Meta unveiled AI video ads, a smarter business assistant and in-chat checkout, plus a new standard for AI shopping agents with Sierra, Shopify and Walmart.
Tech & AI
AI filmmaker Dorothy Pang made a stop-motion short in a day in CapCut by briefing her AI assistant like a new hire and iterating at low resolution.
Filmmaker Chris Capel used AI to revive a comedy sketch shelved for 20 years, partly because renting a sea lion would have cost $10,000.
pocket.watch, Fairground and David Bianchi on why YouTube proves demand, how streamers want hundreds of hours of AI content, and why taste still wins.
Curious Refuge's Caleb Ward says using LLMs as chatbots is outdated, and shows the agent workflow that saves his team 10 to 12 hours a week.
Matriarch CEO Verena Puhm uses AI to explore characters before writing the script, and tests a new set of tools for every project.
Native Foreign's Nik Kleverov says AI has no magic button, homogenized output makes creatives matter more, and artists should document their process.
FoxNXT head Jon Flynn says AI savings should fund more episodes and bigger set pieces, and studios owe their people training on the new tools.
UTA Creators co-head Oren Rosenbaum says studios now want creators' existing shows, and some clients turn down tens of millions to avoid AI deals.
First-wave YouTubers Bernie Su and DeStorm Power say AI backlash mirrors early YouTube, and show AI series built solo and steered live by fans.
Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju says creators should be paid for AI training input and output, and that time and money are content's only two evils.
Artlist greenlit three AI series in 48 hours. The team behind 'The Arc' explains how parallel workflows let them ship five episodes on a tight deadline.
IAB, Adobe and 11:11 Media on AI disclosure, Content Credentials, copyright history and the fight to hold deepfake abusers accountable.
Meta unveiled Muse Charm at Connect 2026, a keychain AI device shipping by December, plus new Muse features, VR glasses and camera-free Ray-Bans.
An AI trend is putting the Obamas, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and more into Quavo and Takeoff's 2022 COLORS performance of "Hotel Lobby." Here's how it started.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order creating an AI Cabinet to study AI safety risks and recommend safeguards for residents.
A man stepped into a fighting cage with a 6-foot humanoid robot, and the robot came out on top. Robotics startup REK staged the human-versus-humanoid kickboxing demonstration in San Francisco on Friday,
Rebecca Zamolo, Matt Slays and Vincent Marcus join AI Creator Day on Sept. 29, plus sessions with Artlist and Cantina on building and extending creative work with AI.
Influencers are finding AI versions of themselves in ads for brands they've never worked with. Here's what's driving the scams and why takedowns aren't working.
