Fox invests in AI microdramas

👋 Good morning or evening, wherever you are. It’s Thursday.

Fox just put real money behind AI microdramas, signaling vertical series are moving from experiment to mainstream.

Here’s the quick notes:

• Fox Entertainment took an equity stake in Holywater, a Kyiv-based startup with 55M+ users across My Drama, My Muse (AI-driven video), My Passion, and FreeBits (ad-supported).

• The vertical video market is valued at $8B, fueled by TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

• Fox Studios committed to 200+ vertical series over the next two years for My Drama. First up: Billionaire Blackmail and Bound by Obsession, now in production in Atlanta.

• Expect Fox IP extensions and remakes alongside new originals, with Hollywood talent deals in development.

• CEO Rob Wade calls vertical video “the future of digital storytelling.”

• Holywater’s founders frame this as validation that verticals can deliver premium drama, thriller, and romance, not just quick tropes.

• The deal follows Fox’s June investment in The Lighthouse, a creator studio hub, underscoring a bigger strategy around AI-powered, creator-led pipelines.

OK let’s keep going ↓

🔥 Creative pulse

Reminder to watch Jacopo Reale’s AI film, Love at First Sight.

Even if you’ve already seen it, check the LinkedIn comments. The sentiment around AI and film is beginning to shift compared to earlier this year.

Storytelling is one aspect. But what stands out now is acceptance. Heading into next year, more audiences will start to genuinely embrace AI films.

Anyways go watch it. It’s beautifully told, deeply human, and impossible not to love.

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💡 Here’s what you should know

• Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise

  Gemini Enterprise is a unified AI platform that combines Gemini models, enterprise data, agents, and governance to transform workflows and drive business ROI.

• 4 ways Gemini Enterprise makes work easier

  Gemini Enterprise helps teams save time by unlocking company data, orchestrating end-to-end workflows, and embedding advanced AI directly into everyday tools like Workspace and Microsoft 365.

• Figma and Google Cloud expand AI collaboration

  Figma is integrating Google’s Gemini models, including Gemini 2.5 Flash, to enhance image generation and editing for its 13 million users, cutting latency by 50% and accelerating creative workflows across its platform.

• DC Comics doubles down on human-led creativity

  President Jim Lee says the DC universe will remain built by artists and writers, reinforcing authenticity as a core competitive asset

• Rishi Sunak joins Microsoft and Anthropic as paid adviser

  The former UK prime minister will provide strategic advice on technology and AI to Microsoft and Anthropic, with earnings donated to his charity. Watchdog Acoba has barred him from lobbying ministers or advising on UK contracts for two years.

• India pilots e-commerce payments on ChatGPT

  NPCI and Razorpay, in collaboration with OpenAI, launched a pilot that enables UPI-powered purchases directly within ChatGPT, positioning AI assistants as full shopping agents.

• Microsoft launches Elevate Washington to expand AI access in education

  The initiative will provide free AI tools, training, and support to 500,000 students and 100,000 educators across Washington, helping close usage gaps and prepare communities for the future of work.

• Intel unveils Panther Lake, first AI PC platform built on 18A

  The new Core Ultra series 3 processors are the first client SoCs on the 18A node, set for high-volume production in Arizona. Panther Lake delivers faster CPU and GPU performance, advanced AI acceleration, and scalability across PCs, gaming, and edge applications.

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💰 The numbers

• Reflection AI raised $2B at an $8B valuation, with backing from Nvidia, Eric Schmidt, Citi, 1789 Capital, Lightspeed, and Sequoia.

• n8n raised $180M Series C at a $2.5B valuation, led by Accel with NVIDIA’s NVentures joining, to scale AI orchestration and workflow automation.

• DUOS raised $130M Series C led by FTV Capital with Forerunner Ventures participating, to expand its AI-powered health platform and grow payer partnerships.

• Sensi.AI raised $45M Series C led by Qumra Capital with Insight Partners and others, to expand its AI home health monitoring platform.

• Datacurve raised $15M Series A led by Chemistry, with participation from employees at DeepMind, Vercel, Anthropic, and OpenAI, to build high-quality datasets for AI training.

• Peer AI raised $12.1M led by Flare Capital Partners and SignalFire, building an agentic AI platform for life sciences regulatory documentation.

• Shuttle Pharmaceuticals signed a non-binding LOI to acquire Molecule.ai for $10M (cash + shares, milestone-based), gaining rights to its LLM-powered AI drug discovery platform.

• 375ai raised $10M from Delphi Digital, Strobe Ventures, Hack VC and others to expand its edge data network, capturing real-world insights for AI models, cities, and enterprises.

• CoreWeave turned $50M in convertible notes into a $12.5B stake for Magnetar Capital, reflecting the massive appreciation of its AI cloud business.

🧠 Thought starters

3 things to think about…

1.) Jake Paul is the first celebrity to jump on NIL Cameo. Greg Brockman at OpenAI confirmed his clips pulled in over 1B views in the past week.

2.) Mark Cuban is using NIL Cameo as a promotion channel. He’s injected “Brought to you by Cost Plus Drugs” into his AI appearances, so anytime his likeness shows up in a Sora-generated clip it doubles as an ad for his company, whether or not that line was part of the original prompt.

3.) This is interesting…LLMs are competing for attention on social feeds, and they’ll even stretch the truth if that’s what it takes to win the popularity game.

😂 Meme of the day

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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