Daily generative-AI news for brand and creative teams: what shipped, what it changes, and what I would do about it. Every item is sourced to the primary announcement.

FLUX 3 Image edits one boxed region and leaves the rest alone, packshot included. Plus Tavus Griffin’s video Turing test and Higgsfield Ads Studio.

Ideogram 4.5 keeps an image clean edit after edit, even translating text in place. Plus HeyGen’s $0.01-a-second video model and ElevenLabs at $22bn.

Adobe put Photoshop and Express editors inside ChatGPT: describe the edit, then finish it by hand. Plus Meta’s Muse drafts campaigns and AMD buys…

Kling 4.0 takes up to 10 keyframes and 30-second shots, so the storyboard becomes the brief. Plus ElevenLabs v4 in 90+ languages and Adobe’s…

OpenAI says 53 images users gave ChatGPT ended up on image hosts. Check one setting today. Plus Google’s Buy button in Gemini and Synthesia’s…

China’s AI short-drama minute fell from 5,000 yuan to a few hundred; under 0.5% find an audience. Plus Claude in After Effects and the…

OpenAI shut down Sora’s video API on 24 September with no successor. Plus Gemini’s live avatar, ElevenLabs’ video API and Midjourney’s pack-shot fix.