Explainers
How it works and what it means.
Why AI video generation is turning into an agent loop
A new survey names the runtime around a video model the agent harness, and this week Loova, Runway and ComfyUI shipped the same idea as products.
How to use ComfyUI 0.44.0's dubbing, lip-sync and camera nodes
The release adds six MiniMax H3 Max nodes for lip-sync, camera moves, recasting and reframing, plus two video upscalers, and every one bills through Comfy credits.
How to add Runway Dev to Claude Code, Codex and Cursor
One install wires your coding agent to your Runway Dev account, so it can read your models, prices and credit balance and build the integration itself.
AI slopaganda ads flooded the midterms with $187 million
The Wesleyan Media Project counted 289 AI-generated or AI-enhanced ads, and CNBC found YouTube, Meta and X each police them differently.
Adobe and UT Austin's AgiWorld builds persistent video worlds
The UT Austin and Adobe Research preprint reports that persistence in a video world model comes from a closed loop between a planning agent and the generator.
How to make a two-character AI cartoon that hit 21 million views
Krea's breakdown of antrofrog's No Ordinary Love names the three tools behind the 59-second short and the stills that hold two cartoon characters together.
How to use YouTube's 30-day cleanup window to save your channel
Eligible channels facing termination over certain spam violations can now edit or delete flagged videos, wipe the whole library, or appeal.
Tencent's WeVisCut edits a long video from a script with a 9B model
The Tencent and Xidian University agent scores 90.5 on the authors' own 100-task benchmark, close to Claude Opus 5 and at about a thirty-third of its token cost.
World models guide: Genie 3, GWM and open weights, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to world models: what runs in real time, what you can call today, the open weights, the hardware and SLOP TV's coverage.
Seedance 2.5 guide: specs, prices and access, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to Seedance 2.5: what a generation allows, what it costs on each platform, what shipped and SLOP TV's coverage of the model.
Higgsfield guide: plans, prices and models, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to Higgsfield: what each plan and the API cost, which models it runs, what shipped this month and SLOP TV's coverage of the platform.
Runway guide: every plan, price and AI model, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to Runway: what each plan costs, which models it runs, what shipped this month and every story we have written about it.
MiniMax H3 guide: specs, license and prices, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to MiniMax H3: the open weights and their license, the per-second rates, what the model does and SLOP TV's coverage of it.
HeyGen API v1 and v2 retire November 1: what to move
HeyGen's own docs disagree by a day on the cutoff, and every legacy v1 and v2 response already names the v3 endpoint it should move to.
YouTube Music starts labeling songs made with AI
Deezer, which says it receives nearly 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks a day, will let listeners filter them from search before the end of 2026.
Theoretically Media: AI Video Just Stepped Into the Real World
The channel's uploads, logged episode by episode: 198K subscribers, 22,036,803 views and 420 videos. Nothing here is summarised from memory — every entry carries the episode's own outline and a view count read on 2026-11-01.
Code2Video and Magnific Move render motion as editable code
SenseTime's 27B open model, fal's pay-per-second converter and Magnific's agentic editor all shipped in late October, and each one points at a different job.