Actor Val Kilmer lost his voice to throat cancer, yet in the new "Top Gun" movie, he does speak a line, thanks to an artificial intelligence program that recreated his voice. That is a good use of audio "deepfakes," computer-generated voices that sound human. Here's a bad use of the evolving tech: Bank robbers faked the voice of a company's director in order to steal $35 million in a 2020 fraud case in the United Arab Emirates. An employee believed they were speaking with the executive on the phone, directing them to transfer funds. But the employee was speaking with a deepfake imitating the director.

NEW YORK – The taskmaster toddler of "The Boss Baby" dethroned Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" at the box office with a $49 million debut, handing its star Alec Baldwin what President Donald Trump might call a "huge" no. 1 opening. Paramount Pictures suffered another flop with its controversy-plagued "Ghost in the Shell." The DreamWorks Animation release from 20th Century Fox, starring Baldwin as a suit-clad baby, narrowly edged out the previous two-week leader, according to studio estimates Sunday. The live-action "Beauty and the Beast" took in $48 million in its third weekend. Final North American ticket sales will be released Monday. "We expected a decent opening.

In a squeaker, Fox and DreamWorks Animation's CG-animated family comedy "The Boss Baby" claimed the top spot at the box office, pulling in a bigger-than-expected weekend estimate of $49 million in the U.S. and Canada. Continuing to hold strong in its third weekend in release, "Beauty and the Beast" followed closely behind with $47.5 million, bringing the musical fairy tale's domestic total to within spitting distance of $400 million and its global haul to more than $875 million. Heading into the weekend, box office prognosticators were projecting an opening for "The Boss Baby" in the neighborhood of $33 million. But, with many kids across the country now on spring break and "Beauty and the Beast" no longer sucking up all the oxygen, "The Boss Baby" managed to handily outperform those expectations. Reviews for "The Boss Baby" -- which cast Alec Baldwin as the voice of a ruthless capitalist infant who declares with Trump-ian bluster that "cookies are for closers" -- were mixed at best, but audiences proved more favorable, giving the CG-animated film a CinemaScore of A-minus.