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Gilded lives of AI barons: How tech tycoons have become new jet-setting elite from Palm Beach mansions and golf with Trump and private jets
A Daily Mail feature examines how leading figures in the artificial intelligence industry have rapidly ascended into a new class of ultra-wealthy jet-setters, drawing comparisons to established elites through their acquisition of lavish Palm Beach mansions, private jet travel and social ties to figures such as Donald Trump, including rounds of golf together. The piece…
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Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI?
Pippa, a text-to-video AI startup, is trying to win over artists who have long accused generative AI companies of training models on their work without permission or payment. Rather than scraping art without consent, Pippa pays artists directly whenever a subscriber generates an image or video clip in a style derived from that artist’s work,…
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Andy Burnham’s new AI minister says people ‘right to worry’ about new tech
Andy Burnham’s newly created AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, has said the public is “right to worry” about artificial intelligence’s impact on jobs, even as he pushes for greater investment in the technology. Narayan became the UK’s first minister for AI after Burnham established the role upon becoming prime minister last month, and now leads a…
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Boy George Fires Label Manager Who Refused To Release His AI Pro-Israel Song, Drops Diss Track About Soup Dragons Singer
Boy George has caused controversy after releasing an AI-generated pro-Israel track titled “We Will Dance Again,” leading him to withdraw from a production of Jesus Christ Superstar and fire Tony Pontius, the manager of his indie label Boy George Presents, after Pontius refused to release the song. The singer framed the split as a consequence…
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Is It Possible to Make Smart Glasses That Aren’t Creepy?
Smart glasses are booming, but the same features that make them useful—built-in cameras that can capture whoever the wearer looks at—have made them a lightning rod for privacy concerns, with Meta, the market leader, facing the sharpest criticism. Because the devices are worn passively rather than held up like a phone, and their recording indicators…
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Stock market turmoil sheds stark light on the opaque AI economy
Global markets were rattled last week by a series of Chinese semiconductor breakthroughs that appeared to challenge Western chipmakers’ dominance of the AI industry, triggering sharp swings in tech stocks worldwide. The turmoil began when Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT floated in Shanghai and soared in value, on the same day reports emerged that China had…
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Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in Their Daily Lives
New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of “disclosure fatigue.”
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Vin Diesel calls Fast Forever script the best he’s read in decades
Vin Diesel has described the script for “Fast Forever”, the eleventh and final Fast & Furious film, as the best he has read in decades, saying he was left “still crying” after reading it. He shared the verdict on Instagram, timed to coincide with the original 2001 film’s return to cinemas for its 25th anniversary,…
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Shittu ‘robbed’ – are AI boxing judges the answer?
England’s Dimeji Shittu was left with a Commonwealth Games silver medal rather than gold after a controversial points defeat by India’s Ankush Panghal in the boxing final in Glasgow, prompting pundits to call the decision a “robbery”. The result has reignited long-standing debate about subjectivity in boxing judging, with calls growing for artificial intelligence to…
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‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Australian rare and secondhand booksellers are raising alarm that old books may be caught up in a supply chain feeding artificial intelligence companies, which are believed to be scanning and then destroying physical texts to train their models. The concern follows a US copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, in which unsealed court files revealed the company…