As vast swaths of Los Angeles County burned this week, with uncontrolled wildfires killing at least 10 people and destroying upward of 9,000 structures, residents and politicians understandably looked to assign blame. And in a drought-afflicted state where access to water is a particularly contentious issue, many argued that mismanagement …
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Johnny Depp warned fans about online scammers impersonating him following a Gizmodo report that revealed the Federal Trade Commission received nearly 200 complaints about fake Depps bilking people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. “Sadly, it has been brought to my attention that online scammers are intensifying their efforts …
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Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, whose platforms are already flooded with AI-generated content, recently floated an idea to make the problem even worse: letting users create bot characters in their AI Studio that would then become functional “users” of these sites themselves, appearing to have their own accounts that engage …
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Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun are star-crossed AI lovers in the first trailer for their upcoming film Love Me. Stewart and Yeun play a curious buoy and a helpful satellite learning about Earth, humanity and life itself, long after humans have gone extinct. From the internet and old YouTube videos, …
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Since burning through tens of billions of dollars on its flop “metaverse” concept and laying off thousands in the aftermath of that gamble, tech giant Meta has strained to reinvent itself as a company poised to capitalize on the overhyped AI revolution. Last year, for example, founder and CEO Mark …
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Lisa Kudrow condemned Robert Zemeckis’ Here, a film that uses digital aging technology, in a recent episode of the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard. Kudrow references Zemeckis’ film, which reunites Forrest Gump stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, and calls the time-jumping film “an endorsement for AI.” “They shot it, …
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On Thursday evening, President-elect Donald Trump once again took to Truth Social to announce a hire for his incoming administration: David O. Sacks, he wrote, would fill the newly created role of “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar,” and work to make the U.S. “the clear global leader in both …
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Even as it faces a lawsuit from the recording industry for using countless copyrighted songs to train its music-generating AI model, Suno has become the fifth most-used generative-AI service in the world — and the company is still pushing its technology forward. A new, notably more realistic model, V4, is …
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AI-cloned versions of legendary U.K. broadcaster David Attenborough‘s voice are multiplying online — and he’s not happy about it. “Having spent a lifetime trying to speak what I believe to be the truth,” the 98-year-old naturalist and Planet Earth narrator told BBC News, “I’m profoundly disturbed to find that these …
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Next year marks the 30th anniversary of Jerry Garcia’s death. But a new AI initiative, as well as programs it could spawn, aims to keep the Grateful Dead leader’s presence alive. This summer, ElevenLabs, a two-year-old software company known for its advanced, lifelike voice AI tools, announced a free app …
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