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The Truth About AI in Hollywood
NEWS | 10 October 2026
Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next. Subscribe to or follow "Uncanny Valley" wherever you get your podcasts.

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‘We’re Anti-Theft’: Why the New York Times Sued OpenAi and Microsoft
NEWS | 10 October 2026
And we have spent well over $20 million on this lawsuit,and we are not yet through discovery. So when you think about like this, you know,this original sin, this theftof every creative work ever created, right? I mean, The Times, thankfully, we've worked really hardto put ourself in a financial positionwhere we can enforce our rights. Can you imagine being a small town newspaperand being able to take on, you know, Google or OpenAIor Microsoft or Perplexity or Anthropic? You're anti-tech, Jensen.

World:
The Big Interview: ‘LegalEagle’ On The Best And Worst Cinematic Legal Representations
NEWS | 10 October 2026
The channel started as commentary on pop cultureand explaining legal issuesand sort of dipping our toe into legal news. But yeah, I mean, that general idea ofwe have to explain this stuffbecause with few exceptions, no one else is doing it. And you know, we don't want to sugarcoat thingsand say, oh, you know, there is a legal solution tosome of these things when there isn't. And we're pretty upfront when we say that, you know,here is what the law coversand you know, here's what the law does not cover. And some of these things are sort of moral issuesor norms that are being broken as opposed to a legal rule.

Current Events:
The Big Interview: Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
NEWS | 10 October 2026
How are you gonna get anything donewhen it comes to AI regulation in the next couple of years? How do you fight that fight and get some wins? I actually think we could move forward on a lot of ideas,and you're seeing it play out at the state level, right? So my RAISE Act passedwith bipartisan majorities in both houses,and the final passage was nearly unanimous,I think there was one no vote. And on, even other bills that I've doneon data training transparency,where we have transparency standardson what goes into, the data that goes into a model,that passed unanimously last year.

News Flash:
Chris Hayes on How Your Attention Gets Monetized
NEWS | 10 October 2026
The latest account is 1,000 plus Iranian civilians,not to mention we don't know how many combatantsor members of the regime. I just think they're in like the same waythat people talk about, people talk about this all the time. [Katie Laughing]But like, yeah, Tim Cook, I don't know, you know? I think that's an example of-He looks deeply uncomfortable,but he won't say anything- He's giving him the babbles. And I don't know that I want Donald Trumpto be the person, you know, making those calls.

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EJAE on KPop Demon Hunters and Her Journey to Success
NEWS | 10 October 2026
Because I'm not really like that,I'm quite like outspoken, I'm quite blunt. I don't know how, what,I don't think I knew what coping meant at that age, right? Oh, and that pressure was really, really heavy. Oof, that was really, really hard. I think K-pop was kind of goingthrough this like pop direction.

Breaking:
The Internet’s Next Currency
NEWS | 10 October 2026
And that, you know, that's grown nowto, there are about 78 billionUSDC in circulation. And, you know, that's sort of the core of it,of that piece of what we do. But I looked at that and said, That's gonna happen. But I think, I also think, you know, as a country,you know, there's an opportunity as well. Like we're building with Arc and other infrastructureways for people to launch stablecoinsin almost every major currency in the world.

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Inside DOGE: Silicon Valley Meets the State
NEWS | 10 October 2026
What did you think DOGE would be,and at what point did you realize that's maybe notwhat DOGE actually was? [audience laughs]Sahil, what did you think DOGE would be? So I talked to himand you know, I'm not super familiar. I wanna sort of backtrack for everyone, you know,do you see DOGEas separate from the Trump administration's agenda? I would say that as far as Doge being separatefrom the government, you know, governmentis people, they're human beings.

This Just In:
The Science of Super Agers
NEWS | 10 October 2026
This year, he published a book called Super Agers:an Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity,and that's what we're gonna talk about today. Of course, there's a little bit of that that contributes,a little bit of luck. I think the big thing, of course, as you know,there's lots going on to try to reverse aging,and that's great. In fact, that's really what the whole premisewas in Super Agers,that this is a unique moment in medicine. So this is an area that's gonna continue to explode.

Today:
Watch Reimagining Democracy
NEWS | 10 October 2026
I don't actually think that's the whole picture. And it was remarkable seeing the amount of sidesteppingthat happened where it's like, you know,we really need to let historians answer that question. Yeah, I mean, ultimately I could go on and onabout Robert's rules of order,but I don't wanna bore you guys. You are putting yourself out there on so many,as you have said, issues that people don't wanna talk aboutor that infrequently come up. And I called up my friend Maxwelland I said, Hey, I really need youto take this job at March For Our Lives.

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Watch Making Blockbusters
NEWS | 10 October 2026
I mean, even Leo DiCaprio was working the podcast[Jon] circuit to promote- I know, that's crazy. I got to witness him when he was like,Hey, you're gonna direct this movie,but we have to introduce you to my audience. And it turns to me, I'm like,Hey, I'm Jon, I'm gonna bedirecting your movie, [host laughs]and here we go. But that's, that's the what I struggle with every day. And so if I'm making Wicked, I'm gonna cast Cynthia Erivo,a woman of color playing Elphaba,but for the first time playing a green girl,which is crazy.

World:
Teaching AI to Think Responsibly
NEWS | 10 October 2026
I think AI is really at this kind ofinteresting inflection point, right? And one of the risks that I think you're pointing tois this question around like,these AIs are capable of doing so many things, right? So I think in terms of just the ecosystem,I think Anthropic is probably helping to fuela lot of the AI innovation and transformationthat's happening just through access to cloud, right? So Claude is really, really good at writing code. Engineers were noticing, wow, Claude is really, really goodat generating code.

Current Events:
Safeguarding the Internet's Future
NEWS | 10 October 2026
We, I think the title of this discussionis Safeguarding the Internet's Future. Well, what the, the first thing we said is what couldthat business model look like in the future? [crowd laughing]It's true, that they are gonna look at one of the remediesof potentially splitting crawl apart. And if you're not thinking about that for yourselfand your own business, that's a much bigger change. I don't know what it's going to change to,but it's what I'm spending almost every waking hourthinking about.

News Flash:
Rebooting Silicon Valley
NEWS | 10 October 2026
And we would use these technologies,and it would do good things for us,and we would feel good about it. And I think Alex can maybe talk a little bitabout what's in it,and sort of what we're hoping it leads to. In the manifesto, you saythat Silicon Valley has lost its way,that it was once sort of idealistic in its motivations. You have, you know, hundreds of signatories, a lotof really interesting, important people who've beenin the Valley for a long time. How do you see this potentially changinghow Silicon Valley operates today?