Samuel L. Jackson refuses to be replaced by AI in movies after he dies
The ghost of Samuel L. Jackson will not be haunting a theater near you. The 74-year-old actor recently shared in a wide ranging interview, that he does not approve of...
Facebook ending news sharing in Canada as new law forces payment to publishers
Meta Platforms said Thursday it would end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada after parliament approved legislation designed to compel internet giants to pay publishers for news....
Ex-Disney powerhouse Zenia Mucha hired by TikTok
Disney’s former longtime communications chief Zenia Mucha was hired by TikTok on Thursday as the Chinese-owned social media platform seeks to fend off political pressure to ban the app. TikTok...
Ina Garten’s Facebook hacked — to post Olive Garden recipe
Chef Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Facebook page was hacked last week, and it was kinda a big dill. Instead of the recipe for the 75-year-old culinarian’s signature “engagement chicken” or...
MIT-Pillar AI Collective announces first seed grant recipients
The MIT-Pillar AI Collective has announced its first six grant recipients. Students, alumni, and postdocs working on a broad range of topics in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science...
SoundStorm: Efficient parallel audio generation
Posted by Zalán Borsos, Research Software Engineer, and Marco Tagliasacchi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Research The recent progress in generative AI unlocked the possibility of creating new content in...
TikTok Chief Operating Officer V Pappas stepping down
TikTok Chief Operating Officer V. Pappas is stepping down after five years with the short-video company owned by China’s ByteDance, according to an email seen by Reuters on Thursday. In an email to staff, Pappas said they...
The Last AI Boom Didn’t Kill Jobs. Feel Better?
If ChatGPT and generative AI live up to even a tenth of the hype surrounding them, wide-scale job losses might seem inevitable. But new economic data shows that the last...
The people paid to train AI are outsourcing their work… to AI
A significant proportion of people paid to train AI models may be themselves outsourcing that work to AI, a new study has found. It takes an incredible amount of data...
