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Kamala Harris Has an Unprecedented Hollywood Power Base – and It’s Already Gone to Work for Her
From Disney’s Dana Walden and CAA’s Bryan Lourd to Beyonce and Octavia Spencer, Harris is practically without peer in industry support
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Why ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Turned J.D. Vance Against Hollywood — and the Media
He told his partners, “I’m done with Hollywood,” as he turned to support Donald Trump and policies he once disdained
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The AI Revolution Is Meeting Reality | Commentary
A week with Amazon’s AI team revealed enduring optimism, but also a recognition that building effective generative applications takes work.
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Hollywood’s Family Business: Paramount Passes From the Redstones to Ellisons
Whether it was called Viacom or CBS or Paramount Global, Paramount has been an actual family business, and will remain so
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Jeffrey Katzenberg Under Fire From Hollywood Biden Donors: ‘Jeffrey Lied’
“Everyone is furious,” says a leading Hollywood Democratic insider. “People are pissed – they feel betrayed.”
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Hollywood’s Jewish Founders: How the Academy Museum Got It So Wrong, Twice
A controversy over the treatment of Jews in the museum exhibit touches the culture wars: “We will not and we do not tolerate antisemitism at the Academy,” AMPAS told TheWrap
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AI Employees Should Have a ‘Right To Warn’ About Looming Trouble | Commentary
Reasonable rules allowing employees at AI research houses to warn about impending problems are sensible given the technology’s increasing power.
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The New ‘Cheap Fakes’ and the Coming Presidential Debates | Commentary
Prolific deceptive media may be coming soon to a screen near you
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Apple’s AI Intelligence: Safe, Secure and Ethically Sourced – Or Is It? | Commentary
Its “next big thing,” which Apple debuted this week to much fanfare, asks us to consider what these marketing slogans really mean
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Google’s Note To Self: Section 230 Saved You Before With YouTube, But May Not For AI | Commentary
The search giant’s new “AI Overviews” feature may lead to massive legal liability
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Tim Cook’s AI Moment | Commentary
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference: The true test of a great tech leader is guiding a company through a computing shift.
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Media and Entertainment’s AI ‘Watch List’: 10 Tech Companies to Closely Track | Commentary
From Scarlett Johansson’s voice to Google’s AI Overviews to Apple’s “Crush” iPad ad, May showed it’s time to start monitoring ethically sourced AI.
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Motion Picture Academy Vows to ‘Thoughtfully’ Address Criticism of ‘Antisemitic Tropes’ in Exhibit on Jewish Founders | Exclusive
Outraged Jewish creatives say the exhibit that takes pains to point out Hollywood founders’ flaws with terms like “oppressive,” “tyrant” “predator,” “frugal”
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Why Hollywood Is Too Exhausted and Scared to Enjoy Donald Trump’s Conviction
The exhaustion is palpable along with the sense that if justice was served, Trump may still end up president, anyway
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How Shein and Temu Snuck Up on Amazon
The Chinese-owned platforms represent the biggest threat to its e-commerce empire in recent memory.
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