runway
Runway Ads comes to every paid plan at no extra fee
Runway made Runway Ads available on every paid plan in an October 27 post, after announcing the tool and its Meta, Google and TikTok loop on September 30.
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YouTube
YouTube reports 6.5 billion microdrama views in six months
The company is tying its Shorts seasons and episodes to channel memberships, with a members-only episode revamp promised for mobile in the coming weeks.
Opinion
Meta's Quest filmed everything, and I want the tapes
A parody broadcast says the hack's haul was video Meta's customers had shot of themselves. Meta's own page says the Quest cameras record the room, a jury just ordered $25bn, and the columnist would like his footage released.
oracle
Oracle plans Media Fabric, bundling AI video and streaming
Oracle says the platform, combining Creative Studio, AI Media Models and Video Edge, arrives within 12 months; the media models are in beta.
iOS
App Privacy Report: 542 events, and the number a viral post got wrong
iOS's hidden log counts how often apps touch your mic, camera, photos and contacts, and which servers they call. Two posts read 48 hours of it with Claude Code. The log is real; one headline figure is not.
Simulon
Simulon's mammoth is 3D in your room, finished on a server
A three-dimensional asset placed in a scanned room, then finished by a cloud render. The demo that 180,000 people shared has no video model in it.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield Cinema Studio 4.0 builds 30-second AI scenes
A new Director's Panel sets genre, camera, lens and character emotion before generation, and each generation can now draw on up to 50 references, up from nine.
Valve
Valve will not police AI games, and it never policed the tools
Steam peaked at 43.5 million concurrent users and South Korean revenue grew 126% in five years, but Valve told Busan developers it will not gatekeep what they build.
microsoft
Microsoft and Epic fire DMCA takedowns at AI-built game ports
Epic took down a browser Fortnite port on October 10, and Microsoft has chased Minecraft, Call of Duty and Halo ports while its own AI director called such training theft.
genspark
Genspark Media Studio ships an agent that edits video
The agent plans and edits, runs Claude Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 as its director brain, with GPT-6 Astra verifying the 3D stage, and agrees on the script before rendering.
SpAItial
SpAItial's Echo-3 turns phone scans into metric 3D worlds
The world model keeps real-world dimensions and fills in what the camera missed, exporting Gaussian splats, meshes, normals and depth.
Genie 4
Google's Genie 4 makes photoreal worlds you can ride and hear
DeepMind's world model generates the sound with the scene, takes typed instructions mid-simulation and holds a world together for two minutes, double Genie 3. Trusted testers are already using it to prototype shots.
anthropic
Elvis Presley rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 songs
The licensing platform Authentic Brands Group and its co-plaintiffs allege Anthropic trained Claude on the songs without permission and stripped songwriter credits.
ASAP Rocky
ASAP Rocky accused of copying a 2019 parkour clip with AI
VFX artist Cache Bunny says a six-second stretch of the Shroom Clouds video matches footage published in 2019 with parkour athlete Jason Paul.
CapCut
CapCut's video editor is coming to ChatGPT as a plugin
CapCut announced the plugin at its CapCut World event in Los Angeles on October 24, and its demo says an open beta reaches ChatGPT in November.
Apple
Final Cut Pro adds built-in MotionVFX effects and templates
The free November update also links Final Cut Pro with Pixelmator Pro and adds beta AI assistants to Logic Pro, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.
A Woman Asleep
A Woman Asleep debuts at Antalya as an entirely AI-made film
A Woman Asleep screened in the Perge Hall at the Ataturk Cultural Center on October 26, followed by a question session with director Gizem Avcioglu.
Runway
Runway App Studio builds and hosts apps from a description
Runway's changelog lists App Studio on paid plans, with an Adobe panel and ProRes 4444 export listed in earlier entries.
ghana
Ghana's National Film Authority faces backlash over AI video
The breast cancer awareness video used real Ghanaian actors' voices but visuals made entirely with AI, and critics said it bypassed local production crews.
korea
Korea's AI film boom is outrunning its copyright rules
Generative AI has pulled Korean AI films close to live-action quality, but its copyright, likeness and performer rules remain unsettled.