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AI clip of soldiers marching on Indonesia's VP is fake
AFP's fact-check found a SynthID watermark showing Google's AI made the TikTok video, and no credible report of any such Jakarta rally.
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FLUX 3 Max's 22x speed claim shrinks to 5.5x on a second chart
fal says the model ties for first on Artificial Analysis's image-to-video board, which lists it second, two Elo points below MiniMax H3.
irreplaceable
Freeze AI Now walkouts hit US campuses and city centers
Irreplaceable, a group launched in late August, wants an immediate halt to frontier AI development until people have a say, a stake and safety guardrails.
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Nudify apps stayed open to a 13-year-old, report finds
The Tech Transparency Project says test accounts downloaded 135 apps that strip clothes or generate explicit video, parental controls or not.
vn-ai
VN.AI launches VN Studio to log authorship and clear IP
The platform keeps a ledger of every AI and human action and scans output for copyright conflicts while the work is made.
higgsfield
Higgsfield's Marketing Studio builds a campaign from one URL
The company also launched Supercomputer, an agent it says routes each production step across models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
RÆBURN
RÆBURN relaunches with an AI film by Belief Studio
The London label says the film used Belief Studio's AI workflows with Google Nano Banana and Seedance, and that it worked from a worst-case carbon estimate.
Merry the Christmas Witch
Merry the Christmas Witch cost $1.5M to make with AI
Director Tom Walsh says the AI-assisted film, based on Bobbi Hess's 2012 children's book, has no distributor and was made by about 50 people.
Pruna
Pruna's P-Video-2-Pro-Reference starts at $0.015 a second
Built on MiniMax H3, the model takes up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio files as references, which Pruna bills separately from the output.
renderly
Renderly generates a video's images from prompts in one call
The update lets a single render request turn text prompts into the images of a template, at 0.5 credits per quality image.
olivia-rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo's expectations video draws AI accusations
Fans flagged a missing hand and a color shift in one animated shot; a post to Rodrigo's official fan channel showed the hand-drawn animation behind it.
Magic Engine Studios
Magic Engine has released six AI features in 15 months
The studio's 90-minute Halloween sequel premiered on Alchemy Streaming via Apple TV and Roku, the sixth feature in a run that began with The Cheep in July 2025.
Mirelo
Mirelo SFX 2.0 re-sounds a 10-minute edit in one pass
The model keeps dialogue and strips music nobody prompted, and costs $0.60 a minute on fal under a launch price that ends December 13.
Pika
Pika puts 40+ creative tools inside ChatGPT's side panel
The plugin, version 0.19.3, syncs finished media back to a Pika library and grants 250 credits after the first generation.
Rushilo
Rushilo ships a $99 video editor that Claude Code and Codex drive
The Mac and Windows app connects to Claude Code, Codex or any MCP client, runs Whisper captions on the machine and charges no AI credits.
Climax Studio
Hellbound producer Climax Studio adds two AI feature films
The Korean producer behind Hellbound and D.P. named Wonso and Yogoejeon at Busan's Asian Contents and Film Market, part of a widening AI slate.
Bulin 47
Bulin 47's freestyle is one of October's biggest AI templates
The clip works because everything except the performer stays fixed, and creators have three routes to put themselves in it.
Matryoshka
Russian bots inflate views of fake AI clips of celebrities
Bloomberg reviewed 130 videos and doctored newspaper front pages from September 10 to October 9 that researchers attribute to a Russian operation called Matryoshka.
Lumara Film Festival
Lumara Film Festival names six finalists from 700 AI films
The grand prize is $32,000 plus 3.2 million Venice AI credits, with winners announced in New York on October 26.
culver city
AI film studios are converging on Culver City
Luma AI, Promise, TrueShort and Native Foreign are expanding in the historic Heart of Screenland, where AI on the Lot estimates $2 billion in backing has landed.