Anthropic
Judge hears Anthropic's fair use defense on Claude lyrics
U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee pressed both sides on market harm, one of the four fair use factors, and questioned the publishers' threat claim.
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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.
AI video pricing
The 8 cheapest AI video models per second, from $0.015
Ranked on each vendor's own published list rate, read 22 October 2026: Pruna's reference model leads at $0.015 a second, and Google's Veo 3.1 prices have already gone.
Kling 4.0
Omni reference: what AI video models now take as input
Kling 4.0 takes up to 15 reference assets in one generation, while MiniMax H3 and the open FastH3 Omni cap a request at 12 files.
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.
deepfakes
How to tell if a video is AI-generated, and where the checks fail
Provenance data, detector models and a court's reliability test each catch different fakes, and the newest research says the pixels alone are getting harder to read.
sarvam
Sarvam pays creators to dub videos into 10 Indian languages
Approved creators get monthly credits to dub their videos through Sarvam Content Studio, plus payment when a promotional video crosses an undisclosed view milestone.
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.
arizona
Arizona court tosses 10.5-year sentence over AI victim video
The Court of Appeals held that a video of a shooting victim, scripted by his sister and voiced by AI, was not reliable enough for sentencing.
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.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield CLI generates AI images and video from a terminal
The open-source tool signs in through a browser instead of an API key, and charges generations to the same plan credits as the web app.
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.'
wga east
WGA East gives writers Cloak to make scripts unreadable to AI
The guild's more than 7,500 members get the tool free, while non-members pay $10 on top of a $25 script registration that lasts 10 years.
runway
Runway joins Claude Marketplace with Runway Creative
Eligible enterprise customers can apply part of an existing Anthropic commitment to Runway Creative, and neither company has published who qualifies.
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.