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Creators, platforms and the business between them
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First Look: Hollywood’s Secret AI Talks Go Public. Here’s the Plan
Kathleen Kennedy quietly convened Oscar winners, actors, studio execs, Silicon Valley — and me. Now our first public framework draws a line in favor of human-controlled AI
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