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AI adoption in Hollywood is raising concerns among animators and visual effects artists as major studios partner with AI startups and integrate generative tools into production workflows. The entertainment industry faces job instability amid corporate mergers, reduced project green-lights, and labor strikes, with AI exacerbating existing challenges for creative workers.

The city spent $125,000 to pave a runway for model airplanes in Kailua despite budget cuts. The funding was allocated for a model airplane field during a period of financial constraints.

Runway, an AI video startup, hosted its largest AI film festival at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, showcasing 10 AI-generated short films. The event featured discussions with Runway's co-CEO and director Ron Howard, who expressed optimism about AI's potential in filmmaking. While the author found the films generic and unimpressive, the crowd responded positively, and the technology was acknowledged as advanced.

LaGuardia Airport has shut down a runway for the second time in weeks due to a recurring pavement issue. Arrivals are experiencing average delays of 48 minutes, though delays are reported to be decreasing.

Nvidia unveiled Cosmos 3, an open AI world model designed to help robots and autonomous vehicles understand and predict real-world environments by simulating physical actions. The model is trained on 20 trillion tokens of multimodal data, including action data from humans and robots, and aims to enable machines to navigate and manipulate the physical world more effectively.

Nvidia-backed $5 billion AI company Runway is launching a major expansion in London, following U.S. AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI in announcing significant growth plans in the city.

YouTube is enhancing its AI video labeling system by making labels more prominent and automating part of the process using 'internal signals' to flag AI-generated content. The move addresses the growing realism of AI video tools like Seedance, Runway, and Google's Veo, which challenge human perception of authenticity.

Runway, an AI video generation startup, aims to beat Google at AI by focusing on video generation as a path to world models. The company believes being an AI outsider is an advantage. Runway started by helping filmmakers and now expands its scope.

A man who was hit by a plane on a runway has been ruled as a suicide. The incident involved a fatal collision between the man and an aircraft. The cause of death has been officially determined.

A person was found on a runway, raising questions about how they got there. The incident is under investigation. No other details are available.

A plane struck a person on a runway, and a passenger recalled the moment. The incident is being investigated. Details about the person and the investigation are not provided.

A packed passenger plane was stranded for hours on the runway after fog forced the cancellation of its original destination, leading to emotional distress among passengers with screams and sobs reported.

Runway's CEO claims AI could enable Hollywood studios to produce dozens of films for the cost of one $100M blockbuster, increasing the likelihood of creating hit movies through higher volume production.