Prime Video Is Quietly Reinventing the Recap

Today, we’re looking at Amazon’s latest push to enhance streaming with AI, turning past seasons into cinematic, voice-narrated recaps powered by generative models. We’re also looking at TikTok’s move to give users control over AI content that lets you decide how much machine-made media fills your feed. It’s a clever counter to the growing flood of synthetic videos and a signal that AI personalization is replacing platform-wide rules.

In today’s post:

• Amazon Just Launched an AI Feature Netflix Doesn’t Have

• TikTok Is Letting You Tune Out the AI

• Yann LeCun Walks out

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UPGRADE

Prime Video’s New AI Recaps Might Change How You Stream

Amazon just rolled out an AI tool that helps you remember where a show left off. It’s more than a summary, it’s a cinematic recap.

Here’s everything you need to know:

• Called “Video Recaps,” the tool uses generative AI to summarize past seasons.

• It stitches together voiceovers, key dialogue, and music into a short film-like format.

• Available now in beta for select Prime Original series in the U.S.

• It builds on last year’s X-Ray Recaps; short, spoiler-free text summaries.

• Shows like Jack Ryan, Upload, and Fallout are already supported.

• Recaps appear right on the season detail page for easy access.

• Amazon says this is part of its broader push to enhance streaming with AI.

This kind of AI isn’t about flash, it’s about convenience. It solves a real problem: helping you pick up where you left off without rewatching. If it works well, expect other platforms to follow.

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BREAKTHROUGH

You Can Now Control How Much AI You See on TikTok

TikTok is rolling out a new feature that lets users customize their feed to see more or less AI-generated content.

Here’s everything you need to know:

• The new control appears in TikTok’s “Manage Topics” settings, alongside categories like Sports and Food.

• Users can adjust a slider to dial up or down the amount of AI content in their For You feed.

• The change comes as AI-generated videos surge on TikTok and across rival platforms like OpenAI’s Sora and Meta’s Vibes.

• TikTok says the goal is personalization, not remova, you decide what stays or goes.

• It’s also testing “invisible watermarking” to better label AI-generated content behind the scenes.

• These watermarks can’t be stripped off through re-uploads or edits like current labels can.

• TikTok is investing $2 million into an AI literacy fund to support public education around AI safety and transparency.

Giving users control over AI content is the right move. Personalization is better than policing, and as AI floods our feeds, subtle tools like this will matter more than sweeping rules.

STRATEGY

The Godfather of Meta AI Just Left the Building

Meta’s longtime AI chief Yann LeCun is stepping down after more than a decade. He’s not retiring, he’s building something new.

Here’s everything you need to know:

• LeCun led Meta’s FAIR research lab since 2013, shaping foundational AI systems.

• He’s also a Turing Award winner and a key figure behind modern neural networks.

• His exit comes after Meta handed its AI reins to ScaleAI’s Alexandr Wang this summer.

• LeCun’s vision diverged from Zuckerberg’s pursuit of “superintelligence” via large language models.

• He believes real intelligence requires understanding the physical world not just language.

• His new startup will target “advanced machine intelligence,” a broader form of AI.

• Despite leaving, Meta will still partner with LeCun’s new venture.

LeCun’s move signals more than a personal shift, it reflects a growing divide in how AI’s future is being imagined. While tech giants chase chatbots, others are betting on a deeper kind of intelligence. That tension is worth watching.

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