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Reka Clip closes November 13 and credits will not be refunded
The AI clipping tool Reka built for creators closes November 13, and unused purchased credits expire at closure without a refund.
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AI Film Festival Japan
AI Film Festival Japan opens with 730 entries from 60 countries
The second AI Film Festival Japan runs three days in Tokyo from October 31, with a new music score category and awards sponsored by CapCut and ElevenLabs.
SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA and WGA ask judge to reject AI's fair use defense
Actors, musicians and writers unions filed a joint brief in the OpenAI copyright case, saying a blanket exemption would void the AI terms they bargained for.
Instagram
Instagram offers creators up to $500,000 to post long video
Business Insider reported payouts from $50,000 to $500,000 for Instagram's new Features format, and Meta has still not promised creators an ad share.
Boss
London director's AI feature Boss chases a cinema release
Jenny Krakovsky wrote, directed and scored the 1960s Liverpool crime caper alone on a laptop, and is now seeking a commercial theatrical run.
Steel Ray
Steel Ray is Korea's most-watched AI feature film
The 90-minute sci-fi feature was assembled from about 13,000 AI clips on a budget under 1 billion won, and its ticket sales show how hard AI films are to sell.
Gaap
Bangladesh's first AI film Gaap premieres in Dhaka
The psychological thriller-horror was cleared uncut as a short film and used AI for its screenplay, character design, animation, score and visual effects.
News
Higgsfield vs ComfyUI: the cease-and-desist over open source, accounted for
Higgsfield demands Comfy stop using its registered mark and its chief executive's face; Comfy says it consulted lawyers and the challenge stands. Everything you need on the fight: the letter itself read page by page, who the two companies actually are, what the outlets have reported, the legal position, the builders' mood, and the 6 November date both sides are now looking at. Updated every three days.
gen-z
Gen Z backlash: 72% acted against AI-made marketing
73 percent of Gen Z adults call AI-made people and voices in ads unacceptable, per Bentley-Gallup, while comments and consumer testing split.
Pruna
Pruna's P-Video-2-Pro lands 11th on the AI video leaderboard
P-Video-2-Pro is built on MiniMax H3's open weights, and H3 itself rose to third on Artificial Analysis's text-to-video board.
pricing
AI video discounts end today as per-second prices rise
Promotional rates on fal's MiniMax H3 Max Turbo, Higgsfield's Wan 3.0 API and HeyGen Video close with October, and a two-minute 1080p clip climbs from about $6.25 toward $9.60.
higgsfield
Higgsfield swaps Wan 3.0 for Seedance 2.5 in its unlimited bonus
Monthly Pro and Plus cover only the two image models, while annual plans add Seedance 2.5 at up to 20 seconds.
higgsfield
Higgsfield tells ComfyUI to pull its open-source challenge
Comfy says it will not comply and the challenge stays up, with winners due November 6; Higgsfield has made no public statement.
Kling
Kuaishou closes Kling AI financing at reported $18B valuation
The roughly 19.8 billion yuan close is the same transaction reported in July, and Kuaishou keeps control through its Lucky Labs vehicle.
Opinion
Based Boomerstein: I drew Proton's AI manifesto in ten boards
The CTO's manifesto, the CEO's "loser thinking", and the re-interviews that were canceled the next day — told in ten panels, one for each idea that got an engineer called a loser.
AI video
Strait of Hormuz iPhone video is AI-generated, fact-checkers say
The clip rode the real October sinking of the GFS Pride, but detectors found a SynthID watermark and visual glitches.
TBC
TBC launches mischief 1, AI video at half a cent a second
The image-to-video model is built on Alibaba's Wan 2.2, and TBC says lessons from lab-grown neurons make it about five times faster.
Vyond Turbo
Vyond launches Turbo, a chat-led AI video platform for business
The enterprise platform, used by 65% of the Fortune 500 according to Vyond, requires an additional subscription and a custom-quote price.
Kino
Kino launches a video editor that Claude Code and Codex drive
Founder Luke Igel says Kino stores, cuts and reviews footage in one place, with editing decisions living as code on a timeline that people can override.
pika
Pika H3 Flex ships open weights under a license that bars the US
Pika post-trained MiniMax's open H3 down to six sampling steps and published the weights under a community license that excludes the United States, the EU, the UK and South Korea.