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Outgoing Sony Pictures CEO Predicts ‘Chaos’ in Entertainment Industry Over Next Two Years
Tony Vinciquerra foresees cable-company write downs, consolidation, potential bankruptcies, a Charter merger in Europe
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Meet the Editor Who Turned Himself Into an AI News Anchor
Elihay Vidal’s AI avatar looks pretty darn human, and it will read you the latest news from a convincing synthetic media set. But why did he do it?
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The Emmys, Disney Succession and Dana Walden’s Moment
Fresh off the historic Emmy wins and the highly praised presidential debate, Walden is on a roll
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Is OpenAI’s New ‘o1’ Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For? | Commentary
The new AI model can reason through really hard problems. Some will see its promise before others.
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In Toronto, Movies Seeking Joy, Feminist Fury and Making Sense of a Tumultuous World
From what I can tell, filmmakers are in turmoil and their hearts are breaking
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The Russia-Funded YouTuber Story Will Only Get Bigger | Commentary
YouTube has removed Tenet Media, a political network allegedly funded by Russia. But who’s next?
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Up Late With ‘The Apprentice’ Director Ali Abbasi: Censorship, ‘Toothless’ Hollywood and Donald Trump | Exclusive
TIFF 2024: After all the major studios declined the film, Briarcliff Entertainment stepped in to distribute
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Kamala Harris Can Pull It Off — If She Shows the Discipline and Grace of Her Nomination Speech
If she doesn’t blow it – or if Trump doesn’t try to steal the election again – she stands on the precipice of American leadership
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This Professor Has a Path Toward Human-Level AI. It Isn’t LLMs. | Commentary
Language models powering bots like ChatGPT cannot conceive the physical world. Will the next leap come from teaching AI sensory common sense?
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Surprisingly, Google Is Thriving In The GenAI Era | Commentary
Instead of surrendering to ChatGPT, Google is thriving as dark prophesies around its future haven’t come to fruition — at least not yet.
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The End Of Investors’ GenAI Honeymoon | Commentary
From Goldman to Sequoia, investors are questioning whether the massive investment in AI will ever pay off.
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Kamala Harris Has an Unprecedented Hollywood Power Base – and It’s Already Gone to Work for Her
From Disney’s Dana Walden and CAA’s Bryan Lourd to Beyonce and Octavia Spencer, Harris is practically without peer in industry support
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Why ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Turned J.D. Vance Against Hollywood — and the Media
He told his partners, “I’m done with Hollywood,” as he turned to support Donald Trump and policies he once disdained
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The AI Revolution Is Meeting Reality | Commentary
A week with Amazon’s AI team revealed enduring optimism, but also a recognition that building effective generative applications takes work.
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Hollywood’s Family Business: Paramount Passes From the Redstones to Ellisons
Whether it was called Viacom or CBS or Paramount Global, Paramount has been an actual family business, and will remain so
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