Doug Cavaliere shares the story of how he transformed QSR Systems from a traditional "brick and mortar" rental house into a remote-workflow powerhouse. The discussion centers on the development of "Hidden Pixels," a patented technology architecture which provides security in the age of AI. Doug details the industry's initial skepticism, the subsequent demand sparked by the pandemic, and how his team successfully pitched their "impossible" tech to major studios like Disney, Netflix, and Amazon.

Key Highlights

• The MacBook Air Demo: How Doug proved to major studios that they could edit 9-way multicam remotely over a 4G connection.
• Securing a Patent Category: The journey of creating a new patent category for their security technology despite being told it "had already been done".

• High-Stakes Productions: QSR Systems' work on massive multi-camera reality shows including Survivor, BattleBots, Beastmaster, and Hyperdrive.

• The Post-Pandemic Shift: How the industry’s "rules set in stone" were thrown out the window in 2020, leading to a permanent change in how media is hosted and edited.

• The "Hall Monitor" of Hollywood: A look at the necessity of order and security with AI.

Chapters

(00:00) Introduction

(00:44) Meet Doug Cavaliere: CEO of QSR Systems

(01:33) Transition to Remote Work Pre-Pandemic

(04:25) Pandemic Impact and Remote Editing Boom

(05:46) Challenges and Adaptations in the Industry

(13:27) Hidden Pixels: The Security Innovation

(20:19) NFTs and Provenance

(21:12) Applications of Accountability Engines

(22:04) Challenges in Media and Marketing

(24:12) Hidden Pixels and Security

(25:43) Tech Development and MVPs

(31:10) Electric Bikes and Hobbies

(32:19) Pizza Reviews and Pop Culture

(34:36) Future of Hidden Pixels

This and more in this week's recap of news.

Week 51, Year 2024, Episode 18.

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AI: CAA & YouTube Announce Early-Stage Tool To Help Talent Control Their Likenesses On Video Platform

https://deadline.com/2024/12/ai-deepfakes-actors-youtube-caa-tool-1236208958/

Supreme Court Will Hear TikTok’s Appeal Challenging Ban

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/supreme-court-tiktok-hearing-appeal-ban-1236253348/

Statement on Supreme Court Order to Hear TikTok Ban Case

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/statement-on-supreme-court-order-to-hear-tiktok-ban-case

Blockchain Innovation Will Put an AI-Powered Internet Back Into Users’ Hands

https://www.wired.com/story/blockchain-open-web-user-data/

Deutsche Bank Tries to Tackle Compliance Hurdles for Public Blockchains

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-18/deutsche-bank-tries-to-tackle-compliance-hurdles-for-public-blockchains

Nielsen Makes Paramount Data Less Easy to Analyze As Measurement Fight Continues

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/nielsen-paramount-tv-ratings-data-measurement-fight-1236256738/

Spotify Slams Drake’s Claim That It ‘Artificially Inflated’ Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Streams; Drake’s Legal Team Fires Back

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/spotify-slams-drake-claim-inflated-kendrick-lamar-streams-1236256265/

*Databricks Is Raising $10 Billion, in One of the Largest Venture Capital Deals*

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/technology/databricks-funding-venture-capital-deals.html

Slow Ventures is raising $275 million across two new funds: Filings

https://fortune.com/2024/12/18/venture-firm-slow-ventures-sam-lessin-kevin-colleran-will-quist-raising-275-million-two-new-funds-filings/

Matt Garman rose from intern to AWS CEO. Inside the ‘unflappable’ exec’s plan to defend Amazon’s $100 billion profit machine in the age of AI

https://fortune.com/2024/12/19/amazon-aws-matt-garman-profile-ai-nova-bedrock/

Netflix Scores FIFA Women’s World Cup Exclusive U.S. Rights for 2027 and 2031

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/netflix-fifa-womens-world-cup-streaming-1236256174/

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Week 50, Year 2024, Episode 16.

