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Grok, Kling, Runway: AI Video’s Future Has Hollywood on the Outside Looking In
Post-Sora, the space is fragmenting into separate ecosystems — and studios and streamers aren’t in any of them
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Why OpenAI Needs ‘TBPN.’ Badly
Sam Altman now knows the next AI arms race isn’t about tech — it’s about narrative
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Sora 2 Shook Hollywood. This AI CEO is Helping the Industry ‘Take a F-ing Stand’
Backed by CAA and Comcast Ventures, Bryn Mooser and co-founder Natasha Lyonne’s Asteria is an AI model safeguarding IP in an era of copyright chaos
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Sora 2 and the Day Hollywood Went to War
Forget Tilly Norwood. OpenAI’s new cinematic model can fake anyone and anything — and power players finally draw their line
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‘Run It Through GPT-5’: The Phrase Changing Hollywood Overnight
Showrunners, writers, producers & marketing jumped on OpenAI’s update. Industry jobs will never recover
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OpenAI’s $30M Animated Film is Coming. Pixar Should Be Worried
‘Critterz’ will be made in 9 months and debut at Cannes ’26. The existential stakes couldn’t be higher
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Musk’s X-Integrated Insta-Deepfakes: More Insidious Than You Imagine
Grok Imagine’s hellish ecosystem where writers, actors, directors — and copyright itself — cease to matter
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Sphere’s ‘Wizard of Oz’: Hollywood’s Dazzling Future or Dark Warning?
For audiences, it’s breathtaking; for the workforce, it’s a test
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‘What’s Ethical AI?’: The AI CEO Netflix, A24 & Disney Rely On (But Can’t Control)
Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela tells me regulation will ‘stifle’ innovation, and he won’t put the genie back in the bottle: ‘You take the responsibility’
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Why CAA Bet on This AI Startup: ‘Consent and Control’ for Clients
The agency’s Alexandra Shannon and Moonvalley CEO Naeem Talukdar tell me about the tech trained entirely on licensed video data
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The AI Making Indie Sci-Fi Budgets Possible (James Cameron’s Team Agrees)
Actor Tye Sheridan and Nikola Todorovic’s Wonder Dynamics streamlines VFX, cuts costs and is backed by the software giant that helped power ‘Avatar’
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The $2K Ad That Shook the NBA Finals — and Put Hollywood Production on Notice
Google’s Veo 3 blends image, sound and movement, bringing cinematic creation (and an industry’s apocalypse) closer
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A $5M Film? AI Studios Bet on a Cheap Future Hollywood Won’t Buy (Yet)
Don’t bet against Burbank yet. As Disney & Universal sue Midjourney, the real block for AI movies is expertise: marketing, distribution & legal
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Peak Bono: AI, VR and a Dad Sermon May Save Apple’s Vision Pro
‘Stories of Surrender’ finally gives the hardware dud a reason to exist and shows a way to innovate in immersive storytelling
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‘Grand Theft Auto VI’: AI Characters Are a Hollywood Wake-Up Call
The next version of the video game charts a path for truly interactive entertainment if the industry opens its eyes
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The AI App That Could Supercharge A24
Cursor shares the same big investor as the indie studio, and is on the cusp of reprogramming everything from development to production to VFX
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China’s AI Made Slick Memes of Fat U.S. Workers. H’wood Should be Scared
A new category leader is poised to do to entertainment what TikTok did to Silicon Valley — at $79 a year
Reel AI from producer Erik Barmack delivers essential insight into the fast-moving role of AI in Hollywood — the platforms, players, fury and future.