A24 vs Neon

A24 Streaming App Profile

State of Streaming company profile page for A24 (listed as a 'Streaming App'). The page links to A24's official website, highlights SOS coverage including a Jan 2026 item titled 'HBO Max Locks In A24 Content', and offers resources such as a downloadable 2026 advertiser guide. The page mainly aggregates links to related State of Streaming articles, podcasts, and site resources rather than publishing a standalone news story or detailed transaction terms.

• A24 is listed as a 'Streaming App' on State of Streaming's company directory.
• State of Streaming references SOS coverage titled 'HBO Max Locks In A24 Content as Viewer Loyalty Pays Dividends' (Jan 2026).
• The page links to A24's official website: https://a24films.com/.

Cineverse Launches VAUDIO to Turn Audio Ads into CTV

Cineverse Corp. launched VAUDIO, an ad-technology platform that converts existing podcast, radio and streaming audio commercials into visual connected TV placements without a traditional video shoot. VAUDIO pairs approved audio scripts and host-read endorsements with lightweight visual formats (product assets, talent imagery, moving graphics) for living room screens. The product is built on infrastructure from Cineverse’s IndiCue acquisition and integrated into its Matchpoint software ecosystem. Launch advertising partners include A24, NEON, Well Go USA, Aura Entertainment and Signature Entertainment. Cineverse projects VAUDIO could generate up to $12 million in annual revenue at a 15–20% contribution margin by the end of its fiscal year.

• Cineverse Corp. unveiled VAUDIO, a platform to convert podcast, radio and streaming audio ads into visual CTV placements without a traditional video shoot.
• VAUDIO pairs approved audio scripts and host-read endorsements with lightweight visual formats such as product assets, talent imagery and moving graphics tailored for living room screens.
• Advertising partners at launch include movie distributors A24, NEON, Well Go USA, Aura Entertainment and Signature Entertainment.

Google TV Freeplay Adds 10,000+ On‑Demand Titles

Google announced an expansion of Google TV Freeplay by adding an on‑demand library of more than 10,000 free movies and TV shows accessible without a subscription. The lineup includes content licensed from studios such as A24 and Lionsgate, and Google says more titles will be added through the year. The update also adds over 300 free live channels spanning news, sports, reality, and true crime, with new channels including World of Love Island, Bloomberg TV+, Yahoo! Sports Network, and The Martha Stewart Channel. Freeplay is built into Google TV devices and other Google TV–powered devices (including Walmart’s Onn Google TVs) and requires up‑to‑date software to access.

• Google added an on‑demand content library to Google TV Freeplay.
• The on‑demand library includes over 10,000 free movies and TV shows with no subscription required.
• Content partners named include studios A24 and Lionsgate.

Claimable Neon: Provisioned by agents, claimed by humans

Claimable Neon implements the anonymous registration method in auth.md, the open agent registration protocol authored by WorkOS, to give agents a way to provision a temporary Neon project without creating an account or collecting payment details.

Build an MCP server with Air Pipe and Postgres

A step-by-step technical guide showing how to build an MCP (model-calling protocol) server using Air Pipe and a Postgres database. The tutorial provides a schema (mcp_tenants, mcp_tokens, mcp_tasks), a single-file Air Pipe config exposing MCP tools (list_tasks, create_task), deployment instructions (managed or self-hosted), token minting (HS256 / SOLO_SECRET), verification via curl, and instructions to point MCP clients (e.g., Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor) at the endpoint. It also covers multi-tenant token exchange, runtime revocation using a jti denylist, gating tool discovery with list_authorizer, observability (Prometheus/OpenTelemetry traces), known limitations, and links to ready-made packs (MCP Postgres Starter, MCP Quickstart).

• Air Pipe provides a pack and config pattern to expose MCP tools over Postgres.
• The tutorial defines three Postgres tables: mcp_tenants, mcp_tokens (revocation denylist), and mcp_tasks.
• MCP clients referenced include Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and Cursor.

Open-source tool enables LLMs to watch videos locally

An open-source project, claude-real-video, enables language models and MCP clients (e.g., Claude Desktop, Cursor) to ingest videos locally by extracting scene-aware, deduplicated keyframes and a timestamped transcript. The tool (MIT license, ~1.9k stars on GitHub) runs fully on the user's machine, offers two MCP-callable tools (watch_video and get_frames), caches analyses under ~/.cache/crv-mcp, and requires Whisper for transcription. Since version 0.8.0 it exposes an MCP server so compatible clients can request videos directly. The author verified end-to-end operation on Claude Code and notes compatibility considerations with the MCP SDK/FastMCP releases.

• claude-real-video is an open-source GitHub repo (MIT) with ~1.9k stars that extracts scene-aware, deduplicated keyframes and a timestamped transcript from videos.
• Since version 0.8.0, claude-real-video ships as an MCP server so MCP clients can request a video directly.
• The package can be installed with pip as 'claude-real-video[mcp]'.