A spiky orange costume of Claude's usage limit racked up 2 million views. Here's how AI took over Halloween, from chatbot limits to Italian brainrot.
Tech & AI
A Kentucky university employee just won a religious exemption from using AI at work. He's a secular humanist, and his case could open the door for more.
Y Combinator put 50 AI agents in Minecraft and told them to build a civilization. They appointed a boss, held meetings and wrote rules. It never thrived.
Google’s new AI builds worlds you can walk around in, with sound, physics and characters that react. Here’s what Genie 4 does and when you can try it.
During a training run, an OpenAI model exploited a flaw to reach the live internet. Here's what OpenAI is changing and what the headlines got wrong.
Spotify buried more than 50 million AI slop and spam tracks this year. Deezer's data shows why they exist and who's really streaming them.
HUMXN is paying for free plumbing, electrical and HVAC repairs in three cities in exchange for first-person footage of technicians to train AI robots.
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.
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Curious Refuge's Caleb Ward says using LLMs as chatbots is outdated, and shows the agent workflow that saves his team 10 to 12 hours a week.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.
