On 30 August we told you the licence was a gate rather than a ban. That was not right, and the version we corrected away from was closer to the truth. Here is what the licence actually says, what applying took, and the one clause that should stop a lot of people in this hobby cold.
Week of 7 September: Linus Torvalds credits an AI in a kernel commit while Debian votes on whether that should be allowed, a local model rebuilds Adobe’s closed DNG format from the bytes up, a company starts selling models with the safety layer removed (the technique is called abliteration, and a paper measured what it costs), World Labs ships Atlas behind a partner gate, and stolen AI session cookies turn out to be doors into work inboxes that no administrator can close.
Everyone plans their VRAM. Almost nobody plans their storage, and it fails in ways that do not look like storage. A note on the hidden running cost of local AI, including the 591 GB folder we did not know we had and the broken login it caused.
Twenty generators, eight prompts with invented specifics, one shot each, the prompt on every board. New this round: five Krea 2 builds, Qwen Image 2512, a real cloud column priced in Buzz, and a text ladder scored over four extra seeds. Every board at full size, every prompt in all three styles.
We ran MiniMax H3 for a full day on a single RTX 5090: talking shots driven by our own voice track, a walk and talk, text to speech, a trained voice, and an eight scene short film with its own soundtrack. Every number here came off our machine. So did the mistakes.
The full build behind EP39: three install commands, a reference generated from the installed packages so the agent stops guessing, motion tokens, word-synced components, cams and graphics trading places on sentence beats, which local model writes the graphics, and the six things that went wrong on the way.
If your LTXVideo nodes stopped loading after updating ComfyUI, you did not break anything. A dependency called kornia gets pulled forward to 0.8.3 and the video node pack cannot import against it. The fix is one command, the issue has been open since June, and there is a real trade-off nobody mentions.
How our graphics know the exact frame a word is spoken. A free, local motion-graphics kit built on Remotion, driven by Whisper word timestamps, written by an AI agent from a plain text kit. What we installed, what we built, the model that wrote the props in half a second, and the three things that went wrong.
A published episode scored 86 failures against its own script. Here is every class of mistake we found making local AI video with LTX 2.5, SageAttention, Krea 2 and ComfyUI, what actually caught each one, and the checks we now run before anything ships.
Two unrelated things happened on the same Thursday. The place almost every open model lives got acquired by the company that makes the chips, and the three biggest chatbots went down together because they share a cloud. Here is what we think it means for anyone running AI on their own machine, including the part where our own pipeline broke this morning.