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Nicolas Cage is drawing a clear line between himself and Amazon. The actor told a New York Comic-Con audience that he never signed an AI waiver for Spider-Noir, and that Amazon's AI-friendly stance makes a return collaboration unlikely. Cage didn't mince words, and his position reflects a growing tension between Hollywood talent and studios leaning into generative tools.
That tension has a financial edge too. A developer behind the AI-driven driving simulator Teach My Little Sister How To Drive is now spending roughly one thousand dollars a day just to keep their Steam demo running, and they're going into debt doing it. The culprit is token usage — the computational cost of running AI systems at scale — and it's a stark reminder that building with AI isn't just a technical challenge, it's an economic one that can quietly bleed a small studio dry before launch day ever arrives.
And speaking of costly decisions, a new game from Strange Scaffold called Gods With Badges puts players in the role of a police officer in a narrative tactics format, where one of your core choices is simply when to switch off your bodycam. It's a pointed premise from the studio known for thoughtful, provocative design.
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