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Hollywood-AI battle heats up, as OpenAI and studios clash over copyrights and consent
A year after tech firm OpenAI roiled Hollywood with the release of its Sora AI video tool, Chief Executive Sam Altman was back — with a potentially groundbreaking update.Unlike...
Those hyperrealistic videos you’re seeing could be fake news — because they’re actually AI ads
In a short-form video post, an influencer gets worked up about a television news story from California. The images broadcast behind her appear authentic, with an anchor calling viewers...
Google lays off dozens of workers in Sunnyvale
Google said it plans to lay off dozens of workers at its Sunnyvale offices, following job reductions at other large tech firms.Google notified the California Employment Development Department on...
Conservation Must Start With People, Not Just Animals
Flying over the tiny Gombe National Park was a turning point in my understanding of conservation. Below me stretched a landscape that told a complex story – one where...
Race to make smart glasses relevant heats up again with new tech from Meta and Snap
More than a decade ago, pricey smart glasses that allowed people to snap photos, text and browse the web generated a lot of buzz but also resistance.People who wore...
Elon Musk’s xAI lays off 500 people training its Grok chatbot
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has laid off 500 workers from its data annotation team, which helps train its Grok chatbot.The layoffs were earlier reported by Business Insider.The...
California’s Punjabi truckers say they’re being harassed after deadly Florida wreck
For 15 years, Sumit Singh has hauled freight to and from Los Angeles ports and across the country. For the first time, though, the Punjabi Sikh truck driver is...
Tech executives, but not Elon Musk, to attend Trump’s Rose Garden dinner
President Trump is scheduled to dine with tech executives from Apple, Meta, Google and OpenAI on Thursday night at a White House event in the newly renovated Rose Garden.The...
ChatGPT pulled teen into a ‘dark and hopeless place’ before he took his life, lawsuit against OpenAI alleges
Adam Raine, a California teenager, used ChatGPT to find answers about everything, including his schoolwork as well as his interests in music, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Japanese comics.But his conversations...
Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle claims it duped Prime customers