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YouTube “Enhances” Comment Section With AI-Generated Nonsense

https://www.404media.co/youtube-enhances-comment-section-with-ai-generated-nonsense/

YouTube Says Viewers Streamed Over 1 Billion Hours Daily From Their Living Rooms in 2024

https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-living-room-viewership-1-billion-hours-daily-tv-2024/

‘Hot Ones’ Studio Sold by BuzzFeed for $82.5 Million to Soros Fund, Sean Evans and Other Investors

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/hot-ones-sold-buzzfeed-soros-fund-sean-evans-first-we-feast-investors-1236246915/

Oscars Ceremony to Stream Live on Hulu for the First Time

https://variety.com/2024/film/awards/oscars-hulu-live-stream-abc-1236245317/

Google Unveils Mixed-Reality Headset With Samsung, Taking on Apple and Meta

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-12/hands-on-test-of-new-android-headset-from-samsung-and-google

Andreessen Crypto Policy Lead Quintenz in Running for CFTC Chair

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-12/andreessen-crypto-policy-lead-quintenz-in-running-for-cftc-chair

US asks court to reject TikTok's bid to stave off law that could ban the app

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-asks-court-reject-delay-law-that-would-ban-tiktok-2024-12-12/

Marc Benioff says ‘excessive’ AI spending is a ‘race to the bottom’ and he’d rather Salesforce use other companies’ tech | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2024/12/12/marc-benioff-ai-spending-excessive-race-to-the-bottom/

How Claude uses AI to identify new threats

https://www.platformer.news/how-claude-uses-ai-to-identify-new-threats/?ref=platformer-newsletter

WGA Sends Letter to Studios, Urging Lawsuits Against AI Plagiarism: ‘Inaction has Harmed WGA Members’

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/wga-letter-studios-ai-lawsuits-plagiarism-1236247494/

Circle and Binance Form a Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Global USDC and Crypto Adoption

https://www.binance.com/en/blog/innovation/circle-and-binance-form-a-strategic-partnership-to--accelerate-global-usdc-and-crypto-adoption-8905951797850933210

Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024/

Apple reportedly developing AI server chip with Broadcom

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/apple-reportedly-developing-ai-server-chip-with-broadcom/

Trump picks Andrew Ferguson to chair FTC

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-picks-andrew-ferguson-chair-ftc-2024-12-10/

Sora is here

https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here/

Debanking: What you need to know

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/debanking-explained/

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Week 47, Year 2024, Episode HI.

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Week 47, Year 2024, Episode 15.

Kalshi points to a Trump win. Its 28-year-old CEO says the betting market is more reliable than polling

https://fortune.com/2024/10/23/kalshi-trump-kamala-prediction-market-polymarket-election-tarek-mansour

On election night Polymarket’s 26 year old founder was on top of the world. 8 days later the FBI raided his home...

https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/11/14/polymarket-ceo-shayne-coplan-fbi-raid

Spotify for Creators

https://creators.spotify.com

Nielsen CEO Tells Clients Paramount Seeks ‘Nearly 50%’ Price Cut in Weeks-Long Measurement Battle

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/nielsen-paramount-seeks-price-cut-tv-ratings-measurement-battle-1236210327/

OpenAI and others seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-rivals-seek-new-path-smarter-ai-current-methods-hit-limitations-2024-11-11/

Netflix Says Ad Tier Reaches 70 Million Users Globally

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/netflix-ad-tier-reaches-70-million-global-users-1236207015/

Lena Dunham to Write Sam Bankman-Fried Movie for Apple, A24 Based on Michael Lewis Book ‘Going Infinite’

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/lena-dunham-sam-bankman-fried-movie-apple-a24-michael-lewis-going-infinite-1236207495/

Amazon Is Shutting Down Freevee, Its Ad-Supported Video Streamer

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/amazon-freevee-shutting-down-1236208451/

Trump expected to try to halt TikTok ban, allies say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/12/trump-tiktok-ban-sale/

