Some UK film and TV industry organizations are imposing “strict internal controls” around artificial intelligence, according to a new report from training body ScreenSkills.

The report, which examined skills gaps in the industry and found many to be predicting layoffs in the near future, focused heavily on AI and its adoption in film and TV.

AI video-generation startup Runway doesn’t have the typical Silicon Valley pedigree. No Stanford founders, no ex-Google founders, no nine-figure seed round that bought them time to ignore revenue. Its three founders — two from Chile, one from Greece —  met at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and built the company in New York.

As Hollywood wrestles with how to use AI, Obsidian Studio's Wes Walker and Louis Gheysens are making the case that the technology is only as good as the human hand guiding it.

Wes Walker has a golden rule about the use of artificial intelligence in his creative process — one that speaks volumes about how quickly the technology has morphed from curiosity to everyday tool.

Greetings, Tech Editor Alexei Oreskovic guest-writing your Term Sheet today. Silicon Valley likes to think of itself as the center of the tech universe, and San Francisco’s heavy concentration of AI companies is only reinforcing that habit.

But innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurial acumen aren’t restricted by borders, as I was reminded when talking to Joaquín Cuenca Abela recently. The 49-year-old Spanish founder is showing how it’s possible to thrive in the AI market even if your company isn’t building a frontier model, even if it’s not backed by VC money—and even if it isn’t based in Silicon Valley.

Reese Witherspoon went viral last week — nearly five million views on Instagram and countless more when her comments were shared across platforms — for suggesting that her followers embrace and learn how to use artificial intelligence. “It’s time. It’s time, people,” she said in an IG Reel.

The entertainment industry is in the midst of a reckoning with AI, which has brought disruption to many sectors of the U.S. economy. Many companies are beginning to lean into the potential, though it is a delicate proposition. Securing protections from the downside of the technology has been a core goal of labor unions in negotiations this year with studios and streamers as the parties look to avoid a repeat of the dual strikes of 2023. The onset of AI has also coincided with a period of austerity for many large producers and studios, which are also contending with consolidation and ongoing challenges facing legacy media.

"Given the fast-moving pace of our industries, this requires us to constantly assess how to foster a more agile and technologically-enabled workforce to meet tomorrow's needs," the CEO told staff Tuesday.

Over the last few years, as Hollywood restructured to meet the demand for streaming entertainment and as major businesses saw fit to merge, the entertainment industry whittled down budgets, shed jobs and in some cases outsourced work overseas. This painful moment of contraction happened to coincide with leaps forward in generative AI like the release of ChatGPT in 2022, the same year that Netflix, and the rest of Hollywood, began shifting their streaming models to focus on profitability.

Hollywood veteran and award-winning creative director Curt Doty has created CLOWD which will invite AI filmmakers from around the world to submit their short films to an international competition and festival built for what’s next. Unlike other AI festivals, CLOWD puts creators first—respecting IP, integrating crowd-sourced voting, leveraging qualified judges, and drawing on the expertise of seasoned indie film festival operators.

Hollywood loves efficiency. So when generative AI started being used to produce loglines, concept art, rough cuts and even serviceable dialogue, the industry did what it always does: It experimented.

But AI is not just a creative tool. It is a chain-of-title event. And chain of title determines whether your film can be financed, insured, distributed and defended in court.

This is where the AI hype collides with copyright law.

Soulscape 2026 will host 200 creators selected from thousands of applicants worldwide to convene in the city for the summit, which will feature keynote conversations, panels, tech demos, masterclasses, an AI career fair, mentorship and a red carpet finale. The centerpiece of the event will be a 48-hour short film sprint that will see the participants producing an original AI-fueled project that will be judged by a panel of experts.

“We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing,” OpenAI’s Sora team said in a statement Tuesday.

As Hollywood remains locked in labor and legal battles over generative AI, Filmart is showcasing Asia’s increasingly full-throated embrace of the technology as both a foregone conclusion and the industry’s next growth engine — with 28 talks devoted to the subject this year.

The upcoming Bitcoin biopic from director Doug Liman and producer Ryan Kavanaugh has disclosed in a U.K. casting notice that the indie film may use AI to “adjust” some performances. Actors will also perform on a “markerless performative capture stage and not in any locations, using new Al technologies.”

Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg spoke out against the use of AI technology when used in creative endeavors in an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin on Friday. Asked how he viewed AI’s utility as part of the filmmaking process, Spielberg said, “I’ve never used AI on any of my films yet,” to which the audience erupted with cheers and applause.

For many in the entertainment industry, artificial intelligence is a boogeyman poised to steal the soul of Hollywood. But Netflix and Ben Affleck have seemingly found a way to embrace the technology without freaking everyone out.

Netflix on Thursday acquired Affleck’s InterPositive, which said it provides AI tools for video post-production, for an undisclosed sum. The startup said it built its own model using footage it shot itself, training the algorithm to think like a filmmaker or editor. Other creatives can then feed dailies into the model, creating a “mini-model” that’s optimized specifically for that film or show. It specializes in post-production fixes like adding missing shots, correcting lighting or enhancing backgrounds.

Studying at the film school where Oscar-nominated "Sinners" director Ryan Coogler honed his craft, SiJia Zheng dreams of winning an Academy Award.

Now with the recent developments in artificial intelligence, he can see a shortcut to achieving his ambition.

"That's a chance for beginners like me who can use AI to just make a film and to announce to the world that I have the ability to be a director," he told AFP.

OpenAI plans to soon launch its AI video generator Sora ​in ChatGPT, The Information reported ‌on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Welcome to the “Tillyverse” — the digital world of controversial AI "actor" Tilly Norwood that its creator says will allow AI characters to collaborate and build artificial acting careers.

The CEO of Particle6, Eline van der Velden, announced the “rapid expansion” of Tilly Norwood and its universe on Monday in a press release.

AI expands access to filmmaking for resource-constrained creators. But as efficiency becomes the industry’s north star, creativity risks being overwhelmed by a deluge of low-effort, AI-generated content.

A Filipino man walks through the backyard of his childhood home in rural Hawai’i, his footsteps swooshing through the grass. Birds chirp, contributing to the tropical din, as he approaches a shrine at the base of a starfruit tree. He bends to inspect a framed black-and-white photograph of a woman, her hair in a 1950s side part.