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First Look: Hollywood's Secret AI Talks Go Public. Here's the Plan
Kathleen Kennedy and AFI dean Susan Ruskin have hosted secret Hollywood–Silicon Valley AI meetings since 2023; their group's first public document proposes "Human Generative Workflows" as a copyrightable, artist-controlled middle ground between embedded AI tools and pure machine generation.
Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)
In a July 2026 Lenny's Podcast interview, Netflix Chief Product and Technology Officer Elizabeth Stone explains how AI is reshaping product and tech jobs at Netflix: why the company now hires systems thinkers over narrow specialists, makes 'AI fluency' an expectation in every role and interview, and still bets on human craft, accountability, and junior talent.
About 300 Netflix Programs Have Used Generative AI This Year
Variety reports that roughly 300 Netflix programs have used generative AI in production this year, per the streamer's Q2 2026 shareholder letter; co-CEO Ted Sarandos frames AI as a creator tool, not a replacement for artists.
Forward Deployed Engineering at Cursor — Pauline Brunet
Cursor's VP of Forward Deployed Engineering explains when an FDE team makes sense, who to hire for it, and how Cursor scopes, staffs, and measures its customer-embedded projects.
Hugging Face's CEO on why companies are done renting their AI | Equity Podcast
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue argues that companies are moving from renting frontier AI APIs to owning open-source and private models, and warns that concentration of AI power is the industry's biggest risk.
WTF is a Creative Technologist? with Tina Tarighian
A Senior Creative Technologist at Google Creative Lab explains what the slippery 'creative technologist' title means, how she wound her way into the role, and why big tech and entertainment are suddenly competing to hire for it.
The rise of the (new) Creative Technologist
Adobe's research report on how the Creative Technologist is evolving from plugin-builder into the bridge between creative craft and AI automation: who is hiring for the role, the five qualities to look for, and how organizations set them up for success.
Forward Deployed Engineers: the builder and the bulldozer
Alex Lieberman argues the red-hot Forward Deployed Engineer role is really two jobs: a customer-embedded "builder" who ships agentic solutions and a "bulldozer" who clears the organizational path so people adopt them.