AI

Last month's story was the DeepSeek V4 Pro price cut. This week's AI Arena run is the benchmark follow-up — and it handed us a number we refuse to publish as fact: DeepSeek V4 Pro reported 4,096,000 tokens per second. That is physically impossible, so we pulled the raw JSON and recomputed it ourselves.

The two biggest AI assistants in Europe have a new scoreboard — and it is not unanimous. PCMag handed ChatGPT its Editors' Choice award with an "Excellent" 4.0/5, while readers voted Claude their favourite at 3.5/5. Star ratings are useful, but for European users the real question is where these models actually beat each other in daily production work and how they hold up under the EU's new mandatory AI transparency rules.

AI film production has gone from tech demo to documented production workflow. A new stage-by-stage guide maps 15 tools across seven parts of the film pipeline — and Colourlab Ai 4, one of the featured finishing tools, is scheduled to enter public beta on 12 September.