“Hollywood is already dead if it continues on its current path. The way it is consolidating, and keeps telling the same stories over and over again. This […] has to stop,” says Amit Jain, CEO of the generative video model maker. Unsurprisingly, his pitch is that AI is the savior, but… at least his analysis sounds spot on.
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Using the Brick app wasn’t a total success, but I’m reclaiming my attention span, one Law and Order episode at time.
The show that launched in 2009 is closing up shop, as a three-year distribution deal with Acast seems ready to wrap up. “Comedian interviewing everyone” podcasts are everywhere now, but WTF was an early and very popular version, with Squarespace paying $100k to be the sole advertiser on the Barack Obama episode in 2015 without knowing he was the guest.















