The AI news cycle does not make for slow weeks. I’ve been writing about it for over a year now and this one still caught my eye. Not because there has been one big breakthrough or story. But because I think there has been a change of mood. People are using artificial intelligence more than ever, but a growing number seem to wish they didn’t have to.
One of the stories I’ve been following closely is Anthropic teasing its new model, Claude Mythos. It is being described as a big step forward, and yet the hype is running ahead of the evidence. Elsewhere, the focus is less on capacity and more on wider consequences. Like Val Kilmer’s return via AI, raising questions about consent and the future of entertainment.
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The first full AI appearance by a dead actor is here – and it won’t be the last
Upcoming movie As deep as the grave has used AI to recreate Val Kilmer in a major role. It is not a brief cameo but a full performance with his family’s approval.
This feels like a threshold moment. With AI, a person’s likeness can become an asset that can outlast them. It seems important to note that the filmmakers emphasize that Kilmer’s family has been involved in the process. But that doesn’t address some of the deeper questions around consent, ownership, and what performance even means when an actor was never on stage.
Another detail really stands out to me here. An important AI-generated shot reportedly only took minutes to create once the assets were ready. Which suggests that this kind of AI filmmaking won’t be rare or expensive. We may soon reach a point where AI-generated movies are commonplace, but will audiences accept them?
A recent test showed that Google Gemini produces text that is harder to flag as AI-generated than many of its rivals, especially ChatGPT. Importantly, some AI detection tools could not see Gemini-generated writing at all.
This is important because it undermines the AI detection tools that many people are being asked to trust. Schools, publishers and some online platforms are investing in AI detection. But if the results are inconsistent or just wrong, the authority of these detectors becomes pretty meaningless.
The bigger issue is what happens when the line between human-written and AI-generated content completely collapses. Many people think they can still spot AI writing, but I’m starting to wonder if we’re only catching the most obvious narratives and everything else is slipping through unnoticed.
LinkedIn says AI isn’t hitting jobs yet — but the evidence on the ground tells a different story
A LinkedIn executive said this week that AI is not emerging as a reason for a decline in hiring. But stories from individual companies tell a different story. The latest example is British supermarket chain Morrisons, which announced hundreds of back office cuts, explicitly tying them to AI restructuring.
This is part of a growing pattern across industries and countries. Targeted cuts linked to artificial intelligence, which do not yet appear to be registered in the big data. If your workplace has started talking about “efficiency” and “reengineering” in the same sentence as AI, you may already be seeing this play out. Even if it doesn’t appear in the hiring trend data.
Interestingly, it’s not just jobs that may move, the internet itself may split in two. In a statement, we explored the idea that there could soon be a new Internet, an 80/20 Internet, where 80% of web traffic is AI agents and only 20% is human. So there could be two Internets, essentially, one optimized for machines and one for humans still seeking reality and authenticity.
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