responsibility.
Deepdub
Deepdub and Spikes dub studio catalogs into 130 languages
Spikes says it has processed more than 1,000 titles and built 30,000 micro-content episodes from studio libraries to date.
Chandigarh
Chandigarh court orders Facebook to suspend 3 AI video pages
Civil Judge (Junior Division) Kuldeep Singh ordered the three pages suspended ex parte until a hearing on October 22, after ruling the videos went beyond healthy public criticism.
Denmark
Denmark moves to ban sharing AI deepfakes without consent
Culture minister Zenia Stampe's bill targets platforms that fail to remove lifelike copies of a person's face or voice, and would protect performers too.
Kling
Report: Kling AI picks banks for $1 billion Hong Kong IPO
Kuaishou's Kling also unveiled its Kling 4.0 model on September 28, doubling single-pass clips to 30 seconds and previewing up to 10 keyframes.
Runway
Runway's Praxis-1 turns video pretraining into robot control
The New York company says early partners Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra are running Praxis-1 on their own hardware, with open weights planned for the coming months.
xAI
Eighth Circuit pauses Minnesota's AI nudification ban
The St. Louis appeals court froze the first-in-the-nation law in a one-sentence order on October 2, while xAI's First Amendment challenge continues.
ai video
Publisher claims Japan's first AI video magazine at 1,760 yen
Asuka Publishing's AI Douga Saizensen carries 12 interviews and copyright guidance from a lawyer whose firm the publisher says sits on the justice ministry's AI legislation committee.
ByteDance
ByteDance must face YouTubers' DMCA suit over AI training scrape
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley denied ByteDance's motion to dismiss on October 2, holding the creators plausibly alleged a lost-advertising injury tied to circumvention.
Google
EmbeddingGemma 2 puts video search on a phone at 740M parameters
Google's open model unifies text, images, audio and video in one vector space, so a voice memo can find the matching shot without leaving the phone.
sag-aftra
SAG-AFTRA animation deal tightens AI rules for voice actors
Members vote until October 29 on a four-year contract that would require a studio to get a voice actor's consent before dubbing a performance with a cloned voice.
Meta
Meta opens its AI video ad tools to all advertisers
Advantage+ Creative can now turn still images into video ads and catalog advertisers can generate product video at scale, and Meta says video is more than 60% of Facebook and Instagram time.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs doubles its valuation to $22B in a tender offer
A $300 million employee share sale led by Wellington and T Rowe Price values the voice AI company at twice its February round.
AI video
Arizona court throws out a sentence over an AI victim video
The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld the manslaughter conviction but ordered a new sentencing hearing, saying the AI depiction of the victim prejudiced the trial judge.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Bombay High Court blocks AI deepfakes of Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Justice Madhav Jamdar's interim order names 18 defendants, including Meta, Google and Amazon, and restrains the use of her name, image and voice.
VideoGen
VideoGen raises $3.3M as it passes 5 million users
The Y Combinator-backed platform sells finished, editable videos rather than clips, and says its agents now work in more than 190 countries.
MForMedia
Dubai's MForMedia signs AI production pact with Arcana Labs
The Dubai producer will embed Arcana Labs' software in its workflows, train staff on it, and co-produce Arabic-language originals under a new partnership.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield says it crossed a $1 billion revenue run rate
The AI video startup says it reached a $1bn run rate 18 months after launch, and published every prompt behind its 95-minute feature film.
NO FAKES Act
NO FAKES Act would give creators a federal right to their likeness
The bipartisan bill would put a 10-year cap on likeness licenses and a de facto takedown duty on platforms, and its passage window this year is narrowing.