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News roundup

The top stories in AI today.

NEW LAUNCHES

The latest features, products & partnerships in AI

• Microsoft Copilot Vision nears launch — here’s what we know right now

• Perplexity’s AI election tracker: What is it and how does it work?

• Monica Code lets developers chat with AI without leaving IDE

• Apple’s next major AI upgrade set for first week of December

• Claude AI can now analyze and interpret PDFs — here’s how to try it

• Recent leak suggests Samsung may steal one of Apple’s best AI features

IMPLEMENTATION

Announcements, strategies, predictions & tools

• 4 practical strategies to turn AI experiments into real business value

• How to align sales and marketing in the AI era

• AI tools vs AI solutions: What’s the difference and why should you care?

• Why data is the limiting factor to all AI progress and business success

• How higher education institutions must adapt to exponential change in 2025

• Considerations for startups building AI-powered products

• 3 key considerations to successfully implement AI in any organization

AI MODELS

Deployment, research, training & infrastructure

• OpenAI’s latest AI model ‘o1’ just got leaked

• AI model learns to seek human help in breakthrough study

• xAI offers API credits and frontier model compatibility to woo new developers

• AI industry dynamics through a game theory lens

ENTERTAINMENT

Hollywood, gaming, IP, books, tools & trends

• Netflix pivots to AI gaming after closing internal studio

• ‘Heretic’ film directors include anti-AI disclaimer in film credits

• AI de-ages Tom Hanks in Zemeckis’ latest film

• UC Berkeley study uses AI to confirm rising Hollywood diversity

• Prime Video’s new AI tool will recap your favorite shows and movies

• How AI tools like Runway are changing the animation industry

• AI-generated game ‘Oasis’ showcases the potential of machine-created virtual worlds

What’s happening in AI right now

AI divides Hollywood's future

Tom Hanks is being digitally de-aged across six decades in Robert Zemeckis' new $50M film "Here" - but not everyone in Hollywood is embracing AI's entrance into filmmaking. Directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods made waves by including an explicit "No generative AI was used" disclaimer in their new film "Heretic," highlighting growing tensions around AI's role in creative industries.

The great divide

Major studios are splitting into two camps on AI adoption. On one side, companies like Amazon and Netflix are beginning to integrate AI tooling - Amazon just launched AI-powered X-Ray Recaps to automatically generate show summaries, while Netflix appointed a new VP of GenAI for Games to accelerate development. The other camp, represented by independent filmmakers and some traditionalists, warns about AI's impact on human creativity and jobs.

This divide mirrors broader industry patterns that Clayton Christensen identified in his work on disruptive innovation. When new technologies emerge, established players often split between aggressive adoption and defensive resistance. The film industry appears to be following this classic pattern.

Technical breakthroughs and creative concerns

The technical capabilities are advancing rapidly. Metaphysic's real-time face aging technology in "Here" eliminates months of manual post-production work. Runway's Act-One feature is simplifying character animation by transferring human expressions to animated characters without specialized equipment.

But as Clay Christensen and Michael Raynor note in "Surviving Disruption", the most successful responses to disruption require understanding both the technology's potential and its limitations. Current AI tools still struggle with complex scenes and natural movement. At the same time, they raise fundamental questions about authenticity and creative ownership that studios must address.

Studios face what Andy Grove called a "strategic inflection point" - a time when the fundamentals of a business are changing. The choices they make now about AI adoption will likely determine their competitive position for years to come.

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