The Oscars will exclusively air on YouTube starting in 2029

The entertainment industry’s most well-known awards show is heading to streaming. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has announced that the Academy Awards, popularly known as th [...]

Outside Parties is the creepiest Playdate game yet, and I'm kind of obsessed

Never underestimate the chilling powers of grainy grayscale imagery and ethereal whooshing sounds. Outside Parties asks, "What if I Spy, but in an alien hell dimension?", and it is impressiv [...]

Using generative AI will 'neither help nor harm the chances of achieving' Oscar nominations

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decide that its official stance towards AI-use in films is to take no stance at all, according to a statement the organization shared outlining chan [...]

Warner Bros. dominates Oscars with 11 wins ahead of its acquisition by Paramount

Ahead of its acquisition by Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. dominated the 2026 Oscars with 11 wins primarily for Ryan Coogler's Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. [...]

Incention is a desperate attempt to make new Hollywood IP with AI, fans and the blockchain

You'll only need to remember the name Incention for the brief moment you're reading this post, because you'll likely never have to think about it again. As Variety reports, it's a [...]

The Academy has not banned AI from the Oscars. It has defined what it means to be the author of a film.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced new eligibility rules on 2 May for the 99th Academy Awards, and the two that matter most are about seven words each. Acting nominations will b [...]

How AI-Powered Workstations Are Rewriting the Rules of Hollywood Production

Hollywood is undergoing a technological renaissance—and artificial intelligence is at the center of it. Since 2018, AI adoption in Hollywood has been increasing by roughly 35% annually—demonstrati [...]

The Playdate Catalog's 3-year anniversary sale is here

If your Playdate wishlist is anything like mine (endless), here's a good excuse to actually go ahead and free some of those games from limbo: Panic is running a two-week-long sale on the Playdate [...]

Anthropic announces watermark detection API that will let third parties detect Claude's AI texts

Anthropic will soon offer a watermark detection API that lets third parties check whether text was written by Claude. The technology builds on Google's SynthID method and tweaks the randomness du [...]