The latest photo dump from Democrats in the House Oversight Committee includes more famous men and upsetting quotes written on a woman's body. Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform published additional photos they received from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, the infamous financier and convicted sex offender. The release follows another one from last week, which committee Democrats said were pulled from a set of over 95,000 photos. The photos include more candid shots of powerful and famous men, including Google cofounder Sergey Brin, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, New York Times opinion columnist David Brooks, film director Woody Allen, professor and author Noam Chomsky, and Steve Bannon . The release did not include information about where or when the photos were taken.

Upon its release earlier this month, OpenAI's Sora 2 model took the Internet by storm, thanks to its ability to generate realistic videos from just a text prompt. But Sora is about more than just capturing eyeballs with viral content. "On the surface, Sora, for example, does not look like it is AGI-relevant," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast earlier this month. "But I would bet that if we can build really great world models, that will be much more important to AGI than people think." Altman was speaking to a growing belief inside the AI industry at large: that if you can simulate the world with enough accuracy, you could drop AI agents into those simulations. There, they could learn more skills than they currently can from just text, photos, and videos--because they could interact with a simulated world. That form of training could be highly efficient, in part because simulated time can be accelerated, and because many simulations can be run in parallel.

Welcome back to, TIME's new twice-weekly newsletter about AI. If you're reading this in your browser, why not subscribe to have the next one delivered straight to your inbox? A major AI-enabled disaster is becoming increasingly likely as AI capabilities advance. But a new report from a London-based think tank warns that the British government does not have the emergency powers necessary to respond to AI-enabled disasters like the disruption of critical infrastructure or a terrorist attack. The U.K. must give its officials new powers including being able to compel tech companies to share information and restrict public access to their AI models in an emergency, argues the report, which was shared exclusively with TIME ahead of its publication on Tuesday by the Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR).

This paper investigates the prospects of AI without repr e-sentation in general, and the proposals of Rodney Brooks in partic u-lar. What turns out to be characteristic of Brooks' proposal is the r ejection of central control in intell i gent agents; his systems has as much or as little representation as traditional AI. The traditional view that representation is nec essary for intelligence pr e supposes that intelligence requires central control. However, much of recent cognitive science suggests that we should dispose of the image of i n-telligent agents as central re p resentation processors. If this paradigm shift is ach ieved, Brooks' pr o posal for non - centralized cognition without representation appears promising for full - blown intelligent agents - though not for conscious agents and thus not for h u man - like AI. Key words: artificial intelligence, Brooks, central control, comput a-tionalism, fun c tion, embodiment, grounding, representation, repr e-sentationalism, subsumption a r chitecture 1.

When investors poured 6.6 billion into OpenAI last week, they seemed largely unbothered by the latest drama, which recently saw the company's chief technology officer, Mira Murati, along with chief research officer Bob McCrew and Barret Zoph, a vice president of research, abruptly quit. And yet those three departures were just the latest in an ongoing exodus of key technical talent. Over the past few years, OpenAI has lost several researchers who played crucial roles in developing the algorithms, techniques, and infrastructure that helped make it the world leader in AI as well as a household name. Several other ex-OpenAI employees who spoke to WIRED said that an ongoing shift to a more commercial focus continues to be a source of friction. "People who like to do research are being forced to do product," says one former employee who works at a rival AI company but has friends at OpenAI. This person says some of their contacts at the firm have reached out in recent weeks to inquire about jobs.

In early September, Warner Bros. released a teaser for A Minecraft Movie, the studio's new film based on Mojang's nearly 15-year-old sandbox game. Directed by Napoleon Dynamite helmer Jared Hess, it was, frankly, very goofy. Jack Black was Steve; Jason Momoa was sporting maybe the worst hairdo he's ever had. Everyone involved, even the animated creatures, seemed to think they were in a different movie. But that wasn't what the trolls latched onto.

'The Sinner' star Bill Pullman reflects on his friendship with late'Spaceballs' co-star John Candy. Mel Brooks had his work cut out for him when he decided to spoof "Star Wars." The legendary comic is making his seventh appearance at the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Film Festival to present his 1987 film "Spaceballs" on the festival's closing night at TCL Chinese Theatre. The 97-year-old will be joined by TCM host Ben Mankiewicz. Brooks told Fox News Digital that the making of the film quickly racked up the bill, all thanks to one star.

This is the future of AI video. When videos like these are made completely by artificial intelligence. None of these videos depict real people, places or events. At first glance, the images amaze and confound: A woman strides along a city street alive with pedestrians and neon lights. A car kicks up a cloud of dust on a mountain road.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Kelly McKernan's acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The style, in the artist's words, is "surreal, ethereal … dealing with discomfort in the human journey." The word "human" has a special resonance for McKernan these days.

The entertainment world has been forever changed by the multi-talented Mel Brooks. He has demonstrated repeatedly throughout the course of a career spanning several decades how brilliant he is at producing hilarious works of art. Do you know what Brooks has written? If so, you already know that he is a writer, director, and actor, making him a triple threat in the entertainment industry. He has contributed to some of the greatest comedies of all time by writing, directing, and acting in them.