Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. James Cameron's stance on artificial intelligence has evolved over the past few years, and he feels Hollywood needs to embrace it in a few different ways. Cameron joined the board of directors for Stability AI last year, explaining his decision on the "Boz to the Future" podcast last week. "The goal was to understand the space, to understand what's on the minds of the developers," he said. How much resources you have to throw at it to create a new model that does a purpose-built thing, and my goal was to try to integrate it into a VFX workflow." He continued by saying the shift to AI is a necessary one. James Cameron wants Hollywood to implement AI more for big-budget films. WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)? If we want to continue to see the kinds of movies that I've always loved and that I like to make and that I will go to see – 'Dune,' 'Dune: Part Two' or one of my films or big effects-heavy, CG-heavy films – we've got to figure out how to cut the cost of that in half. That's about doubling their speed to completion on a given shot, so your cadence is faster and your throughput cycle is faster, and artists get to move on and do other cool things and then other cool things, right? Cameron doesn't think films are ultimately "a big target" for companies like OpenAI. "Their goal is not to make GenAI movies.

Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, its hybrid reasoning model, is now available in preview for the standalone Gemini app. On Thursday, the company rolled out an "early version" of the model with updated reasoning capabilities. It can also better determine how much processing power or "thinking" to apply to each request. The Gemini 2.5 Flash model is also available on Google AI Studio and Vertex AI with controls for developers to manually turn off its reasoning compute and budget the amount of compute applied to tasks, therefore having more control over the amount of tokens they spend. Gemini 2.5 Flash is part of the Gemini 2.5 family of models launched earlier this month and also includes Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Just weeks after unveiling Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google is on to its next top-performing model. On Thursday, the company released an "early version" of Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview in the Gemini API, AI Studio, and Vertex AI. The model has a knowledge cutoff of January 2025. It can take text, images, video, and audio prompts, and has a one-million-token context window. Also: Gemini Pro 2.5 is a stunningly capable coding assistant - and a big threat to ChatGPT Google says the new version expands on Flash 2.0 with improved reasoning, but "without compromising its renowned speed or cost."

The latest in generative artificial intelligence includes AI agents that can access the web to find answers to questions. While promising, agentic technology is very much a work in progress. In a paper published last week, OpenAI researchers relate how the company's Deep Research technology, which was built to use the Web, does far better than OpenAI's other models when answering web questions. It also does far better than humans on tasks requiring hours of searching. Also: What are AI agents?

"We've been really pushing on'thinking,'" says Jack Rae, a principal research scientist at DeepMind. Such models, which are built to work through problems logically and spend more time arriving at an answer, rose to prominence earlier this year with the launch of the DeepSeek R1 model. They're attractive to AI companies because they can make an existing model better by training it to approach a problem pragmatically. That way, the companies can avoid having to build a new model from scratch. When the AI model dedicates more time (and energy) to a query, it costs more to run.

The TV adaptation of the video game Twisted Metal is coming back for a second season on July 31. Just like the first season, this won't be a weekly release. All of the episodes will be available on Peacock on that date. The first season was surprisingly decent, and occasionally hilarious. One thing we didn't see in that batch of episodes, however, was the titular tournament.

While new Apple iPhone "leaks" arrive on a near-weekly basis, evidence is growing that a folding iPhone is coming soon, now bolstered by new reports about its camera and use of Touch ID. Via 9To5Mac, Korean blog yeux1122, which covers chatter from Chinese social media site Weibo, reported that Apple's foldable iPhone will have a punch-hole camera design on its external display. The blog also shared that the internal display will be 7.76 inches with a 2713 x 1920p resolution, and the external display will be 5.49 inches with a 2088 x 1422p resolution. This is similar to the design of Samsung's flagship foldable, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, and the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold. The punch-hole camera on the external display strengthens last month's report from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who said the foldable iPhone will use a Touch ID side button like the iPad Air instead of Face ID, which is what every iPhone since the iPhone X has used.

One of the brain's most important properties is its flexibility. Our cerebral circuitry changes constantly--every day, new links are made amongst the 86 billion individual neurons in our heads, and old connections are allowed to fall away. The result is a dizzyingly complicated network that is in a constant state of flux, rewiring itself on the fly in response to its environment and the life experience of its owner. The brain's ability to do this is called neuroplasticity, and it's what gives us the capacity to learn, grow, develop new skills and ideas, and adapt to the environment in which we live. We understand some aspects of neuroplasticity fairly well but others, including the reason that certain connections get made instead of others, remain deeply mysterious.

I was never good at building with LEGO as a kid. My attention span was too short to follow the directions, and my imagination was too boring to make anything cool on my own. I've learned to enjoy them more as an adult, however, and that makes me excited about Amazon's current sale on popular LEGO sets. It's not an advertised sale, but the site has dropped the price on dozens of different kits, including some Star Wars options, which are rarely discounted. These are the original STEM toys, so grab them and have fun.

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