ai-film
Super Me, an AI feature, premieres at SHAIKE in La Ciotat
Mr Press's AI-made feature Super Me gets its world premiere October 3 at the Eden Théâtre, co-produced by SHAIKE and Fernando Meirelles.
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ai-film
Terrarium's horror shoot swaps sets for 15 to 20 AI artists
Variety reported that Jason Zada's AI-hybrid horror film shoots actors on bare soundstages while 15 to 20 AI artists generate every location and prop around them.
ai-ads
SKF brings back Greta Garbo as an AI spokeswoman for bearings
The Swedish bearings maker says Garbo's family and the estate's licensing firm Harriet Brown & Company approved the AI campaign, built with Seedream, Nano Banana Pro, Seedance and Kling.
Runway
Project Continuum guide: Runway's AI operating system explained
Runway Labs wants your computer to render its own interface instead of shipping apps. Its own build calls itself a real-time video operating system at v0.0.1-alpha. Here is what it does, what it runs on, and what is still broken.
Trumbone
Trumbone Indigo adds Scene DNA to keep shots consistent
The music-video platform now writes a reference picture for every object or place a script returns to, and it is on every plan today.
Tilly Norwood
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt says Tilly Norwood is not an actor
He compared the AI performer to Donald Duck and argued that a performance requires a performer, as SAG-AFTRA writes rules for synthetic actors.
Utopai
Utopai Studios opens PAI, built around its No. 2 video model
The studio says its Utopai X model sits second on Artificial Analysis' text-to-video leaderboard, nine points behind Alibaba's Wan 3.0.
Tavus
Tavus says 48% of testers mistook its Griffin model for a human
The San Francisco lab calls Griffin the first model to pass a video Turing test, and says the full release waits on safety work.
Google
Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders only
Google's new frontier model ships first to a vetted security programme, with a 1 million token output limit and a video decoder that got 2.7x faster.
CapCut
CapCut and Massive Studios are making three AI holiday shorts
The trio of animated films is drawn by artists first and animated with Seedance 2.5 second, and all three will be free to watch on Christmas Eve.
Studio Jadu
Masoud Loghmani launches Studio Jadu for AI animation
The former YouTube and TikTok monetisation executive is backing solo artists and small teams with an AI production tool, and sharing the revenue their shows earn.
Runway
Runway launches an AI agent for paid ad creative
Runway Ads generates video and image variants, publishes approved ones to Meta, Google and TikTok, then rebuilds the next batch from what earned spend.
deepfakes
Varanasi police call a viral temple dance video AI-generated
The force says the clip was circulated to damage its image, and a case has been registered over it while the festival it claims to show stays under scrutiny.
White House
Trump signs a voluntary AI safety accord with six tech chiefs
The four-step pledge adds outside audits and board oversight for frontier models, and it leaves deepfakes, synthetic performers and AI video untouched.
Kalshi
Kalshi ran a creator's video as an ad after an AI face swap
The prediction market says the spot was about four months old and came from an outside agency, and the creator whose video it rebuilt was never asked.
AI influencers
An 80,000-follower mining influencer was AI, and Meta deleted her
The Perth "FIFO tradie" account sold a paid Fanvue subscription, and the only place the persona admitted she was generated was the small print of the paywalled page.
Eloelo
Eloelo opens Dolphin AI, an agentic studio for multi-shot video
The Bengaluru company's platform plans a script into scenes, keeps characters and wardrobes steady between shots, and plugs into Claude and ChatGPT over MCP.
Instagram
Instagram puts an AI video assistant inside its Edits app
The assistant reads a creator's retention, likes, shares and comments and names what to change, and extra usage comes with a Meta One subscription.
deepfakes
Bangkok flood catfish video is AI-made, fact-check finds
The clip spread on X and Instagram during real flooding that killed at least 23 people in Thailand, and a detection tool rated it 97% synthetic.
Sand.ai
Wangsu pays 300M yuan for 4.4% of video startup Sand.ai
The Shenzhen filing values Sand.ai near $1 billion, roughly 196 times what the video-model maker's first half of 2026 annualises to.