Artificial intelligence is being used to power the personalization of popular sports betting apps to tailor experiences to users' preferences. SUITS MOUNTING: Two Texas parents filed a lawsuit this week against the makers of Character.AI, claiming the artificial intelligence chatbot is a "clear and present danger to minors," with one plaintiff alleging it encouraged their teen to kill his parents. GENERATION AT RISK: Senate lawmakers unanimously passed the bipartisan-led Take It Down Act that would force social media companies to speedily remove sexually explicit deepfakes, prevent them from being posted and criminalize the act. 'WHAT WILL BE LEFT?': Lisa Kudrow fears an uncertain future as artificial intelligence becomes more and more prevalent in Hollywood. FUTURISTIC ROBOCOP: Footage from the streets of China captured a scene straight from a science fiction novel – spherical drones alongside patrolling law enforcement.

"The Agency" star Katherine Waterston admitted she finds AI generally "terrifying" for Hollywood and beyond. Lisa Kudrow fears an uncertain future as artificial intelligence becomes more and more prevalent in Hollywood. During a recent appearance on the "Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard" podcast, she discussed the recent film, "Here," directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. The movie used AI to allow the stars to play the same characters all the way from their teen years to old age. "They shot it, and they could actually shoot the scene and then look at the playback of them as younger, and it's ready for them to see," Kudrow said.

It's entirely possible Werner Herzog could find philosophical wonders and dilemmas making a documentary about your shoe collection, but until then we'll have to settle for this prolific filmmaker's abiding interest in the vastness of humankind's dreams, desires and actions. His latest nonfiction foray is about no less than what's changed life as we know it these last few decades: that coursing, unseen river called the Internet. And though the German auteur claims to be a technophobe, "Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World" is just the kind of percolating, wry probe we need into this fast-moving, digitally monopolizing age. Herzog ("Grizzly Man," "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"), a natural alarmist at the same time he thrives on humanity's boldness and invention, isn't the type of explorer who starts with a pre-arranged idea. What animates "Lo and Behold" is his questioning spirit regarding the Web's journey from host-to-host communications tool devised in a UCLA lab in 1969 to the scarily inter-reliant nervous system of today. But with Herzog's initially chronological approach, there's plenty of humor in the recollections of gray-haired pioneers like Leonard Kleinrock, who mentions how the first machine-to-machine message from the refrigerator-sized computer at UCLA resulted in -- what else? -- a crash.