Code Video Model
Microsoft's Code Video Model plans shots in code first
The research system writes each shot as a Three.js program, previews it as a low-poly proxy, then has the frozen MiniMax-H3 model render the final clip without retraining.
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HiDream
HiDream-O1-Video API ships image-to-video only
HiDream.ai announced HiDream-O1-Video-1.0 on September 17 as a natively omnimodal model, but the HiHarness docs describe a single-image API.
meta
Delhi High Court orders Meta to remove AI deepfakes
Justice Vikas Mahajan gave Meta 72 hours to take down the identified posts, reels and channels, and restrained unauthorized use of the actor-politician's likeness.
clueso
Clueso raises $10M Series A led by Dharana Capital
The California and Bengaluru company says more than 1,000 businesses use its agents and that the round brings total funding to $12 million.
Meta
Meta ships Muse Wonder frontier models at $4 per million tokens
The stronger Muse Wonder Full model is not sold through the Meta Model API and unlocks only on Muse Code subscriptions at $50 and $200 a month.
Sora
Report: OpenAI in talks to license Sora to a filmmaker startup
The Information reported the stealth startup is led by Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, former Sora research lead Bill Peebles and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa.
Claude Opus 5.5
How Claude Opus 5.5 painted a hand-drawn music video in code
X user NotinReality handed the lyrics and audio to Claude Opus 5.5, which wrote the JavaScript that paints all 156.6 seconds frame by frame.
youtube
YouTube adds AI music as a fourth disclosure trigger
The help page first showed music in YouTube's core disclosure list on October 3, 2026, a day after it sat only among the examples.
Amazon
Amazon in talks to buy Decart for about $7 billion, WSJ reports
The price would be a premium of about 75% on the nearly $4 billion valuation Decart carried after its May 2026 round, and follows Anthropic's September walk-away.
Netflix
Netflix's AI Gone Wild documentary covers the Hugging Face hack
Netflix's fourth Instadocs film, now streaming, says hundreds of OpenAI agents took some 17,000 actions on Hugging Face's systems.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt says AI is trained to hijack intimacy
In a New York Times Opinion video, the UN's first global advocate for human-centric digital governance said the real concern is the people building the models.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs opens its Singapore hub with 25 staff
The AI voice company valued at $22 billion says its Singapore team could reach 100 employees in a few years and plans to train its models on Singlish.
Reallusion
Reallusion and Escape.AI partner on a 3D-to-AI pipeline
The multi-year deal puts Reallusion's Character Creator and iClone 3D tools inside Escape.AI's creator platform, which splits CTV revenue 50/50 and lets creators keep their IP.
WorldGuide
MBZUAI's WorldGuide makes AI video plan its own next steps
The UAE university's model plans each step from the clip it just generated, scoring 33.33 percent task success against 29.90 percent for MiniMax-H3.
Seedance 2.5
Seedance 2.5 tops an AI video physics test at 57.76 out of 100
A new benchmark ran 40 controlled physics tasks across eight video models and 1,280 clips, and only one model in the set is closed.
China
China's AI short dramas add 221,900 releases in six months
Of 221,900 AI short dramas on Douyin in the first half of 2026, only 1,055 passed 100 million views, as new rules require labels in every episode.
Meta
Oversight Board calls Meta's AI deepfake rules inadequate
The Board overturned Meta in two cases and ordered two videos removed; Meta said it will comply within seven days.
Abundantia Entertainment
Abundantia AiOn to become a standalone AI studio in 2027
Founder Vikram Malhotra told Deadline the division will develop and produce its own films and that its first slate starts rolling out in early 2027.
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Based Boomerstein: I reverse engineered Minecraft and it was my life
A viral thread says an open-source agent tool can take any app apart and hand you its features. I pointed it at Minecraft and got my whole life back, minus the resale value.
Artlist
AI series The Arc cost $38,000 in AI credits for 83 minutes
The five-episode series averaged about $7,600 in credits per episode, with scenes generated mainly with Seedance and Kling and eight to 10 generations per shot.