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Moana’s lazy live-action remake is why Hollywood deserves the AI takeover

Metro

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July 8, 2026

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Bisnow News

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· Jun 30, 2026

Austin Tech Execs Tout How AI Can Streamline CRE Development

Tech executives are calling on Austin real estate developers to embrace artificial intelligence so they can keep up with an industry that is rapidly adopting the new technology. “The question is no longer whether to invest in AI. The question is where...

The Hollywood Reporter

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· Jun 23, 2026

UTA Partners on New Digital Insights Tool For Creators, Brands (Exclusive)

The Hollywood agency bets AI-generated insights from a Coactive AI deal will allow creator clients and brands its represents to tell new stories in new ways.

Gizmodo

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· Jul 10, 2026

Character.AI’s Latest Bet Is Microdramas That Talk Back

Short little soap operas on TikTok are all the rage in Hollywood. Can the AI industry cash in?

BoingBoing

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· Jun 24, 2026

Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it

The artificial intelligence revolution has reached the point where management begs employees to stop feeding PDFs into the robot so it can burp out PowerPoint decks nobody wanted in the first place. The entire AI bubble is built on the idea that someday, somehow, customers will pay for the insane costs of using AI. — Read the rest The post Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it appeared first on Boing Boing.

DutchNews.nl

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· Jun 30, 2026

AI firms should pay artists for their work, culture advisers say

Companies that use artists’ work to train AI models should pay for it, the Dutch Council for Culture has said...

Variety

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· Jul 8, 2026

Salman Rushdie Says AI Has ‘Zero’ Role in Storytelling, Teases New ‘Midnight’s Children’ TV Adaptation, Film of ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Salman Rushdie has declared that artificial intelligence has no role to play in literature, cinema or storytelling of any kind, dismissing the technology as fundamentally incapable of originality. “Nothing. Zero,” Rushdie tells Variety when asked what part AI should play in creative work. “It’s not useful to creative work because AI has no capacity for []

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Related coverage for "Moana’s lazy live-action remake is why Hollywood deserves the AI takeover": Bisnow News — Austin Tech Execs Tout How AI Can Streamline CRE Development. The Hollywood Reporter — UTA Partners on New Digital Insights Tool For Creators, Brands (Exclusive). Gizmodo — Character.AI’s Latest Bet Is Microdramas That Talk Back. BoingBoing — Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it. DutchNews.nl — AI firms should pay artists for their work, culture advisers say. Variety — Salman Rushdie Says AI Has ‘Zero’ Role in Storytelling, Teases New ‘Midnight’s Children’ TV Adaptation, Film of ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’ (EXCLUSIVE)