2 Chainz & Timbaland react to Mach-Hommy’s “The G.A.T…”
“What’s special about it is that it’s a lathe cut… depending on how you position it on the record, it’s gonna play a different track… He only made 30 of them.”
“He had to chase down the guy who had the patent on this technology for years. Took forever for him to agree to license him the patent so he could press his record like this. He’s only granted it to Mach-Hommy… It’s a lathe cut, it doesn’t even get pressed, the music gets cut directly into this piece of plastic, it’s like a master lacquer.”
2 Chainz & Timbaland then continue to examine the records (The G.A.T… & H.B.O.) and praise Mach’s artistry.
Ben Affleck told you exactly what's coming and nobody caught it.
At the DealBook Summit, he was asked point blank: could Netflix use AI to create its own James Bond with completely synthetic actors?
His answer started safe. "That's not possible now."
"Highly unlikely" in the future, movies will be "one of the last things" replaced by AI.
Then he kept talking.
He said AI will "intermediate the more laborious, less creative, and more costly aspects of filmmaking."
That it will "bring costs down" and "lower the barrier to entry."
Then he said the quiet part out loud.
"I wouldn't like to be in the visual effects business."
They're in trouble and what costs a lot of money is now going to cost a lot less and it's going to hammer that space. And it already is."
He said "maybe it shouldn't take a thousand people to render something."
But he wasn't done.
He described a future where AI lets you get "two seasons of House of the Dragon in a year instead of one."
Where studios make more content with the same spend and fewer people.
Then he went further than any Hollywood insider has gone publicly.
He said AI will eventually let you pay $30 and order your own custom episode of Succession.
Pick the plot, the characters and AI builds it from the show's existing sets, actors, and footage.
"It'll be a little janky and a little bit weird," he said but it'll work.
He described consumers buying an "Iron Man pack" so they can look like Avengers characters on Twitch.
Licensed AI character packs replacing costumes and digital rights replacing DVDs.
This is not a man worried about AI.
This is a man who mapped out the entire business model.
And then he built a company to execute it.
Yesterday, Netflix bought that company.
It's called InterPositive and it trains AI on a film's own footage.
It does exactly what he described fills in the "expensive and burdensome" parts of production.
He told you AI can't write Shakespeare.
He told you it can't replace actors in a room.
He never told you it wouldn't replace the thousand people behind them.
TSHEPO MAHLOELE BUYS FLYSAFAIR
Harith General Partners has agreed to buy full ownership of FlySafair, South Africa’s largest domestic airline, expanding its transport and infrastructure investments.
The deal, completed through Harith Aviation, follows a long shareholder exit process, although the price was not disclosed.
FlySafair controls about 67% of domestic seat capacity and operates a fleet of more than 30 aircraft, highlighting its strong market position.
The acquisition revives Harith’s ambition to own an airline after its failed South African Airways bid in 2024.
FlySafair’s management will remain in place, while the purchase is expected to align ownership with local aviation regulations and support future growth.
Full story - https://t.co/G4kKiMHvgg
Pictured - Harith Founder & Chair, Tshepo Mahloele
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