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The Best AI Video Model on the Market Just Got Pulled. Now What?

ByteDance has suspended the global rollout of Seedance 2.0, and for anyone who's spent time with the tool, that's genuinely bad news. On pure output quality - physics, motion, lifelikeness - Seedance 2.0 is widely regarded as the strongest...

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 roughly nine months on a reported budget of under $30 million. It's...

Canal+ Hands Google’s Veo3 to Production Partners. What Does That Mean for the Rest of TV?

Canal+ has signed a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud that will give the French broadcaster's production partners access to Veo3, Google's generative video model, for use in pre-visualisation and historical reconstruction. Deployment begins in June 2026 across European and...

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...

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...

AI Video Finally Gets Its Own Business Magazine

AI Video Week has launched at aivideoweek.com, covering the business of AI-driven production across television, advertising, social media, VR and film. AI Video Week exists to help people working in or around AI video understand what's actually working, where...
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Is Animation the Easiest Money in AI Video?

Animation has always been the format where cost and creative ambition collide most painfully. AI tools are inverting that...