He catches nascent changes in the political weather. "During early, he kept telling me, 'Crime--there's something here,' " DeBoo told me. DeBoo studied the latest crime statistics and saw nothing unusual. He brushed off the worry. Then new numbers came out, showing a large pandemic spike in shoplifting and car theft, and concerns about crime exploded into the headlines. Last March, judging the winds, Newsom launched a podcast, "This Is Gavin Newsom."

But can the struggling industry make a comeback? EXCLUSIVE: The House Energy and Commerce Committee is set to revive the National Coal Council and "reinvigorate America's beautiful clean coal industry," as President Donald Trump put it. Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital the National Coal Council legislation will successfully pass out of his committee Wednesday and have a good chance of passing the full House. Michael Rulli, R-Ohio, and Riley Moore, R-W.V., are leading the legislation to reestablish the council, effectively canceled by former President Joe Biden, and support the clean coal industry for a multitude of reasons, including energy security at a time of Middle East uncertainty. Rulli told Fox News Digital the Biden administration's endeavors against the council and the coal industry writ-large were a "deliberate" effort to "wipe out coal, kill jobs, and make America dependent on foreign energy."

In the summer of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and the chief scientist of OpenAI, was meeting with a group of new researchers at the company. By all traditional metrics, Sutskever should have felt invincible: He was the brain behind the large language models that helped build ChatGPT, then the fastest-growing app in history; his company's valuation had skyrocketed; and OpenAI was the unrivaled leader of the industry believed to power the future of Silicon Valley. But the chief scientist seemed to be at war with himself. Sutskever had long believed that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, was inevitable--now, as things accelerated in the generative-AI industry, he believed AGI's arrival was imminent, according to Geoff Hinton, an AI pioneer who was his Ph.D. adviser and mentor, and another person familiar with Sutskever's thinking. To people around him, Sutskever seemed consumed by thoughts of this impending civilizational transformation. What would the world look like when a supreme AGI emerged and surpassed humanity? And what responsibility did OpenAI have to ensure an end state of extraordinary prosperity, not extraordinary suffering?

CEO says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said language and cultural inclusivity is "very important" to his company's mission as it builds and trains powerful artificial intelligence systems. An Iranian-born mother says she is "endlessly grateful" after celebrating her victory in being crowned "Miss Germany 2024" after the pageant loosened rules on age. Apameh Schönauer, a 39-year-old mother, won the pageant last week. During the contest, she said on stage that she wanted to advocate for women who are dealing with the difficulties of being a migrant in Germany. The win is a symbol of the pageant's moves toward inclusivity in beauty.

Earlier this year, the stock-photo service provider Getty Images sued Stability AI over what Getty said was the misuse of more than 12 million Getty photos in training Stability's AI photo-generation tool, Stable Diffusion. Now Getty Images is releasing its own AI photo-generation tool, which will be available to its commercial customers. And it's bringing in the big dog to do it: Nvidia. Called simply Generative AI by Getty Images, the tool is paywalled on the Getty.com It will also be available through an API, so Getty customers can plug it into other apps.

Getty is officially getting into the AI image business, after banning AI art a year ago. The company's generative AI tool is particularly unique because it's trained on Getty's own database of images, and the resulting content also comes with a royalty-free license. While Getty has seemingly been on an anti-AI bent -- it's also suing Stable Diffusion maker Stability AI over scraping its data -- it's no surprise the company has figured out a way to get into the market. Competing photography services have already announced their own AI solutions: Shutterstock is tapping into Open AI's DALL-E model, while Adobe's Stock is relying on its own Firefly tool as well as accepting some AI generated art. Getty's Generative AI tool is powered by NVIDIA's Edify AI model from its Picasso cloud service.

Can you get excited about artificial intelligence (AI)? When I asked ChatGPT who my favourite artist was, it said I'd never publicly expressed a preference, because as an art historian I don't do "subjective opinions". Evidently, ChatGPT doesn't subscribe to The Art Newspaper. Even if it gave the correct answer--Van Dyck--I'd still not be excited. In a famous episode of the 1960s TV series The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan's character is presented with an all-knowing computer which, he is told, will make man redundant.

When Prometheus stole fire from the gods to gift it to mortals, he enabled humans to begin civilization. But he still had to pay dearly for his crime, being bound to a rock as an eagle pecked out his liver. The lesson of the Greek myth is that while new technology can bring revolutionary benefits, there is always a price to pay in exchange. Creators of new technology may be the focus of the ire, but its users can still get burned. It's a myth that technology leaders should keep in mind as they consider the booming generative AI products market.

Set up in 2018, Runway has been developing AI-powered video-editing software for several years. Its tools are used by TikTokers and YouTubers as well as mainstream movie and TV studios. The makers of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert used Runway software to edit the show's graphics; the visual effects team behind the hit movie Everything Everywhere All at Once used the company's tech to help create certain scenes. In 2021, Runway collaborated with researchers at the University of Munich to build the first version of Stable Diffusion. Stability AI, a UK-based startup, then stepped in to pay the computing costs required to train the model on much more data.

In essence, Getty is claiming that Stability AI is benefiting from training its model on images published by Getty to the internet, without compensation. Getty images are published to the internet with a visible watermark; licensed images have the watermark removed. Getty said that Stability AI did not seek a license to use Getty's images. "We think similarly these generative models need to address the intellectual property rights of others, that's the crux of it," Craig Peters, the chief executive of Getty Images, told The Verge. "And we're taking this action to get clarity."