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August 2025

What a Rotten Streaming Hit and Will Smith’s AI Trouble Tell Us About Hollywood’s Future
What happens when a 2% Rotten Tomatoes film tops the charts and an A-list star gets caught using AI? Hollywood’s reality is stranger than its fiction.
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Adario Strange
Why Apple’s lost AI master could be Meta's next victim
Midjourney's Meta partnership is brilliant, but startups that enter Mark Zuckerberg's gravity well don't always emerge intact.
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Adario Strange
Apple Vision Pro gets Harry Potter upgrade, Netflix’s tricky new AI rules for film & TV
HBO Max leans on Hogwarts to sell its Apple hardware experience, while Netflix quietly rewrites the rules of Hollywood with AI.
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Adario Strange
Sam Altman vs. Elon Musk: Coming Soon to Theaters
OpenAI’s chaos and Musk’s vendetta are already Hollywood scripts, with Amazon writing the checks.
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Adario Strange
Hollywood’s Next Act: The AI Auteur Era
Darren Aronofsky’s leap into AI filmmaking signals the end of Hollywood’s trial phase.
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Adario Strange
The Spell "Weapons" Casts on Big Tech
Zach Cregger’s latest horror feast hides a parable about algorithms, control, and the unseen forces shaping our behavior.
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Adario Strange
AI Supercomputer Names Are Getting Scarier, And It's Deliberate
The origins and explanations behind some of the wildest names AI leaders have given their increasingly powerful data centers and supercomputers.
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Adario Strange
Fuck AI? Fuck tha Police? Fuck, My Amazon Package is Late!
Ice Cube’s War of the Worlds sci-fi film for Amazon is Big Tech branding gone horribly wrong.
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Adario Strange

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