Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood - The New York Times

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A 15-second AI-generated video featuring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, created with ByteDance's tool, is more cinematic than previous efforts, alarming Hollywood.

He Made the Year’s Most Divisive Movie. That’s the Point.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu embraces the polarized reaction to his climate‑change satire Digger, saying he prefers strong responses over lukewarm applause.
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Notes from inside China's AI labs - by Nathan Lambert
Chinese AI labs leverage cultural humility, student integration, and practical focus to effectively fast-follow frontier models, contrasting with US labs' political conflicts and star-scientist culture.
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The AI Quality Ceiling: Why Domain Expertise Is Appreciating - philippdubach.com
AI output quality converges to the mean due to structural limits in next-token prediction, RLHF, and model collapse, making domain expertise more valuable as humans catch AI's subtle errors.
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