Weekly AI news for the creative industries. Every Monday, Technically Creative brings you a fast, opinionated recap of the biggest stories in artificial intelligence, entertainment, media and technology from the week just gone, and what they mean for the week ahead.
This is a new kind of episode for Technically Creative. Alongside our usual interviews with leaders across film, television, advertising, technology and the creative industries, Orlando Wood will now start each week with a short AI Week in Review, designed for anyone trying to keep up with an industry that seems to change every five minutes.
For the week ending August 28, 2026, the AI debate is getting considerably more complicated.
Hollywood leaders including Kathleen Kennedy have been quietly discussing how the industry should distinguish between generative AI, machine-learning tools and genuinely human-controlled creative workflows.
Meanwhile, the music industry is simultaneously investing in AI and fighting it in court. Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music are backing Stability AI, while music publishers pursue copyright litigation against Anthropic. The emerging dividing line may not be AI versus artists, but licensed AI versus unlicensed AI.
We also look at why Luminate’s new system for identifying AI-generated music could make metadata, attribution and provenance some of the most important infrastructure in the creative economy, and what Nvidia’s reported interest in acquiring Hugging Face could mean for open-source AI and the wider technology ecosystem.
The bigger question connecting all of these stories is whether “AI: good or bad?” has stopped being a particularly useful debate.
What kind of AI is being used? Who controls it? What was it trained on? Was the material licensed? Is it augmenting creative people or replacing them? Who owns the output? And who gets paid?
Technically Creative: Week in Review is a weekly guide to the AI news, arguments and technology shaping Hollywood, entertainment and the creative industries.
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