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🚁 How FPV Drones Redefine Olympic Storytelling 

The Story: Olympic Broadcasting Services is transforming sports coverage at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games with a fleet of first-person-view (FPV) drones. These custom-built, high-speed drones follow athletes down courses, providing an immersive, dynamic perspective that captures the true speed and skill of the competition for viewers worldwide.

The Details:

• Custom-built, sub-250g drones are used to fly close to athletes while adhering to safety regulations that prevent flying directly over them.

• The drones can reach speeds of up to 120 km/h (75 mph), allowing them to keep pace with the world's fastest skiers and sliders.

• Pilots operate the drones wearing immersive goggles, giving them a real-time, first-person perspective to navigate complex courses.

• Onboard broadcast cameras and transmitters allow crews in mobile production trucks to tweak camera settings remotely during live events.

• The goal is to create a 'third dimension' of coverage that conveys the sensation of speed, moving beyond traditional fixed or linear camera shots.

Why It Matters: For filmmakers and video professionals, the Olympics' adoption of FPV drones signals a major shift in live production. It creates new career opportunities for skilled pilots and establishes a new visual standard for dynamic, immersive storytelling that clients in sports, events, and advertising will increasingly demand from creative teams.

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🧠 Anthropic Founders Say AI Boosts Human-Centric Skills

The Story: In a series of interviews and essays, Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei are forecasting major AI-driven job displacement, particularly in technical fields. They argue this shift will place a premium on uniquely human skills like critical thinking, communication, and emotional intelligence, making humanities-based abilities more valuable for future creative work.

The Details:

• Anthropic President Daniela Amodei, a literature major, stated that studying the humanities is going to be “more important than ever” as AI models excel at STEM tasks.

• In a detailed essay, CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI could create a permanent, “very-low-wage underclass” by displacing up to 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs in five years.

• The company now prioritizes hiring for high EQ and communication skills, a sentiment echoed by leaders at JPMorgan and Microsoft.

• Citing concerns over extreme wealth concentration, all seven Anthropic co-founders have pledged to donate 80% of their wealth to philanthropy.

• Amodei believes humanity is in the “adolescence of technology” and that AI better than humans at “essentially everything” could arrive within just a few years.

Why It Matters: For creatives and freelancers, this signals a strategic shift: as AI automates technical tasks, your value increasingly lies in client communication, creative problem-solving, and strategic thinking. This reframes your services away from pure execution and toward high-touch, human-centric expertise that AI can't replicate, justifying premium pricing.

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🧟 The Zombie Internet Threatens Creator Platforms

The Story: The concept of a "zombie internet" is gaining traction, describing a web where AI agents create and consume content for each other, sidelining humans. Platforms like Moltbook, a social network exclusively for AIs, are early examples. This moves beyond the "dead internet" theory, posing new threats to online creators and platform monetization.

The Details:

• The zombie internet is defined by AI-generated content intended for AI consumption, unlike the dead internet's AI-to-human model.

• Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents to communicate with each other, serves as a primary example of this emerging trend.

• New research shows that AI models trained on low-quality viral content suffer from irreversible cognitive decay, or "LLM brain rot".

• In a zombie internet, advertising models could collapse as content is increasingly "seen" by non-human agents who don't make purchases.

• This trend risks creating a feedback loop of low-quality or hallucinated information, further eroding trust in online content.

Why It Matters: For creators and brands, this signals a future where discoverability and audience engagement become exponentially harder. As platforms fill with AI-to-AI noise, the value of authentic, human-made content could rise, but reaching human audiences will require new strategies that bypass the increasingly automated parts of the web.

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