The Guardian No Longer Posting on X: It’s a ‘Toxic Media Platform’ ...

https://variety.com/2024/digital/global/the-guardian-not-posting-x-elon-musk-shaped-political-discourse-1236208843

Joe Rogan and the Fifth Estate: How the Podcaster and a Group of Cable News Exiles Became More Powerful Than Traditional Media

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/joe-rogan-megyn-kelly-podcasts-shaped-election-1236208937/

Wonder Announces Acquisition of Grubhub

https://about.grubhub.com/news/wonder-announces-acquisition-of-grubhub/

Microsoft and OpenAI Plot $100 Billion Stargate AI Supercomputer

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-plot-100-billion-stargate-ai-supercomputer

Klarna Announces Confidential Submission of Draft Registration Statement to SEC for Proposed Initial Public Offering

https://www.klarna.com/international/press/klarna-announces-confidential-submission-of-draft-registration-statement-to-sec-for-proposed-initial-public-offering/

The quest to break up Meta is headed to trial

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2024/11/15/quest-to-break-up-meta-headed-to-trial

Latest crypto M&A deals signal ‘the tide is shifting’

https://blockworks.co/news/m-a-deals-shifting-tide

AI companies hit a scaling wall

https://www.platformer.news/openai-google-scaling-laws-anthropic-ai/

What a second Trump term could mean for regulation of AI

https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2024/11/14/second-trump-term-ai-regulation

Trump Names Former SEC Chair Jay Clayton to DOJ Office, the Same Office That Prosecuted SBF

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/11/15/trump-names-former-sec-chair-jay-clayton-to-doj-office-the-same-office-that-prosecuted-sbf/

GOP state attorneys general side with crypto industry in suit against SEC

https://blockworks.co/news/state-attorneys-general-side-with-crypto

Tesla Stock Dips Into Correction—Though Post-Election Rally Still At Nearly 25%

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/11/14/tesla-stock-dips-into-correction-though-post-election-rally-still-at-nearly-25/

Jake Paul Vs Mike Tyson

https://www.netflix.com/title/81764952

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Week 45, Year 2024, Episode 14.

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Why Is the Crypto Market Rising Today?

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/in/investing/cryptocurrency/why-is-crypto-going-up/

Chair Powell says he won’t step aside if Trump asks

https://blockworks.co/news/jerome-powell-chair-stance-trump

SEC Crypto Enforcement Slated for Major Rollback Under Trump

www.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2024-11-06%2Fsec-crypto-enforcement-slated-for-major-rollback-under-trump

Trump win may usher in M&A revival

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/08/trump-regime-mergers-and-acquisitions

Will the election spur the long-awaited flood of startup exits?

https://links.newsletter.fortune.com/e/evib

The Podcast Election No Mercy / No Malice

https://www.profgalloway.com/The-Podcast-Election/

Lionsgate Motion Picture Chair Adam Fogelson On Studio’s New AI Deal: “Our Filmmakers Are Using It Already”

https://deadline.com/2024/11/lionsgate-ai-runway-1236170527/

Tennis Channel launching D2C service

https://advanced-television.com/2024/11/07/tennis-channel-launching-d2c-service/

Amazon considering further investment in Anthropic

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-considering-further-investment-anthropic-114959023.html

Uber has discussed a bid for travel booking company Expedia

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/17/uber-discussed-a-bid-for-travel-booking-company-expedia.html

List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple

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Week 46, Year 2024, Episode 13.

