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A24’s horror movie Undertone channels a viral internet trend
Author and VR filmmaker Ian Tuason explains his creepypasta fandom, and the wave of horror movies derived from collaborative online horror.
Anthropic doesn’t trust the Pentagon, and neither should you
Today we’re talking about the messy, fast-moving situation at Anthropic, the maker of Claude that now finds itself in a very ugly legal battle with the Pentagon. The back-and-forth is complicated, but as of a few days ago, the Pentagon had deemed Anthropic a supply chain risk, and Anthropic has filed a lawsuit challenging that […]
Bespoke AI models are the next big thing in filmmaking
Though many AI boosters have convinced themselves that the technology can spit out films and television series whole cloth, claims of Hollywood being cooked feel very premature when you see what people are making with the most popular image/video models on the market. Models like Sora, Veo, and Runway just do not seem all that […]
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable reaches $400M in ARR, up from $300M in January; rival Cursor hit $2B in annualized revenue in February, per a source (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable reaches $400M in ARR, up from $300M in January; rival Cursor hit $2B in annualized revenue in February, per a source — Swedish startup Lovable has hit $400 million in annual recurring revenue, as companies and users flock to artificial intelligence tools …
John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is great B-movie fun
Toxic Commando may not have much John Carpenter in it, but the dev behind World War Z and MudRunner made another solid co-op zombie shooter.