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Sanders asks AI giants to pause development, warning of congressional intervention
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressing the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to pause development of artificial intelligence in the wake of recent hacking incidents, warning Congress will intervene if needed. In a letter sent Monday to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sanders argued AI development…
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L.A. Creator Sachin Kumar Launches Prema Creative Co. With Vertical Comedy Series About Indian-American Actor In Hollywood
L.A.-based creator Sachin Kumar, who works under the name SCKACHI, has launched his own production company, Prema Creative Co., debuting with a 14-part vertical comedy series called Typecast. The show follows a fictionalised version of Kumar, an Indian-American actor navigating Hollywood while confronting typecasting, ambition and identity, and aims to depict Indian characters without the…
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AI is capable of breaking the music industry. But it does not have to.
An op-ed from MusicInfra CEO Björn Lindvall argues that generative AI’s most pressing threat to the music industry lies not in creativity but in the sector’s ageing infrastructure for tracking royalties and attribution. He warns that the surging volume of AI-generated and AI-assisted music will soon overwhelm systems designed for a simpler era of streams…
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Student stabbed in the heart while on the phone to his girlfriend after falling out with a friend over fake Rolex, court hears
A student was fatally stabbed in the heart while speaking to his girlfriend on the phone, following a falling-out with a friend over a fake Rolex watch, a court has heard. The case is being heard as part of ongoing criminal proceedings and highlights how a seemingly minor dispute escalated into a fatal knife attack…
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Obama to host literary podcast, ‘A Great Book,’ on Audible
Former President Obama is starting a new chapter as the host of a literature-focused podcast. The ex-commander in chief will host “A Great Book,” Audible and Higher Ground Productions, the media company launched by the former president and Michelle Obama, announced on Monday. Former President Obama will sit down “with six luminaries to discuss the…
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Sila lands $1.4B Pentagon loan as militaries demand more batteries
Sila, a US battery materials startup, has secured a $1.4 billion loan from the Department of Defense to expand production of its silicon-carbon anode material. The deal, announced on Friday, comes as American automakers and defence contractors struggle to source battery materials outside China, which dominates the graphite anode supply chain that most lithium-ion batteries…
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Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published a lengthy essay titled “The Future is for Everyone,” setting out his vision for how artificial intelligence, particularly so-called superintelligence, should be developed and regulated, and how Meta intends to position itself within that future. The piece, released on Monday, builds on a shorter letter Zuckerberg wrote last year…
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Lidia Thorpe erupts at CEO who wants to stop Welcome to Countries and displaying three flags – as she tells him to ‘pay the rent’… and then brands entire state racist
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe clashed angrily with a company chief executive during an inquiry hearing after he suggested scrapping Welcome to Country ceremonies and the practice of flying three flags (the Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags) at official events. Thorpe, a prominent Aboriginal rights advocate, responded furiously, telling the CEO to “pay the…
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SUFC Insight: Inside the wild west of window as Souttar pursuit twists and turns – thestar.co.uk
SUFC Insight: Inside the wild west of window as Souttar pursuit twists and turns thestar.co.uk