Quilty, a new artificial intelligence platform designed to help the entertainment industry make more informed financial and creative decisions, has launched. The technology includes creative analysis for scripts and projects, packaging suggestions, as well as market forecasting about how the film will do commercially. It also offers production planning services.
Source: Quilty, AI Platform Designed to Change How Scripts Are Developed and Assessed, Launches
The early 2020s marked the apex of a production boom known as “peak TV,” during which streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and HBO Max tried to add subscribers as fast as possible. By the time strikes by actors and writers ended in 2023, Wall Street was demanding that streaming services give priority to profits over growth. The easiest way to get into the black was to cut production spending.
Sora’s demise points to more than the collapse of a big-media financial deal. It’s yet another indication that the allure of AI-created content for paying customers has been vastly overestimated. So too have been the ostensible efficiencies that AI brings to businesses. For example, Walmart has reportedly found that conversion rates — the percentage of consumers who complete an online transaction after an online search — are appreciably lower for consumers who attempt to complete the purchase through ChatGPT.
Source: Commentary: The Disney/Sora fiasco shows the limits of the AI craze
Looks like Meta is hoping the recent Supreme Court ruling that found Internet service providers aren’t liable for piracy on their networks will help the social media giant dodge liability claims over its torrenting of AI training data. In its statement, Meta said it would soon file a supplemental brief explaining why the ruling would support its motion to dismiss the Entrepreneur Media case.
Source: Authors’ lucky break in court may help class action over Meta torrenting
An editor at one of the “big five” publishing houses said a “cold shiver went down my spine” when the Shy Girl story broke. “It really is a case of ‘there but for the grace of God go I,’” they said. “It’s an issue publishers are keenly aware of. We make it very clear to authors what we expect, we get them to sign contracts and we run their work through multiple AI detection tools, but we know all this is fallible. “Hence the cold shiver: if an author is determined to use AI, then cover their tracks, there’s very little we can do.”
Source: ‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books
One week after Hachette Book Group pulled Mia Ballard’s Shy Girl for strong suspicions of AI use, the industry is reeling—and struggling to contend with the implications of the novel’s cancelation. In a statement about the book’s cancelation, Hachette cited its commitment to protecting “original creative expression and storytelling.” But book industry researcher Rachel Noorda argued that Hachette’s actions reflected market demands more than anything.
Source: As AI Discourse Rages, Publishing Has More Questions Than Answers
Harlequin has announced a multi-year agreement with Dashverse, an AI entertainment company specializing in shortform video, to co-produce a slate of 40 animated microdramas inspired by Harlequin Romance titles beginning next month. In a note to PW, Harlequin EVP and publisher Brent Lewis declined to answer questions about the specifics of the deal. He said that authors will receive royalties from the videos, which will be monetized via ads and, on certain platforms, subscriptions.
Global streaming subscription revenue surpassed $150 billion for the first time in 2025, according to a new survey from Ampere Analysis, which highlighted that as “a major milestone” for the subscription market. And streaming subscription revenue will hit $202 billion by 2030, up 29 percent, “as streamers shift focus from subscriber growth to price increases and ad-supported tiers.”
Source: Global Streaming Subscription Revenue Tripled In Five Years, Poised to Top $200 Billion by 2030
With OpenAI’s purse strings tightening ahead of its IPO, company executives began taking a more critical look at Sora—and didn’t like what they saw. The research team there was about to begin a training run for a new model meant to power video-generation in ChatGPT. Unlike language models, which learn from text, video models have to make sense of entire moving worlds, making them far more expensive to create. After running the numbers on how much it would cost, OpenAI decided to cancel it.
Source: The Sudden Fall of OpenAI’s Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT
By the numbers, said payment consists of the maximum $150,000 a pop in statutory damages for 48 Warner Music recordings as well as 50 recordings apiece for Sony Music and Universal Music – or $22.2 million total. And the label litigants further spelled out that “if needed,” they could identify a multitude of their works in the 86 million tracks that Anna’s Archive allegedly scraped from Spotify.
Source: Major Labels Seek ‘Extremely Conservative’ $322 Million in Damages from Anna’s Archive