The Neural Daily 2026-03-16: Dead Wrappers and AI Otters

The AI hype train just hit a Hollywood-sized brick wall as ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 faces a copyright bloodbath, and the era of the "lazy wrapper" officially meets its brutal end. Leonard and Roxy break down the "emotion harvest" of improv actors training LLMs, the high-stakes geopolitical "Pax Silica" alliance, and why having a shiny UI is no longer a business model—it’s a funeral. From military AI contracts to the "Sora-killer" in legal purgatory, find out who’s building a technical moat and who’s just getting lapped in a rented Camry.