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Media bosses expect web referrals to plunge and want journalists to emulate content creators, report finds Media companies expect web traffic to their sites from online searches to plummet over the next three years, as AI summaries and chatbots change the way consumers use the internet. An overwhelming majority are also planning to encourage their journalists to behave more like YouTube and TikTok content creators this year, as short-form video and audio content continues to boom. Continue reading...
"Hamnet" won the Golden Globe for best dramatic film, leaving its director, Chloe Zhao stunned. Steven Spielberg, the producer of the film, introduced director Zhao as the "only one filmmaker on the face of the planet" who could make the movie, which was based off a book.
Watch highlights from the 83rd Annual Golden Globes, where Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" stole the spotlight, taking home the award for best motion picture (musical or comedy), and Teyana Taylor won for best supporting actress, her first Globe. Netflix's "KPop Demon Hunters" received best animated film, and Amy Poehler made history by winning the very first Golden Globe for podcasting.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Reuters on Friday that the U.S. may lift some sanctions on Venezuela in order to facilitate oil sales. Bessent also said that nearly $5 billion in Venezuela's frozen International Monetary Fund (IMF) special drawing rights monetary assets could be used to rebuild its economy. The IMF has not engaged with...
Amy Poehler won the inaugural Golden Globes podcast award for her talk show “Good Hang,” which features her freestyle riffs with fellow comedians, friends and celebs. “I know that I am new to this game. I have great respect for this form,” Poehler said in receiving the trophy. “I have great respect for everyone I […]...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Sunday that the Department of Justice had subpoenaed the central bank on Friday with the threat of a criminal indictment, the latest move in a year-long pressure campaign from the Trump administration.
Joe Tidy meets robots being trained to tidy up all your mess.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Sunday that the U.S. moving to take Greenland by force would mark the end of NATO. "It would be the end of NATO," Murphy said on NBC's "Meet the Press," when asked by host Kristen Welker what such a move would result in. The Connecticut Democrat, who serves on the...
A Delta flight from Puerto Rico to Atlanta had to take an unscheduled detour last January for an unusual reason: to avoid debris from the explosion of a massive SpaceX rocket. As a ProPublica investigation reveals, the Delta pilots were not the only ones to get the warning from air...
Cuba has responded to President Trump's demand to cut a deal with the United States, saying, "No one dictates what we do." "#Cuba is a free, independent, and sovereign nation. No one dictates what we do. Cuba does not aggress; it is aggressed upon by the United States for 66 years, and it does not...
NPR - 17 hours 29 min agoAndrew Bracken, a journalist at KPBS, on how how his experiences as a parent with technology led to a new podcast.
For decades, scientists have observed the cosmos with radio antennas to visualize the dark, distant regions of the universe. This includes the gas and dust of the interstellar medium , planet-forming disks, and objects that cannot be observed in visible light. In this field, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile stands out as one of the world's most powerful radio telescopes. Using its 66 parabolic antennas, ALMA observes the millimeter and sub-millimeter radiation...
Vox - 1 day 3 hours agoMikey Shulman, the co-founder of Suno, an app to create AI music. | Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images According to the French music streaming service Deezer , there are about 50,000 fully AI-generated songs uploaded to its platform every day. Many of these songs won't reach a wide audience, but over the past year, a few have gained millions of listens . Which raises the question: If our future is going to be filled with this kind of AI music, what does that future sound like? Deni...
The Conservatives have said they would ban social media for children under the age of 16.
A commonly used gel has restored sight to people suffering from a rare and untreatable condition that causes blindness, scientists have said.
Matt Rogers has apologized for previous comments urging voters not to donate to Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett's U.S. Senate campaign, after the remarks sparked online backlash. “Hey everybody. I hear the response and I am taking every bit of it to heart, I promise,” the comedian and “Las Culturistas” podcast co-host wrote on his […]...
One of the toughest parts of the popular fertility treatment may soon be a thing of the past.
Earlier this week, Nvidia surprise- announced their new Vera Rubin architecture (no relation to the recently unveiled telescope ) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new platform, set to reach customers later this year, is advertised to offer a ten-fold reduction in inference costs and a four-fold reduction in how many GPUs it would take to train certain models, as compared to Nvidia's Blackwell architecture. The usual suspect for improved performance is the GPU. Indeed, the new...
NPR - 2 days 2 hours agoFollowing the U.S. operation in Venezuela, AI content has proliferated.
Vox - 2 days 2 hours agoThe weirdest thing happened to me recently. I contacted a customer service department and enjoyed it. I sent an email, heard back promptly, and got a refund. What was most notable about the positive problem-solving experience was the fact that I couldn't tell if there was a human other than me involved. It dawned on me, however briefly, that the prophecies were finally coming true. AI was finally making it easier for me to complain to companies and get results. At least that's what I wanted...
Half the country has enacted age-verification laws to prevent minors from viewing porn.
Vox - 2 days 3 hours agoFor the past few weeks, Elon Musk's Grok AI bot has been generating pornographic images of women and underage girls, without their consent, at an astounding rate. A recent Bloomberg analysis found that Grok creates 6,700 such images per hour, or more than one per minute. On Friday, X at last put some minor guardrails on the tool, with a new policy that only paying subscribers can use Grok to generate or alter images . On the standalone Grok app, however, anyone can prompt Grok to generate new...
The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is well known, often evoking futuristic movies like Robocop, Terminator and The Matrix. Yet what many don't realize is that AI has been part of our lives for decades. When you finish watching a movie on a streaming platform and instantly see recommendations for similar content, that's AI. When you're shopping online and an entire page of suggested products appears, that's AI. Even the digital ads you see are powered by machine-learning algorithms...
Including previous approvals, Starlink can now deploy 15,000 Gen2 satellites.
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