RealityChek
RealityChek adds deepfake checks to ChatGPT and Claude
The company says the DETECT connector runs on the Model Context Protocol, so users can check images, video, audio and documents without leaving a conversation.
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hku
Seedance 2.0 Pro tops HKU AI video study, sixth on safety
The HKU Business School lab rated 12 models on six generation dimensions and 11 on safety, using 71 Chinese-language generation prompts, 47 safety prompts and 20 human raters.
James Talarico
Viral Talarico clip is a deepfake, fact checkers say
Researchers attribute the fabricated video to Storm-1516, a Russia-aligned network, and the former student whose face it used says it is not him.
grok
Grok Imagine's 7-minute AI Odyssey draws ridicule
Startup Fortune reports the clip runs seven minutes and twelve seconds in 4K, short of Elon Musk's July promise of a full film.
microsoft-teams
Microsoft Teams and Zoom will flag deepfakes on calls
Microsoft lists certified detection bots for Teams from mid-November, while Zoom's own deepfake risk detection arrives in December 2026.
Yung Lean
Storm director says AI copies made him want to quit filmmaking
The viral AI remakes, many built with Higgsfield's Genjutsu, have the director of the Yung Lean music video exploring legal action.
Morphic
Morphic Recast Pro swaps people in a clip from 10 photos
The update takes up to 10 reference photos so a clip with several people can recast each of them, but Morphic's post lists no price or credit cost.
EdenLive
EdenLive renders 720p video at 24.7 FPS on one RTX 5090
The open-weight renderer's code and main weights are Apache 2.0, but the streaming service needs an 80 GB NVIDIA GPU and CUDA 13.
UniAVC
UniAVC edits a video and its soundtrack from one instruction
HKUST and Huawei Research released the weights and code, but peak memory is about 39 GB even with offloading, and there is no hosted demo.
LTX-2.5
LTX-2.5 ships as a 22B open-weight video model with audio
One prompt can now produce a sequence of shots instead of a single take, and the model card publishes no benchmark scores.
UCLA
YouTube tops TV and film as a story medium in UCLA survey
The UCLA survey of 1,500 young people found 28.2% felt fascinated and 25.6% excited watching a story about AI, even as doom grows with age.
Kling
Kling 4.0's API reaches Luma, YouCam and SelfyzAI
Kuaishou's model, public on October 15, is now inside three third-party editors, while Kling's own developer page still lists its API as coming soon.
blackmagic-design
Blackmagic raises prices on 36 products by up to $6,965
The company blames AI data centers for memory costs, with one 2110 IP converter up 80% and no cinema camera affected.
dessa
Block's Dessa voice model is trained only on speech
The speech-to-speech model listens and talks at once and, Block says, runs on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max, but early access goes only to safety researchers.
VCAT
Korean studio VCAT says it made AI action scenes for TV Asahi
VCAT says it generated characters, backgrounds and buildings for the seven-episode period drama, which premiered on TV Asahi on Oct. 23 and streams on Netflix in more than 190 countries.
Hy-Nomas
Tencent's Hy-Nomas world model ships with no published scores
The Apache-2.0 weights, code and a 280-case benchmark went up on October 23 with no paper and no results, and one configuration targets a single RTX 4090.
seedance
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 goes 4K for film and television
Volcano Engine says extra training improves facial expressions and small text, and a 480p Draft mode lets teams storyboard before the final 4K render.
ai& video
Japan's ai& launches ai& video with 12-second generation
ai& video turns Japanese text, photos and existing clips into new footage, and enterprises can train a private model on assets they own.
microdrama
Two-thirds of microdramas outside China are AI, report says
Owl & Co.'s report for the third quarter of 2026 says the AI share rose from 3 percent in the first quarter to 28 percent in the second.
Kling 4.0
Kling 4.0's API opens to developers in early access
Kling's own documentation calls the release early access while its pricing table and developer page still say the 4.0 API is coming soon.