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AI Video Weekly Roundup — May 11, 2026

Google's 'Omni' leaks ahead of I/O. The TAKE IT DOWN Act deadline lands May 19. The White House drafts an FDA-style AI vetting EO. Three states sign new deepfake laws.

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Six numbers from the May 11 roundup: a leaked Gemini UI string reading 'Powered by Omni' surfaced May 2, Google I/O 2026 opens May 19, the TAKE IT DOWN Act compliance deadline lands May 19, Utah sent nine AI bills to Governor Cox on May 6 as part of the broader state deepfake wave, NEC Director Hassett's reported window for a White House AI vetting executive order runs into the next two weeks, and HappyHorse-1.0 has shipped zero open weights two weeks after Alibaba's commercial API launch.

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A claim-versus-artifacts figure auditing HappyHorse-1.0's open-source claim. Left side: ATH AI Innovation Unit's marketing language quoted as 'FULLY OPEN-SOURCED.' Right side, three disconfirming artifacts as of May 6, 2026: zero HappyHorse repositories under the Wan-Video GitHub organization, the Hugging Face model page returns a 401 authentication-required response, and a commercial API launched on fal at $0.14 per second on April 27.

Analysis · Article

HappyHorse-1.0 Is Open Source. The Weights Are a Different Story.

ATH's marketing page calls HappyHorse-1.0 fully open-sourced. The GitHub org has no model repo. The Hugging Face page requires authentication. The API launched April 27.

MAY 06 · 5 MIN

Six numbers from the May 4 roundup: HappyHorse-1.0 holds Elo 1,354 at #1 on Artificial Analysis text-to-video, fal launched the API on April 27 with seven lip-sync languages on a 15-billion-parameter model, and Pika Agents now orchestrates six AI video models across more than seventeen platform surfaces from Slack to Figma.

Roundup · Weekly

AI Video Weekly Roundup — May 4, 2026

Alibaba's HappyHorse-1.0 goes commercial on fal. Pika reintroduces itself as a multi-model agent. The aggregator layer keeps eating distribution.

MAY 04 · 9 MIN

Six numbers from the April 27 roundup: Sora consumer app shutdown executed April 26, Sora API sunset September 24, 30-plus AI models now in Adobe Firefly's video hub, Boundless agency turnaround of two weeks for Mazda's first AI commercial, two open-source 3D world models from Chinese labs in two weeks, and Kling 3.0 native 4K at 60 frames per second now reaching Firefly users.

Roundup · Weekly

AI Video Weekly Roundup — April 27, 2026

Sora's consumer app shuts down. Adobe Firefly becomes a 30-model AI video hub. Tencent ships HY-World 2.0. Luma Agents deliver Mazda's first AI commercial.

APR 27 · 8 MIN