China’s first all-AI long-form drama to reach satellite TV prime time premiered on Aug. 31, with "Post-Journey to the West" launching first on Mango TV at 6 p.m. and then airing on Hunan TV at 8 p.m. The series was jointly produced by Hunan TV and Mango TV, with production supported by Seedance 2.0 and 2.5. According to the report, no human actors appear on screen. The first season is planned at 30 episodes, each running 40 minutes, with the first five episodes released as the "Huaguoshan" arc. The project was produced by Mango TV’s AIGC content center, Mango Lingxi, through collaboration between a director, art staff, and an AI production team. The report said the show is the first series nationwide to adopt a "review-while-airing" process after China’s National Radio and Television Administration issued its Aug. 17 policy package known in the industry as the "21 Measures." On the market side, related A-share names moved higher on Aug. 31, with Mango Excellent Media hitting its 20% daily limit at RMB 16.98 during intraday trading.

fal engineer Rehan Sheikh has connected H3 Max directly to Twitch in an experiment that turns AI video generation into a live, continuously updating stream. Because the model can generate footage faster than viewers consume it, the system can play one segment while rendering the next in the background, making a theoretically endless broadcast possible. Sheikh described the setup as an "infinite interdimensional television," and MiniMax later reposted the experiment. fal then continued with a broader H3 Max Live test. The stream is not pre-rendered: viewers can type !prompt in the Twitch chat, and fal said new instructions can appear on screen within seconds, letting the audience shape each scene as the broadcast unfolds. According to the source material, the lack of a fixed script or running time means the program can continue as long as generation continues. The report said the key shift is speed. H3 Max has reduced waiting time to below playback time, clearing a threshold that previously kept AI video from functioning as a true live format. fal Research said H3 Max was trained on top of MiniMax’s open-source H3 and accelerated for fal’s inference system. Official figures cited in the report said it can generate a 5-second video in under 3 seconds, with throughput about 35 times that of MiniMax’s official H3 API. On Artificial Analysis’ audio-enabled ranking, its image-to-video model sits first at 1202 Elo, while its text-to-video model ranks third at 1235 Elo behind only Wan 3.0 and Gemini Omni Flash.

According to Techub News, Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor has released an AI-generated video on X in response to Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee, reinforcing his long-held bitcoin-maximalist position. In the video, Saylor calls bitcoin "perfect money" and a "top-tier asset," stressing there is "no second choice." The clip is a direct reply to Lee's own AI-generated video, in which Lee suggested ether could potentially overtake bitcoin. Lee has repeatedly stated that ethereum has the potential to become the foundational infrastructure for real-world applications and could outperform bitcoin in the future. Saylor, meanwhile, has long contended that bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency worth investing in, whereas Lee remains bullish on ethereum. The exchange highlights a fundamental disagreement between two influential figures over the future of digital assets. (U.Today)

Volcano Engine has officially launched the Seedance 2.5 API. Compared with Seedance 2, the new version brings notable improvements in instruction following, long-form narrative, character consistency, realism, lighting and texture, and sound effects. It natively supports 30-second direct video output, up to 50 multimodal material references, and compatibility with more than ten languages.

HeyGen has launched Avatar V, an AI video tool that builds a photorealistic digital twin from a 15-second recording and supports lip-synced output in 175 languages across its paid plans.

YouTube is deploying an internal system to automatically label realistic AI-generated videos, even when creators do not disclose them. The platform is also moving those labels to more visible placements and making some disclosures permanent.

iQIYI says most videos on its platform could be AI-generated within five years as it launches Nadou Pro, a film AI agent covering scriptwriting to rendering, while starting its largest restructuring since 2010.

ByteDance suspends the worldwide rollout of its AI video model Seedance 2.0 after multiple copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streaming platforms. Legal and engineering teams are conducting dual-track risk inspections, while the Chinese market continues to run normally.