Charlie Berens leads Wisconsin backlash against AI data centers: ‘No one’s bargaining for the public’
Comedian and Wisconsin native Charlie Berens is emerging as an unlikely standard-bearer for opposition to the state’s AI data-center spree....
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Viral AI videos boost Spencer Pratt’s L.A. mayoral bid, signaling a new era in campaign tactics
AI-crafted videos casting reality-TV figure Spencer Pratt as a political savior have vaulted his outsider campaign for Los Angeles mayor...
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CinemaCon crowd applauds AI recreation of Val Kilmer in ‘As Deep as the Grave’ teaser
An independent film preview at CinemaCon in Las Vegas showcased an AI-generated likeness of the late Val Kilmer in a...
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How AI Is Making Gaming More Expensive
The price of gaming hardware is rising in a break with industry precedent, as Sony lifts PlayStation 5 prices and...
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AI ‘Rachel,’ inspired by Traitors winner Rachel Duffy, cold-calls Irish pubs to compare Guinness prices
An American engineer has built an AI voice agent modeled on the affable cadence of “Traitors UK” winner Rachel Duffy...
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OpenAI Shuts Down Sora, Its AI Video Generator
OpenAI is discontinuing Sora, its consumer AI video app and API, amid waning user interest and growing internal compute demands,...
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UK retreats on AI training and copyright policy after backlash from top artists
The U.K. government reversed its stance on allowing artificial-intelligence companies to train models on copyrighted works under an opt-out system,...
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AI to digitally revive Val Kilmer for new film As Deep As the Grave
Val Kilmer, who died last year at 65, will appear in a significant portion of As Deep As the Grave...
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NVIDIA Unveils DLSS 5, an AI-Driven Leap Toward Photoreal Graphics in Games
Nvidia introduced DLSS 5, a new AI-based rendering model it says brings game visuals closer to film-quality photorealism by infusing...
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Global scramble to create a universal “AI-free” mark for human-made content
Companies and nonprofits across the UK, US, and Australia are vying to establish a globally recognized “AI-free” or “human-made” label,...
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