New York, USA

Artefact is an official OpenAI Services Partner, helping enterprises deploy ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the OpenAI API to build high-impact AI solutions.

As an OpenAI Services Partner, Artefact will help organizations move from AI ambition to operational impact by identifying high-value opportunities, designing and implementing tailored solutions with ChatGPT Work, Codex, industry-leading OpenAI models, and the OpenAI API, and establishing the foundation, governance, engineering, and change-management practices needed to scale them responsibly.

This announcement comes at an especially exciting time as OpenAI recently released ChatGPT Work, Codex, the GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna model family.

About the partnership

Edouard de Mézerac, Artefact Group CEO: “We are pleased to become an OpenAI Services Partner. Our role is to help enterprises move from experimentation to responsible, enterprise-wide deployment. By combining strategy, engineering, governance, and change-management support, we help customers build AI programs aligned to their business priorities.”

Hanan Ouazan, Managing Partner and Global Practice Lead, AI Acceleration: “Organizations need practical support to turn promising AI use cases into production-ready capabilities. Artefact helps customer teams assess opportunities, design solutions, integrate them with existing systems, and build the operating practices needed to use AI effectively.”

About Artefact

Artefact is a global consulting company dedicated to accelerating the adoption of data and AI to positively impact people and organizations. With expertise spanning data and AI strategy, AI engineering, and business transformation, Artefact scales AI solutions for over 1,000 clients worldwide. The company operates across Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, providing the technical and operational capabilities required for large-scale AI solutions across all sectors of industry.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Its mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Learn more at www.openai.com.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA

The AI Video Platform Shift Has Arrived: Inkitt Turns a Decade of Proprietary Hit-Prediction Technology Into the World’s First Fully AI-Generated Action, Sci-Fi, and Superhero Slate

Generative AI video has reached the same inflection point broadband internet hit in 2009, the moment a technology shift becomes a business model. Inkitt, the AI entertainment company backed by Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA, is positioned to be this era’s Netflix, and today it’s proving that with the launch of Inkitt Ironblood, the world’s first AI-native streaming platform built exclusively for Action, Sci-Fi, and Superheroes.

Inkitt Ironblood is debuting with three fully AI-generated movies based on bestselling books written on Inkitt, each made with spectacle-grade production that would typically demand millions of dollars and years of traditional live-action work, delivered instead in a fraction of the time and cost. Inkitt Ironblood will soon release 30 movies per-month, and today’s launch includes the flagship titles: The Parasite, Dealmakers Vault, and The Soldier.

The launch marks Inkitt’s evolution from a consumer content platform into the definitive Operating System for Storytellers, a vertically integrated infrastructure layer for the next generation of entertainment. By pointing its predictive, AI-backed IP engine at big-budget genres, Inkitt is turning breakthroughs in generative video into content produced at a fraction of Hollywood’s timelines and cost, and turning that speed into a new, scalable revenue model.

THE NETFLIX MOMENT FOR AI VIDEO

“In 2009, Netflix pivoted seamlessly into streaming just as broadband internet went mainstream,” said Ali Albazaz, CEO and Founder of Inkitt. “They didn’t invent the technology. They were perfectly positioned to ride the wave. Today, generative AI video models are giving those exact same wings to Inkitt. We have spent a decade building a hyper-efficient AI engine that turns unknown manuscripts into million-dollar franchises. With Inkitt Ironblood, we are proving that premium, high-octane AI entertainment is no longer an experiment. It is a commercial reality.”

Short-form streaming as a whole has been flooded with generic, disposable content built for volume, not craft.Inkitt Ironblood is built to be the industry’s antidote: every episode is built on proven IP and uses Hollywood-grade AI-generated imagery, engineered for scale, to deliver massive battle sequences, otherworldly visual effects, and blockbuster spectacles that would be cost-prohibitive to produce through traditional live-action methods.

THE LARGEST UNTAPPED AUDIENCE IN SHORT-FORM

Inkitt Ironblood targets a massive, high-demand demographic the microdrama industry has almost entirely ignored:

• Action & Adventure: the #1 genre in total lifetime box office revenue.
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy: viewer demand up 52% year-over-year.
• Superhero Content: generates 3.5x the audience demand of the average series, against 80% fewer short-form titles available to meet it.

ONE FLYWHEEL, EVERY GENRE

Generative video alone won’t stay Inkitt’s edge for long; every studio will have that capability within 18 months. The lasting edge is the flywheel that tells Inkitt what to generate before a dollar is spent producing it. Emerging authors upload manuscripts to Inkitt, where the proprietary ReadRank model tracks more than 1,200 behavioral signals to de-risk content investment before a single frame is ever produced, predicting breakout hits with a precision no studio greenlight process can match. The strongest IP is systematically A/B tested and developed into bestsellers on Inkitt Galatea, and adapted into viral short-form series on the #1 US-based microdrama platform, Inkitt CandyJar, today enabling an independent creator to cross $1 million in sales every seven days.

