In early October, OpenAI raised a record-breaking $6.6 billionin the largest startup fundraising round in history. Yet, as AI continues to largely feel contained to our mobile phones and computers, companies all around us are working to bring these innovations directly to our everyday lives. In fact, AI is redefining …
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“Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” is one of the holiday season’s most iconic songs, shooting back up the charts every year and hitting Number One in 2023, 65 years after the song’s debut. But the world’s largest record company is looking to take the track to an even more global …
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In the late Eighties, Ernst Jorgensen, then an executive at a BMG affiliate in Denmark, raised an impertinent question in an international meeting. “How come we treat the Elvis Presley catalog so poorly?” The response from a U.S. label chief was immediate: “If you’re so smart, why don’t you do …
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Alcon Entertainment, the production company behind the dystopian sci-fi opus Blade Runner 2049, is suing Elon Musk, Warner Bros. Discovery and Tesla over part of an Oct. 10 presentation to unveil the car maker’s designs for hypothetical future products, including an self-driving “cybercab.” The much-hyped event, which also included plans …
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On Sunday, Justine Moore, a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, tweeted about a curious discovery. It was an Instagram account with the handle @ethos_atx, which purported to represent an upscale restaurant called Ethos in Austin, Texas. But, as Moore noted, no such business exists — …
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On Thursday, Tesla will at last reveal its prototype for a fully autonomous “robotaxi,” a vehicle that CEO Elon Musk had originally wanted to unveil in August and envisions as the future of the brand. Certain investors and tech entrepreneurs are extremely skeptical that the company can pull off such …
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There has been no shortage of gut-wrenching photographs from communities in the southeast devastated by Hurricane Helene, which caused extreme flooding and killed at least 215 people—pictures of houses destroyed, families trapped on rooftops, wreckage from mudslides and roads washed out by torrential rains. But rather than focus on the …
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In the last few years, AI has taken off in unexpected ways that have changed the way today’s workforce operates. As a result, the fear of automation replacing tasks or entire jobs has become common among employees. However, automation doesn’t remove the need for the human touch — and, in …
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Since the 1980s, director James Cameron has pushed the limits of visual effects in his blockbusters, from the Terminator and Avatar franchises to The Abyss and Titanic. The innovations that made these movies possible have also made him a beloved, acclaimed, and very wealthy artist. But his latest technological jump …
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The picture, posted July 4 on the Facebook page “Love Shares 3.0” for 71,000 followers, appears to be an aerial view of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, with people gathered in the square. Overhead, dangling from a gigantic black helicopter, is what can only be a massive Bible, but …
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