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This AI Startup Made a 24-Hour AI News Channel. Who Wants This?
Mirage, the AI company behind the Captions video-editing app, ran a 24-hour livestreamed news experiment featuring entirely AI-generated anchors. The project tested whether audiences might accept a cable-news-style format in which the presentation, hosts and interviews were artificial, while the underlying stories came from licensed Reuters reporting; it also served to promote Mirage’s Avatar X…
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Boy, 6, jumped out upstairs window while high on COCAINE, cops say… now his mother has been charged
A six-year-old autistic boy jumped from a second-storey apartment window in Fairmont, West Virginia, and subsequently tested positive for cocaine, prompting police to charge his mother with felony child neglect. Stevie Thibodeaux, 30, initially told a responding deputy she had been asleep when her son jumped and showed childproof locks she used to keep him…
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Baier pushes back on Trump’s Strait of Hormuz claim: ‘Traffic has slowed … to a trickle’
Fox News host Bret Baier on Wednesday pushed back on President Trump’s claim that the U.S. “totally” controls the Strait of Hormuz, saying that traffic through the waterway has slowed down “to a trickle.” “Usually, about one-fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas trade moves through there as well,” Baier said on Wednesday’s episode of…
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OpenAI is losing its second executive this week
OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser has said she will leave the company in the coming weeks, becoming the second senior executive to announce a departure this week. Her exit adds to a run of leadership changes as OpenAI prepares for its next stage of commercial growth and a possible public listing. Dresser joined OpenAI…
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Nicky Jam Releases New Song “La Foto” with Cuban Artist He Discovered on Instagram: Stream
Nicky Jam has released “La Foto”, a collaboration with Cuban singer El Shadow, whom he discovered after seeing an Instagram post promoting the track. The release highlights how fan-led social-media campaigns can create opportunities for emerging artists to work with established performers. El Shadow, whose real name is Raudel Gómez Hernández, posted a clip in…
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This Pocket-Sized Polaroid Camera Is Ideal for Concerts — It’s Discounted to an All-Time Low
Polaroid’s pocket-sized Go Generation 2 instant camera and 16-photo film bundle is currently reduced on Amazon, aimed at concert and festival-goers wanting physical souvenirs. The article presents the deal as the product’s lowest recorded price, making the compact camera more affordable for casual event photography. The bundle costs $71.99, a stated 35% reduction. The camera…
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Three fans storm Yankee Stadium field as security springs into action, takes down intruders in epic fashion
Security guards at Yankee Stadium quickly overpowered three fans who ran onto the field during Wednesday’s game between the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners, in a sequence of tackles that drew widespread attention. The incident occurred during a pitching change and briefly halted proceedings before play resumed and the guards escorted the intruders away.…
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Family of Irish plane crash victim awarded $29m in damages
The family of Michael ‘Mick’ Ryan, an Irish UN engineer killed in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crash, has been awarded $29m (£21.5m) by a jury in Chicago. The verdict is significant because it holds Boeing financially accountable in one of the lawsuits arising from the crash, which killed all 157 people on…
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JONATHAN BROCKLEBANK: Yes, I’m a WFH hypocrite but I’ve earned the right to throw stones at entitled civil servants
Columnist Jonathan Brocklebank argues that, despite working from home himself, he believes he is justified in criticising civil servants whom he portrays as entitled over remote-working arrangements. Writing in a deliberately self-deprecating tone, he describes the comforts of his own home office and contrasts them with aspects of commuting and office life that he does…
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Drake Shares ‘Degrassi’ Throwback to Prove His Goth Fascination Is ‘Not New’
Drake shared a throwback image from his time on Degrassi to suggest that his attraction to goth women dates back to his acting career. The post follows recent viral moments involving streamer Pinkchyu, whom he selected as the winner of a speed-dating game during a Stake livestream. Drake had previously said he expected to end…