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Fortnite kicked off its remixed Chapter 2 season with a Snoop Dogg and Ice Spice concert

Snoop live on fortnite “Fortnite gangsta party”

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/1/24283508/fortnite-remix-chapter-2-concert-snoop-dogg-ice-spice

Apple Misses Earnings Expectations as iPhone Sales Tick Up 5.5%, Services Segment Hits $25 Billion in New Quarterly Record

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/apple-september-2024-quarter-earnings-services-record-1236196613/

Gary Gensler: ‘Crypto Needs To Build Trust,’ Talks About 16th Anniversary of Bitcoin

https://www.ccn.com/news/crypto/gary-gensler-crypto-needs-build-trust-anniversary-bitcoin/

The CAA Vault, Which Stores AI Clones of Talent, Taps Veritone as Tech Partner

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/caa-vault-talent-ai-clones-veritone-1236001187/

WME’s AI Strategy Focuses on Tech Partnerships Over CAA’s Digital Vault

https://www.thewrap.com/wmes-strategy-on-ai-focuses-on-tech-partnerships-over-caas-digital-vault/

Disney Establishes Group to Oversee AI, Mixed Reality Adoption in ‘Responsible’ Way Across the Company

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/disney-ai-mixed-reality-office-technology-enablement-1236197936/

Fully customizable iOS and Android apps in minutes

https://www.reactivapp.com

Netflix Adds ‘Moments’ Feature Allowing Users to Easily Share Favorite Scenes (EXCLUSIVE)

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/netflix-moments-feature-favorite-scenes-1236192331/

U.S. Treasury Advisory Panel Says Tokenization Could Be Big, But May Need Central Control

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/10/30/us-treasury-advisory-panel-says-tokenization-could-be-big-but-may-need-central-control/

Google to develop AI that takes over computers, The Information reports

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/google-develop-ai-that-takes-over-computers-information-reports-2024-10-26/

IBM Granite

https://www.ibm.com/granite

Meta builds AI search engine to cut Google, Bing reliance, the Information reports

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/meta-develops-own-ai-search-engine-cut-reliance-google-bing-information-reports-2024-10-28/

David Ellison Will Hold Full Control of Combined Paramount-Skydance Following Deal Close, per Updated Filing

https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/david-ellison-full-control-merged-paramount-skydance-filing-1236194255/

Stripe's $1.1B Acquisition Target, Bridge, Buys Web3 Wallet Platform Triangle

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/11/01/stripes-11b-acquisition-target-bridge-buys-web3-wallet-platform-triangle/

Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce Rivalry (new generation turnover, incumbents, carlin)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-29/shopify-is-winning-salesforce-clients-stoking-e-commerce-rivalry

Marc Jabos X Teletubbies

https://www.tiktok.com/@marcjacobs/video/7364090192514272555?lang=en

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Week 45, Year 2024, Episode 12.

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Dow Jones and New York Post Sue AI Startup Perplexity, Alleging ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement

https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/news-corp-dow-jones-ny-post-sue-perplexity-copyright-infringement-1236184900/

Disney Poised to Announce Major AI Initiative | Exclusive

https://www.thewrap.com/disney-ai-initiative/

https://newsletter.readthedailies.com/p/final-film-few-screens

Stripe announces $1.1 billion acquisition of stablecoin start-up Bridge

https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/10/22/stripe-announces-1-1-billion-acquisition-of-stablecoin-start-up-bridge/

https://www.bridge.xyz

General Catalyst raises $8B in fresh funds to back startups globally

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/general-catalyst-raises-8b-in-fresh-funds-to-back-startups-globally/

Netflix Shuts Down AAA Video Game Studio in Southern California

https://variety.com/2024/gaming/news/netflix-shuts-video-game-studio-southern-california-1236186359/

CFPB Orders Apple and Goldman Sachs to Pay Over $89 Million for Apple Card Failures

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-orders-apple-and-goldman-sachs-to-pay-over-89-million-for-apple-card-failures/

Blockworks acquires The Drop, a web3 newsletter brand

https://blockworks.co/news/blockworks-acquires-the-drop

How AI is pushing memecoins into their next big phase

https://blockworks.co/news/ai-pushing-memecoins-into-next-phase

AI Patents at BofA Increase 94% Since 2022

https://newsroom.bankofamerica.com/content/newsroom/press-releases/2024/10/ai-patents-at-bofa-increase-94--since-2022.html

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