The Artist Rights Alliance (ARA) has issued an open letter condemning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to infringe upon and devalue the rights of artists. The signatories, who span more than 200 artists, include Billie Eilish, R.E.M., Kacey Musgraves, Elvis Costello, Nicki Minaj, Jason Isbell, Mac DeMarco, Aimee Mann, Jadakiss, Sheryl Crow, Chappell Roan, Jon Bon Jovi, and more. The artist-run nonprofit organization asks that developers, technology companies, and platforms and digital music services “pledge that they will not develop or deploy AI music-generation technology, content, or tools that undermine or replace the human artistry of songwriters and artists…
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Billie Eilish, Robert Smith, Stevie Wonder and Nicki Minaj are just a handful of artists who have signed an open letter warning against the “predatory” use of artificial intelligence (AI) in music. READ MORE: Beyond human imagination: How AI is pushing the boundaries of entertainment Yesterday (April 2), non-profit organization Artist Rights Alliance issued an open letter titled ‘Stop devaluing music’ about the rise of AI in music, signed by over 200 prominent names in the music industry. Read the full letter here. Through the letter, the artist-run nonprofit organization asks that developers, technology companies, and platforms and digital music services…
U.S. President Joe Biden tours the Intel Ocotillo Campus, in Chandler, Arizona, U.S., March 20, 2024. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersIntel shares fell 4% at one point in extended trading on Tuesday after the company revealed long-awaited financials for its semiconductor manufacturing business, commonly called the foundry business, in a SEC filing.Intel said its foundry business recorded an operating loss of $7 billion in 2023 on sales of $18.9 billion. That’s a wider loss than the $5.2 billion Intel reported in its foundry business in 2022 on $27.5 billion in sales.This is the first time that Intel has disclosed revenue totals for…
X has named a new head of safety nearly a year after the last executive in the position resigned. The company said Tuesday that it had Kylie McRoberts to Head of Safety and hired Yale Cohen as Head of Brand Safety and Advertiser Solutions.The two will have the unenviable task of leading X’s safety efforts, including its attempts to reassure advertisers that the platform doesn’t monetize or . The company said earlier this year it planned 100 new safety employees after much of its safety staff.Head of safety has been a particularly fraught position since Elon Musk took over the…
Sony has announced that the slimmer variant of the PlayStation 5 console, which first launched in the US in November last year, will be available in India, starting April 5. Both the disc and digital editions of PS5 slim will go on sale in the country this week, with stock availability at participating retailers confirmed. PS5 slim, a lighter and thinner version of the original console, retains much of the PlayStation 5 design language, but comes with a detachable disc drive and slightly bigger storage.The PlayStation parent has also confirmed the pricing for PS5 slim in India, with the console…
Our coveted couple is at odds with each other yet again. And who is at the center of it all? None other than Jason Grant. It’s been a minute, and we had to have known that him coming between Nikki and Mike wouldn’t simply stop overnight. While the guys got sucked into locating Ms. Patty on Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 2 Episode 5, Nikki and Mike were at odds with each other because of a secret she and Jason are harboring. It’s just another day with the MPU, right? Ms. Patty was a fiery…
The media company that Donald Trump recently took public is suing its co-founders, accusing them of failing “spectacularly” to get the company off the ground and then trying to “thwart the deal.”The lawsuit filed in Sarasota County, Florida, civil court seeks to bar Trump Media & Technology Group co-founders Wesley Moss and Andrew Litinsky from appointing members to the company’s board — or from owning any of its shares.Moss and Litinsky claim that a 2021 agreement that Trump signed with a company they founded, United Atlantic Ventures, LLC, guarantees them an 8.6% share of Trump Media’s total stock, undiluted by…
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Meet the workhorse of men’s hairstyles. A foundation on which flashier styles are built, taper haircuts can be classic and cutting edge at the same time. They’re versatile. They last longer than most heavily clippered styles. And if our word isn’t good enough (come now…), take it from Messrs Beckham, Gosling or Timberlake. They all love a taper haircut. “It’s a feature of every good haircut,” agrees Dan Glass, senior barber at Murdock London. Just don’t mistake it for a fade. “A fade is a haircut where the back and sides are faded from the temple downwards, to a length anywhere…
