MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3 guide: specs, license and prices, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to MiniMax H3: the open weights and their license, the per-second rates, what the model does and SLOP TV's coverage of it.
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VerSe Innovation
Spark Station pitches an AI crew that makes a whole film
VerSe Innovation showed the workflows at its SPARK summit in Mumbai with Google Cloud as title partner, and published no price or launch date for them.
Liquid AI
Liquid AI's LFM3 reads text, video and audio on a phone
Liquid AI's family spans six models near 2 billion parameters on one backbone, and the text model runs in about 1 GB at 4-bit.
heygen
HeyGen API v1 and v2 retire November 1: what to move
HeyGen's own docs disagree by a day on the cutoff, and every legacy v1 and v2 response already names the v3 endpoint it should move to.
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia asks court to test AI fair use stage by stage
The Wikimedia Foundation's 5,831-word brief backs neither side and asks Judge Sidney Stein to weigh each stage of AI use on its own.
HackerTube
Karpathy builds HackerTube from 6,454 videos in two hours
The site lists 6,454 videos Hacker News readers recommend, and Karpathy says he handled only an API key, a server and a domain by hand.
iQIYI
iQIYI opens a 110-square-meter AI film studio in Shanghai
Filming began October 28 on the internet feature "Cop in Trouble," with on-set footage syncing automatically to iQIYI's NadouPro platform.
MANSA
MANSA launches a 30-episode AI zombie microdrama
The studio says it will use the South Los Angeles zombie thriller to test audience demand before paying for live-action production.
nvidia
DOJ questions Nvidia's $12.93B Hugging Face deal
The department's questions also cover Nvidia's acquisitions, investments and sales practices, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.
Meta
UK competition watchdog investigates Meta's content terms
The CMA is examining whether Meta Platforms, Facebook UK and Facebook Ireland abused a dominant position by imposing the terms on businesses.
resemble-ai
Resemble AI finds AI media in 1 of 11 Meta ad files
Two of 3,379 flagged files disclosed AI in the ad copy, and none of the 971 files checked for provenance data carried any.
youtube-music
YouTube Music starts labeling songs made with AI
Deezer, which says it receives nearly 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks a day, will let listeners filter them from search before the end of 2026.
Explainers
Theoretically Media: AI Video Just Stepped Into the Real World
The channel's uploads, logged episode by episode: 198K subscribers, 22,036,803 views and 420 videos. Nothing here is summarised from memory — every entry carries the episode's own outline and a view count read on 2026-11-01.
AI video
Eight AI video models cost $0.05 to $0.40 a second, ranked
Ranked on each maker's own published 720p rate read on November 1, 2026, the eight models span an eightfold gap, and Google's Veo 3.1 sits alone at the top.
Anthropic
Claude will not recreate a specific existing video game
An Anthropic staffer confirmed a new prompt rule against game clones, and developers report the same guardrails also refusing routine reverse-engineering work.
Kling 4.0
PixVerse adds Kling 4.0 with 30-second single-pass clips
PixVerse's app carries a banner offering Ultra members 10 days of unlimited Kling 4.0, and the model is listed on the paid tiers.
Lyria 3.5
Lyria 3.5 brings full-length AI songs to the Gemini app and API
Google's music model first shipped in Flow Music on July 29, 2026, reached the Gemini app and API on September 4, and costs $0.08 a song.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs cuts Business image and video credit rates about 17%
Business plans on current pricing now pay the same image and video credit rate as ElevenLabs' other self-serve plans, the vendor's changelog says.
Apple
Alibaba's Qwen joins Apple Intelligence in China
Testing opens November 4 in Apple's iOS developer beta, with the public rollout bundled into iOS 27.3 in December and Siri AI left out.
OpenAI
OpenAI cuts funding target to $20 billion, FT reports
The Financial Times reported the round shrank from $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation after some investors cut their allocations.