After nearly four months on the picket lines and at the bargaining table, the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative deal with the Hollywood Studios, or the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), Wednesday evening. SAG-AFTRA leadership and its negotiating committee voted unanimously to approve the tentative agreement, …
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I t took 118 days of marching and negotiating for the actors’ union to reach a tentative deal with the Hollywood Studios Wednesday evening. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) leadership and negotiating committee voted unanimously to approve the tentative agreement with the Association of …
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Tom Watson Jr. was CEO of IBM during the period when that company created the modern computer industry and launched the digital age. More than Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford or even Gates, Jobs, and Bezos, he had a transformational and enduring impact on today’s society, work, and each of our lives. …
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Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord, and Abkco have sued an Amazon-backed artificial intelligence company over alleged copyright infringement of the three publishers’ songs, according to a lawsuit reviewed by Rolling Stone. The companies have filed a suit against Anthropic, an AI startup company founded by four former OpenAI employees in …
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As the school year kicked off in the Spanish town of Almendralejo, teenage girls began to come home telling their parents of disturbing encounters with classmates, some of whom were claiming to have seen naked photos of them. A group of mothers quickly created a WhatsApp group to discuss the …
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A newly proposed bipartisan senate bill seeks to bring greater legal protection to actors and recording artists by discouraging the use of AI-generated deepfakes without their permission. If passed, the “Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act — or NO FAKES Act — would hold those who produce …
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You have an Oscar-nominated actor who’s played everything from queens to killing machines. You’ve paired her with a performer who is arguably the hottest, most in-demand next-gen leading man of the moment. The source material is the second novel from an acclaimed writer, whose first book (I’m Thinking of Ending …
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Daphne, a 22-year-old marketing manager, knew it was never going to work out with her ex, Dave. There were red flags from the start, she says: Since they started dating in the spring of 2022, Dave would frequently lie about little things, “or what he would call ‘withholding the truth,’ …
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It’s no secret that artificial intelligence has become 2023’s cultural boogeyman — the vengeful ghost in the machine that now seems closer than ever to possibly “replacing” humanity. (Or, at the very least, replicating our worst instincts and darker desires in a way that’s too dangerous to laugh off.) Musicians, …
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After nearly five months of chanting and marching on nationwide picket lines, the Writers Guild of America strike has come to an end, with writers permitted to return to work on Sept. 27. The WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), representing Hollywood studios and streamers, …
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