AI News
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Aug 23, 2026
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4 min read
Black Forest Labs released a video upscaler on 20 August. You can now make many low cost takes and pay for quality once, at the end. One setting is on by default, and it quietly changes faces.
Aug 18, 2026
The app and the website went dark on the twenty-sixth of April. Everything that is left switches off on the twenty-fourth of September. On the table where OpenAI lists what to move to, the row for Sora holds a dash.
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Aug 8, 2026
Runway's Unlimited plan runs until August 31 and becomes Max on September 1. If you pay annually, your decision is due this month, and what goes away is the part that let you look before you knew.
Craft
Aug 5, 2026
6 min read
A macro portrait, a product, an interior, a second shot of the same character, and a short clip. Each one complete, each one with the single line to change first.
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Jul 29, 2026
3 min read
Generated shots arrive as strangers. Each one is a separate roll, and nothing in the model obliges the second clip to believe it is standing in the same room as the first. Continuity has to be written before it can be watched.
AI Videos
Jul 19, 2026
Runway's July 17 engineering post walks through how it built Runway Agent, now open to all users. A note on briefing an agent the way you would brief a small crew, while keeping the judgment calls.
Jul 18, 2026
Moonshot's Kimi K3 arrived with a three.js world as its calling card. Letting a coding model build the scene, so the camera, the light, and the take stay yours.
Jul 16, 2026
ByteDance is rolling Seedance 2.5 out now, and the headline is a thirty-second clip in one pass. The quieter change is local editing.
