Posts by Riah Marton
Podcast industry is divided as AI bots flood the airways with thousands of programs
Chatty bots are sharing their hot takes through hundreds of thousands of AI-generated podcasts. And the invasion has just begun. Though their banter can be a bit banal, the AI podcasters’ confidence and research are now arguably better than most people’s. “We’ve just begun to cross the threshold of voice AI being pretty much indistinguishable…
Read MoreRHOSLC’s Jen Shah Seen Publicly for First Time Since Prison Release
Jen Shah is back in the Crossroads of the West. After the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City alum was released early from the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Bryan, Texas—serving only two of her six-and-a-half year sentence for wire fraud—she was photographed at the Salt Lake City International Airport. The 52-year-old appeared overjoyed to…
Read MoreIs Your Skin Barrier Damaged? How to Tell and How to Fix It, According to an Expert
There always seems to be a new skincare trend that the internet is obsessed with. From red light therapy to hypochlorous acid sprays, there’s no shortage of products we think we need. However, Chelsea Strauser, Dermstore’s VP of Buying, says these trends are reflective of what’s going on with people’s skins currently. And right now, she…
Read MorePregnant Hayley Erbert Details Role Derek Hough Will Play During Baby’s Birth
The Hough family patriarch is originally from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and met future wife Mariann Heaton on the ballroom team at Ricks College (now Brigham Young University-Idaho). Bruce and Mariann—both from Mormon families and the children of ballroom-dancing parents—settled in Salt Lake City. There he worked as a communications executive and co-founded supplement maker Nutraceutical…
Read MoreDisney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses Mickey Mouse to Sora AI platform
OpenAI said Thursday it reached a licensing deal with the Walt Disney Co. to use more than 200 popular Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, characters from “Frozen” and Yoda from “Star Wars” in OpenAI’s text to video tool Sora. Disney has also agreed to invest $1 billion in the San Francisco AI startup. The deal…
Read MoreRoblox sued by Southern California families alleging children met predators on its platform
Video gaming platform Roblox is facing more lawsuits from parents who allege the San Mateo, Calif., company isn’t doing enough to safeguard children from sexual predators. A Los Angeles County mother, whose identity wasn’t revealed in a November lawsuit, alleges that her daughter met a predator on Roblox who persuaded her child to send sexually…
Read MoreInstacart is charging different prices to different customers in a dangerous AI experiment, report says
The grocery delivery service Instacart is using artificial intelligence to experiment with prices and charge some shoppers more than others for the same items, a new study found. The study from nonprofits Groundwork Collaborative and Consumer Reports followed more than 400 shoppers in four cities and found that Instacart sometimes offered as many as five…
Read MoreIndia’s equity mutual fund inflows rebound in November on strong earnings, low inflation
[MUMBAI] Equity mutual fund inflows into the Indian stock market rebounded after three months in November, as improved corporate earnings, stable economic growth and benign inflation powered blue-chips to record highs after 14 months. Inflows rose 21 per cent month-on-month to 299.11 billion rupees (S$4.28 billion) in November, data from the Association of Mutual Funds…
Read MoreWhy Jelly Roll Says Sex With Bunnie Xo Before His Weight Loss Was Like “Playing Twister”
The Story of How Jelly Rolly & Bunnie Xo Met Bunnie Xo and Jelly Roll‘s love story began in Las Vegas. As she recalled on Bussin’ With The Boys, she met the singer in August 2015 when he performed at the Las Vegas Country Saloon. This was before Jelly Roll was famous. At the time, he was…
Read MoreJennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson Returning for Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
The odds of Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson returning to The Hunger Games franchise are ever in their favor. After all, the former costars will be reprising their respective roles of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in the upcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, a prequel centered on Woody Harrelson‘s Haymitch Abernathy character, according…
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