Brian Barrett
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first heard Apr 2026
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And you sort of hope, like the idealized version of this, right, is the same, that they would treat it the same way as they maybe treat the media industry when you have these billionaires taking over these companies, where it's sort of a hands-off, you do what you do, I trust the art, I'm doing this because I believe in it.
That's not the case.
It's less and less the case in the media industry as well.
Jeff Bezos obviously has made some pretty big changes at the Washington Post, that there's sort of this exertion of influence that you in an ideal world would not be happening.
Like powerful interests have owned Hollywood companies for a long time.
But, you know, this is sort of just such an overt case.
And also the medium, right?
I think there's the other deal that happened this week that drew a lot of eyebrows was Google DeepMind announcing a $75 million investment in A24, beloved indie darling, to create AI tools.
Leah, I know you feel strongly and sadly about this.
I do think too, one thing that, this gets to your point earlier, Zoe, that when people see that there's a deal for $75 million, you assume that it's to train AI.
You assume that it's going to be, oh, now Google's going to absorb all of A24's stuff into the Borg and like, but it's not that.
It is, so it is like,
It's interesting that it's still controversial, obviously, but that it is really for those like trying to find those purpose built tools to support the creation of non-AI film, which gets lost.
We've talked about how everything's connected.
File one more connection under this.
A24 has Thrive Capital as one of its investors.
That is a venture capital firm owned by Josh Kushner, brother of Jared Kushner.
Thrive has OpenAI as a major investment, holds a major stake in SpaceX.
Warner Brothers, about to be owned by the Ellison family.
Just a lot going on in terms of everybody owned by anybody related to everybody.
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