Today in Generative Media - 11/17/25

Amazon, BBC staff AI studios; AI influences elections; AI can't do your holiday shopping

News and Opinion

• Amazon Builds Out AI Studios With Sports Docs Boss Matt Newman Named Head Of Live-Action (Deadline)

• BBC Studios Names Alice Taylor Chief of New AI Creative Lab (Hollywood Reporter)

• Lies, damned lies and AI: the newest way to influence elections may be here to stay (The Guardian)

• You Won’t Be Able to Offload Your Holiday Shopping to AI Agents Anytime Soon (Wired)

• World Labs is betting on ‘world generation’ as the next AI frontier (The Verge)

• AI to impact 89% of jobs next year, CNBC survey of HR leaders finds (CNBC)

• The Graph Will Set You Free: Why Every Creative Tool Is Becoming a Node Canvas (Hirad Sab on Substack)

• Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign (Anthropic)

Software

• OpenAI reboots ChatGPT experience with GPT-5.1 after mixed reviews of GPT-5 (VentureBeat)

• MFLUX: A MLX port of FLUX based on the Huggingface Diffusers implementation. (GitHub) Run the powerful FLUX and Qwen Image models locally on your Mac!

• Introducing Code Wiki: Accelerating your code understanding (Google Developers blog)

• Google Colab is Coming to VS Code (Google Developers blog)

Research

• SIMA 2: An Agent that Plays, Reasons, and Learns With You in Virtual 3D Worlds (project page)

• Depth Anything 3: Recovering the Visual Space from Any Views (project page)

• Teaching AI to see the world more like we do (project page)

• Understanding neural networks through sparse circuits (project page)

Jobs

• We are looking for 2 technically strong QA Engineers at Luma who love shipping great products. We can do contract to hire and work on a project together, open to remote. (LinkedIn)

• Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring summer interns for media research, where we conduct exciting and challenging research projects on video generation, including lip sync/audio-video generation; grounding/control for i2v and improving complex physics. (X)

• Internship Opportunity at Autodesk Research’s AI Lab - Summer 2026 (LinkedIn)

• Are you passionate about Vision Encoders, Diffusion Models, and cutting-edge Generative Modeling research? My team at Google is hiring summer interns! (LinkedIn)

Misc

• Qwen-Edit-2509 LoRa Training Tutorial: From Variational Design to Building Generalization Capability (YouTube)

• The first trailer for Gore Verbinski’s new film ‘GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DONT DIE’ has been released. The film follows a man who takes patrons of an LA diner hostage, saying that he is from the future and must save them from AI. (X)

• So what happens in the war of the AI aggregators? (X)

• this is what giving up looks like (X)