OpenAI
OpenAI shuts down the Sora 2 video API on September 24
OpenAI's deprecations page lists no replacement for the Videos API or any of the five Sora 2 model IDs, six months after developers were first notified.
News
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Adobe
Adobe Premiere 26.5 generates AI video right in the timeline
The new Generative Media Tool fills timeline gaps with clips from Firefly or partner models including Google Veo, Kling, Runway and Luma, and makes sound effects and music too.
Pika
Pika relaunches as a studio that makes 3-minute AI videos
Semafor reports the rebuilt Pika turns basic details into an editable shot list and picks the AI model for each job, and its site lists Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3 and Pika 2.5.
deepfakes
Arch Manning apologizes for laughing at an AI fake of Holly Rowe
The fabricated clip shows Texas coach Steve Sarkisian striking the ESPN sideline reporter; nobody has identified who made it, and a video of Manning laughing at it passed 20 million views.
MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3 add-ons multiply as downloads hit 4.3 million a month
September brought Video Rebirth's 8-step HyperFlow speed-up, a keyboard-driven world model called H3-World, TaoMate-H3, RefMods and a faster ComfyUI decoder.
Runway
Runway's API boosts video up to 120 fps for $0.05 per 10 seconds
The new enhance_frame_rate model rides on Runway's existing video upscale endpoint, takes clips of up to 300 seconds and outputs broadcast rates such as 23.98 and 59.94.
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle says his film Ink contains about 30 seconds of AI
Speaking to Vanity Fair at Telluride, the Slumdog Millionaire director called AI a useful tool on two conditions: use it respectfully and pay any actor it replaces.
ByteDance
Report: ByteDance is building a real-time 20 fps Seedance model
Anonymous sources told Bloomberg that founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the project and a launch could come as soon as October; ByteDance has not commented and nothing is confirmed.
Reply AI Film Festival
Grok-and-Seedance short wins Reply AI Film Festival in Venice
Canadian filmmaker Robert Gaudette's A Face Only A Mother Could Love, also made with Nano Banana, beat more than 3,000 entries, while Jiaze Li's Website took the Reply AI Studios Grand Prix.
Runway
Runway now works inside Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
The free macOS and Windows plugin runs Gen-4.5, Veo 3.1, Aleph 2.0, Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3.0 Pro, and every generation draws on an existing paid Runway plan's credits.