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Lead story12.10.2026stashmedia.tv

Muscle Beach opens as a hybrid AI production studio

Tomás Peña's Muscle Beach debuts for hybrid commercials, music videos and films that fuse live-action craft with AI.

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0212.10.2026deadline.com

A Korean blockbuster director is directing with Kling now

Kim Sung-soo told Busan that AI shows what is in your imagination, and Worm Train is how he folds Kling into hybrid craft.

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0312.10.2026austinaifilmfest.com

Austin's AI film fest screens its official selection

Austin AI Film Festival runs 16 to 17 October with summit day then official selection screenings and awards at Zach Theater.

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0412.10.2026adgully.com

AIKONS opens an AI-native studio for brand films

Alii Khan's AIKONS.ai pushes into brand films, ads and D2C content with human-led direction on AI pipelines.

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0512.10.2026roastbrief.us

Live New York footage, then Flow makes the city play along

SuperHeroes and EtherealMoon layered Google Flow Veo and Omni into a real Marc Jacobs Beauty shoot for How to New York.

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0612.10.2026huggingface.co/FastVideo

MiniMax H3 video now fits an 8 GB card

FastH3 Trim prunes MiniMax H3 so synchronised video-with-audio can run on consumer VRAM in ComfyUI.

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0712.10.2026github.com/kandinskylab

Open Kandinsky now ships picture and sound together

Kandinsky 6.0 Video is MIT-licensed and generates five-second clips with synced audio and lip sync in one pass.

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0809.10.2026euronews.com

An AI short just won a $450,000 festival Grand Prix

Nikolay Shestak's The First Honest Day topped the first Astana AI Film Festival, picked from 8,067 entries.

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0909.10.2026simonwillison.net

Ask Claude to invent the notation first, then write the music

Simon Willison had Opus 5.5 design a text music format, build a player and write game tunes in it. He calls them surprisingly good.

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1009.10.2026variety.com

AI brings back Houdini. People still wrote every word.

Red Rock Films built Fox Nation's Houdini series from more than 400 licensed photos, human stand-ins and human-written scripts drawn from diaries, books and letters.

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Muscle Beach opens as a hybrid AI production studio

A Korean blockbuster director is directing with Kling now

Austin's AI film fest screens its official selection

AIKONS opens an AI-native studio for brand films

Live New York footage, then Flow makes the city play along

MiniMax H3 video now fits an 8 GB card

Open Kandinsky now ships picture and sound together

An AI short just won a $450,000 festival Grand Prix

Ask Claude to invent the notation first, then write the music

AI brings back Houdini. People still wrote every word.

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