Today in Generative Media

3000 $1 podcasts/wk; AI comes for YouTube creators; Using AI to teach writing

News and Opinion

• 5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan (Hollywood Reporter)

• AI Is Coming for YouTube Creators (The Atlantic)

• A researcher’s view on using AI to become a better writer (Hechinger Report)

• Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools (Ars Technica)

• Everything you need to know about the Powell’s AI slop snafu—and what we can all learn from it. (Lit Hub)

• It's AI all the way down as Google's AI cites web pages written by AI (The Register)

• Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies (Futurism)

• Ex-Apple PhDs raise $10M, choose Seattle to build an AI foundation model that understands emotion (GeekWire)

Software

• Stability AI Introduces Stable Audio 2.5, the First Audio Model Built for Enterprise Sound Production at Scale

• Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast – new pricing, new configurations and better resolution (Google Developers blog)

• Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) floats into Photoshop this September! (X)

• Claude can now create and edit files (Anthropic)

Research

• CausNVS: Autoregressive Multi-view Diffusion for Flexible 3D Novel View Synthesis (project page)

• Hyper Diffusion Avatars: Dynamic Human Avatar Generation using Network Weight Space Diffusion (project page)

• MEGS2: Memory-Efficient Gaussian Splatting via Spherical Gaussians and Unified Pruning (arXiv)