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‘Soulm8te’ Director Kate Dolan on Her Twisty Journey After ‘M3GAN 2.0’ and What That Ending Could Mean
Kate Dolan, director of the M3GAN-universe spinoff Soulm8te, has spoken about the film’s unexpected shift from a planned theatrical release to a direct-to-home-entertainment launch. The film, an erotic thriller about an AI companion who becomes dangerously obsessed with a grieving widower, was pulled from Universal’s theatrical calendar in December after M3GAN 2.0 underperformed at the…
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‘I feel like I dug my own grave’: The workers caught in the AI transition
An investigation by the BBC into the Philippines’ outsourcing industry finds that artificial intelligence is beginning to displace workers in a sector that has long been a pillar of the country’s economy. Former employees describe being made redundant after unknowingly helping train AI tools that later replaced them, raising broader questions about how emerging economies…
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Telegram CEO says ‘takedown extortionist’ was responsible for the app being briefly delisted by Apple
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has claimed a “takedown extortionist” was behind the app’s brief removal from Apple’s App Store, saying Apple pulled the app before contacting the company directly. Durov alleged a malicious actor edited an old message in an active group chat to insert “AI-modified illegal content” that group members would not see or…
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Inside Google’s Efforts to Get Creatives Hooked on AI
Google is actively courting the film and creative industries to embrace its AI video-generation tools, as illustrated by a recent screening of 11 AI-generated short films at Manhattan’s Metrograph theatre. The films were produced by the fourth cohort of Google’s “Flow Sessions” programme, a six-week scheme giving emerging filmmakers unlimited access to the company’s Flow…
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The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret
The Trump administration has finalised a framework to address cybersecurity risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence models, but is keeping its details classified, White House officials confirmed to WIRED. The approach lets AI developers voluntarily submit new models to the government up to 30 days before public release for vetting against a classified benchmarking system,…
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Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account
Signal has updated its secure messaging app to allow users to link multiple phones to a single account, expanding on its existing support for linking PCs and iPads. Previously, only one phone number could be paired with additional non-phone devices, so this change makes it easier for people who regularly use more than one Android…
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SpaceX’s revenue rises as its once-soaring stock price drifts back to Earth
SpaceX has posted its first earnings report since going public, revealing that revenue nearly doubled year-on-year to $7.8 billion, even as the company recorded a $541 million loss and spent heavily on capital investment. The results underscore the gap between the excitement that drove the firm’s record-breaking flotation and the financial realities now facing investors,…
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Producer Adds Defamation Claim To Lawsuit Against Netflix Over Theft Of Hard Drive Of World War II Espionage Pic ‘Fortitude’
The producer behind the World War II spy thriller “Fortitude” has amended his lawsuit against Netflix to add a defamation claim, escalating a dispute over a stolen hard drive containing the film. Simon Afram, the film’s producer, writer and financier, alleges Netflix mischaracterised his legal team’s conduct as an attempted extortion after the streamer lost…
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Perplexity has successfully overturned Amazon’s injunction on its AI shopping bot
Perplexity has won an appeal overturning a court injunction that had blocked its AI-powered Comet browser from accessing Amazon’s website to shop on users’ behalf. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Amazon’s original claim, based on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, was unlikely to succeed because it was the Comet user, not…
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Black writer who landed $2m book deal for his debut novel says it’s RACIST he was dropped over allegations he used AI
A writer named Jerry Falade, who reportedly secured a $2 million publishing deal for his debut novel, has said he believes race played a part in the decision to drop him after he was accused of using artificial intelligence to help write the book. He has publicly described the move as racist, framing it as…