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Luca Guadagnino is in talks to direct Artificial, a dramatization of Sam Altman's dramatic firing and rehiring at OpenAI in 2023. The Amazon-MGM film is rumored to star Andrew Garfield, 'A Complete Unknown' scene-stealer Monica Barbaro, and 'Anora' actor Yura Borisov as lead roles in the story. From...

Sunday night baseball games may soon be available via Apple TV+, as the company is reportedly seeking to land additional MLB streaming rights.

A recently unsealed OpenAI file outlines the company’s ambitions for ChatGPT. They’re coming for Siri with everything they’ve got.

Earlier this month the "Create New Issue" page on GitHub got a new option. "Save time by creating issues with Copilot" (next to a link labeled "Get started.") Though the option later disappeared, they'd seemed very committed to the feature. "With Copilot, creating issues...is now faster and easi...

"How does it feel to be replaced by a bot?" asks the Guardian — interviewing several creative workers who know: Gardening copywriter Annabel Beales "One day, I overheard my boss saying to a colleague, 'Just put it in ChatGPT....' [My manager] stressed that my job was safe. Six weeks later...

Apple, a year after debuting its AI platform, will do little at WWDC to show it’s catching up to leaders like OpenAI and Google. Also: The latest macOS gets its new California theme; a look at why the company is moving to an iOS 26 and macOS 26 naming system; and details on Apple’s dedicated gaming app.

Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.

Brazil is piloting dWallet, a project that lets citizens earn money from their data. It is ahead of similar U.S-based initiatives.

OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

Creators are making longer shows to meet viewers where they are: increasingly, in front of their TVs.

The teacher behind the ‘millennial museum’ says it’s about making history feel personal.

Attorneys keep getting in trouble for submitting filings with AI-generated ‘hallucinations.’

President Donald Trump decided to pull his nomination of Jared Isaacman to lead NASA just days before a Senate vote.

AI company Anthropic (founded in 2021 by a team that left OpenAI) is now making about $3 billion a year in revenue, reports Reuters (citing "two sources familiar with the matter.") The sources said December's projections had been for just $1 billion a year, but it climbed to $2 billion by the end ...

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from SiliconANGLE: Hugging Face has open-sourced the blueprints of two internally developed robots called HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The company debuted the machines on Thursday. Hugging Face is backed by more than $390 million in funding from Nvidia Corp., IBM Corp....

Director Danny Boyle is using every trick in the book to maintain a unique, if expanded, feel to the return of the infected in 28 Years Later.

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Thursday Anthropic's CEO/cofounder Dario Amodei again warned unemployed could spike 10 to 20% within the next five years as AI potentially eliminated half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. But CNN's senior business writer dismisses that as "all part of the AI hype machine," pointing out that ...

Indian AI unicorn, Builder.AI, has just spectacularly collapsed, laying off all of its employees and entering insolvency proceedings. The startup, which

Nebraska's governor, Jim Pillen, signed a law that restricts social media design features that keep kids hooked on the platform.

An internal strategy document lays out OpenAI’s ambition to build “your interface to the internet.”

An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams known as "p...

The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

Amazon’s mysterious new ZeroOne devices team, led by former Microsoft exec / Xbox cofounder J Allard, has job listings mentioning “a new smart-home product.”

The Facebook parent company is partnering with defense technology company Anduril to design, build, and field a range of XR products for soldiers

YouTube Shorts is adding a button for Google Lens within its mobile app, but only in beta for the time being.

A lot of questionable assumptions are being used to craft what is probably a wrong guess that more than $4 billion a year in revenue will shift from Apple to game developers as a result of the antisteering rulings and laws around the world.

Amazon has launched a new innovation-focused team called ZeroOne, led by Xbox co-creator J Allard, to develop breakthrough consumer products across hardware and software. CNBC reports: The ZeroOne team is spread across Seattle, San Francisco and Sunnyvale, California, and is focused on both hardwar...

Meta is experiencing a significant talent exodus from its AI division, with 11 of the 14 original Llama researchers having departed the company, according to...