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Amazon Sees Over $1.8 Billion in Video Ad Sales During Upfronts
The commercials will run during Prime programs like Thursday Night Football as well as on Freevee and Twitch
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman Worked for ‘Love’ – Now He’ll Make $10.5 Billion
Restructuring to a for-profit business would instantly make OpenAI’s CEO billions of dollars richer
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Runway to Give Filmmakers Up to $1 Million to Make AI Movies
The AI company recently struck a deal with Lionsgate
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Brad Pitt Condemns ‘Awful’ Impersonators Who Scammed $360K From Spanish Fans
“This is an important reminder to not respond to unsolicited online outreach, especially from actors who have no social media presence,” a spokesperson for the actor tells TheWrap
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X Under Musk: Suspensions Surge 307%, Driven by Action Against Child Abuse
The platform is censoring far less content, however
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Mark Zuckerberg’s 2024 Election Plan: Make Facebook, Instagram Less Political
Sports and celebrity news are now prioritized over election coverage on Meta’s social media platforms
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Warner Bros. Discovery Teams With Google Cloud for AI-Powered Captioning
The partnership, which will initially be applied to the studio’s unscripted programming, is designed to significantly reduce production time and costs
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Meta AI to Begin Speaking in Voices of Judi Dench, Awkwafina and John Cena | Report
New celebrity AI voices like Kristen Bell and Keegan-Michael Key will roll out to Instagram and Facebook later this week, according to Reuters
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Blocked X Users Can Now See Posts From People Blocking Them, Regardless
Owner Elon Musk has long expressed open hostility to the feature and wrote that it is “high time this happened,” but some users worry this could enable harassment
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Bill Gates’ Daughter Tells Him She’s Lost Friends Due to Covid Vaccine Microchip Conspiracy Theory Falsely Tied to Him
Her dad acknowledges hearing about the widespread baseless accusations, saying some of the stories “started getting crazy”
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YouTube CEO Teases Streaming Future After Winning the War for Living Room Viewership
Executives Neal Mohan, Mary Ellen Coe and Amjad Hanif discuss AI protections at Made on YouTube 2024
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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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Barry Diller: Netflix, Amazon, Apple Are ‘Really the Controllers’ of Hollywood
The difference in resources is “astronomical” between legacy studios and tech companies, the IAC chairman says
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Netflix’s Greg Peters Says ‘Super Hype Bump’ of AI Adoption Has Passed
“There’s a long road to go ahead of us before those things start to really take grip in a significant way,” the streamer’s co-chief executive says
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Lionsgate’s AI Partnership Is ‘Concerning’ for Artists, Says UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer
The United Talent Agency boss admits his clients are concerned about artificial intelligence ultimately replacing them
