Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI
The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.
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The director defends investment in and use of AI-generated storyboards, saying the immediacy of communicating his vision to cast and crew is ‘creatively freeing’ Martin Scorsese’s announcement that he has invested in an AI company and uses the technology to create storyboards has triggered a backlash from fellow members of the film industry. The New York Times reported that Scorsese had been appointed in 2025 as a partner and adviser to Black Forest Labs, a German-based venture that specialises in text-to-image generative AI. Continue reading...
Read full articleThe caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.
In a clear sign of Hollywood’s softening stance on artificial intelligence, the cinema icon is backing Black Forest Labs, an image generation start-up.
10 September 2019, US, New York: Yellow taxis pass in front of the New York Times newspaper building. Photo: Alexandra Schuler/dpa (Photo by Alexandra Schuler/picture alliance via Getty Images) How newsrooms should use AI - or if they should at all - has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight. Unionized staff with the Tech Guild say Times management has refused to provide the union with information related to how the company has used AI, its plans for AI use in the future, and how it will affect employees' jobs and workflow. (The union filed an unfair labor practice charge earlier this month.) The Tech Guild, a NewsGuild … Read the full story at The Verge.
Kevin Roose is an award-winning technology columnist for The New York Times and the best-selling author of three books, “Futureproof,” “Young Money,” and “The Unlikely Disciple.” His column, The Shift, examines the intersection of tech, business, and culture.hing right now: scale AI across teams, accelerate adoption, and show measurable results.
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Paris-based AI real estate startup Davis has raised €4.6 million in a pre-seed round led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton Capital, with participation from Yellow, Evantic, and Entrepreneurs First, alongside angels from the founding teams of Hugging Face, Black Forest Labs, and Supabase. Founded in 2025 by CEO Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, Davis combines […]
Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history" when training its Llama AI models, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In their suit, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, Hachette, Cengage, and author Scott Turow allege that Meta "repeatedly copied" their books and journal articles without permission. The lawsuit accuses Meta of knowingly ripping copyrighted work from "notorious pirate sites," such as LibGen, Anna's Archive, Sci-Hub, Sci-Mag, and others, and then feeding that material in … Read the full story at The Verge.
This week on “Hard Fork” from The New York Times, the hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose discuss how this current moment of deep skepticism and suspicion towards the major A.I. companies arose, and the tensions between our democracy and the Silicon Valley elite.