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During Paramount Skydance's latest earnings call, CEO David Ellison said "it's hard to imagine" AI won't have a bigger impact on the film industry than CGI. In response to a question about the company's outlook for AI, Ellison said: "I think when you zoom out and look at production, AI really has the potential to …
It's difficult to overstate Nvidia's power in today's AI landscape. The company's chips are the bedrock upon which advanced AI technology in the US is being built, and demand has consistently outpaced supply for years. Nvidia has also been an influential investor in a wide range of up-and-coming AI companies in recent years, with about …
President Trump held a White House press briefing earlier today and responded to several questions about his knowledge of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Huang said this weekend that he had been "unfaithful" to his wife, and the company has opened an investigation into Huang. Recent articles from The New …
The leather-jacketed CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has acknowledged an affair with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, spurring an investigation by his company and intense discussions worldwide. Recent reporting noted that since last year, US intelligence reports had identified Alice Huang (no relation) as not only the exec for an AI compute company renting access to …
After publishing a support article in early September outlining usage limits for some Apple Intelligence features, the company has updated Logic Pro with an option to "Buy More Usage" for a one-time purchase price of $49.99, as spotted by 9to5Mac. It has a built-in AI assistant to do things like "start a new song, set …
Anthropic is announcing two new models today: Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, which it says are designed to take on "daunting" technical challenges. The company claims the new models show improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision, and can generate outputs faster than the 5.1 versions of the Fable and Mythos models. Claude Fable …
After expanding its Edits app to macOS last week, Instagram's next move is launching this Effect Builder that generates custom filters for your Stories posts with AI. Available now for US residents who are over 18, it has a prompt box for describing your filter idea to the chatbot, with an option to attach style …
I would prefer that these people's sex lives were none of my business but I guess we have to talk about Jensen Huang and the National Security Incident. Who could have guessed that the guy who was out here signing titties might not have great judgment about how to behave around women? Alice Huang - …
Asked about AI executives' warnings about their models' safety on 60 Minutes, Trump said, "I think that the risk is not nearly as real as it- as they talk, and I think the risk can be managed, and it's managed." He claimed the DOJ is managing that risk, saying, "We had a situation where somebody …
The Walt Disney Company has teamed up with Adobe to develop proprietary "artist-led" generative AI models to support Disney's production pipeline. The multiyear partnership was announced today at Adobe's MAX conference, and it will see Adobe providing Disney with early access to its latest technologies for everything from Disney's theme parks and cruise line to …
Today, I’m talking with Mitch Glazier, who is CEO and chairman of the RIAA. This conversation was a real full-circle moment for me: I was in college when Napster hit, and the RIAA became everyone’s villain for suing kids for downloading music. That was when I decided to go be a copyright lawyer, which set …
When Jonathan Kanter stepped down as head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division in 2024, he set out to keep fighting to dismantle illegal monopolies. But this time, he's continuing the fight in the private sector, and with a perhaps unexpected tool: AI. Alongside former acting Antitrust Division chief Doha Mekki, Kanter recently launched a …
On Sunday, Nvidia announced it was launching an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang, an AI executive and agent of the Chinese government. In addition to the Board of Directors announcing the investigation, Huang sent a memo to Nvidia employees acknowledging the affair. You can read the full text below. To my …
Nvidia has announced that it is opening an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang and his relationship with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, who was reportedly recruited by China's Ministry of State Security to spy on the company. A statement posted by the board of directors reads: The NVIDIA Board is initiating an independent investigation in light …
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI's Dots or Meta's Muse. While Federighi has delivered a functional version of Siri AI on an incredibly short timeline, the company has no illusions that it's …
Suno is facing yet another pair of lawsuits. A group of rights holders of Elvis Presley's music and the publisher of some of Eminem's biggest records are suing the AI music company, claiming it illegally generates music and lyrics that mimic those artists. The lawyers in the Presley suit claim that Suno has violated Tennessee's …
Around 7PM each weeknight, I find myself standing in front of the fridge, trying to decide on something for dinner that won't make my husband complain, "Chicken again?" Yes, I should meal plan more, but I don't, so this is where I'm at. A nightly battle in which the chicken usually wins. Recently, my best …
Concerns are being raised that neither the Commerce Department nor Nvidia are doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting Chinese firms cleared to handle the company's H200 AI chips. According to The New York Times, New Matrix is on the list of approved firms, yet its offices are empty, "a hollow gray shell …
Today, I’m talking with Alex Stamos, chief security officer at Cognition and longtime cybersecurity expert, about what a mess cybersecurity is right now. This episode is part one of a special series looking at AI in real life. I’ve always enjoyed talking to Alex because he’s so direct, and you’re going to hear him say …
Anthropic is using AI to build more powerful AI. And it appears to be working remarkably well, with the company's models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year ago, with little indication of slowing down. That's according to a new report published Thursday by the AI safety research organization METR, following an 11-week investigation …
