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Studios are starting to hire people who already know how to use AI production tools, rather than training teams in-house.

Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela told Semafor that studios now commonly ask how to find people who already know how to use these tools. The AI video company launched its first AI filmmaking course at NYU in 2024, and courses on its tools now run at USC, Rhode Island School of Design, MIT and Harvard, among others.

Google also runs a Flow residency connecting creatives with its engineers. Brad Tangonan, a filmmaker who took part, said learning these tools is becoming necessary to enter the industry. AI fluency is not yet a prerequisite for making movies.

Replit announced on September 25 that it has acquired Atta, a data analysis and charting company. Terms were not disclosed.

Atta, founded by Omar Shaik and Amine Ben Khalifa, builds interactive, share-ready charts for business analysis. The first result is available today: upload a dataset or connect a data source in a Replit conversation, and Replit Agent can generate charts without you writing SQL.

The announcement says charts adapt labels and layout as they resize. That is the company's own description; the actual output quality remains for users to judge.

Mark Zuckerberg is defending the Ray-Ban Meta glasses against the privacy uproar over wearable cameras, arguing their capture light is more noticeable than a phone's.

Per the show notes of the September 25 Vergecast, Zuckerberg has made the point in at least two recent interviews: the glasses light up when a photo is taken, while phones do not. Meta's smart glasses have drawn criticism over camera privacy.

Joanna Stern, interviewed in the same rounds, pushed back: phones may lack a light, but holding one up to shoot is itself pretty noticeable. These statements are relayed via the episode's show notes, not a transcript.