A still from animated film La Sélection Mécanique, directed by Jules Blachier. A still from animated film La Sélection Mécanique, directed by Jules Blachier. While emerging technology is banned from the Palme d'Or, an upstart movement is gaining investment and attention I n Cannes' darkened screening rooms, the supposed future of cinema flickered into life this week and it was strange. The first edition of the World AI film festival (WAIFF) showcased visions of men with fish scales erupting from their necks and seaweed from their mouths, a heroine with a heart beating outside her body and so many massed armies of AI-generated tanned men sweeping across battlefields that David Lean would have blushed. Last week the Cannes film festival, entering its 76th year, banned the emerging technology from its Palme d'Or competition, insisting "AI imitates very well but it will never feel deep emotions".

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are no longer friends. Tension between the two exploded into public view in the middle of last week, with each leveling sharp barbs at the other. Four days into the public feud between the world's most powerful person and the world's richest person, though, I declare Musk the loser. An unstoppable force has lost its battle with an immovable object. From my colleagues Hugo Lowell and Andrew Roth: On Thursday, Elon Musk called for Donald Trump's impeachment and mocked his connections to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the US president threatened to cancel federal contracts and tax subsidies for Musk's companies, in an extraordinary social media feud that erupted between the former allies.

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Glenn Close acknowledged the ever-changing landscape of the entertainment industry during a stop in Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. The Academy Award-nominated actress has been trying to keep her "equilibrium" lately, ahead of celebrating Sundance Institute icon Michelle Satter at a gala fundraiser. "I'm very lucky to have a job," Close told The Hollywood Reporter. "There were so many people impacted in LA already, and then now with the fires. I was astounded at how few jobs there are in our profession. I'm a big reader of history, and unfortunately, I think not enough people in this country understand the history and what we've just gotten ourselves into. "On top of that is [artificial intelligence].

Last year, Rachel Antell, an archival producer for documentary films, started noticing AI-generated images mixed in with authentic photos. There are always holes or limitations in an archive; in one case, film-makers got around a shortage of images for a barely photographed 19th-century woman by using AI to generate what looked like old photos. Which brought up the question: should they? And if they did, what sort of transparency is required? The capability and availability of generative AI – the type that can produce text, images and video – have changed so rapidly, and the conversations around it have been so fraught, that film-makers' ability to use it far outpaces any consensus on how.

'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.

I'm at the Venice film festival, in a hyper-real city square, surrounded by lapping blue water and tourists who move in mysterious ways. There is a ginger cat here called Dorian who walks on his hind legs and speaks with a French accent. Dorian is showing us how to walk and turn and jump and crouch. He's concerned by the tourist who can't get herself off the ground. Dorian explains that if we ever get lost we should press the "respawn" button which will put us right back where we began.

Many of us who have uploaded images of our faces and the faces of our friends and family to openly-licensed platforms on the Web may have inadvertently contributed to a massive and growing database for AI facial recognition. So how are our faces being used? So have we all thrown away our privacy and assumption of innocence for a selfie? The film is Web Monetized, with all streaming payments going to the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) On the GftW Community Forum, we have been streaming funds to S.T.O.P. since July. So far, we have generated almost $200 in micropayments to support their work.

All human beings--even famous movie directors like Federico Fellini--have a finite lifespan. But can their talent live on (and continue to create) with artificial intelligence? Campari Red Diaries: Fellini ForwardCampari Red Diaries: Fellini Forward, a short film and behind-the-scenes documentary, premieres at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 7, and will be featured at the New York Film Festival before an on-demand release in select markets. While there are three humans with directorial credits--Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper for the documentary, and Maximilian Niemann on the short film--the post-human creative force on this movie is AI, masterminded by innovation production studio UNIT9. We spoke with Marc D'Souza, Production Director at UNIT9, to find out more. The question behind Campari Red Diaries: Fellini Forward is whether AI can be trained to not just imitate Fellini's oeuvre, but extend it into new and original work.

Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring, a short science fiction film that's not entirely what it seems. You know it's the future because H (played with neurotic gravity by Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch) is wearing a shiny gold jacket, H2 (Elisabeth Gray) is playing with computers, and C (Humphrey Ker) announces that he has to "go to the skull" before sticking his face into a bunch of green lights. It sounds like your typical sci-fi B-movie, complete with an incoherent plot. Except Sunspring isn't the product of Hollywood hacks--it was written entirely by an AI. To be specific, it was authored by a recurrent neural network called long short-term memory, or LSTM for short.

One rainy day, Bill was riding his bicycle when the mail truck in front of him suddenly stopped. The crash left him paralyzed from the chest down. His autonomy, or what's left of it, comes from voice controls that let him lower and lift the blinds in his room or adjust the angle of his motorized bed. For everything else, he relies on round-the-clock care. There's still something film festivals provide that streaming services can't: interactive social experiences in VR and AR.