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.
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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.
Jason Silva
Jason Silva made a 25-minute AI film in five days by talking
The film is credited to Silva and Vine co-founder Rus Yusupov, whose Director tool runs inside iMessage and turns texted ideas into shots.
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.
Kling 4.0
Adobe will bring Kling 4.0 to Firefly for brand campaigns
Kling AI showcased the model at Advertising Week New York with WPP and Adobe, which added Kling 3.0 and 3.0 Omni to Firefly in April.
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.
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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.
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AI feature A Woman Asleep enters Cottbus main competition
The 80-minute Turkish film, cut from 50,000 AI-generated shots, is believed to be the first AI feature in an established festival's main competition.
Grok Imagine
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite reaches 1080p by upscaling 720p
xAI's budget video model works out to $8.40 a minute at 1080p on Artificial Analysis's October 16 read, against $2.40 for the cheapest rival on the board.
AI film festivals
Eight AI film contests with deadlines from October 20 to December 15
Eight AI film festivals and contests take entries through December 15, from PixVerse's $100,000 top prize to a $500 online grand prize, each checked on its own page.
Japan Actors Union
Japan actors union publishes first AI voice guidelines
The voluntary rules require a performer's consent before training, generation and release, pay for AI voice use, and fresh permission for AI dubbing.
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Iowa Supreme Court: a deepfake claim does not bar video evidence
The court affirmed a Woodbury County sexual abuse conviction, finding circumstantial detail in the video sufficient to authenticate it under Iowa Rule of Evidence 5.901.
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FLUX 3 Image Klein ships open weights for 8 GB GPUs
Black Forest Labs releases the 5.6-billion-parameter image model under a license that allows free commercial output below $5 million in annual revenue.
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Mark Wahlberg is open to an AI clone carrying on his work
At TechCrunch Disrupt, the actor and producer said he would use AI to improve a film rather than replace actors with it.
Austin AI Film Festival
Austin AI Film Festival opens with 40 films from 700 entries
Friday's Summit puts the filmmaker behind Junkyard King on stage for a craft masterclass, before the 40 selected films screen and the awards close the event.
comfyui
Shots fired: ComfyUI pays $25,000 to rebuild Higgsfield in the open
Comfy says Higgsfield promised to open-source its platform and never did, so it put up $25,000 with NVIDIA and RunPod underwriting the fight. The question underneath is the one worth asking: is Comfy all you need?
advertising
Advertising's new premium pitch is work AI did not make
An Ipsos study with Syracuse University found human-made ads scored 14% higher on short-term sales effectiveness and 17% higher on brand health than AI ads.
ai video
Six AI video tools to try this week, and one deadline
A production video model, a tiny open image model, a cheap voice API and a Veo cutoff that lands October 22.
Fox Nation
Fox Nation's AI Houdini series runs on human actors
The platform's three-part series was made with human actors and human-written scripts, with AI transforming the performers' appearances.