Swedesboro Brewing Company
Swedesboro Brewing's AI spokesperson drew nearly 300 complaints
The New Jersey brewery answered with a video of the AI character reading mean comments, and founder Marvin Bowe III said he is not backing down.
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StreamVibe
StreamVibe tests when a video agent should respond
Google researchers and 15 co-authors posted the StreamVibe benchmark, a streaming model and a memory harness for agents that act on user intent mid-task.
ByteDance
ByteDance folds its Xiaoyunque short-drama app into Jimeng
The CapCut unit keeps Xiaoyunque's standalone entry point, but its operations now report to Jimeng's head of operations and marketing.
ByteDance
ByteDance opened a micro-drama factory, and here is how to use it
The studio lives inside Jimeng, which is China-only today, but the pipeline it automates and the models underneath it are reachable from outside through Dreamina and the Seedance 2.5 API. A step-by-step guide to making a 60-episode vertical drama, from premise to cost sheet.
ByteDance
ByteDance's Dreamina builds a studio for AI short dramas
The Jimeng studio writes scripts from novels up to 100,000 Chinese characters and can redraw a finished drama for another region.
BBC
Blue Planet III keeps rough footage in to prove it is not AI
The BBC series is leaving in murky water and visible boats so viewers trust that its deep-sea creatures were really filmed.
Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay defends using AI to animate archival photos
The director says the tools that brought public-domain photographs to life in her documentary 14th are no different from the software editors already use.
Nvidia
Nvidia's Flora labels robot video for an estimated 72 cents an hour
The open suite of three fine-tuned Qwen models undercuts GPT-6 Astra by more than a hundredfold on Nvidia's own cost estimate.
Wonder Studios
Wonder Studios signs TV deal for AI-made indie films
The Foundation Distribution agreement puts films on Roku, Samsung TV and Amazon as stand-alone titles, starting with Beyond the Loop season two.
Utopai Studios
Utopai Studios raises $60M at $1B, The Information reports
The Mountain View studio is fielding offers that could value it at up to $3 billion, and it plans three feature films in theaters in 2027.
no-fakes-act
NO FAKES Act stalls in the Senate after Cruz objects
The RIAA's chief executive says the voice and likeness bill has a real shot in the lame-duck session, but its House companion has sat untouched since May.
deepfakes
Fake AI clips spread worldwide, each debunked a different way
A West Bank olive grove video, an Indian Army officer and India's NSA were all targeted by clips fact-checkers and detectors flagged as fake.
RealityChek
RealityChek adds deepfake checks to ChatGPT and Claude
The company says the DETECT connector runs on the Model Context Protocol, so users can check images, video, audio and documents without leaving a conversation.
hku
Seedance 2.0 Pro tops HKU AI video study, sixth on safety
The HKU Business School lab rated 12 models on six generation dimensions and 11 on safety, using 71 Chinese-language generation prompts, 47 safety prompts and 20 human raters.
James Talarico
Viral Talarico clip is a deepfake, fact checkers say
Researchers attribute the fabricated video to Storm-1516, a Russia-aligned network, and the former student whose face it used says it is not him.
grok
Grok Imagine's 7-minute AI Odyssey draws ridicule
Startup Fortune reports the clip runs seven minutes and twelve seconds in 4K, short of Elon Musk's July promise of a full film.
AI face swap
AI face swaps: what to do when your clip is reskinned
A UK car creator found her drag-strip video reposted with a stranger's face, and Instagram told a reader the copy broke none of its rules.
meta
Meta makes advertisers liable for its AI edits to ads
The revision adds an AI Features section and takes effect November 20, after Meta pushed the date back from October 30 following publisher objections.
NationA
NationA raises 8.5 billion won for AI video platform
The South Korean company says the Series A takes its cumulative funding to 11.7 billion won, while Seoul Economic Daily puts the raise at about $5.9 million.
microsoft-teams
Microsoft Teams and Zoom will flag deepfakes on calls
Microsoft lists certified detection bots for Teams from mid-November, while Zoom's own deepfake risk detection arrives in December 2026.