Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Federal court rules that OpenAI must stop using the term'Cameo' The company's video generator Sora offered a feature bearing the name. Cameo, the platform where celebrities sell short, personalized videos, has scored a in a trademark against OpenAI. A California judge has ruled that the AI company's video generation tool cannot use the term'cameo' or any variation likely to cause confusion. A temporary restraining order in the case was in November of last year. The suit was in response to a feature available within the at launch called'Cameo' that allowed users to add any likeness to videos they generated.

From "cameo" to "io," OpenAI keeps trying to call its new and upcoming releases by names that resemble existing trademarks. In September, OpenAI launched a way for users to generate a digital likeness of themselves they could use to create personalized deepfake videos . This is one of the core features in Sora, OpenAI's app for sharing AI videos inside a TikTok-style feed. The self-deepfaking feature was called "cameo," and with that standout feature, Sora quickly rose to the top of Apple's iOS download charts. This feature name led to a trademark lawsuit with Cameo, the app where fans can pay celebrities to record personalized videos.

In this still from the Sora 2 promotional video, an ai-generated cameo of Sam Altman shows us through worlds of generated content. Last week OpenAI released Sora, a TikTok-style app that presents an endless feed of exclusively AI-generated videos, each up to 10 seconds long. The app allows you to create a "cameo" of yourself--a hyperrealistic avatar that mimics your appearance and voice--and insert other peoples' cameos into your own videos (depending on what permissions they set). To some people who believed earnestly in OpenAI's promise to build AI that benefits all of humanity, the app is a punchline. A former OpenAI researcher who left to build an AI-for-science startup referred to Sora as an "infinite AI tiktok slop machine." That hasn't stopped it from soaring to the top spot on Apple's US App Store.

Amazon delivery can be tough, unglamorous work. Workers must often reckon with complicated geography, demanding bosses, ever more biblical weather, and schedules that force time-conscious drivers to urinate in bottles. Surprising, then, that this is effectively the role in which one of the year's most anticipated video games casts the player. In Death Stranding 2, you arrange packages into swaying towers on your back, nudge the controller's left- and right-shoulder buttons to keep your weight balanced as you trip down rocky hills, and incur financial penalties for scuffing the merchandise if you take a tumble. The premise is a long trek from the super-soldier games, such as Call of Duty and Helldivers, that dominate the sales charts--even if you must occasionally battle the odd spectral marauder from a parallel dimension to clear the way to the next address on your delivery sheet.

Cameo has added a pair of timeless superstars to its stable of celebrities (a term used loosely in some cases) available for personalized video greetings. Cookie Monster and Elmo, who may or may not have fallen on hard times, will shamelessly plug their services on the six-year-old platform, offering to count to your kid's age or rattle off words that start with the same letter as your child's name -- for $25 a pop. Perhaps that relatively low price for the Sesame Street icons is because humans don't appear to record their voices: Cameo describes the characters as "powered by artificial intelligence." Cookie Monster and Elmo join a Cameo crew that also includes Kenny G ($350 per message), Danica McKellar ($150) and Billy Dee Williams ($300), among many others. Other animated characters on the platform include Thomas the Tank Engine, Grumpy Bear (from Care Bears) and JJ from CoComelon.

Reinforcement Learning has drawn huge interest as a tool for solving optimal control problems. Solving a given problem (task or environment) involves converging towards an optimal policy. However, there might exist multiple optimal policies that can dramatically differ in their behaviour; for example, some may be faster than the others but at the expense of greater risk. We consider and study a distribution of optimal policies. We design a curiosity-augmented Metropolis algorithm (CAMEO), such that we can sample optimal policies, and such that these policies effectively adopt diverse behaviours, since this implies greater coverage of the different possible optimal policies. In experimental simulations we show that CAMEO indeed obtains policies that all solve classic control problems, and even in the challenging case of environments that provide sparse rewards. We further show that the different policies we sample present different risk profiles, corresponding to interesting practical applications in interpretability, and represents a first step towards learning the distribution of optimal policies itself.

After a long hiatus, "Saturday Night Live" returned with guest host Aubrey Plaza and musical guest Sam Smith. In the 10th episode of Season 48, the NBC sketch comedy show wasted no time in mocking congressman George Santos, the embattled New York Republican who for weeks has generated headlines over false statements about his background. The episode also featured cameos from President Joe Biden and former cast member Amy Poehler. Other cameos included actress Allison Williams, along with Jonathan and Drew Scott, otherwise known as the "Property Brothers," as well as skateboard legend Tony Hawk. German singer Kim Petras joined Smith in the first musical segment and actress Sharon Stone appeared in Smith's second performance.

At Cameo, we make impossible connections possible. Our platform allows fans to get personalized messages from their favorite comedians, actors, athletes, and more.... not gonna lie, it's pretty magical. And now we're looking for passionate, hardworking humans to help take Cameo to the next level. Our #Fameo means everything to us. Join a stellar team of smart, curious, and driven individuals, and experience a rocketship from its earliest days.

Cameo has laid off 87 employees after becoming a Unicorn -- Cameo, a platform that allows fans to buy personalized videos from celebrities, has laid off 87 members of its staff, according to a tweet from CEO Steven Galanis. The layoffs, as first reported by The Information, impacted a quarter of the overall workforce and was a result of the company needing to balance costs with cash reserves. "Today has been a brutal day at the office. I made the painful decision to let go of 87 beloved members of the Cameo Fameo," Galanis wrote on Twitter. "If you're looking to hire hungry, humble, smart, kind, curious, learning machines who love to win – and you see Cameo on their resume – look no further."

AlphaFold 2, the AI-based program developed by Google's Deepmind to crack the problem of predicting protein structures, made a strike in late 2020 when it "won" the 14th edition of a biannual "contest" on protein structure prediction called CASP (Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction) presented its results. It then made a second strike half a year later when Deepmind published a peer-reviewed article in the journal Nature describing how AlphaFold 2 works, and released its code openly in GitHub and as a Google Colab notebook that everybody could use. The hype kept growing as scientists developed even better notebooks from it, and as they found the many applications that AlphaFold had, even beyond its original aim. This hype grew even further when Deepmind released a new version of AlphaFold better suited to modeling the complexes made by multiple proteins when they interact. Then again when Deepmind joined forces with the European Institute of Bioinformatics to release a database of 3D models for all known proteins.