Nikon
Nikon disqualifies its Small World video winner over AI
Nikon says Ning Xu's winning footage broke the contest's rules on generative AI, and moved Vietnam's Nguyen Nam Nhat into first place.
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HeyGen
HeyGen launches a daily AI avatar series with Ryan Serhant
The channel, @HeySerhant, runs for at least 12 months on Instagram, TikTok and X, with Serhant approving topics and every post labeled as AI.
elevenlabs
Royal Mail's AI ad voice sounds like a dead BBC narrator
Royal Mail confirmed the narrator of its 2025 Christmas ad was AI, and the daughter of the late BBC narrator Paul Vaughan said she recognized her father.
Topview AI
Topview AI says 40% of its 5 million users make AI films
The Singapore company launched Film Studio in July 2026, and DRagon Studios is using Topview AI for a feature film set to premiere in London's West End in December.
Magnific One
Magnific One generates images with art direction built in
Brand Kit extracts a team's logo, palette, typography and tone, then applies the kit to every image the model generates in Final mode.
Syren
Synthesia's Syren builds a finished video from a prompt
The tool renders in the browser at up to three minutes and is credit-based, with launch credits covering every customer's first video.
IICT
Four AI-enabled Indian short films premiere with YouTube
The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies and YouTube screened the films in Mumbai, part of a program announced in November 2025.
HiDream
HiDream's vivago R1 AI video agent goes global
The Beijing lab's agent joins script, storyboard and edit in one chat workflow, and HiDream says it plans to add a model ranked No. 4 for image-to-video.
Argil
Argil Director turns a story brief into a storyboarded film
Argil says the harness cuts creative iteration by 80%, and it is available now to registered users on a credit-based subscription.
Protoface
Protoface opens its API to 40+ models from $0.003 a second
The platform puts Kling 3.0 Pro, Seedance 2.5, Wan 3.0, Google's Veo 3.1 and Runway Gen-4 Turbo behind one pay-as-you-go key.
Claude Motion
Claude Motion turns a report into an animated explainer
Anthropic's Claude Motion writes code that animates your own text, charts and images rather than generating footage, and it is in beta for Team and Enterprise plans.
News
Same AI model, 48 prices: the weekly AI API price board
GLM-5.3 costs $0.40 a million tokens at Wafer and $4.30 at Alibaba. Every model rate, every price move and every outage, rebuilt every Tuesday.
H3 Max
H3 Max Relight changes a video's lighting from a sphere render
The fal endpoint takes a clip of up to 15 seconds plus a lighting-sphere render and bills from 5 cents a second at 480p.
WorldPlay2
WorldPlay2 turns one image into a playable browser world
The weights landed on October 6 under a non-commercial license, and a hosted version went live on Reactor the next day.
SGF+
Tsinghua's SGF+ generates 24-hour video from 5-second clips
The method doubles generator parameters to 2.8 billion to separate the two roles, and its weights and code ship under Apache-2.0.
GRACE
KAIST's GRACE makes Wan2.1 video 11x faster on an A100
Two-stage latent compression cuts Wan2.1-I2V-14B's token count nearly 8x while matching the model's VBench quality on one A100.
ai-creative-summit
AI Creative Summit 2026 offers 30 free tickets for freelancers
The fourth AI Creative Summit runs at BFI Southbank in London on 11 November 2026, with a keynote from Tilly Norwood creator Eline Van der Velden.
Vidu
Vidu Q4 Preview sells AI video from $0.014 a second at launch
Shengshu's launch rate is promotional: Vidu's own list starts at $0.045 a second, and the model debuts third on an independent image-to-video board.
Fable
Gods Don't Give Gifts moves to December 4 for Oscar bid
Its trailer debuts in theaters on October 9 and a Los Angeles billboard push follows in November, as Fable submits the film for Best Animated Feature.
higgsfield
Higgsfield builds an AI influencer character for $0.06
The rebuilt tool assembles a character from 19 menu settings with no prompt writing, takes your own photo to carry your face, and animates it through Genjutsu.