What Makes an Actor or Character Valuable?

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down OpenAI’s Sora 2 update, DeepMind’s vision for video foundation models, California’s sweeping new AI law, and Spotify’s fight against 75 million spammy tracks.
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CHAPTERS:

0:00:00 - Podcast begins

0:01:51 - Jason's Irish tour with Meta Oakley HSNT glasses

0:08:33 - Sora 2 is here

0:12:04 - ⁠iJustine's Sora test and promotion⁠

0:14:32 - OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

0:19:34 - Foom: all slop, all the time...

0:29:11 - DeepMind says video models like Veo 3 could become general purpose foundation models for vision, like LLMs for text

0:34:24 - AI Actress Tilly Norwood Condemned by SAG-AFTRA: Tilly ‘Is Not an Actor… It Has No Life Experience to Draw From, No Emotion

0:40:59 - ’CEO of Controversial Startup Vows to Keep Mass Publishing AI Podcasts Despite Backlash

0:53:07 - Spotify Announces New AI Safeguards, Says It’s Removed 75 Million ‘Spammy’ Tracks

0:55:00 - California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law

0:56:23 - Hawley and Blumenthal unveil AI evaluation bill

1:00:43 - This is Gemini for Home and the redesigned Home app, rollout starts today

1:04:09 - Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab to make AI digital assistant

1:06:44 - Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5

1:08:03 - DoorDash Unveils Delivery Robot, Smart Scale in Hardware Debut

1:10:02 - Opera launches Neon AI browser to join agentic web browsing race

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