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Tony Northrup brings you the latest photography news, including an overview of two new generative AI video services that might soon put some of us videographers out of business. He also covers the trend towards AI avatars replacing humans, demonstrating Anderson Cooper's and KISS's AI avatar replacements.

Then, Tony updates his review of the Nikon Z9 for firmware version 4.1, which is remarkable, bringing it basically onpar with the Sony a1. NikonRumors.com covered a rumor of the next Nikon Z8/Z9 firmware update, which promises to bring it on parity with the Sony a1 for features like 30 FPS raw, and on parity with the Sony a9 III for quickly switching to 120 FPS by simply holding a button. Finally, Tony covers the upcoming paid firmware update for the Sony a7 IV that brings gridlines.

0:00 Introduction
1:00 Pika Generative Video
1:48 Stable Video Diffusion
2:55 Anderson Cooper as an AI Avatar
3:43 Kiss as AI Avatars
4:09 Gartner Hype Cycle and AI Video
5:21 Nikon Z9 Review update: Firmware 4.1
7:08 Nikon Z8 & Z9 rumored firmware update
13:07 Nikon Z9 vs Sony a1
13:58 Nikon Z9 vs Sony a9 III
15:29 Sony a7 IV Gridlines $150 paid firmware update
18:01 Summary