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Midterm AI ad spending jumps to $137 million from $80 million
The Wesleyan Media Project counted 220 AI-made ads through Oct. 11, but only 27 percent carried a disclaimer and only 30 states require one.
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TikTok
National Trust pauses all TikTok ads after AI ad error
The charity says it is working with TikTok to find out how the automated feature ran AI-generated ads and to add safeguards.
Val Kilmer
AI Val Kilmer western revives the AI actor debate
Kilmer's estate approved the AI likeness for the indie western, but the Guardian's critic calls the performance rigid and missing his voice.
matrix-game
Matrix-Game 4.0 renders game worlds at 60 FPS on one RTX 5090
Skywork AI's open-weights release splits an executable game engine from a causal video model and ships three playable scenes under Apache-2.0.
AI film festivals
AI film festival season peaks with $150,000 in prizes
The Lumara Film Festival publishes $100,000 in cash and 10 million Venice AI credits as prizes, with its winners named on October 26.
Pictory
Pictory 3 adds an AI video agent that drafts the first cut
You brief the agent, answer five setup questions and review a script and scenes before anything renders, Pictory's own pages say.
NVIDIA
NVIDIA JCA co-generates 3D motion and video for any rig
The NVIDIA Research paper keeps 3D motion in a separate model that handles any skeleton, attached to a pretrained video generator by a few cross-attention layers.
UniAVC
UniAVC edits a video and its soundtrack from one prompt
The 19B-parameter model is free to download under the LTX-2 Community License, but it needs about 39 GB of VRAM to run, which rules out consumer GPUs.
HeyGen
HeyGen Video generates picture and sound at $0.02 a second
The model turns one prompt into a 5 to 15 second clip with dialogue, ambience and effects, and HeyGen halves the price through October 31.
solarrenderer
SolarRenderer turns game-engine block-outs into video in 4 steps
The team froze a 33B MiniMax-H3 video model, added two small LoRAs, and cut sampling from 50 steps to four, with a streaming variant at 768p.
AXE
AXE's shelved 2021 subway spot returns as a 48-shot AI film
Director Cassandra Brooksbank rebuilt it with ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 on Absurd, where she helps run commercials, so the spot doubles as a demo.
elevenlabs
ElevenLabs ships Eleven Realtime agents answering in 0.57 seconds
Each of the two new speech-to-speech models bundles speech recognition, turn-taking, a language model and a voice into one system, available in ElevenAgents and the Realtime API.
runway
Runway co-CEO says AI can 'absolutely' replace actors
At View Conference in Turin, Cristóbal Valenzuela also said models cannot yet be directed like a performer, and that they are 'not databases.'
nvidia
NVIDIA Cosmos3-H-Dreams generates surgical video at 43.2 fps
The model learned from CMR Surgical Versius gallbladder-surgery recordings and runs on one RTX PRO 6000, but NVIDIA calls it a research simulator.
Mosaic
Mosaic's Motion agent takes on editing and video understanding
The agent cuts, motion-designs and grades video from a brief, then hands back a project you can finish in Premiere, After Effects or DaVinci Resolve.
Tavus
Tavus's Falcon cuts conversation video latency to 430ms
The avatar model generates video one chunk at a time so it can interrupt and react, and Tavus measured a 430-millisecond audio-to-video delay on a B200.
EdenLive
VAST open-sources EdenLive, a real-time video renderer
The 5B model turns rough game footage into detailed frames at more than 24 frames per second on a single RTX 5090; the 14B build runs at 480p.
VideoGen
VideoGen says Model 1 makes 10-minute video from one prompt
The Y Combinator-backed company opened a $1 million credit pool for the model, which it projects will cost more than 50% less than comparable systems.
medeo
Medeo says its Creative OS runs AI video from trend to income
The release describes four stages, discovery, creation, distribution and monetization, and names no price, launch date, customers or usage figures.
kling
Kling 4.0's 30-second clips are not on the API yet
The API pricing page still says its plans don't support Kling 4.0, leaving Runway and Runware to carry Kling 3.0 instead.