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High Anxiety: Hollywood Pushes Back as AI Leaders Lobby Trump
OpenAI and Google pleading for “fair use” copyright relief is another inflection point of angst for journalists and creators
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Dana Carvey Debuts Elon Musk Impression to Go With Pitch-Perfect Trump, Bill Maher Can’t Take It | Video
“I’m working on it,” Carvey said after he tried out his Musk impersonation on “Real Time With Bill Maher”
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Perplexity AI Makes TikTok Bid, Vows to Make It ‘Most Neutral and Trusted Platform’
The San Francisco company says it would prevent TikTok from being run by “foreign governments and globalist monopolists”
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Yahoo Sells TechCrunch to Regent
The LA-based investment firm grabs the popular tech site only a day after it acquired several outlets from IDG
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Elon Musk Tells Tesla Vandals to ‘Stop Being Psycho’: ‘You Don’t Have to Burn It Down’
The Tesla boss says it feels like “armageddon” seeing Tesla cars set on fire while watching the news
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Video Game Workers Launch Union in Partnership With Communications Workers of America
United Videogame Workers-CWA Local 9433 comes after the gaming industry lost over 10,500 jobs in 2023 and an additional 14,600 in 2024
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OpenAI Wants ‘License to Steal’ Copyrighted Material in Plea to Trump, Newspaper Group Argues
The Boston Herald and Chicago Tribune call for the Trump Administration to thwart OpenAI and Google’s plans to make it easier to use copyrighted material to train AI models
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Google Strikes $32 Billion Deal for Wiz in Company’s Largest Acquisition Ever
Alphabet’s acquisition of the cloud security startup tops Google’s previous $12.5 billion record purchase
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Inside the AI Ground War Against Celebrity Deepfakes
“Digital bodyguard” firm Loti offers a glimpse into the daily battle to fight AI-generated content that misappropriates famous identities
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The End of Technicolor and Jellyfish Is Implosion of Long-Suffering Visual Effects Industry | Analysis
The beleaguered VFX industry faces a final reckoning
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OpenAI Argues US Will Forfeit AI Lead to China if It Can’t Learn From Copyrighted Material
The ChatGPT maker shares its strategy with the White House on how American AI can stay ahead of its chief rival
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Facebook, Instagram Roll Out X-Like Community Notes Feature
Meta says it expects its replacement for third-party fact checkers to be “less biased”
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Meta Moves to Block Whistleblower From Promoting Memoir Alleging Sexual Harassment
Sarah Wynn-Williams alleges in her book “Careless People” that she was fired after reporting inappropriate behavior by her boss
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Discovery+ Updates Personalized Content Recommendations, Sign-In and Social Sharing Options
The product improvements and new features come as the streamer migrates to the same in-house tech infrastructure that powers Max
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‘Pokémon Go’ Maker Niantic Acquired for $3.5 Billion by Saudi-Owned Scopely
The popular “Pokémon” mobile game still pulls in 20 million weekly active players years after it first launched in 2016
