Alibaba's stealth video model tops the global leaderboard. Seedance 2.0 lands in US CapCut. TAKE IT DOWN Act gets its first conviction. Google cuts Veo 3.1 Fast pricing.

OpenAI kills Sora and the Disney deal dies with it. Seedance 2.0 goes global minus the US. Luma drops Ray 3.14. Washington's copyright fight gets a new fault line.

Seedance 2.0 Pro leaks past the Great Firewall, Grok Imagine gets video extension, Google Flow absorbs Whisk and ImageFX, and Hollywood's copyright crackdown freezes ByteDance's global rollout.