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AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian)

Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

  • Promise AI film studio in Hollywood uses US and Chinese AI models for production.
  • Actors collaborate with AI to create scenes in real time, reducing production time.
  • AI film studios anticipate creative renaissance and democratize filmmaking process.

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Modern OCR narrows gap on doctors’ handwriting

A new benchmark of handwritten medical prescriptions shows that compact modern optical character recognition systems can decipher doctors’ handwriting far better than established OCR engines, while…

  • GLM-OCR achieved highest Character Error Rate (CER) of 0.328 in April 2026 test
  • PP-OCRv5 provided lower Word Error Rate (WER) of 0.789
  • GLM-OCR correctly reproduced only 32.6% of tested words

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When AI Becomes the Travel Agent, Who Owns the Journey?

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Booking Holdings’ Daniel Marovitz Travel has always had a front door and an operating layer. The front door was the search box, the app or the website. The operating layer was everything the consumer rarely saw: payments, currencies, supplier relationships, fraud controls, compliance, refunds and…

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