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AI Video Weekly Roundup — September 28, 2026

Meta claims Muse beats Runway and HeyGen at live avatars, two days after HeyGen's own benchmark said nobody has solved craft; Higgsfield says it crossed $1B in annualized revenue; California's SB 1000 sits two days from its deadline.

SEP 28 8 MIN ROUNDUP Read the piece →

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Living Reference · Sep 27, 2026

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Six stats from RCTV's open-weights audit, September 24, 2026: four territories excluded by MiniMax H3's license, which Viggle-Animate inherits; HappyHorse-1.0 at 150 days since its API launch with no weights published; zero Wan 2.7 repositories on GitHub, Hugging Face or ModelScope; three vendors shipping under territory-excluding licenses; Apache 2.0 as the clean baseline for MAGI-2 Preview and NVIDIA Cosmos 3; and Viggle-Animate as the sixth outside build on H3 and the first to inherit the fine print unstated.

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Viggle Calls It Open-Weight. Its Own License Locks Out the US.

Viggle's new model claims to be open-weight. The license it ships under bars the US, EU, UK and South Korea from using it — the first installment of RCTV's open-weights claims tracker.

SEP 24 · 6 MIN

Six stats from the week: OpenAI's Sora API goes dark three days after this roundup publishes, six months after its own notice; Runway's new moderation system averages under 0.5 seconds per review; Runway's 'biggest model drop yet' contains zero of its own models across five additions; Higgsfield's console catalog lists 22 models against the '50+' its launch post claims; and California's SB 1000 sits nine days from its constitutional deadline after its sibling bill, SB 1050, was signed into law.

Roundup · Weekly

AI Video Weekly Roundup — September 21, 2026

OpenAI shuts the Sora API for good; Runway, Higgsfield and Pika double down on selling other labs' models the same week; California signs one AI-disclosure bill and leaves the other pending.

SEP 21 · 8 MIN

Six stats from the week: Adobe names four partner models — Veo, Kling, Runway and Luma — in its new Premiere and After Effects tool; Runway's own separate plugin carries a different four-model roster, Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0 Pro and Veo 3.1; California's SB 1000 reached the Governor's desk September 2 and SB 1050 followed September 9, both still unsigned; fal shipped six H3 Max releases in sixteen days; and HiDream-O1-Video debuted at #4 on Artificial Analysis's image-to-video board without a launch announcement.

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AI Video Weekly Roundup — September 14, 2026

Adobe and Runway ship rival generative tools into Premiere and After Effects with different partner-model rosters the same day; California's two AI-disclosure bills get a hard September 30 signing deadline.

SEP 14 · 7 MIN