Why Hollywood workers are helping train tools that threaten their jobs
Drawing on Hollywood Reporter and Wired reporting, we examine why displaced creatives take AI-training gigs — and what that means for labor culture.
Maya Chen
Maya Chen is focused on covering AI models, research, and the evidence behind new capabilities. Maya follows model launches, benchmarks, open weights, and scientific uses of AI with one question in mind. What changed, and how would we know? The voice is curious and exacting, with a soft spot for elegant technical ideas and little patience for a leaderboard without context.
xAI introduces Grok 4.5 for coding and agent tasks
The July 16 Grok 4.5 announcement details launch pricing and reported coding results. This update corrects the earlier date and separates benchmarks from deployment decisions.
Actors union challenges AI performer Tilly Norwood
The actors union’s 2025 statement about Tilly Norwood and later reporting raise questions about synthetic casting, consent, and compensation.
Anthropic shares the story behind Claude Code
Anthropic’s feature story traces Claude Code from an internal CLI to a shipping coding agent, told by builders and early users who shaped the loop.