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Mark Zuckerberg Regrets Allowing White House to Push COVID Censorship in...
Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret for allowing the White House to pressure Meta into censoring COVID-19 dissent from social platforms in 2021, saying “the government pressure was wrong” and openly...
View ArticleApple, Nvidia in Talks to Invest in ChatGPT Creator OpenAI
Apple is in talks to invest in OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reports, building upon the companies’ previously announced partnership as the tech giant prepares to launch integration of OpenAI’s...
View ArticleOprah Winfrey Sets Interview With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for ABC Special on...
Oprah Winfrey will sit down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for an exclusive interview as part of a new ABC primetime special, “AI and the Future of Us,” premiering Sept. 12 at 8 ET. The hour-long special...
View ArticleYouTube Adds New Tool to Detect AI-Generated Singing Content
YouTube is cracking down on the rise of questionable AI-generated content. Content ID, YouTube’s automated content identification system, now includes a synthetic-singing identification tool, which...
View ArticleThe Russia-Funded YouTuber Story Will Only Get Bigger | Commentary
Late last year, a popular conservative YouTuber was about to earn a windfall, but something felt a bit off. A Brussels-born businessman named Eduard Grigoriann was offering him $100,000 per week to...
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Texas Becomes Latest State to Weigh Guardrails for Generative AI
U.S. state legislatures are weighing whether to build their own regulatory frameworks around artificial intelligence in the absence of any comprehensive federal rules that protect consumers and...
View ArticleFrancis Ford Coppola’s Plans for Amazon’s Alexa to Let ‘Megalopolis’ Viewers...
While “Megalopolis” was in pre-production in 2021, Francis Ford Coppola presented Amazon with a unique idea: the director asked if the company would create a customized version of Alexa to be used in...
View ArticleAmazon CEO Ends Remote Work, Tells Staffers to Return to 5 Days In-Office
The days of working from bed in your pajamas are over for Amazon’s corporate employees. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Monday said the company will return to having employees in the office five days a week,...
View ArticleInstagram Adds Privacy Restrictions for Teen Accounts to Give Parents ‘Peace...
Instagram said it will start applying restrictions to kids’ accounts in an effort to make the Meta-owned app more “safe,” in the social media company’s words. Starting Tuesday, new and existing users...
View ArticleTikTok Faces Class Action Lawsuit for ‘Repeatedly’ Violating Children’s...
TikTok and its parent company ByteDance were hit with a class action lawsuit on Tuesday from parents who say that the social media platform violated children’s online privacy laws. The suit alleges...
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How Snapchat Plans to Turn It Around After a Brutal 88% Stock Drop | Analysis
At Snap’s annual Partner Summit in Santa Monica on Tuesday, CEO Evan Spiegel offered a glimpse at how the struggling tech company, whose stock has plummeted 88% in the last two and half years, plans...
View ArticleWME Co-Chairs ‘Optimistic’ for Hollywood’s Future Despite AI, Media...
Despite fears of media consolidation and disruption from tech giants and artificial intelligence, WME co-chairmen Christian Muirhead and Richard Weitz remain optimistic about the future of Hollywood....
View ArticleLionsgate’s AI Partnership Is ‘Concerning’ for Artists, Says UTA CEO Jeremy...
Just a day after Lionsgate announced its partnership with AI company Runway, UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer called the deal “concerning” for artists. “The deal that was announced … by Lionsgate, where they …...
View ArticleNetflix’s Greg Peters Says ‘Super Hype Bump’ of AI Adoption Has Passed
Netflix’s Greg Peters says that artificial intelligence has officially passed the “super hype bump” of the technology adoption cycle. “For almost two decades, we’ve been using machine learning in our...
View ArticleBarry Diller: Netflix, Amazon, Apple Are ‘Really the Controllers’ of Hollywood
In Hollywood, there’s a new sheriff — or sheriffs — in town, according to Barry Diller. The IAC chairman said huge tech companies like Apple have now replaced legacy studios like Disney and Paramount...
View ArticleMeet the Editor Who Turned Himself Into an AI News Anchor
The AI version of Elihay Vidal looks a lot like the man in real life. I watched him anchor a news broadcast last week and had to stare intently for a number of seconds to confirm I wasn’t watching a...
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YouTube CEO Teases Streaming Future After Winning the War for Living Room...
Hollywood’s big open secret is that YouTube is dominating television. In July of 2024, the company broke two major Nielsen records — becoming the first streaming platform to top the Media Distributor...
View ArticleBill Gates’ Daughter Tells Him She’s Lost Friends Due to Covid Vaccine...
Bill Gates has been the subject of several conspiracy theories — including that he forces people to eat bugs and that he’s part of a race of shapeshifting lizards — but his daughter Phoebe has had...
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Blocked X Users Can Now See Posts From People Blocking Them, Regardless
A new update to X (formerly Twitter) will make public content available to everyone, even users who have been blocked. The announcement came Monday, and Elon Musk eagerly noted he’s been waiting for...
View ArticleMeta AI to Begin Speaking in Voices of Judi Dench, Awkwafina and John Cena |...
Hollywood stars like Kristen Bell and Keegan-Michael Key will now talk to you on Instagram — or, more accurately, an AI replication of their voice will now talk to you. That’s because Meta — the...
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