AI Video
Text-to-video generation is one of AI's fastest-moving frontiers: OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo, Runway, Kling and others turn a couple of sentences into increasingly realistic clips. It is reshaping advertising, film and the debate over authorship and deepfakes. Here is all our coverage of AI video: model releases, quality, pricing and industry shifts.

In a Couple of Months: How AI Built an Open Source Competitor to Adobe and Microsoft
Developer Brandon Thomas used Claude Opus 5.5 to build ArtCraft — a suite of 10 open source apps meant to replace Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Office. The…

MTS Boosts LTE on Promyshlennaya Street in Ulyanovsk to Serve Factories
MTS has installed extra equipment on Ulyanovsk's Promyshlennaya Street, which links the city's industrial sites. The operator has not yet given any figures on the…

OpenAI Is Discussing Bringing Sora Back to Life Six Months After Shutting It Down
The Information reports that OpenAI is working on a plan to bring back the shuttered Sora. The project could go to a team with a well-known Hollywood producer and…

M.Video Restores Website and App After Cloud Provider Outage

Rutube Is Preparing AI Assistants for Parents: TV Accounts for 75% of Family Viewing

Apple to release OLED iPad mini in late October with a $200 price hike

Rutube: Smart TVs Accounted for 75% of Family Content Viewing Time

Guardian columnist finds AI job interview 'dystopian'
After 15 years of work, a Guardian columnist sat his first AI-led interview for an early-years education job and called the experience dehumanizing.

Generative Photos in E-Commerce Are Eroding Trust: A Picture No Longer Guarantees the Product
Sellers can swap backgrounds and extend scenes in minutes with no photo shoot, while buyers trust images less and less. How marketplaces and brands can keep visuals…

A Survey of 200 Papers Systematizes Affordance Learning in Embodied AI

Figure sent its old F.02 robots into molten steel, Terminator 2-style

Nano Banana 2.1 and Hailuo 3.0 paired up: video from a single photo

An AI secretary for $77 a month: 88% of answers from DeepSeek, 77% of the budget goes to Opus

Tsinghua Team Pushes Generation Down to a Single Step, From Images to Streaming Video
Tsinghua researchers are developing "sample distribution training" to enable one- or few-step generation, from still images to real-time video.

模思智能 Raises Over 1 Billion Yuan in Pre-A for a Real-Time Omni-Modal Model
Shanghai startup 模思智能 closed a Pre-A round of over 1 billion yuan, about $140 million. The money will fund a foundation model for real-time omni-modal interaction.









