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China Pulls Ahead In The AI Video Race

Plus the Oscars adopt new AI rules, Cannes agrees, NVIDIA drops a free 1-minute video model, Soderbergh defends AI in his Lennon doc, and Runway ships real-time characters.

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The Last Human Host

Oscar night's anti-AI standing ovation happened four days after Netflix wrote a $600M check for AI post-production. Welcome to Hollywood's most expensive contradiction.

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