Grab your lamé gown and Gucci Jackie, we’re going to the Palm Royale! What’s the Palm Royale, you ask? Oh, just the glitziest, most exclusive club in Palm Beach, Miami, and, unlike Maxine Dellacorte Simmons, you don’t need to clamor over the back wall to get in…Set against the heady backdrop of 1969, Palm Royale is Apple TV+’s newest comedy mini-series and believe me; it is a feast in every way. Star-stuffed is an understatement: Kristen Wiig takes on the central role of the plucky Simmons, a former pageant girl who, having grown tired of her native, lacklustre Tennessee and…
Tyler Cameron doesn’t have any bad blood about how things ended for him on The Bachelorette. With charm, determination, and a carefree attitude, he’s embracing a new chapter of his life in Going Home with Tyler Cameron, premiering April 18 on Prime Video. “I may have been dumped on The Bachelorette, but after that door closed, a whole new world opened up to me,” Tyler says in the trailer. The door’s not completely closed, though. His former flame, The Bachelorette Season 15 star Hannah Brown, makes a special appearance in the new series. “Hi, Tyler,” Hannah says in that familiar…
Colin Farrell in ‘Sugar,’ premiering April 5, 2024 on Apple TV+.Arriving on Apple TV+ with its first two episodes on Friday April 5th, ‘Sugar’ throws Colin Farrell into the search for a missing young woman, who hails from a wealthy, influential Hollywood dynasty.The new series, which comes from Mark Protosevich, the writer of movies including ‘The Cell’ and ‘I Am Legend’, looks to juggle two mysteries at once, the driving storyline and the allied background for our main man, snappily dressed investigator John Sugar.Related Article: Colin Farrell is a Private Investigator in the First Trailer for ‘Sugar’Does ‘Sugar’ Bring the Sweetness?Colin…
Hunter Schafer said this week she’d like to shift the public’s focus away from her trans identity. “I just want to be a girl and finally move on,” the Euphoria star said in a new GQ cover story, adding that she’s even hesitant to say the word “trans” in interviews. “As soon as I say it, it gets blastoff,” she said. “It took a while to learn that, and it also took a while to learn that I don’t want to be [reduced to] that, and I find it ultimately demeaning to me and what I want to do. Especially…
Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said Tuesday she still expects interest rate cuts this year, but ruled out the next policy meeting in May. Mester also indicated that the long-run path is higher than policymakers had previously thought. Her fellow policymaker, San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly, also said Tuesday she expects cuts this year but not until there’s more convincing evidence that inflation has been subdued.The central bank official noted progress made on inflation while the economy has continued to grow. Should that continue, rate cuts are likely, though she didn’t offer any guidance on timing or extent.”I…
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department on April 2 unveiled its first-ever strategy to integrate commercial space technologies into its national security architecture. The move signals the Pentagon’s intent to take advantage of private space sector investments rather than rely solely on custom-built government systems. The Pentagon’s strategy, however, also recognizes there are structural, procedural and cultural impediments the DoD must clear to shift from its traditional model of developing proprietary space systems meant only for military use. DoD historically has favored bespoke, custom-designed government systems over commercial off-the-shelf technologies, creating barriers to the adoption of commercial space products and services,…
One rocky planet might be so hot it glowsESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser A distant world is being stretched by the powerful gravity of its neighbouring planets and star to extremes never seen before in a rocky planet. The stretching is so intense that this strange world’s surface is probably entirely molten and so hot that it glows. Stephen Kane at the University of California, Riverside, and his colleagues spotted this unusual planet in a system already known to have one larger world, a giant planet circling the star once every 55 days… Read the original article here
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Tesla on Tuesday published its first-quarter vehicle production and deliveries report for 2024 that showed deliveries fell 8.5% from the year-ago quarter and about 20% from the fourth quarter. This was the first year-over-year decline for Tesla since the second quarter of 2020 when the global pandemic had disrupted production and sales.Here are the key numbers:Total deliveries Q1 2024: 386,810Total production Q1 2024: 433,371Vehicle production declined around 1.7% year over year and 12.5% sequentially for Tesla, not nearly as steeply as the drop in deliveries.The company’s shares fell around 7% in premarket hours in response to the report, and were down 5%…