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Issue #14 · July 24, 2026
🎬 Flux 3 gives AI video a voice, plus Netflix's 300 AI titles
Plus Nvidia's 22ms deepfake detector, a dog-photo copyright ruling, and this week's video pick.
Issue #13 · July 22, 2026
🚫 YouTube just named the three AI video formats it will no longer pay creators for
Sony re-sues Udio over 30,000 songs, and Disney's Ozzy Fox goes viral off a false AI-slop accusation.
Issue #12 · July 20, 2026
🎧 Spotify purged 75 million AI tracks, and TikTok is hunting your deepfakes 🎭
And SAM 3 tracks objects for pennies, while a Krea 2 LoRA finally locks a face across your edits.
Issue #11 · July 17, 2026
🍒 A Full Music Video in Six Hours 💿 Hacked Suno Code Names 2M Scraped Clips
Plus: Google labels the AI ads made with its own tools and leaves everyone else self-reporting.
Issue #10 · July 15, 2026
💸 Dollar Shave Club's best ad cost $400 🎵 Suno fights the labels over 61,000 songs
Plus Character.AI's 40-day pipeline, an AI actor's film role, and OpenArt's 5-minute videos.
Issue #9 · July 13, 2026
🚫 Meta's Instagram AI photo grab lasted 3 days 🎬 Consistent characters, local voiceovers & $18 Veo clips
Google now makes advertisers disclose AI, the labels want streaming tags, and Photoroom opens up its data pipeline.
Issue #8 · July 10, 2026
📸 Seedream 5.0 undercuts GPT-Image 2, 🎥 Video of the Week (VOTW): 1960s Havana
Patreon blocks AI crawlers, YouTube auto-labels, and why a polished AI ad still struggles on trust.
Issue #7 · July 8, 2026
📸 Now Anyone Can Put Your Instagram Face in an AI Image 🎭 An AI Actress Lands a Real Movie
Plus Conair's AI ad cut cost-per-view 14%, and a director's on-set AI VFX pipeline that adds crew.
Issue #6 · July 6, 2026
🎬 Hollywood Wants Seedance Banned but Keeps Using It 🎵 Judge Caps Udio Near $50M
Plus local VibeVoice voiceovers at 4x real-time, and INT8 Qwen encoders that run on 8GB VRAM.
Issue #5 · July 3, 2026
🏷️ Senators Push Mandatory AI Labels 🎙️ Netflix Resurrects Gene Wilder's Voice
Netflix uses AI Gene Wilder voice, China's anti-drug ad backfires, and ComfyUI gets MCP control.
Issue #4 · July 1, 2026
🎬 TIDAL Tags AI Music, Blocks Royalties 🎵 Seedance 2.5 Goes 30s 4K
New York AI ad label law takes effect. Google launches cheap image and video models. Plus a cost-saving Seedance hack.
Issue #3 · June 29, 2026
Adobe buys Topaz Labs, YouTube auto-labels AI video, and Suno's grants come with strings
Plus ElevenLabs watermarks its AI voices, ByteDance opens an IP marketplace, and 999 ready-to-run Krea 2 LoRAs
Issue #2 · June 25, 2026
Krea 2 open weights 🤖, a brand sued for AI-cloning its models ⚖️, Spotify's 20k AI ad spots 💼
Seedance's 30-second 4K clips, China-only for now. DeepMind bets $75M on A24 to build film tools.
Issue #1 · June 22, 2026
Grok Imagine adds synced audio 🎬, TikTok is 59% slop 📱, cheap AI video finally usable 🎬
NO FAKES puts a price on cloned faces ⚖️, Adobe automates Premiere 🎬, plus a one-person AI universe