Weekly Dispatch
Insights, analysis, and obsessions from deep inside the creative AI frontier — generative art, AI music, world models, and the culture shaping what comes next.
Runway GWM-1, Google Genie 3, NVIDIA Cosmos, and World Labs are all betting that the next creative AI frontier isn't generating images — it's simulating reality. What world models are, why they matter, and what they mean for artists right now.
Read →Refik Anadol's Dataland just opened. A generative film just qualified for an Oscar. But the artists gaining real critical respect — Sougwen Chung, Anna Ridler, Kira Xonorika — aren't prompt engineers. They're something far more interesting.
Read →Suno settled with Warner. Udio settled with UMG. OpenAI killed Sora. ElevenLabs launched licensed-first. The "train now, license later" era is definitively over — and what replaces it will determine who builds the creative AI tools of the next decade.
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