Adobe
Adobe completes Topaz Labs purchase and keeps the brand
The video and image enhancement company stays a standalone brand, and its CEO Eric Yang joins Adobe's Digital Video and Audio team.
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YouTube
YouTube adds a Gemini editing assistant to Shorts
The chat-based editor trims pauses, reorders frames and syncs music on request and arrives in early 2027, alongside a separate Studio tool for testing three cuts of one video.
Pixazo
Pixazo cuts MiniMax H3 Max API price to 4 cents a second
The promotional rate, live since September 21 with no announced end date, halves the API's per-second price against MiniMax's own published list rate.
Israel election
AI attack ads dominate Israel's election, WSJ reports
The Wall Street Journal reports AI-made attack ads have overtaken conventional smears in Israel's race, with Likud tied to the most AI-flagged campaign posts.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield's Blender add-on generates meshes, rigs and lit scenes
The add-on needs Blender 5.1 or later and runs on Higgsfield's cloud credits, and only some of its seven tools return data you can keep editing.
fal
fal.live comes back with AI-generated prompts viewers can upvote
The livestream paused three hours after its August 31 launch and returned with an upvote system, while fal separately previewed real-time reference video.
misinformation
A real comedy clip was mislabeled as Silverstein
The Chicago Laugh Factory footage was unaltered; the false Israel caption spread across X and Instagram and was repeated by AI chatbots, the Jewish Journal reported.
Evoto
Evoto 8.0 ships AI portrait retouching for video
The update, unveiled at Evoto's New York event on September 22, adds a DaVinci Resolve retouching plugin and a $500,000 creator marketplace called Asset Hub.
AFP Fact Check
Fact-checkers trace viral Riyadh airport strike clip to AI
AFP Fact Check traced a viral clip claiming to show a missile strike at Riyadh's airport to an AI-generated video first posted in March, predating this month's Houthi attacks.
Brahma AI
Brahma AI raises $150M at a $2B valuation from Multiples
Multiples Alternate Asset Management put in $100 million through preferred shares, and Brahma says it has another $100 million of investor interest still to place.
Mirage
Mirage's Tesseract gives AI agents a free Premiere and After Effects
The Captions maker's free engine drew 935,661 views and 7,885 bookmarks in a day, while its install repository sat at 32 stars.
OpenMontage
OpenMontage: turning a coding assistant into a video studio
The open-source project ships no clip generator of its own, and its zero-key path renders a finished narrated video without paying a video API.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield meters its API by the second, outside its subscriptions
The video platform's pay-as-you-go API is billed separately from its monthly subscription plans, and the effective rate depends on how many models you commit to.
Meta
Oversight Board orders Meta to remove a UK councillor deepfake
The board overturned Meta twice in one ruling and said the company's safeguards against AI deepfakes are consistently and fundamentally inadequate.
Perplexity
Perplexity Computer adds MiniMax H3 and Seedance 2.5 video
The agentic workspace gains two video models alongside Veo 3.1, but Perplexity has published no generation quotas, export formats or licensing terms.
TBC
TBC plans to sell its neuron-taught video model through AWS
The San Francisco startup says its software layer, measured from living neural activity, speeds up text-to-video inference fivefold, though it will not name the base model.
invideo
Invideo says manual editing is dying. The first pass is.
Vendor threads promise the timeline is over, while the tools doing the actual work are aimed at the boring first pass rather than the cut.
Runway
Runway Labs demos video that redesigns itself to fit the frame
A seven-post thread on a 1,310-follower account shows generated video reflowing to the window, and a straight staircase redrawn as a spiral one.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield says one engineer shipped video features in a day
In OpenAI's customer story, Higgsfield's chief executive credits the model's long-horizon task planning for video ad features that now need one engineer.
YouTube
47 YouTube channels use AI presenters to report German politics
CeMAS analysed 38 of the channels behind 1,876 videos published between December 2025 and August 2026, which together drew about 7.55 million views.