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DeepSeek
DeepSeek Harness Creator Mode builds plugins from plain English
The DeepSeek Harness feature built a floating Pomodoro timer plugin in 5 minutes 24 seconds, and one of its seven demos is a video editing workbench.
taomate-hd
Alibaba's TaoMate-HD sharpens a stream from 480p to 768p
The Alibaba TaoLive team's LoRA on MiniMax H3 holds speech and picture together for up to an hour, and the code and weights are open.
Eros Innovation
Eros Innovation names Remington Scott to lead Eros Imagination
The Emmy-nominated Gollum motion capture lead will build the Isle of Man company's visual effects, digital human and gaming work, with a Mohammed Rafi project among its first.
minimax-h3
MiniMax H3's three models cost $0.025 to $0.13 a second
Replicate's guide says to iterate on H3 Highspeed, batch with H3 Lite, and reserve the 2K-only H3 for final shots.
pangram
Pangram's new detector claims 98.7% on AI video
Pangram also launched Image 1.0 for stills, which the company says hits 99.96% accuracy on a 1,200-image set it built itself.
agent harness
Why AI video generation is turning into an agent loop
A new survey names the runtime around a video model the agent harness, and this week Loova, Runway and ComfyUI shipped the same idea as products.
comfyui
How to use ComfyUI 0.44.0's dubbing, lip-sync and camera nodes
The release adds six MiniMax H3 Max nodes for lip-sync, camera moves, recasting and reframing, plus two video upscalers, and every one bills through Comfy credits.
Stephen Chow
Stephen Chow characters return as AI cartoons at 98% less cost
A Shin Shin Legends spokesperson says AI cut animation from about 300,000 yuan a minute to 3,000 to 5,000 yuan, for cartoons that are not the film characters.
EloElo
EloElo raises $80M as AI runs 70-80% of microdrama workflows
Hornbill Capital and NBCUniversal co-led the round, which reportedly values the Bengaluru parent of Story TV at about $500 million.
fal
fal raises $1.65B across two rounds at a $16B valuation
Bessemer Venture Partners led the $1.3 billion Series F; CEO Burkay Gur said the money buys compute after fal rate-limited customers this summer.
Disney
Disney tests AI lyric videos with OpenArt on Hercules
The deal lands as Disney sues Midjourney and MiniMax over copyright and sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist in February over its Seedance 2.0 video model.
ai video
Limerick council used AI to sell a Christmas it has not built
The council turned off the comments when Limerick pushed back, and a councillor says the video cost €4,000.
Synthesia
Synthesia's ChatGPT plugin turns documents into videos
The plug-in is live on every Synthesia plan and uses the company's Syren format by default, with generation billed as normal Synthesia credits.
Vibe
Vibe says Higgsfield can launch a streaming TV ad in one chat
The integration runs on the Model Context Protocol, so Higgsfield's agent Supercomputer calls Vibe's ad tools directly; financial terms were not disclosed.
Runway
How to add Runway Dev to Claude Code, Codex and Cursor
One install wires your coding agent to your Runway Dev account, so it can read your models, prices and credit balance and build the integration itself.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield awards $1,000,000 to 14 AI short films
The top prize of $500,000 went to Listen to Meh, a dialogue-free Argentine comedy about a sheep that will not leave a gaucho's roof, chosen by a four-person jury.
deepfakes
AI slopaganda ads flooded the midterms with $187 million
The Wesleyan Media Project counted 289 AI-generated or AI-enhanced ads, and CNBC found YouTube, Meta and X each police them differently.