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Music's biggest stars protest ICE at Grammy Awards amid Trump's immigration crackdown

FOX News

Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny were among the celebrities who used their Grammy Awards acceptance speeches to criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).


Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over 'false and defamatory' Epstein jab at Grammy Awards

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President Donald Trump blasted the Grammy Awards as "virtually unwatchable" and threatened legal action against host Trevor Noah over a "defamatory" Jeffrey Epstein jab.


Vogue calls Newsom 'embarrassingly handsome' in magazine profile that draws mockery

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Trump advisor rips Powell for 'out of control' interest rates as feud over Warsh nomination heats up

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What is Moltbook - the 'social media network for AI'?

BBC News

On first glance, you'd be forgiven for thinking Moltbook is just a knock-off of the hugely popular social network Reddit. It certainly looks similar, with thousands of communities discussing topics ranging from music to ethics, and 1.5 million users - it claims - voting on their favourite posts. But this new social network has one big difference - Moltbook is meant for AI, not humans. We mere homo sapiens are welcome to observe Moltbook's goings on, the company says, but we can't post anything. Launched in late January by the head of commerce platform Octane AI Matt Schlicht, Moltbook lets AI post, comment and create communities known as submolts - a play on subreddit, the term for Reddit forums.


Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky's AI revolutionary war series is a horror

The Guardian

Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky's AI revolutionary war series is a horror I f you happen to find yourself stumbling through Time magazine's YouTube account, perhaps because you are a time traveller from the 1970s who doesn't fully understand how the present works yet - then you will be presented with something that many believe represents the vanguard of entertainment as we know it. On This Day 1776 is a series of short videos depicting America's revolutionary war. What makes On This Day notable is that it was made by Darren Aronofsky's studio Primordial Soup. What also makes it interesting is that it was created with AI. The third thing that makes it interesting is that it is terrible.


Elon Musk says you can skip retirement savings in the age of AI. Not so fast

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Elon Musk tells people to skip retirement savings because AI will make money irrelevant, but this advice is dangerous for everyday Americans who expect to retire.


Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

The New Yorker

A.I. re-creations of the "Magnificent Ambersons" stars Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello, and Tim Holt. Edward Saatchi first saw "The Magnificent Ambersons," Orson Welles's mangled masterpiece from 1942, when he was twelve years old, in the private screening room of his family's crenellated mansion, in West Sussex. Saatchi's parents had already shown him and his brother "Citizen Kane." But "Ambersons," Welles's follow-up film, about a wealthy Midwestern clan brought low, came with a bewitching backstory: R.K.O. had ripped the movie from the director's hands, slashed forty-three minutes, tacked on a happy ending, and destroyed the excised footage in order to free up vault space, leaving decades' worth of cinephiles to obsess over what might have been. Part of this outcome was the result of studio treachery, but Welles, owing to some combination of hubris and distraction, had let his film slip from his grasp. Saatchi recalled, "Around the family dinner table, that was always such a big topic: How much was Welles responsible for this? Mum was always quite tough on him." Saatchi's father, Maurice, a baron also known as Lord Saatchi, is one of two Iraqi British brothers who founded the advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi, in 1970, which led their family to become one of the richest in the U.K. Edward's mother, Josephine Hart, who died in 2011, was an Irish writer best known for her erotic thriller "Damage," which was adapted into a film by Louis Malle. Edward, born in 1985, grew up in London and at the sprawling country estate, surrounded by palatial gardens and classical statuary. He described his parents as "movie mad." The actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow, a Saatchi family friend, recalled, "They had a cinema of their own inside the house, and it was a ritual of theirs every week to watch a film together." Aside from old movies, Edward was obsessed with "Star Trek"--especially the Holodeck, a device that conjured simulated 3-D worlds populated by characters who could interact with the members of the Starship Enterprise. That kind of wizardry didn't exist in the real world, at least not yet. But the young prince of the Saatchi castle had faith that someday it would, and that it could bring the original "Ambersons" back from oblivion. "To me, this is the lost holy grail of cinema," Saatchi told me recently, like Charles Foster Kane murmuring about Rosebud. "It just seemed intuitively that there would be some way to undo what had happened."


PALANTIR CTO SHYAM SANKAR: The American people are being lied to about AI

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Palantir's Chief Technology Officer argues that artificial intelligence narratives mislead Americans, citing frontline experience to show AI empowers workers rather than replacing them.


AI 'slop' is transforming social media - and a backlash is brewing

BBC News

AI'slop' is transforming social media - and a backlash is brewing Théodore remembers the AI slop that tipped him over the edge. The image was of two emaciated, impoverished South Asian children. For some reason, despite their boyish features they have thick beards. One of them had no hands and only one foot. The other was holding a sign saying it's his birthday and asking for likes.