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Book Industry Divided Over AI Adoption, Finds BISG Survey

Nearly half of book industry professionals are using artificial intelligence tools for work, but 98% report significant concerns about AI implementation, according to new survey data from the Book Industry Study Group released in September. “The overwhelming majority reported multiple pain points with AI, including serious ethical concerns,” Brooke Horn, BISG’s membership and operations manager, said during a webinar presenting the findings.

Source: Book Industry Divided Over AI Adoption, Finds BISG Survey

Big Tech Is Under Pressure From Emerging AI Giants. How Will This Change Hollywood?

This is no AI illusion. A perfect storm appears to be gathering around the world of generative artificial intelligence that promises to have profound effects on how Hollywood does business. In fact, there’s a fair chance that the generative AI revolution will have a bigger impact on Hollywood from a business and ownership standpoint, even before the technology itself can transform the making of movies and TV shows.

Source: Big Tech Is Under Pressure From Emerging AI Giants. How Will This Change Hollywood?

China’s DeepSeek developer just revealed the cost of training the AI model 

Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek spent just $294,000 on training its R1 model, much less than reported for US rivals, it said in a paper that is likely to reignite debate over Beijing’s place in the AI race. The rare update from the Hangzhou-based company – the first estimate it has released of R1’s training costs – appeared Wednesday in a peer-reviewed article in the academic journal Nature.

Source: China’s DeepSeek shook the tech world. Its developer just revealed the cost of training the AI model | CNN Business

Nearly a third of all tracks uploaded to Deezer are now fully AI-generated, says platform

Fully AI-generated music now constitutes 28% of all tracks delivered to Deezer each day, according to new data from the French streaming service. Deezer says it now receives over 30,000fully AI-generated tracks daily, marking a sharp increase from the 20,000 figure it reported in April and the 10,000 it disclosed in January when it first launched its proprietary AI detection tool.

Source: Nearly a third of all tracks uploaded to Deezer are now fully AI-generated, says platform

Stability AI’s enterprise audio model cuts production time from weeks to minutes

Stability AI today launched Stable Audio 2.5, which the company claims to be the first audio generation model purpose-built for enterprise use. The model addresses a critical gap in enterprise AI adoption. Audio influences brand engagement, yet most companies lack the infrastructure to produce custom, on-brand audio at scale. They need audio across multiple touchpoints from advertisements to in-store experiences.

Source: Stability AI’s enterprise audio model cuts production time from weeks to minutes

How do AI models generate videos?

Let’s assume you’re a casual user. There are now a range of high-end tools that allow pro video makers to insert video generation models into their workflows. But most people will use this technology in an app or via a website. You know the drill: “Hey, Gemini, make me a video of a unicorn eating spaghetti. Now make its horn take off like a rocket.” What you get back will be hit or miss, and you’ll typically need to ask the model to take another pass or 10 before you get more or less what you wanted.

Source: How do AI models generate videos?

AI-generated film sparks copyright battle as it heads to Cannes 

OpenAI has taken a significant step into entertainment by backing Critterz, the first animated feature film generated with GPT models. Human artists sketch characters and scenes, while AI transforms them into moving images. The $30 million project, expected to finish in nine months, is far cheaper and faster than traditional animation and could debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 2026.

Source: AI-generated film sparks copyright battle as it heads to Cannes | Digital Watch Observatory

‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model

Publishers – already under financial pressure from soaring costs, falling advertising revenues, the decline of print and the wider trend of readers turning away from news – argue that they are effectively being forced by Google to either accept deals, including on how content is used in AI Overview and AI Mode, or “drop out of all search results”, according to several sources.

Source: ‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model

AI bots bombard publisher websites with ‘no meaningful value exchange’

Chris Dicker, chief executive of Candr Media Group and board member of the Independent Publishers Alliance, said that the publisher’s Trusted Reviews website was taken down multiple times on 16 August when it was scraped 1.6 million times in a day. This was up from a previous record of 1.2 million scrapes on the site a day earlier. He said the average level of AI scraping for Trusted Reviews is running at between approximately 70,000 and 100,000 times a day.

Source: AI bots bombard publisher websites with ‘no meaningful value exchange’

Reese Witherspoon Says Women Need to Be Involved in AI: It’s the ‘Future of Filmmaking’

Speaking to Glamour magazine to promote the upcoming fourth season of her Apple TV+ series “The Morning Show,” the Oscar winner said she has made it a priority in her career as a producer to always be “looking forward to how media is evolving and how I can help be part of bringing women along in those emerging industries. And now we’re doing it with AI.”

Source: Reese Witherspoon Says Women Need to Be ‘Involved in AI’ Because It’s the ‘Future of Filmmaking’: ‘You Can Lament It All You Want, but the Change Is Here’

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