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OpinionLimerick council used AI to sell a Christmas it has not built
BusinessGamehaus pays $19.6M in stock for 56% of Anamana
BusinessWhisper World and Rembrand merge to form AI video company WRLabs
world models
World models guide: Genie 3, GWM and open weights, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to world models: what runs in real time, what you can call today, the open weights, the hardware and SLOP TV's coverage.
Seedance 2.5
Seedance 2.5 guide: specs, prices and access, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to Seedance 2.5: what a generation allows, what it costs on each platform, what shipped and SLOP TV's coverage of the model.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield guide: plans, prices and models, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to Higgsfield: what each plan and the API cost, which models it runs, what shipped this month and SLOP TV's coverage of the platform.
Runway
Runway guide: every plan, price and AI model, updated weekly
SLOP TV's running guide to Runway: what each plan costs, which models it runs, what shipped this month and every story we have written about it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
higgsfield
Higgsfield Playable builds a mobile game from a prompt
Playable Games runs on every Higgsfield plan, but turning a game into an interactive ad for nine networks takes an Enterprise plan.
Pika H3 Flex
Pika H3 Flex cuts video generation from 50 steps to six
Pika's post-trained MiniMax H3 turns out a 15-second 768p clip in as little as seven seconds of denoising time, and the API starts at a cent a second.