Media & Entertainment

Google’s Veo 2, the AI video generator unveiled in December, has a price tag that’s turning heads: 50 cents per second. That’s $30 a minute, $1,800 an hour. It sounds steep—until you stack it up against the cost of actual video production. Continue Reading →

Technology is meaningless unless it changes the way we behave. Shortly after it launched, YouTube changed the way we consumed video. It grew powerful in tandem with the evolution of smartphones as it redefined our video viewing experiences. Now, YouTube has transcended its original form factors to officially become a television-first platform. CEO Neal Mohan revealed that viewers now watch more than 1 billion hours of content on their TVs every day, surpassing mobile viewing. For the past two years, YouTube has been the most-watched streaming service in the U.S., according to Nielsen. Continue Reading →

A new study from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University suggests that over-reliance on generative AI may erode critical thinking skills. In other words: if you don’t use it, you lose it. Continue Reading →

Researchers from Stanford and the University of Washington have trained an AI “reasoning” model for less than $50 in cloud compute credits. Their model, s1, rivals OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1 in math and coding benchmarks, raising serious questions about AI commoditization. Continue Reading →

The new Alexa integrates AI technology from Anthropic, an AI startup in which Amazon has invested $8 billion. Despite delays due to concerns over response accuracy and speed, Amazon expects the AI-powered assistant to enhance daily tasks, from scheduling to shopping. Analysts at Bank of America estimate that if just 10% of active Alexa users subscribe at $5 per month, the service could generate $600 million annually. Continue Reading →

Google is doubling down on AI-powered search. During yesterday's earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai outlined Google’s plans to transform Search into an AI-driven assistant, expanding beyond traditional query-based results. Continue Reading →

Anthropic, the AI research company behind the Claude family of LLMs, has launched a public test of its new Constitutional Classifier, a system designed to block jailbreaks that circumvent content restrictions. The test follows an extensive internal bug bounty program, where 183 security researchers spent more than 3,000 hours attempting to bypass the system—with limited success. Continue Reading →

The Authors Guild – the nation’s oldest and largest professional organization for published writers – has launched the Human Authored Certification, which allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. "Human Authored" means that the text of the book was written by a human and not generated by AI, with the exception of minimal or trivial uses (such as AI applications that check spelling and grammar or for brainstorming or research). Continue Reading →

Why the history lesson? Because everyone should have known this was coming. To be very clear, it's going to keep happening. We are living on the exponential. The cost ratio of OpenAI to DeepSeek is a pretty clear example of what an exponential shift in cost looks like. Continue Reading →

Google’s recent deal with the Associated Press (AP) and OpenAI’s funding of Axios highlight the critical challenge facing journalism in the generative era: how to remain a sustainable business while embracing disruptive technology. Continue Reading →