{"podcast":{"title":"Digital Afterlife: Hollywood & AI Tech","slug":"digital-afterlife-hollywood-ai-tech-5717063","podcast_index_feed_id":5717063,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/bbf33818/podcast/rss","website_url":"http://www.gliumedia.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded/31432790/31432790-1664223291744-d92bd1d4a68d4.jpg","author":"Ginger Liu","episode_count":61,"summary":"Digital Afterlife: Hollywood & AI Tech explores the latest news in Hollywood's AI-driven tech, artist copyright battles, entertainment policy, and film industry disruption. We explore the latest global startups and research in AI entertainment and media. Entertainment AI Tech News rounds up the latest Hollywood and global news Digital Afterlife News explores visual media, digital afterlife technology, and startups. Ginger Liu, MFA, is the founder of Ginger Media & Entertainment and is a multimedia journalist and researcher. gliumedia.com gingerliu.com https://gingerliu.substack","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T04:19:27.159178+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/digital-afterlife-hollywood-ai-tech-5717063"},"episode":{"title":"Entertainment AI Tech News","slug":"entertainment-ai-tech-news-2","published_at":"2026-07-14T13:14:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/digital-afterlife-hollywood-ai-tech-5717063/entertainment-ai-tech-news-2","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/digital-afterlife-hollywood-ai-tech-5717063","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gliumediapodcast/episodes/Entertainment-AI-Tech-News-e3m1dqg","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/bbf33818/podcast/play/122778896/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-13%2F86184f5c-55cb-2a11-bb4e-a8e0ef9101ce.mp3","summary":"Hollywood studios drop Sam Altman biopic after Amazon exit, Michael Caine’s AI voice to narrate new Odyssey audiobook ahead of Nolan film, The new AI film battleground is usability, not raw model power, and other news. Hollywood’s response to AI is becoming a business story as much as a creative one, with Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial and the Sam Altman biopic controversy showing how distributor politics, studio relationships, and AI partnerships can shape what reaches audiences. This episode also covers AI-driven entertainment developments including synthetic voice narration, AI art spaces, new filmmaking tools, and the growing use of AI across film, media, and digital storytelling. Hollywood is changing the way it responds to AI-related stories, and one of the clearest examples is the reported distribution trouble around Luca Guadagnino’s nearly completed Sam Altman biopic, Artificial . As Amazon MGM and other major studios step back, the film has become a sign of how commercial ties to AI companies may be influencing what Hollywood is willing to release, especially when the subject is a powerful figure at the centre of the AI industry. That same tension runs through the rest of this episode, from Michael Caine’s AI voice narrating a new Odyssey audiobook to the opening of DATALAND, the world’s first museum of AI art. It also shows up in the rise of AI filmmaking tools designed for real production workflows, not just experimentation, and in the way microdramas are moving into theatrical promotion. Together, these stories point to a bigger shift in entertainment, where AI is affecting film distribution, voice performance, visual art, and production itself. Ginger Liu is the founder of Hollywood PR agency, Ginger Media & Entertainment , j ournalist and researcher on…","meta_description":"Hollywood studios drop Sam Altman biopic after Amazon exit, Michael Caine’s AI voice to narrate new Odyssey audiobook ahead of Nolan film, The new AI film…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":637,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/digital-afterlife-hollywood-ai-tech-5717063/episodes/entertainment-ai-tech-news-2/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/digital-afterlife-hollywood-ai-tech-5717063/entertainment-ai-tech-news-2.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}