OpenAI’s Sora to Debut 5 Original Shorts Made Using AI at Tribeca Film Festival
OpenAI’s Sora will make its Tribeca Film Festival debut on June 15 as part of a new program that will showcase five original short films made with the text-to-video AI model. The artificial...
View Article‘Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse’ Writer-Producer Chris Miller Shuts Down...
Chris Miller, cowriter and producer of the animated Spider-Man “Spider-Verse” trilogy, shut down rumors that his team used generative artificial intelligence as part of the production of the next...
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Media and Entertainment’s AI ‘Watch List’: 10 Tech Companies to Closely Track...
May was not a good month for generative AI companies in the eyes of the creative community. OpenAI mimicked Scarlett Johansson’s voice to push CEO Sam Altman’s agenda. Google search introduced AI...
View ArticleG/O Media Sells Gizmodo to European Tech Media Company Keleops
G/O Media sold its tech and design site Gizmodo to European media company Keleops in a deal that “represents a substantial premium from our original purchase price for the site,” CEO Jim Spanfeller...
View ArticleNvidia Overtakes Apple as World’s Second-Most Valuable Company
Nvidia officially passed Apple as the world’s second-most valuable company at the close of Wednesday’s market. The artificial intelligence boom in the last year helped the chipmaker claim the second...
View ArticleTim Cook’s AI Moment | Commentary
Shortly after 10 a.m. pacific time on Monday morning, Tim Cook will take the stage at Apple Park in Cupertino for a critical moment in his career. Cook’s lived through much in 12+ years at the helm of...
View ArticleApple Debuts ‘Apple Intelligence’ AI Feature With ChatGPT Integration
Apple unveiled its plans for AI technology Monday, launching “Apple Intelligence,” which includes a partnership with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into the tech company’s products. Some key differences...
View ArticleGoogle’s Note To Self: Section 230 Saved You Before With YouTube, But May Not...
Google may have just opened a Pandora’s box with its new “AI Overviews” feature, the company’s new AI generated one paragraph summaries that now appear first in its search results. The reigning champ...
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Elon Musk Makes X Likes Private as Part of an ‘Important Change’
X is making your likes private, as of Wednesday. “Important change: your likes are now private,” Musk said after the announcement was made through the X Engineering account. Important change: your...
View ArticleApple’s AI Intelligence: Safe, Secure and Ethically Sourced – Or Is It? |...
Apple’s redefinition of “AI” to mean “Apple Intelligence” was all the rage earlier this week. That’s kind of funny since a big piece of Apple’s announced AI launch strategy is OpenAI and ChatGPT...
View Article81% of Creatives Think AI Will Benefit Their Work in New Study, but...
CANNES – A new study on the use of artificial intelligence in the arts found that 81% of creatives believe AI will benefit their work, but a majority 71% agreed that regulation of the new technology...
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Introducing Showrunner, the AI Platform That Lets You Make Your Own TV Show
First came AI’s Sora, which created video stories from voice prompts. Then came Suno, which wrote songs via AI. Now the latest AI platform to test Hollywood’s nerves is a streaming service where fans...
View ArticleCannes Lions: AI Chatter – of Both Fear, Optimism – Replaces Brands Buzz at...
CANNES – There is no question that AI has been the “topic du jour” at this year’s Cannes Lions advertising festival, but with such a plethora of different voices on the Croisette — think everyone from...
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The New ‘Cheap Fakes’ and the Coming Presidential Debates | Commentary
Caution ahead as we anticipate Thursday night’s first Presidential debate. Unscrupulous actors are ready to pounce on every moment to splice and socialize candidate gaffes, whether they’re real or...
View ArticleAI Employees Should Have a ‘Right To Warn’ About Looming Trouble | Commentary
By now, we’re starting to understand why so many OpenAI safety employees left in recent months. It’s not due to some secret, unsafe breakthrough (so we can put “what did Ilya see?” to rest). Rather,...
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Disney Investigating Hack by Anti-AI Group Who Says It Took ‘Anything We...
Disney is investigating an internal breach after a group of hacktivists called NullBulge took credit over the weekend for stealing 1.1 terabytes of personal and corporate data from the studio’s...
View ArticleThe AI Revolution Is Meeting Reality | Commentary
A week with Amazon’s AI team and its partners revealed plenty of enduring optimism, but also a recognition that building effective generative applications takes work. Nearly two years after ChatGPT’s...
View ArticleYouTube Ad Revenue Rises 13% to $8.66 Billion in Q2
YouTube’s ad sales momentum continued in the second quarter of 2024, growing 13% year over year to $8.66 billion, driven primarily by brand and direct response advertising. Google subscriptions,...
View ArticleThe End Of Investors’ GenAI Honeymoon | Commentary
Late last month, Goldman Sachs published a remarkable, 32-page report wondering aloud whether all the investment in AI is worth it. It asked, “GenAI: too much spend, too little benefit?” and placed a...
View ArticleSAG-AFTRA Video Game Performers Go on Strike After Contract Talks Stall on AI
A year after striking against film and television productions, SAG-AFTRA will go on strike against video game companies after months of negotiations on a new labor contract have failed to produce a...
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