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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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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AI brings back Houdini. People still wrote every word.
Red Rock Films built Fox Nation's Houdini series from 400 licensed photos, human stand-ins and scripts drawn from his own diaries and letters.
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anabology open-sources the character bible behind his Claude music videos
claudia.gallery hands out 1,562 Midjourney images, three films, a wiki, an agent skill and an MCP server, so people and agents can make Claudia themselves.
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Google ships Nano Banana 2.1 with steadier characters and panoramic frames
The image model update holds faces across multi-turn edits, renders text more cleanly and cleans up 8:1 and 1:8 panoramic frames at 2K and 4K, at about half the old price per image at 1K and 2K.
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Brothers and Sisters direct a generated boxing film like a normal shoot
Everything Is Computer casts, grades and cuts a 1970s boxing story for Behind The Gloves with no camera day.
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Credle, Rolfe and Jenkins film themselves making AI spots for small briefs
Credle, Rolfe and Jenkins make Flow+Gemini spots for small businesses and get filmed doing the iterations.
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Pablo Diaz: AI wins hardest in the treatment, not the performance
SOMOS5's Pablo Diaz tells LBB the biggest AI win is pre-production treatments and continuity, not AI acting.
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FeviKwik turns AI into a mashup playground, not a tech demo
FeviKwik's KwikGPT playground lets people mash two objects into named creations, past a million entries.
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OneDay revives an unproduceable 85-shot mountain script with Luma
OneDay turns a shelved unproduceable mountain script into an 85-shot Dream Brief film with licensed actors and full post.
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OpenAI's But Now puts the ChatGPT prompt on screen
Special US and Biscuit's six But Now films put ChatGPT prompts on screen across 29 markets.
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Fanta writes horror lore for 18 months, then puts AI to work
Fanta's 50-market Haunted Universe spent 18 months on human lore before GRAiL's AI production.
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Asahi's Infinite Can is a bespoke craft-at-scale AI system
POP's Vermeer Fusion Designer turns Hisham's language into hundreds of on-brand Asahi cans with human review gates.
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DuckDuckGo launches Duck.ai with giant prying eyeballs
Rival and Partizan launch Duck.ai with three :30s of giant prying eyeballs.
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Matt Lenski drives AI characters from live-action performances
Arts & Sciences' Matt Lenski builds The Last Commercial so real performances drive the AI characters.
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Leo Singapore builds F1 worlds Standard Chartered could not shoot
Leo Singapore and Stink use photography plus AI environments for Standard Chartered's F1 brand film.
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Sonnet 5.5 brings a sharp eye for design into the cheap seat
Sonnet 5.5 runs 30%+ faster, costs up to 30% less per task, and Anthropic flags a sharp eye for design.
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Gemini 3.8 TTS lets you design the voice, then direct the scene
Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS generate custom voices and directed dialogue across Google surfaces.
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Code-to-video craft goes mainstream in the agent desk
Agent-written HTML and canvas motion, captured in-browser and stitched with FFmpeg, is becoming a real pipeline.
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Kling 4.0 Flash opens early while the full model waits for October
Kling 4.0 is aimed at October; Flash early access started 28 September with longer takes and keyframe control.
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Eleven v4 makes delivery a direction pass, not a reroll
Eleven v4 interprets tone, pacing and context, with inline tags for how a line should land.
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Firefly removes video backgrounds without frame-by-frame masks
Firefly can strip backgrounds across an entire clip, with longer prompts and wider GPT Image 2 ratios.
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna cut the price of everyday agent craft
GPT-6 Sol and Luna arrive as cheaper Codex/Work models; Sol roughly 50% cheaper than prior mid-tier pricing per Ben's Bites.
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D&AD Black Pencils reward craft that punches slop
Uncommon's Periodic Fable for The Ordinary wins Art Direction by calling out empty beauty jargon.
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