Open any LinkedIn feed on any given morning and within thirty seconds someone will have declared Hollywood cooked. Finished. Over. The studios are dead, traditional production is a corpse, and the future belongs to whoever posted the most impressive...
OpenAI spent 18 months and hundreds of millions convincing everyone that AI video was the future. Then it killed its own product and left the room. Who should be worried? Almost nobody.
OpenAI killed Sora on Tuesday and the reaction...
I've spent a not insignificant portion of the last year listening to people at conferences explain, with the earnest conviction of the recently converted, that their particular AI video model is the only one you'll ever need. Each time,...
I've been watching the AI video training market with the same queasy fascination you'd bring to a gold rush town in month three, when the prospectors have arrived, the saloons are open, and nobody's found any gold. The courses...
The news of Robert Duvall's passing hit me harder than I expected. Apocalypse Now, The Godfather - these aren't just films, they're milestones in how we think about storytelling, character, and what a human face can do when it's...
The format has crossed every threshold that normally signals legitimacy. None of that changes the underlying economics for most of the people now trying to compete in it.
Let's be clear about what's happened in vertical micro-drama over the past...
