Yung Lean
Storm director says AI copies made him want to quit filmmaking
The viral AI remakes, many built with Higgsfield's Genjutsu, have the director of the Yung Lean music video exploring legal action.
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open weights
Open weights is becoming a license tier, priced by revenue
ComfyUI is paying $25,000 for open-source rebuilds of Higgsfield's apps while Nvidia, whose cards are the prizes, backs Higgsfield.
Morphic
Morphic Recast Pro swaps people in a clip from 10 photos
The update takes up to 10 reference photos so a clip with several people can recast each of them, but Morphic's post lists no price or credit cost.
EdenLive
EdenLive renders 720p video at 24.7 FPS on one RTX 5090
The open-weight renderer's code and main weights are Apache 2.0, but the streaming service needs an 80 GB NVIDIA GPU and CUDA 13.
UniAVC
UniAVC edits a video and its soundtrack from one instruction
HKUST and Huawei Research released the weights and code, but peak memory is about 39 GB even with offloading, and there is no hosted demo.
LTX-2.5
LTX-2.5 ships as a 22B open-weight video model with audio
One prompt can now produce a sequence of shots instead of a single take, and the model card publishes no benchmark scores.
MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3 cuts sampling to 4 steps with two open releases
FastH3 Omni ships as an 8-step ComfyUI student; Taobao's PTD LoRAs reach 4 steps, and neither release has independent quality benchmarks.
Mississippi
Mississippi AG tells Colom to pull fake AI video of Hyde-Smith
Attorney General Lynn Fitch said the posts appear to violate a 2024 deepfake-election law and warned of an injunction if they were not removed.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's AI ad law requires disclosure on deceptive ads
Governor Josh Shapiro signed Senate Bill 806 on October 22, 2026; it takes effect December 21 and lets the attorney general seek civil fines up to $3,000.
UCLA
YouTube tops TV and film as a story medium in UCLA survey
The UCLA survey of 1,500 young people found 28.2% felt fascinated and 25.6% excited watching a story about AI, even as doom grows with age.
Kling
Kling 4.0's API reaches Luma, YouCam and SelfyzAI
Kuaishou's model, public on October 15, is now inside three third-party editors, while Kling's own developer page still lists its API as coming soon.
canva
Canva ships Craft, its first in-house image model
The design platform's first from-scratch model is trained on its own templates, and Canva says it ranks fourth on the DesignArena image leaderboard.
blackmagic-design
Blackmagic raises prices on 36 products by up to $6,965
The company blames AI data centers for memory costs, with one 2110 IP converter up 80% and no cinema camera affected.
dessa
Block's Dessa voice model is trained only on speech
The speech-to-speech model listens and talks at once and, Block says, runs on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max, but early access goes only to safety researchers.
filmflow
FilmFlow turns a text prompt into a Blender camera path
The Shanghai Jiao Tong University-led system ships with CinemaBench, 150 Blender scenes and 750 camera instructions, but no code is released yet.
collage
Ex-UTA agent Dante DeSario launches Collage as AI studio broker
The Beverly Hills firm closed an undisclosed seed round, and Deadline lists eight AI-native studios, from Asteria to Secret Level, as launch clients.
AI likenesses
AI likeness deals: who signs them and what the rules allow
Sunny Hostin and the cast of Higgsfield's Cully Hill Boys licensed their likenesses; Catherine Zeta-Jones prefers real performers and Nicolas Cage refused an AI waiver.
VCAT
Korean studio VCAT says it made AI action scenes for TV Asahi
VCAT says it generated characters, backgrounds and buildings for the seven-episode period drama, which premiered on TV Asahi on Oct. 23 and streams on Netflix in more than 190 countries.
Equity
Equity warns over AI rights assignment in game casting
The UK performers' union says it cannot name the game or studio under an NDA, and has not seen the detailed terms it is advising members to scrutinize.
Hy-Nomas
Tencent's Hy-Nomas world model ships with no published scores
The Apache-2.0 weights, code and a 280-case benchmark went up on October 23 with no paper and no results, and one configuration targets a single RTX 4090.