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California writes embedded provenance into law, and 26 of 54 people took a Tavus avatar for human.

Qobuz says 60% of streams on AI tracks are fraud. Plus Opus 5.5 films as code and Lightroom's catch.

Faking a voice got cheaper. Plus the gap in YouTube's voice detector and free 1080p Google Vids.

Plus YouTube's three-cut hook test, Mirelo's picture-led foley, and Topaz staying standalone.

Plus Meta's AI labels ruled inadequate, SubmitHub's 85% AI cutoff, and Autodesk's unfixable demo.

Plus: Qwen's open weights you are not licensed to sell, and Seedance in half the generations.

ElevenLabs published its caps, YuE2 published its VRAM, and the 11x speed-up wants eight GPUs.

What a finished AI short actually costs, and the thumbnail tool that only knows what you shot.

Premiere puts Veo and Kling on the timeline, Lyria 3.5 hits the Gemini API, and Suno's fine print.

Plus a fake rep who brokered a Mary J. Blige ad, and a 6B editor you can run on your own GPU.

ArtStation flips NoAI on by default, and TikTok wires Claude straight into Ads Manager.

A local DLSS 5 enhancer, Midjourney's editor caveats, and why designers sell AI flyer fixes.

Pro drops to 20 downloads a month, and it applies to songs you already made.

Cocomelon's studio writes its AI rules, and Instagram's First Draft trims Reels in one tap.

Plus Wan 3.0 goes generally available with 30% off, and one ControlNet for five conditions.

Directed prompts beat vague ones in a controlled Kling test, with the credits counted.

Monday turns out to be peak creation day, and ComfyUI now hands your node graph to an agent.

Three new limits on what you can publish, and three receipts on what you can build.

Wan3.0 does 30 seconds in one pass, Suno v5.5 remaster degrades, Seedance 2.5 vs 2.0 tested.

Beatport blocks fully AI tracks, Luma adds editable layers, and cheap 3D assets fail to sell.

Suno, D'Addario, and platforms tighten rules around AI media as YouTube raises Shorts payouts.

Ten free Gemini Omni videos before the offer closes, plus what the Fenix Flexin fight is about.

Adobe's 70 tools in one prompt, Grok Imagine 1.5 tested, and the Avengers at a South Indian wedding.

Two regulators got specific about your output the same week your tools got quicker.

The tools got cheaper and the distribution got harder, inside the very same seven days.

Amazon and LinkedIn tighten trust while Hailuo 03, PAL Maker, API cost math, and VOTW push creation.

Disney turns brand logos into TV spots, plus three changes to make before your next upload.

Microsoft prices its image model at $106 per million, and its new voice runs 32% cheaper.

Plus Nvidia's 22ms deepfake detector, a dog-photo copyright ruling, and this week's video pick.

Sony re-sues Udio over 30,000 songs, and Disney's Ozzy Fox goes viral off a false AI-slop accusation.

And SAM 3 tracks objects for pennies, while a Krea 2 LoRA finally locks a face across your edits.

Plus: Google labels the AI ads made with its own tools and leaves everyone else self-reporting.

Plus Character.AI's 40-day pipeline, an AI actor's film role, and OpenArt's 5-minute videos.

Google now makes advertisers disclose AI, the labels want streaming tags, and Photoroom opens up its data pipeline.

Patreon blocks AI crawlers, YouTube auto-labels, and why a polished AI ad still struggles on trust.

Plus Conair's AI ad cut cost-per-view 14%, and a director's on-set AI VFX pipeline that adds crew.

Plus local VibeVoice voiceovers at 4x real-time, and INT8 Qwen encoders that run on 8GB VRAM.

Netflix uses AI Gene Wilder voice, China's anti-drug ad backfires, and ComfyUI gets MCP control.

New York AI ad label law takes effect. Google launches cheap image and video models. Plus a cost-saving Seedance hack.

Plus ElevenLabs watermarks its AI voices, ByteDance opens an IP marketplace, and 999 ready-to-run Krea 2 LoRAs

Seedance's 30-second 4K clips, China-only for now. DeepMind bets $75M on A24 to build film tools.

NO FAKES puts a price on cloned faces ⚖️, Adobe automates Premiere 🎬, plus a one-person AI universe