Kandinsky 6.0
Kandinsky 6.0 Video ships open weights with 44 kHz audio
Kandinsky Lab released Lite (3B) and Pro (29B) free under MIT, with five-second clips and lip-sync that run on a 16 GB GPU.
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60 Minutes
60 Minutes aired an AI version of its own correspondent
CBS had Runway build the synthetic studio intro, which the show says took about five minutes, then told viewers no more AI content is coming.
Tavus
Half of Tavus's testers mistook its AI for a real person
Griffin is the first system to pass a video Turing test, and the company that built it says it is not safe to sell yet. Based Boomerstein has not stopped pacing since.
ai video
Publisher claims Japan's first AI video magazine at 1,760 yen
Asuka Publishing's AI Douga Saizensen carries 12 interviews and copyright guidance from a lawyer whose firm the publisher says sits on the justice ministry's AI legislation committee.
ByteDance
ByteDance must face YouTubers' DMCA suit over AI training scrape
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley denied ByteDance's motion to dismiss on October 2, holding the creators plausibly alleged a lost-advertising injury tied to circumvention.
Suno
Suno's Speech beta voices a script and scores it in one pass
The beta runs on web, iOS and Android, tops out near eight minutes, and lets creators switch the music off for plain narration.
Google
EmbeddingGemma 2 puts video search on a phone at 740M parameters
Google's open model unifies text, images, audio and video in one vector space, so a voice memo can find the matching shot without leaving the phone.
sag-aftra
SAG-AFTRA animation deal tightens AI rules for voice actors
Members vote until October 29 on a four-year contract that would require a studio to get a voice actor's consent before dubbing a performance with a cloned voice.
Meta
Meta opens its AI video ad tools to all advertisers
Advantage+ Creative can now turn still images into video ads and catalog advertisers can generate product video at scale, and Meta says video is more than 60% of Facebook and Instagram time.
Synthesia
Synthesia launches Sessions, a two-way AI avatar platform
The AI video company's new product lets people hold live conversations with lifelike avatars, starting with sales roleplay practice and interview-style surveys.
Supernal
Supernal's 19-day AI-assisted film took third in the XPRIZE
Real actors filmed on a gray screen for one day, AI environments built around them, and a finished trailer in under three weeks.
C2PA
Why the AI label on your video rarely reaches the viewer
The signed metadata that marks a video as AI-generated survives to the audience roughly a third of the time, and the EU now puts the disclosure duty on whoever publishes.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare ships Clef, the first models it trained itself
The two open-weight models return a probability instead of a sentence, accept images and video, and are free to download under Apache 2.0.
CineMe
CineMe goes live to turn a script into film predevelopment
The platform from filmmaker Dan Hartley and former Prime Video UK boss Chris Bird turns a script into photo-realistic images and video, then carries the project through budgeting and scheduling.
Microsoft
Microsoft ships a live transcription model at $0.54 an hour
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming returns partial text in about 100 milliseconds, and two new voice models join it for real-time agents.
HeyGen
HeyGen's first video model sells from 1 cent a second
HeyGen Video is a fine-tune of MiniMax's H3 model and generates 5 to 15 second clips with their own audio, at half its regular price through October.
Nikon
Nikon re-reviews its microscopy video winner over AI use
The 2026 Small World in Motion winner says AI only colored the footage after imaging; critics point to a SynthID watermark on the clip.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs doubles its valuation to $22B in a tender offer
A $300 million employee share sale led by Wellington and T Rowe Price values the voice AI company at twice its February round.
AI video
Bethesda shuts down a viral AI-made Fallout game
The browser game, built with Claude Opus 5.5, drew 3.5 million views before ZeniMax sent a cease-and-desist over the Fallout name.
AI video
Arizona court throws out a sentence over an AI victim video
The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld the manslaughter conviction but ordered a new sentencing hearing, saying the AI depiction of the victim prejudiced the trial judge.