Max and guest expert Celeste Morrell unpack a packed day in AI: Disney+ and Hulu’s ad-driven bundle and the algorithms behind streaming economics; senators calling for investigations into Meta’s alleged scam-ad profits and Meta’s denial; OpenAI’s “Cameo” trademark snag and the ethics of consent in deepfakes; “AI slop” as Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year; a push for better AI imagery on book covers; HKUST’s humanoid layup demo and the imitation-learning advances behind it; Llamazip’s lossless compression via LLaMA and what it implies for training-data provenance; AWS’s 1.3-gigawatt government-grade AI datacenters; H2O.ai’s leadership move amid sovereign AI momentum; using LLMs as judges to evaluate other models; AI-generated music scaling on Spotify; India’s AI-healthcare startups delivering clinical impact; EU tech policy turbulence; and a new physics benchmark showing top models still struggle with original research. Three takeaways: design for transparency, calibrate hype with repeatability, and keep governance practical.

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• H2O.ai Appoints Jason Finney as President and Chief Revenue Officer
• Better images of AI on book covers
• Top 10 Indian Startups Powering Healthcare with AI
• Llamazip: Leveraging LLaMA for Lossless Text Compression and Training Dataset Detection
• Meta accused of earning 10% of revenue from known scams
• AWS to build 1.3 gigawatts of government-grade supercomputing power for Uncle Sam
• Unitree G1 Nails a Perfect Layup: HKUST Showcases the World’s First Real-World Basketball Robot Demo
• OpenAI learned the hard way that Cameo trademarked the word ‘cameo’
• Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5 still fail at complex physics tasks designed for real scientific research
• LLM-as-a-Judge: What It Is, Why It Works, and How to Use It to Evaluate AI Models
• KI-Musik: Wenn Algorithmen den Hit des Sommers komponieren
• Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face
• Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy
• Disney+ and Hulu bundled for $5 a month might be my favorite Black Friday streaming deal