Two years ago, "workflow automation" meant connecting a form submission to a Slack message. Now half the automations I build for clients have an LLM step somewhere in the middle: summarizing a transcript, classifying a support ticket, drafting a first-pass script, deciding which branch of a workflow to

At 9 a.m. on a Friday, our team of three had a Monday deadline to show a client a working automation pipeline, not a mockup, not slides, an actual system that could take a piece of raw content and turn it into something usable across three platforms. We had

A creator I know runs a two-person production shop that makes explainer videos for SaaS companies. Last year, one client asked her to produce four times the video output for the same retainer, because "you can just use AI now, right?" She spent a week testing every tool

Three years ago, "AI video editor" meant a slider that guessed your white balance or a plugin that shook the jitter out of handheld footage. Useful, sure, but nobody was handing over editorial judgment to software. Today, tools exist that will watch four hours of interview footage, find

The first time you watch an AI rough cut your footage, there's a specific feeling that's hard to describe accurately. It's not awe. It's closer to the sensation of watching someone else drive your car. The route is mostly right. The turns

On June 12, anyone running an automation built on Claude's newest model tier woke up to find it gone. Not slow, not degraded. Suspended, worldwide, for reasons that had nothing to do with whether the model worked. If you had a Cowork agent or an n8n pipeline calling

There's a moment in every rough cut review where you know within thirty seconds whether the person who assembled it understood the story or was just placing clips. The pacing in the first sequence, the choice of which take to lead with, whether the emotional beat in the

The first thing worth knowing about the A24-Google deal is what Google is not getting. No footage. No screenplay archive. No access to the library that includes "Everything Everywhere All at Once," "Midsommar," or "The Whale." When Lionsgate signed with Runway, the studio handed

If you've spent any time with AI tools over the past two years, you know the pattern. You open a chat window, describe what you want, get a generated output, then manually carry that output into whatever software you were actually working in. The AI lives outside your

There's a specific moment most creators hit where the tool problem stops being about finding better tools. For me it was somewhere in the middle of building a video scoring system for a VSS project. I had Claude generating thematic analysis, a transcription pipeline feeding timestamps into structured

Subtitle generation used to cost me somewhere between 45 and 60 minutes per episode. Not creative time. Not judgment time. Scrubbing through a timeline, typing, correcting, nudging in-points, correcting again. The same physical loop repeated until every word was accounted for. With DaVinci Resolve 21's AI subtitle engine,

From smarter agent controls to interactive video editing, this week's biggest AI platform updates all share a common thread: giving creators more meaningful control over automated systems. Midjourney: V8.1 Is Now the Default Model Midjourney's latest and most capable image model, V8.1, is now

This week's biggest updates span AI voice control, professional photo editing, and intelligent social publishing across the video production ecosystem. Descript: Tone Tags for ElevenLabs V3 AI Speakers Descript has introduced inline Tone Tags, letting creators embed directional cues—such as whispers, laughs, pauses, or custom emotional descriptions—