Vincent Soberano
Secret Apartment shows how a 60-minute AI film was built
Filipino filmmaker Vincent Soberano won the festival's first Bold Vision Award and its Gold Award for Best AI Major Motion Picture, from more than 1,000 entries.
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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.
Felix Film
Felix Film edits animator job listing over generative AI
The Mitaka studio said it has not decided to use generative AI for images and is studying its potential future use.
World
World ID for banks launches with no bank customer named
World ID for Zoom is now generally available through the Zoom Marketplace, with Bain Capital, Pantera Capital and VanEck Funds among five design partners.
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.
FlashVSR
FlashVSR+ runs untiled 4K video upscaling on one RTX 4090
The open-source model from Shanghai AI Lab skips the spatial tiling that leaves seams in 4K clips, reporting up to 2x DiT speedup and 45% lower peak memory.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Instant Soundtracks adds music and sound effects
The ElevenCreative update writes original music for an uploaded clip, then times sound effects to moments on screen and places them on the timeline.
applovin
AppLovin sued over AI video ad tool and model claims
The proposed class covers investors who acquired AppLovin securities between Feb. 12 and Aug. 5, 2026, after the company posted 53% quarterly revenue growth.
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.
interpretability
Based Boomerstein: don't open the black box, it's my only edge
Researchers have started reading individual neurons inside real models, and the famous cat-and-car tangle turned out to be a shape detector. Everyone is calling it a win for safety. I am calling it the end of my career.
HeyGen
Five AI video tools that shipped this week, picked for solo use
HeyGen, Pixo, GPT-Video, Pollo and Medeo all shipped between October 13 and 17; here is what each costs and where it stops.
fal
fal Worlds streams walkable AI worlds for $4.50 an hour
Lingbot World 2 and Abot World 0 both stream over WebRTC, and the faster one is research only while the Apache-licensed one is cleared for commercial work.
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.
deepfakes
Audit finds 46 women MEPs targeted by sexual deepfakes
The EU's nudifier ban takes effect December 2, but 119 MEPs say it needs enforcement and the research finds no removal deadline for platforms.
comfyui
ComfyUI's NVIDIA VFX nodes upscale AI video 4x for free
Three nodes that upscale, interpolate and convert to HDR now run in a ComfyUI graph, and frame generation needs a 40-series card.
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.
Claude Code
Claude Code made a 74-shot AI music video with one human
The maker published the storyboard and all 148 prompts for the Suno song, Kling motion and Wan lip-sync as a free GitHub kit.