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Happy Wednesday, Future Party. If you’re watching the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays, you know Game 3 was just the second time in World Series history a matchup stretched to a whopping 18 innings (six hours and 39 minutes of baseball — riveting stuff). But what you probably didn’t know is that country superstar Brad Paisley sang the National Anthem at both of those marathon games. Very fishy, Mr. Paisley.

1X Technologies has made its home-focused humanoid robot, Neo, available for pre-order, with the first shipments going out next year.

Why It Hits: Humanoids are shaping up to be big business. Companies like 1X, Tesla, Agility, and Figure are racing to dominate what Morgan Stanley estimates could be a $5 trillion market by 2050. And while most of those bots will be destined for factory floors, 1X wants to land in your living room — positioning itself as the maker of a real-life Rosey the Robot from The Jetsons.

Behind The Code: For $20,000 (or $499/month), the 5’6”, 66-pound Neo can do — or at least “attempt,” per The WSJ’s Joanna Stern — all the chores you hate.

Last Chore: As you’re probably thinking, safety and privacy are major concerns — and 1X knows it. The robot is kept lightweight, so it can’t crush your toddler or dog. And when a human operator takes over, the LED ring around Neo’s ears switches from white to blue. Users can also configure Neo to blur faces in video mode and to avoid certain rooms.

Founder and CEO Bernd Børnich stresses that next year’s Neo release is just a rough draft — a way to collect real-world data to improve future models.

Prediction: Expect the first buyers to be early adopters willing to tolerate some operational kinks in exchange for being on the cutting edge. We’re sure the company is already plotting an influencer-marketing campaign… with momfluencers feeling like a perfect fit.

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Former Disney live-action film chief Sean Bailey is launching a new studio called B5 that aims to use new technology to speed up how movies are developed, produced, and distributed.

The Big Picture: Filmmaking is one of the most expensive and expansive art forms in the world. As production costs rise and revenue streams dry, a wave of new studios — backed by Hollywood power players — are betting that technology can reinvent the process, allowing more movies to be made faster and for less money. How many humans get cut out along the way remains the big question mark.

Behind The Scenes: Bailey, who oversaw nearly every live-action remake of Disney’s animated classics, now wants to make movies at a fraction of those budgets.

Closing Credits: B5 already has a research partnership with Meta focused on VR and AR projects (potentially similar to the one James Cameron struck) and says it’s working on “numerous active content projects with top creatives.” But the most intriguing partner — at least from an investment standpoint — is RedBird’s Gerry Cardinale, the same PE power player who helped fund Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity and backed Skydance’s Paramount acquisition.

If there’s anyone with a master plan for the future of entertainment, it might be Cardinale. Or he just has a strong appetite for pushing in the chips on Hollywood personalities determined to change the game. Time will tell.

Coming Soon: If B5 — or any of the other new studios — can figure out how to make premium projects faster and cheaper, it could help fill the still-lagging theatrical pipeline, a boon for both theater chains and audiences.

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64% of you voted None of the above — I’m not a horror fan. in yesterday’s poll: Which best describes your relationship with horror?

“Between the state of today’s world and my own nightmares, I prefer to spend my time watching a formulaic rom-com or other low-stakes media.”

“I always think I want to dive into horror, whether it’s a theme park or movie, but then I regret it.”

“Loved the old horror films with Frankenstein, Dracula, the Werewolf, and the Mummy. Too many of today’s are about the types of monsters that actually exist. I get frightened enough just reading the news.”

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📺 Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone revealed the streamer is working on live-voting features for its unscripted content.

🎮 Amazon Games is shutting down a significant portion of its AAA game development efforts amid the tech giant’s sweeping layoffs.

🎥 The team behind Netflix’s A House of Dynamite and the Department of Defense are warring over just how accurate certain scenes of the Kathryn Bigelow thriller really are.

🤑 OpenAI has officially transitioned to a for-profit company, ensuring it receives all the funding it has raised.

💊 Eli Lilly is partnering with Nvidia on building a supercomputer solely dedicated to drug discovery and development.

📈 Apple is the third company in history to hit a $4 trillion valuation.

💰 Betting platform Polymarket is officially returning to the US with a focus on the sports sector.

👖 Levi’s debuted a premium denim line called Blue Tab.

🏠 Zillow now has DMs — so you can share all those houses you can’t afford with your friends.