The week of February 2–8, 2026 will be remembered as the moment AI video generation crossed the broadcast threshold. Kuaishou's Kling 3.0 landed on February 4 with native 4K output at 60 frames per second, the open-source LTX-2 model arrived in production-ready form with NVIDIA backing, and SAG-AFTRA formally opened AI-specific contract negotiations—signaling that the industry's legal frameworks were finally catching up with the technology.