This caught my eye today by David Lerech on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7439332637028208640-H-mN?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAAKJZ_4BVEo30jrn5CjSvRt6xoz0dpEhANg&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcast-international/amazons-ai-studio-in-hiring-mode-as-chief-outlines-strategy/5213429.article The broadcast article referenced is behind a paywall but this article backs it up : https://www.pressreader.com/israel/jerusalem-post/20260208/281956024225783 If you’ve been following the industry trends (Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube) media is increasingly becoming top of funnel for something else ie live concerts/ Apple Merch/ anything to buy on Amazon/ everything else not on Amazon! And with GenAi lowering the cost to produce media to zero, or atleast the cost of compute which will decrease as time advances (like the internet did the same to distribution) there could be a Seismic disruption coming our way as media becomes free. Free to make and free to consume. I’m glad to see how Hollywood appears to be gearing up, but is it enough? We shall see.

Here's What It Means for Your AI Video Workflow. Seedance 2.0 — the AI video model everybody was buzzing about — just got pulled from its global launch. ByteDance suspended it after copyright pressure from Disney, Netflix, and the major studios. Here's what happened and why it matters: Seedance shipped without IP guardrails. Users immediately generated Marvel characters, Star Wars scenes, and celebrity deepfakes. Disney sent a cease-and-desist accusing ByteDance of packaging "a pirated library of copyrighted characters." Hollywood found its weapon. Copyright disputes freeze launches, force negotiations, and let studios pick which AI tools survive. This is competitive positioning disguised as IP protection — Disney has a content deal with OpenAI's Sora. The model is still live in China but suspended globally. Creators who built workflows around Seedance are now stuck. The real lesson: Don't build your production pipeline on a single model, especially one with unresolved copyright issues. Diversify across tools. This is the same disruption pattern we've seen for decades—the tools change, the instinct to diversify doesn't. Everything becomes post. The skills that survive are the ones that aren't tied to any single platform. What's your take? Are you worried about building workflows on tools that could disappear overnight? Which AI video tools are you actually using in production right now? 👇 Drop your thoughts below.

I've been tracking something that dropped yesterday and I want to get your take on it. Canal+ — the French company behind Studiocanal, Paddington, Back to Black — just announced formal multi-year partnerships with both Google AND OpenAI in the same breath as their annual earnings call. Not a pilot. Not an experiment. Infrastructure. The specific use case they highlighted: Google's Veo3 to recreate historical moments from a single archival photo. That's not vague AI promise language. That's a direct hit on documentary production budgets, historical drama reshoots, and the entire stock footage licensing industry. And they're not alone. Disney already invested $1B in OpenAI and handed Frozen and Star Wars characters to Sora. Banijay just merged with All3Media and is talking up AI capabilities. Now Canal+. When both ends of the market — American blockbuster IP and European prestige cinema — formalize AI partnerships within months of each other, the middle has nowhere to hide. Here's the thing though — and this is what people are missing in all the doom takes: Canal+ simultaneously announced a new deal with Sky to develop English-language drama. At least two projects a year for three years. They're deploying AI AND commissioning more human-driven storytelling at the same time. AI doesn't kill demand for content. It changes the cost structure of producing it. The studios that use AI to make more will win. The ones that only use it to spend less will just be cheaper versions of what they already were. I've been in this industry through every major technology transition. This one feels different in speed. Not in kind. The question on the table for all of us right now: are you positioning yourself as someone who knows how to direct the machines? Or are you waiting to see how this shakes out? Curious what you're seeing from where you sit. Drop it below. 👇

So Netflix bought Ben Affleck's AI filmmaking company. Not "invested in." Not "partnered with." Bought it. InterPositive is now part of their production pipeline. Meaning every director working on a Netflix show or film will have access to it. While everyone else is arguing whether AI "belongs" in filmmaking, Netflix just made it standard issue. Here's what that means for you: The studios aren't waiting. The tools aren't getting simpler. And the filmmakers who figure this out now are the ones who'll be working in 2 years. Which is exactly why I just posted Lesson 1 in the Founding Members section. "Story First, Tools Second" — the framework for using AI without losing your soul. It's not about learning every tool. It's about knowing your story so well that the tools become invisible. If you've been on the fence about being a Founding Member: - ✅ Lessons are live NOW (Lesson 2 drops Monday) - ✅ Full curriculum: 10+ modules over the next 6 weeks - ✅ Exclusive Saturday Q&A calls (starting this week) - ✅ Locked $29/month pricing for life (first 50 only) We're at 22 of 50. When we hit 50, the price goes up and never comes back down. Two paths from here: 1. Wait and see what happens (risk: price increase, miss the foundation) 2. Lock in now, learn with the group, be ready when this becomes standard The studios already decided. Netflix just told you. Your move. 👉 Join Founding Members - 28 spots left Not ready yet? No problem. Stick around for daily briefings and free content. But when you're ready, the price won't be $29 anymore. —Larry

A digital “Tillyverse” for AI actors is coming. The WGA West canceled its awards ceremony over a staff strike. Luma dropped Ray 3.14 and put $1M on the table at Cannes. And fresh data from 120,000+ AI-generated videos shows just how mainstream this has become. What’s fascinating isn’t just the tech getting better (it is). It’s that acceleration and resistance are happening at the same time. On one side: synthetic talent ecosystems, production-ready video engines, vertical video dominance, global adoption. On the other: labor unrest, anti-AI film festivals backed by Oscar winners, and guild tensions playing out in public. We’re not watching a trend. We’re watching the industry reorganize itself. I break all of this down in today’s AIography—including what actually matters for filmmakers trying to build careers right now (not just argue on Twitter). If you’re not subscribed yet, it’s free and takes about 7 minutes to read. 👉 Click HERE to subscribe. And as always—I'm curious: Are we heading toward two parallel Hollywoods? Or does this all eventually merge? Let’s discuss.