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Why Did Ben Affleck Start an AI Company in Secret?
Hollywood stars issue stern warnings while quietly building startups behind the tech
How Hollywood Choked Sora 2’s Rise
ByteDance’s AI reconnaissance strike and the four strategic choices now facing the studios before the next attack
How Hollywood Choked Sora 2’s Rise
The numbers don’t lie. And it turns out this industry still knows how to close ranks
The Oscars’ AI Lie: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Last year’s ‘Brutalist’ controversy gave way to a landscape where the tech is rewarded — as long as it’s cloaked in prestige
Anthropic Is a $350 Billion Problem for Hollywood About to Strike
Soon, the company’s Claude will be as standard in industry offices as Slack and Excel — reshaping who gets hired and what gets made
8 AI Companies Doing This the Right Way (and Won’t Get You Sued)
My picks for Hollywood to get behind in 2026 as Big Tech’s shortcuts catch up
5 Burning Questions Hollywood Should Ask After Trump’s AI Executive Order
From guilds to Gavin Newsom: what studios and creatives need to reckon with now
When Mickey Met Sam Altman — and What It Means for Every Other Studio Now
Scorched by the Streaming Wars, Bob Iger won’t let Mickey Mouse be steamrolled by Big Tech again. And eventually, all our studios will follow
AI Search and the New Hot Mess of Hollywood Discovery
‘What to watch’ is a minefield as Literate AI uncovers major biases around stars, Harry Potter and the MCU — and grim fallout for marketing, greenlights and talent
Tilly Norwood: Exec Dream, Union Nightmare and an AI Actor Army Already on Set
SAG-AFTRA is great at fighting the last war, not the one in front of it
Fade to Black: Hollywood’s AI-Era Jobs Collapse Is Starting
Amazon plans a 75 percent automated workforce. Now full human creativity may soon only exist for a few indie weirdos
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
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
‘Run It Through GPT-5’: The Phrase Changing Hollywood Overnight
Showrunners, writers, producers & marketing jumped on OpenAI’s update. Industry jobs will never recover
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
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
Sphere’s ‘Wizard of Oz’: Hollywood’s Dazzling Future or Dark Warning?
Sphere’s ‘Wizard of Oz’: For audiences, it’s breathtaking; for the workforce, it’s a test
‘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’
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
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’