🎬 China’s First $1.5M AI Movie Just Flopped

Plus, Microsoft Wants $25B in Debt for AI

October 29, 2026

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Breaking News: China’s first fully AI-generated feature film, Sanxingdui: Future Past, is struggling at the box office despite years of work and a reported $1.5 million budget.

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📢 Today's Headline:

  • AI Filmmaking Hits Its First Reality Check

  • Microsoft’s First US Bond Sale Since 2017

  • Google Built an AI to Fight Hackers

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  • Latest AI Tools & Resources

  • Today’s Poll and Results

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A $200 meme movie out-earned China’s $1.5 million AI epic by more than 50 times.

  • Bona Film Group’s fully AI-generated “Sanxingdui: Future Past” pulled in just $181,000 despite 10,000-plus showings on opening day. Nearly 100 people spent two years making it.

  • Earlier this year, a hand-drawn animated film called “Niu Lai” cost $200, went viral for its rough quality and cleared $10 million. Viewers paid for visible human effort and skipped the polished machine output.

  • Studio exec Jiang Defu calls the flop the price of going first. One viewer told AFP a future version might earn a ticket.

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The richest cash machine in tech is going to the bond market to pay for AI.

  • Microsoft is marketing at least $25 billion in bonds across as many as ten tranches, with maturities from two to 40 years. It’s the company’s first US investment-grade sale since 2017, when it raised $17 billion.

  • Its latest quarter shows the pull: $45.2 billion in capex against $18.6 billion in free cash flow. Spending has outrun even Microsoft’s income, and the sale is meant to cover the gap for general corporate purposes.

  • Final size isn’t set. The longest bonds, running to 2066, were pitched at up to 135 basis points over Treasuries. A AAA rating buys Microsoft that price, while CoreWeave’s yields have already pushed toward 15%.

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  • Google says Carbon hit 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding real vulnerabilities and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching them, with guardrails off. Its Chrome team rated Carbon’s patches more than 10 times better than another lab’s model, which Google didn’t name.

  • Argon took 13 days to go from defenders to paying users. Google promises Carbon a wider release as soon as possible, at $2 and $10 per million tokens, with a footnote that lifts it to $4 and $20 later.

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China’s first fully AI-generated movie cost $1.5 million but flopped at the box office. Would you actually pay to watch a movie made entirely by AI?

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