AI-generated artists topping iTunes and Billboard charts. Podcast hosts speaking fluently for hours in languages they do not know. Dead celebrities brought back to life and filling up social-media feeds. For years, artificial intelligence was a disruption on the horizon. In 2025 it arrived in tangible ways, big and small. Here are a few examples of how AI intersected with pop culture in 2025. An Oscar Season Controversy In January, the makers of the 2024 film “The Brutalist” revealed that they had partnered with a software company to enhance the Hungarian accents of the lead actors, Adrien Brody and Felicity...