Inkitt is now opening that infrastructure to storytellers worldwide, becoming, in effect, the operating system every independent creator will run their own studio on:

• Agentic AI Audiobooks: live this week, letting any author generate professional-grade audio instantly.
• AI Movie Generation Harness: launching this fall, with a built-in crowdfunding system so fans can back a creator’s compute costs directly.
• AI Influencer Framework: arriving later this year, giving creators autonomous AI actor personas to market and star in their own films.

“An AI actor persona that fans can actually back financially is a new economic primitive: creator-owned IP that can headline its own franchise without waiting on a single casting decision,” said Albazaz. “That’s a new category of entertainment, not a feature.”

Opening the stack builds a new inference-revenue business alongside Inkitt’s content platforms, and multiplies the volume of high-performing IP flowing back into Inkitt CandyJar and Inkitt Ironblood. It is the mechanism behind Inkitt’s accelerating unit economics: expanding contribution margins, compounding content supply, and monetization across every platform Inkitt operates.

Experience the future of entertainment now. Download the app or visit ironblood.com.

About Inkitt

Inkitt is the technology company building the operating system for storytellers, giving creators an AI-powered ecosystem to develop, test, and launch breakout stories at scale. Founded in 2015 by CEO Ali Albazaz, Inkitt uses its proprietary AI model, ReadRank, to analyze more than 1,200 reader behavior signals and identify commercially successful stories at 40 times the rate of traditional publishing. Inkitt’s ecosystem includes Inkitt, a writer discovery platform; Inkitt Galatea, a bestselling fiction app; Inkitt CandyJar, the leading U.S. based microdrama streaming platform; and Inkitt Ironblood, the world’s first fully AI-generated action, superhero, and sci-fi microdrama slate. Inkitt’s platforms reach more than 217 million users worldwide.

Learn more at Inkitt.com | Galatea.com | Candyjar.com | Ironblood.com

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ST. SIMONS ISLAND, GA

Author James Chess has released Love Is Not Enough (Parker Publishers), a memoir documenting the death by suicide of his youngest son, Danny, at age 33, and the year of grief his family of 8 navigated afterward.

Danny Chess was the youngest of 6 children raised in the Atlanta area. He played sports through high school, attended Georgia College in Milledgeville, and later managed one of the family’s 2 AAMCO transmission centers in metro Atlanta. He had struggled with depression and addiction for more than a decade, entering rehabilitation in 2013 and appearing, to those closest to him, to have stabilized. On September 13, 2024, Danny died by suicide. He was 33.

The book follows a roughly chronological structure, beginning with Danny’s childhood and the close bonds of a large Catholic family, then moving through his high school and college years, his time in rehabilitation, and the deceptions his addiction enabled in the years that followed. Chess writes with candor about the family’s experience during “Family Week” at Danny’s rehab facility in 2013, the gradual reemergence of Danny’s substance use, and an earlier crisis in February 2024 that the family interpreted as a cry for help. The title reflects the central tension of the book: Danny knew he was deeply loved by his parents, siblings, nieces, and nephews, but that knowledge alone could not overcome his depression and addiction.

Chess devotes sections of the book to suicide and mental health data, noting that suicide is among the leading causes of death in the United States, with approximately 50,000 deaths in 2023. He writes that most people who die by suicide have a treatable mental health condition, and that crises often pass when access to means is limited. The book urges readers who suspect someone is struggling not to let it go unaddressed. Chess also describes learning the phrase “died by suicide,” which frames the act as the result of a disease rather than a personal failing, a distinction he found both accurate and comforting.

Much of the second half of the memoir focuses on how the Chess family processed their grief. Chess and his wife, Marybeth, leaned on daily routines, particularly their morning beach walks on St. Simons Island, and on each other. Their children took varying paths to acceptance. Chess also writes about what he calls “The Dead Son Effect,” the invitations, phone calls, and acts of kindness from friends and community members that followed the loss. He credits full disclosure about the circumstances of Danny’s death, including the addiction, depression, and suicide, with helping the family move forward and connecting them with others who had experienced similar losses.

“This book is about more than our son Danny’s death,” Chess writes. “We thought he’d beaten depression and addiction, but sadly, it was more than he could overcome. If you think someone is having issues, I’d urge you not to let it lie. Get them to talk to somebody. We thought Danny was ‘doing great,’ and likely misread the room. Hopefully, there are helpful lessons for anyone reading this.”

Love Is Not Enough is available through Amazon and other major book retailers. Chess’s previous books, Beers at the Nifty 2024, Just Lucky to be Here, and Queenie and PA: Adventures in Grandparenting and Other Topics, are also available on Amazon.

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

About the Author

James Chess is an author and retired business professional who spent 35 years with the Coca-Cola Company. He lives in St. Simons Island, Georgia, with his wife, Marybeth. Chess writes a weekly Sunday column at BeersattheNifty.com, covering topics ranging from family life to current events, where he has published more than 300 posts. His previous books are collections drawn from those writings. Love Is Not Enough is his first full-length memoir.

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