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AI Video Finally Gets Its Trade Magazine

AI Video Week launches to cover the business of AI-driven production across television, marketing and film AI Video Finally Gets Its Trade Magazine London - A new trade publication dedicated to the rapidly expanding business of artificial intelligence in video production...

PixVerse Hits Unicorn Status With $300 Million Round

PixVerse, the Chinese AI video startup backed by Alibaba, has raised $300 million in a Series C round led by CDH Investments, valuing the company at more than $1 billion. The funding, reported by Bloomberg today, will go toward scaling...

WGA Opens AMPTP Talks With Demand for AI Training Compensation

The Writers Guild of America's negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are set to commence on 16 March, with the current contract expiring on 1 May. The guild has given advance notice of its intentions...

Tilly Norwood Returns With a Pro-AI Music Video. Hollywood Isn’t Convinced.

Particle6, the London-based company behind AI character Tilly Norwood, has released a music video in which Norwood sings "AI's not the enemy, it's the key" - a direct response to the backlash that followed her debut last year. The video,...

YouTube Extends Deepfake Detection Tool to Politicians and Journalists

YouTube is expanding its likeness detection technology - which identifies AI-generated deepfakes - to a pilot group of government officials, political candidates, and journalists. The announcement came Tuesday. The tool first rolled out in October 2025, initially available to YouTube...

Lightricks Releases LTX-2.3 With Native Portrait Video and Improved Prompt Handling

Lightricks released LTX-2.3 on 5 March, the latest update to its open-source video generation model family. The release is available on Hugging Face and via the LTX API. The headline additions are a redesigned VAE architecture producing sharper textures and...

OpenAI to Fold Sora Into ChatGPT After Standalone App Struggles

OpenAI is planning to bring its Sora video generation tool into ChatGPT, according to a report by The Information published Tuesday. The move would allow users to generate videos directly within the main ChatGPT interface rather than switching to...

Aggregator Platforms Surge as Creators Ditch Fragmented AI Video Subscriptions

Multi-model aggregator platforms are capturing a decisive share of AI video production spend in 2026, as creators and agencies abandon fragmented direct-tool subscriptions in favour of unified routing services. Higgsfield, OpenArt, and Artlist have emerged as the leading platforms, each...

Vertical Drama Market Surpasses $7 Billion in China as Hollywood Accelerates Its Response

Fox has taken equity in a Ukrainian drama platform. Disney is launching a vertical feed inside Disney+. A format the industry dismissed three years ago is now attracting board-level decisions from the major studios. The vertical micro-drama market has passed...

Critterz Heads to Cannes With a $30 Million Budget and a Point to Prove

Critterz, an animated feature produced using an almost entirely AI-generated pipeline, has been confirmed for screening at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. The film was delivered in approximately nine months on a reported budget of under $30 million. It...
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