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Emmy-Nominated ‘All Her Fault’ Star Dakota Fanning Gives Update On ‘The Nightingale’ With Sister Elle & Details Of New Untitled Apple TV Thriller
Dakota Fanning has received an Emmy nomination for her supporting role in the Peacock limited series All Her Fault, while her sister Elle Fanning was nominated for the Apple TV+ comedy series Margo’s Got Money Troubles. Speaking to Deadline during a break in filming, Dakota expressed delight at the sisters’ simultaneous recognition, noting that it…
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Casey Bloys on HBO’s Huge Emmy Noms Haul, ‘The Pitt’ Dominance, Whether He Has ‘Heated Rivalry’ Regrets and His Own Future Post-Merger
HBO’s content chief Casey Bloys spoke to Variety after the platform led the 2026 Emmy nominations with an industry-topping 122 nods, driven by strong showings for the drama “The Pitt” and the comedy “Hacks”. The haul marks a high point in Bloys’s decade running HBO, but it arrives amid uncertainty, as the pending acquisition of…
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The Pitt earns 25 Emmy nominations, nearly doubling its debut haul
HBO Max’s medical drama “The Pitt” secured 25 Emmy nominations for its second season, nearly doubling the 13 it earned for its debut. The haul establishes the series as one of the year’s most recognised dramas and places it narrowly ahead of “Hacks”, which set a comedy-series record with 24 nods. The scale of the…
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I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You
A WIRED writer describes experimenting with “self-improving” AI to automate parts of his newsletter, arguing that recursive self-improvement — often framed as the frontier labs’ path to superintelligence — is now within reach of ordinary users. His experiments suggest that this technology need not be monopolised by a handful of large AI companies, pointing to…
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Get a $30 credit when you reserve Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy phones
Samsung has opened a reservation offer ahead of its next Galaxy Unpacked event, giving customers a $30 store credit if they register their interest now and go on to preorder one of the new phones shortly after they are announced. The event takes place on 22 July 2026 under the tagline “A new shape unfolds”,…
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Emmy Nominations Analysis: ‘The Pitt’ And ‘Hacks’ Dominance Proves It Helps To Be On A Show Voters Actually Watch
Deadline awards columnist Pete Hammond analyses the 2026 Emmy nominations, announced on Wednesday, in which the medical drama The Pitt led with 25 nominations and the comedy Hacks set a new comedy-series record of 24 in its final season, beating the previous record held by The Studio and The Bear. Hammond argues the results confirm…
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Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself
An expanded proposed class-action lawsuit against X and xAI, filed on Tuesday, alleges that a man used the Grok AI tool to generate roughly 7,000 sexually explicit images and videos of his stepdaughter from a single photograph taken when she was 11. According to the complaint, Grok produced extreme material depicting incest and rape without…
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Second ‘Dune: Part Three’ Trailer Hints That Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides Might Be “Way Beyond Redemption”
UPDATED, July 8, 2026: Another trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s final Dune film is here. Zendaya’s Chani is not happy with Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreidies, who “promised” her that he would never “take power in [his] name.” Jason Momoa’s Duncan Idaho remarks how the Lisan al-Gaib has “conquered the galaxy” and “destroyed thousands of worlds.” When…
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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’
Elon Musk’s tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.