AI Filmmaking
Is AI Filmmaking Legal? What Filmmakers Need to Know About Copyright in 2026
Is AI filmmaking legal? It's not one question. Here's where copyrightability, training-data lawsuits, and platform terms of service actually stand in 2026.
Generative AI
suno
Suno Cracks Down on AI Music Fraud With New Watermarks and Download Limits
Suno is adding watermarks and download limits to fight AI music fraud, as legal pressure from labels and courts continues to mount. Here's what's changing and why.
veo
Veo 3.1's Native Audio Explained: What It Does and Why It Changes the Workflow
Veo 3.1 is the first major AI video model to generate synchronized dialogue, ambient sound, and music in a single pass. Here's what it actually does — and the workflow time it genuinely saves.
hell grind
Higgsfield Just Open-Sourced Its $500K AI Feature Film, Prompts and All
Higgsfield open-sourced every prompt and asset behind Hell Grind, its $500K, 95-minute AI feature. Here's what the data reveals, and the more complicated story behind the film's Cannes debut.
pika
Pika's API Club Takes Aim at the 3x Markup on AI Model Aggregator Platforms
Pika launched a $10/month API Club, undercutting aggregators like Fal and Runway Dev by up to 87% across 100+ AI models. Here's how the pricing actually compares.
wan3.0
Meet Wan3.0: Alibaba's New AI Video Model Now Lets You Reference a Spreadsheet
Alibaba's Wan3.0 entered public beta with native 30-second video and Omni-Reference, letting you generate from documents and spreadsheets, not just images and video. Here's what's confirmed.
Seedance
Struggling to Prompt Seedance 2.5? This Free Claude Skill Might Help
A new Claude Skill, trained on ByteDance's official prompt guides, writes properly formatted Seedance 2.5 prompts automatically. Here's how it works.
Dreamina
Dreamina Launches a $50,000 Creative Contest Built Around Seedance 2.5's New Reference Tool
Dreamina launched a $50,000 creative contest built around Seedance 2.5's white model reference tool, giving every entrant the same 3D starting point. Here's how it works.
bland
This AI Voice Model Topped a Blind Listening Test Against Real Humans
Bland says its new Speech v3 model ranks above ElevenLabs, Grok, Cartesia, and OpenAI on a blind listening benchmark, second only to real human speech. Here's how the test actually works.
osmo studio
A Former A24 Exec Just Launched an AI Video Editor Built on Editable Code
Former A24 producer Will Hoppin launched Osmo Studio, an AI video editor that outputs editable code instead of a locked video file. Here's how it works, and what it costs.
minimax
MiniMax Open-Sourced H3 for Local AI Video, but Not Everyone Can Actually Use It
MiniMax open-sourced H3's weights, and the community got it running on a $280 GPU in 48 hours. But the license excludes the US, EU, UK, and South Korea. Here's what's actually true.
kling
Kling vs Veo 3.1: Which AI Video Model Should You Actually Be Using?
Kling 3.0 wins on motion physics, volume, and multi-shot storyboarding. Veo 3.1 wins on cinematic realism, prompt adherence, and native synchronized audio. Here's exactly when to use each.