AI news this week: Rime Prism launches, Krea adds Agent and Seedance, ComfyUI v0.43.0 released
Verified round-up of the last 7 days in AI video, audio, image and creation tools.
This week, 27 October - 2 November 2026, verified round-up of the last 7 days in AI video, audio, image and creation tools. This edition covers four verified items across audio, image, and harnesses categories.
Audio
Rime launches Prism
Rime, the enterprise voice AI platform, launched Prism on October 28, 2026, the first fine-tunable frontier speech-to-speech model. Brands can run Prism entirely on their own infrastructure, maintaining control over data, conversation latency, vocabulary, pronunciation, and AI safety guardrails.
In a real-world enterprise trial, Prism increased order confirmations and pickup methods from 68% with OpenAI GPT to 100%, and improved calls without dead air from 66% to 88%.
Source: PRNewswire
Image
Krea introduces Agent and 4K API output
Krea's changelog for October 27, 2026 added the Agent feature that can build custom workflow nodes, GPT-6.1 Terra integration, and 4K output for Krea 3 images in the API. New personal and service API tokens were also introduced, giving workspace owners fine-grained control over token permissions.
Edits in under 8 seconds at native 2K, costing $0.06 per image at 2K.
Source: Krea
Krea adds Seedance to the API
Krea's changelog for October 28, 2026 added Seedance video generation to the Krea API. Supported models include Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.0 Fast, and Seedance 2.0 Mini. Creators can generate videos from text, animate a start image, or guide generation with image, video, and audio references.
Supported models: Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.0 Fast, and Seedance 2.0 Mini.
Source: Krea
Harnesses & open source
ComfyUI v0.43.0 released
ComfyUI v0.43.0 was released on October 27, 2026. This version adds Kling 4.0 partner nodes, Fibo 2.0 image generate/edit nodes, VEED dubbing and lipsync nodes, HeyGen Voice instant clone and text-to-speech nodes, and Clarity AI Crystal Video Upscaler node. MOSS-image color-depth control and single-head LoRA support for MiniMax-H3 were also included.
Released Oct 27, 2026. Adds Kling 4.0 nodes, Fibo 2.0, and VEED dubbing support.
Source: GitHub
Items were checked against their primary sources on November 2, 2026.
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