Clinton Stark

Clinton Stark
Filmmaker and editor at Stark Insider, covering arts, AI & tech, and indie film. Inspired by Bergman, slow cinema and Chipotle. Often found behind the camera or in the edit bay. Peloton: ClintTheMint.
Close-up of the Canon EOS C50 cinema camera body showing its RF lens mount and full-frame CMOS sensor.

The New Canon C50 Cinema Camera Ticks All the Right Boxes

Canon delivers a compact cinema powerhouse with 7K RAW, Super 16 mode, and dual-format media at a competitive price.
Abstract monochromatic orange artwork symbolizing AI transforming data into creative files

Claude Can Now Build Excel Models and PowerPoint Decks For You

The line between idea and execution gets thinner.
An image representing a highly efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system with muted tones and flowing data connections.

Google’s EmbeddingGemma: On-Device RAG Goes Mainstream

New open source embedding model brings private, powerful multilingual RAG and semantic search to laptops and phones
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Anthropic Hits $183B Valuation as AI Arms Race Intensifies

Claude maker raises $13 billion as sovereign wealth funds join Silicon Valley's AI gold rush
Illustration of a browser window with a large cursor icon, symbolizing Anthropic’s Claude chatbot extension for Chrome.

Anthropic Brings Claude AI to Chrome Browser with Experimental Action Capabilities

Research preview lets select users test AI assistant that can manage calendars, handle emails, and perform browser tasks (with safety guardrails in place)
Pastel illustration of Google Gemini AI assistant connecting a car dashboard and a TV with floating icons for chat, music, maps, and search.

More AI Assistants Coming to Your Car (and Couch)

Gemini is Google’s bid to make sure you’re never out of conversational range.
Pebble Time 2 smartwatch laying flat with black strap, showing a stylized segmented digital clock interface with a red number highlight.

Pebble 2 Duo and Pebble Time 2 Smartwatches – Final Designs Revealed

The revived Pebble brand returns with two sleek new e-paper smartwatches and over 50,000 pre-orders.
Claude AI memory feature pop-up reading “Claude never loses the thread,” showing an example of resuming a past conversation.

Anthropic Supercharges Claude Sonnet 4 with 1 Million Token Context Window

New capability enables processing of entire codebases and research libraries in a single request, while memory feature closes gap with competitors.
Minimalist illustration showing two robots side-by-side on a beige background — one holding a wrench to represent AI as a tool, the other with a heart to represent AI as a friend.

The Two Faces of AI

No one ever complained about Google search, and begged for the company to roll back to a previous version of google.com. Yet it seems no...
Screenshot of ChatGPT model menu showing GPT-5, GPT-5 Thinking, and GPT-5 Pro options.

GPT-5: OpenAI’s Flagship Model Brings PhD-Level Intelligence to the Masses

94.6% on advanced math, 74.9% on real-world coding: Why GPT-5's boring name hides radical ambition