Ben Affleck went viral after describing his knowledge of AI and its uses in filmmaking, including neural networks and training concepts from recent interview clips. The article says he sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix for a reported $587 million earlier this year. As a result, attention shifts to his machine-learning approach to post-production and dataset creation, and the focus turns to responsible, “additive” AI rather than AI replacing film work.
OpenVids is listed as an open-source, agent-first AI video editor for macOS and Windows. It is shown as launching today with 21 followers. This makes an AI video-editing tool available for users to try and review on launch platforms.
Pollo AI added OpenAI-based tools that turn creative ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads. The integration names GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT-Image-2.5. This lets creators generate campaign assets directly within Pollo AI, changing the workflow for making ad imagery and video.
Google released an experimental offline note-taking app, Google AI Edge Foresight, that transcribes meetings and audio files on a Mac and summarizes them while you take notes. It uses Google’s on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model and is free to use. Users can write shorthand bullet points during the meeting and have the app convert them into polished notes from the transcript, without sending the audio to the cloud.
Alexa Plus controls the author’s smart home well enough to trigger emotional photo montages, but it also repeatedly frustrates them when it seems not to recognize who they are. After a year living with it, the experience swings between “seriously impressive” moments and ads that abruptly interrupt that flow, including a full-screen ad for a brown leather recliner. As a result, they conclude Alexa Plus is improved for home automation but still not ready to manage their life in a reliably personal way.
Artificial premiered at the New York Film Festival, with Luca Guadagnino describing its theme of people trying to “play God” as central to the satire of Sam Altman’s rise and ouster at OpenAI. The film ties its narrative to Altman’s power period that included a brief ouster from the AI lab. As a result, the movie keeps close to the factual events it depicts while using that framework to explore power and ambition.
Innercrowd, a Dutch startup, raised €750,000 to help festival organisers convert existing fans into ticket buyers and marketers. The funding supports expanding its WhatsApp-based presale and early-bird funnel, including AI agents that run one-to-one fan chats at scale. It will accelerate growth into more European markets beyond the Netherlands and shift more of festivals’ promotion from paid campaigns to fan-led sharing and in-app ticket sales.
Refs launched as a library of 3000+ films that are broken down cut by cut into 15-plate blueprints with recipe prompts. The package can be added to Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor with one command, using the number 3000+ as its scale. It changes video planning by letting Claude generate a launch film plan from those real references inside the listed AI coding tools.
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