Yahoo Acquires AI News Aggregation App Artifact From Instagram Cofounders
Yahoo has acquired Artifact, the AI-driven news aggregation platform created by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the company announced on Tuesday. Financial terms of the deal were...
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Is Post-Strike Hollywood Really Ready for an AI Film Festival?
There’s a line stand-up comedians often turn to when a joke about controversial news hits a raw nerve: “What, too soon?” In Hollywood, that same question might apply to Runway’s AI Film Festival,...
View ArticleHere’s How to Turn Off Meta AI From Your Search Bar on Instagram
After introducing its AI assistants and chatbots in September, Meta officially integrated the company’s Meta AI chatbot into Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp on Friday. While some welcomed this latest...
View ArticleWall Street Flashes Concerns Over Meta’s Expensive Push Into AI Development
Meta’ aggressive push into AI development spooked Wall Street on Wednesday, despite the tech company reporting first quarter income that soared by 117% on revenues up 27% to $36.46 billion, both of...
View ArticleAre LLMs About To Hit A Wall? | Commentary
Each new generation of large language model (LLM) consumes a staggering amount of resources. Meta, for instance, trained its new Llama 3 models with about 10 times more data and 100 times more...
View ArticleDotdash Meredith Inks Licensing Partnership With OpenAI
Dotdash Meredith, one of the largest digital publishers in the U.S., has signed a deal with OpenAI to license content for AI training, a diversion from the litigation tactics of other large publishers...
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New Tech Offers An ‘Ear To The Weird’ at AI Film Festival
If you were among the more than 450 people who gathered at downtown L.A.’s ornate Orpheum Theater for the second annual Runway AI Film Festival you are probably already over the palpable fear and...
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AI’s Next Big Step: Detecting Human Emotion and Expression
The AI field has made remarkable progress with incomplete data. Leading generative models like Claude, Gemini, GPT-4, and Llama can understand text but not emotion. These models can’t process your...
View ArticleIATSE and Studios Talk AI Protections, Wages in Latest Negotiations
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) completed a second week of Basic Agreement General Negotiations on...
View ArticleVoiceover Actors Sue AI Startup Lovo for Stealing Their Voices ‘Without...
Two voice actors are leading a class-action lawsuit against AI voiceover company Lovo for using recordings of them to create a bot that replicates their voices — and competes with them for work. Paul...
View ArticleOpenAI Wants To Get Big Fast, and Four More Takeaways From a Wild Week in AI...
In a season of big AI news, few weeks have felt more significant than this one. OpenAI introduced its new GPT-4o model, Google unveiled a deeper AI vision, and Apple dropped more hints ahead of a...
View ArticleOpenAI Pulls ChatGPT Voice ‘Sky’ After Users Say It Sounds Like Scarlett...
OpenAI is pulling the ChatGPT voice known as Sky after users noted that the chatbot sounds incredibly similar to Scarlett Johansson. The AI company is putting the feature “on pause” but denies the...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson Says She Declined ChatGPT’s Proposal to Use Her Voice for...
Scarlett Johansson said she was “shocked” that Sam Altman of ChatGPT created an AI voice that sounded “eerily” like her after she declined to voice the system herself. The “Black Widow” actress issued...
View ArticleDavid Cronenberg Says AI Is ‘Ferocious and Terrifying’ but ‘Also Incredibly...
The use of AI in cinema should be respected, “The Shrouds” filmmaker David Cronenberg said at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, but it doesn’t have to be feared. “It’s like nuclear fission,” he...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson Gets Support From SAG-AFTRA and Actors Over OpenAI Voice...
SAG-AFTRA and more of Hollywood are standing behind Scarlett Johansson after she called out ChatGPT for allegedly cloning her voice for its “Sky” feature. On Monday, the “Her” actress issued a...
View ArticleNews Corp and OpenAI Strike Multi-Year Licensing Partnership to Train Chatbots
News Corp has become the latest company to ink a multi-year deal with OpenAI, which includes content licensing from the company’s media profile including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and the New...
View ArticleWashington Post Expands Use of AI After Losing $77 Million in Last Year
The Washington Post announced Wednesday that it registered a $77 million loss in the last year, according to publisher and chief executive Will Lewis. “To speak candidly,” Lewis told staffers gathered...
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Industry Scrambles for Influence in Washington as Lawmakers Weigh AI...
WASHINGTON — The entertainment industry is pushing for a say as Washington lawmakers draft artificial intelligence legislation aimed at establishing federal protections against the unauthorized use of...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson’s Agent Tells OpenAI to ‘Slow Down’ to Ensure Products Get...
Scarlett Johansson’s agent Bryan Lourd — who was involved in discussions between the actress and OpenAI when she decided not to pursue the voice opportunity — urged the tech company to “slow down”...
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Litigate or License? News Publishers Struggle With Letting AI Have Their Content
News publishers are grappling with how to respond to Big Tech’s aggressive push into generative AI models that leverage decades of their news content without paying a dime. For many, the decision...
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