Tech
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Spotify Adds Verified Badges to Podcasts, Vows to Remove Unauthorized AI Offerings
The streamer previously added the badge for musical artists in late April
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Paramount Taps Former Google Exec Barak Turovsky as Consumer AI Head
The EVP is tasked with exploring ways for Paramount+ and Pluto to leverage AI in areas such as personalization, content discovery, engagement and monetization
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Jury Rules Against Elon Musk in $150 Billion Lawsuit Against OpenAI
Musk had accused the company of breaching its nonprofit status
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AI Surprise in Cannes: Curiosity Wins Over Fear
AI has turned a corner among some film professionals, from looming threat to how to use the tools
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Paramount Chief Technology Officer Phil Wiser to Exit After 7 Years
“Writing this and sharing this news is harder than I expected,” the executive writes in his farewell memo to staff
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TV Upfronts 2026: Celebrity Flash, Little Substance, Sports and a Dollop of AI
The biggest companies in the biz focused more on big-name celebrities rather than buzzy announcements as Hollywood continues to struggle
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Jack Antonoff Blasts ‘Godless Whores’ Who Create Art With AI: ‘By All Means, Drive Right Off That Cliff’
The Bleachers frontman and super-producer’s new album, “Everyone for Ten Minutes,” drops May 22
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Cannes: Guillermo del Toro Slams AI Defenders Who Think Art Can Be Made With a ‘F—king App’
“We are, unfortunately, in times that make this movie more pertinent than ever,” the filmmaker says, following a retrospective screening of his 2006 dark fantasy “Pan’s Labyrinth”
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Netflix Sued by Texas AG Over Alleged ‘Dark Pattern’ of Deceptive Data Collection and Behavior Monitoring
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit also accuses the streaming giant of addicting children with features like autoplay
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TV Writers Worry AI Will Replace Them. Now They’re Putting Those Anxieties on Screen
The creatives behind “Hacks,” “The Comeback,” “The Pitt” and “Matlock” tell TheWrap about tackling the emerging technology in their shows
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Dua Lipa Sues Samsung for Unauthorized Use of Her Face on TV Packaging, Seeks $15 Million in Federal Court
The pop singer says when she asked the South Korean electronics giant to stop putting her face on boxes, their response was “dismissive and callous”
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JD Vance Holds AI Wake-Up Call With Tech CEOs Elon Musk, Sam Altman and More After Anthropic Shows Hacking Superpowers
The ad-hoc summit was triggered when Mythos, a new AI model developed by Anthropic, autonomously discovered and exploited cybersecurity flaws
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Disney Shares Rise Over 8% as Josh D’Amaro Touts Disney+ as ‘Digital Centerpiece’ in First Earnings Call
The entertainment giant’s new chief says it will invest in IP, engage consumers in more seamless ways and use AI in areas such as content creation and workforce productivity
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Meta, Mark Zuckerberg Ripped Millions of Copyrighted Works to Train AI, Major Book Publishers Claim in Lawsuit
“If left unchecked, Meta’s conduct threatens the incentives that underpin the creation of original works,” the federal filing reads














