Higgsfield
Higgsfield offers 100% API cashback from a $20M pool
Higgsfield is paying API spending back as API credits on every model in its catalog, capped at $100,000 a business, and unused cashback expires on September 30.
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Runway
Runway's test: a $1 cap cut per-clip video cost 66%
Runway's benchmark of its own Model Router found a capped quality setting held a 74% usable rate at $0.61 a clip, against Seedance 2.5's 78% at $1.80.
TBC
TBC says its neuron-derived video model runs 5x faster
The layer is built from measurements of lab-grown nerve cells, adds under 0.1% to the model, and is still an early-access signup rather than a product.
KATSEYE
KATSEYE's Lara Raj calls a fake AI video of her disgusting
A fabricated clip put a racial slur in her mouth in what looks like a podcast interview, and she answered it where her fans already were.
China
China is subsidising AI film studios, and Douyin is drowning in them
Reuters reports 221,900 new AI shows landed on Douyin in six months and only 1,055 cleared 100 million views, while cities compete to hand filmmakers cheap rent and compute.
TikTok
TikTok is carrying AI protest videos of rallies that never happened
Euronews' fact-checking team found synthetic footage of demonstrations in six countries, some with more than 300,000 views, and one clip wearing a state broadcaster's logo.
iQIYI
iQIYI builds a 16-episode drama with AI and two actors
The first season of "Immortals Over Mortal Love" premieres in the fourth quarter, produced end to end on iQIYI's own NadouPro platform.
Kalshi
Kalshi's AI ad turned a creator's video into a white man
Elliot Choy posted his own apartment tour beside an almost identical ad for the prediction market, and Kalshi now says it is reviewing the agency that supplied it.
Gemini 3.8 Live
Gemini 3.8 Live adds real-time avatars in 97 languages
The avatars are generally available in Gemini Enterprise through US and EU endpoints, and every stream carries Google's SynthID watermark.
Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs ships FLUX Video Edit at 3 cents a second
The model changes only the part of the clip you name and leaves the rest of the shot untouched.
ByteDance
ByteDance's Dramagic turns a script into a short drama
BytePlus sells the platform to production teams, and China's netcasting body counted about 128,000 short dramas published in the first quarter of 2026.
YouTube
YouTube adds a Gemini editing assistant to Shorts
The chat-based editor trims pauses, reorders frames and syncs music on request and arrives in early 2027, alongside a separate Studio tool for testing three cuts of one video.
Pixazo
Pixazo cuts MiniMax H3 Max API price to 4 cents a second
The promotional rate, live since September 21 with no announced end date, halves the API's per-second price against MiniMax's own published list rate.
Israel election
AI attack ads dominate Israel's election, WSJ reports
The Wall Street Journal reports AI-made attack ads have overtaken conventional smears in Israel's race, with Likud tied to the most AI-flagged campaign posts.
fal
fal.live comes back with AI-generated prompts viewers can upvote
The livestream paused three hours after its August 31 launch and returned with an upvote system, while fal separately previewed real-time reference video.
misinformation
A real comedy clip was mislabeled as Silverstein
The Chicago Laugh Factory footage was unaltered; the false Israel caption spread across X and Instagram and was repeated by AI chatbots, the Jewish Journal reported.
Evoto
Evoto 8.0 ships AI portrait retouching for video
The update, unveiled at Evoto's New York event on September 22, adds a DaVinci Resolve retouching plugin and a $500,000 creator marketplace called Asset Hub.
AFP Fact Check
Fact-checkers trace viral Riyadh airport strike clip to AI
AFP Fact Check traced a viral clip claiming to show a missile strike at Riyadh's airport to an AI-generated video first posted in March, predating this month's Houthi attacks.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield meters its API by the second, outside its subscriptions
The video platform's pay-as-you-go API is billed separately from its monthly subscription plans, and the effective rate depends on how many models you commit to.
Perplexity
Perplexity Computer adds MiniMax H3 and Seedance 2.5 video
The agentic workspace gains two video models alongside Veo 3.1, but Perplexity has published no generation quotas, export formats or licensing terms.