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Dubai's MForMedia signs AI production pact with Arcana Labs
The Dubai producer will embed Arcana Labs' software in its workflows, train staff on it, and co-produce Arabic-language originals under a new partnership.
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deepfakes
Why state AI deepfake laws may not stop a fake video
Thirty-one states now have election deepfake laws, and a new analysis of two of them shows how much fabricated video can still reach voters legally.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield says it crossed a $1 billion revenue run rate
The AI video startup says it reached a $1bn run rate 18 months after launch, and published every prompt behind its 95-minute feature film.
Runway
Runway launches an AI agent for paid ad creative
Runway Ads generates video and image variants, publishes approved ones to Meta, Google and TikTok, then rebuilds the next batch from what earned spend.
deepfakes
Varanasi police call a viral temple dance video AI-generated
The force says the clip was circulated to damage its image, and a case has been registered over it while the festival it claims to show stays under scrutiny.
White House
Trump signs a voluntary AI safety accord with six tech chiefs
The four-step pledge adds outside audits and board oversight for frontier models, and it leaves deepfakes, synthetic performers and AI video untouched.
Kalshi
Kalshi ran a creator's video as an ad after an AI face swap
The prediction market says the spot was about four months old and came from an outside agency, and the creator whose video it rebuilt was never asked.
AI influencers
An 80,000-follower mining influencer was AI, and Meta deleted her
The Perth "FIFO tradie" account sold a paid Fanvue subscription, and the only place the persona admitted she was generated was the small print of the paywalled page.
NO FAKES Act
NO FAKES Act would give creators a federal right to their likeness
The bipartisan bill would put a 10-year cap on likeness licenses and a de facto takedown duty on platforms, and its passage window this year is narrowing.
Eloelo
Eloelo opens Dolphin AI, an agentic studio for multi-shot video
The Bengaluru company's platform plans a script into scenes, keeps characters and wardrobes steady between shots, and plugs into Claude and ChatGPT over MCP.
Thomson Reuters
Appeals court: training an AI on Westlaw notes is not fair use
The Third Circuit upheld Thomson Reuters' win over Ross Intelligence in the first US appellate ruling on AI training, and the court's reasoning is sealed.
Instagram
Instagram puts an AI video assistant inside its Edits app
The assistant reads a creator's retention, likes, shares and comments and names what to change, and extra usage comes with a Meta One subscription.
ComfyUI
ComfyUI 0.38 adds a 480p draft render for Seedance 2.5
The release also adds identity-preserving video-to-video on Wan 2.1 and VACE models, a new quantization format, and removes the retired Sora nodes.
ComfyUI
4 free upgrades for local AI video released this week
ComfyUI, a timeline editor, an inpainting sampler and a camera-angle LoRA all shipped in the last four days, and all of them are free.
right of publicity
Urvashi Rautela seeks ₹7,000 crore from Bollywood.AI
Her team says the Los Angeles company used her name, photos and videos without permission, and its chief executive called the claim ridiculous.
deepfakes
Bangkok flood catfish video is AI-made, fact-check finds
The clip spread on X and Instagram during real flooding that killed at least 23 people in Thailand, and a detection tool rated it 97% synthetic.
Sand.ai
Wangsu pays 300M yuan for 4.4% of video startup Sand.ai
The Shenzhen filing values Sand.ai near $1 billion, roughly 196 times what the video-model maker's first half of 2026 annualises to.
General Intuition
World-model startup General Intuition raises $220M at $6.2B
A year after spinning out of game-clip platform Medal, the lab says its MIRA model renders training footage at 20 frames per second across four players.
XPRIZE
AI short The Gifted wins the first Future Vision XPRIZE
Jeff Synthesized's film about a boy who rebuilds his late mother from her texts took the top prize from more than 2,500 entries.
AMD
AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion
The chipmaker gets the spatial-intelligence lab behind Marble, and founder Fei-Fei Li joins AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.