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‘There is nothing like human’: Hollywood is betting big on AI movies — just as audiences are turning against them and looking for films made by real people

If you ever need a sign that AI is coming for Hollywood then it must be that Jeffrey Katzenberg, the veteran Hollywood executive who co-founded Dreamworks, has just announced that he’s launching an AI-focused studio.

Crucially, he told The Wrap that AI output was “slop” until very recently, but that in the last couple of months something has changed. Now he wants to make feature films and TV with AI, arguing that falling production costs will mean more films and new forms of storytelling.

At the same time The Gifted, an AI-generated trailer, has just won a competition that puts $2.5m towards turning it into a proper feature film. Future Vision XPRIZE is one of the world's largest film competitions for hopeful and optimistic science fiction filmmaking that answers the question: what does a future worth building actually look like?

You can watch the trailer for The Gifted...

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2 Driverless Cars Crashed Going 155 mph. That Could Be a Good Thing

The grandstands erupted with shock as engineers clutched their heads in the paddock. One driverless race car, produced by the company PoliMove, slammed into Unimore’s slowing vehicle in an event held by the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL). At the famous racing track in Imola, Italy, Autodromo Internazionale

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Meta’s Muse AI Shared a User’s Home Address Following Confusion About Permissions

He may be cute, but he's sending strangers your address.Credit: Meta Meta's new Muse AI agent shared a Toronto YouTuber's home address with a Facebook Marketplace buyer, prompting the company to clarify when (and for what) users are giving broad access permissions. The

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DigitalOcean wants to make AI agent pricing feel like the original Droplet - one price, start building

DigitalOcean has spent time reshaping itself from the cloud that made $5 servers simple into something it now calls the AI-Native Cloud. Today it takes that next step with the launch of Agent Droplets, a subscription that bundles compute, memory, storage, inference, and tool access into a single monthly price

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LaLiga demands major VPNs be placed on the EU’s piracy watch list

* La Liga has asked the European Commission to add four major VPNs to the EU’s Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List * The request targets NordVPN, ExpressVPN, Surfshark, Proton VPN * La Liga claims third-party affiliate marketing promotes the circumvention of court-ordered blocks La Liga's war against illegal streaming has

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2 Driverless Cars Crashed Going 155 mph. That Could Be a Good Thing

Meta’s Muse AI Shared a User’s Home Address Following Confusion About Permissions

DigitalOcean wants to make AI agent pricing feel like the original Droplet - one price, start building

LaLiga demands major VPNs be placed on the EU&rsquo;s piracy watch list

LaLiga demands major VPNs be placed on the EU’s piracy watch list