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AI & Tech

Seedance 2.0: AI Video’s Hope or Just More Slop?

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video generation model showcases a significant leap in visual quality, particularly in creating realistic celebrity deepfakes, but…

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AI & Tech

ByteDance Reverses AI Tool That Turned Celebrities Into Clip Art

ByteDance is urgently adding safeguards to its Seedance 2.0 AI tool after facing intense criticism and legal threats from Hollywood…

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AI & Tech

ByteDance to Revise AI Safeguards After Hollywood Alarm

ByteDance is enhancing safeguards for its AI video tool after it generated unauthorized, hyperrealistic content featuring celebrity likenesses and copyrighted…

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Artificial Intelligence

Hollywood Reacts to Seedance 2.0 Video Generator

ByteDance's new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, has sparked major controversy by enabling users to easily create videos featuring copyrighted…

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AI & Tech

AI Fatigue Is Driving Audiences Away From Hollywood

AI fatigue is causing audiences to reject Hollywood's recent wave of AI-themed films, which feel like a tired reaction to…

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AI & Tech

Amazon to Test AI Tools in Film and TV Production Next Month

Amazon is launching a closed beta in March for its AI production tools, designed to improve efficiency in areas like…

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AI & Tech

AI Dubbing: Optimizing Streaming Dialogue and Singing

Generative AI is transforming audio dubbing by moving it into a digital era, but achieving authentic emotional expression, especially in…

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Business

Rippling/Deel Spying Scandal Takes a Wild New Turn

The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly opened a criminal probe into allegations that HR tech firm Deel planted a…

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Entertainment

Hidden Gems: 5 New Steam Games You Missed This Week

This weekly roundup highlights five recent Steam releases, from a gritty Hollywood detective mystery to a charming frog-led platformer, to…

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Entertainment

Arc Raiders Devs Rethink Rewards After Player Resets

The first expedition in Arc Raiders saw only about a million players opt into its voluntary character reset for rewards,…

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Culture

Palmer Luckey: The Future of Tech Lies in the Past

Palmer Luckey and Alexis Ohanian argued at CES that older technology had superior aesthetics and design philosophy, which they believe…

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AI & Tech

Hollywood’s 2025 AI Gamble Backfired Spectacularly

The entertainment industry's 2025 push into generative AI for core creative production, like text-to-video, resulted in high-profile failures, delivering subpar…

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BigTech Companies

Netflix Scammed Out of $11 Million by Convicted Director

A New York jury convicted director Carl Erik Rinsch of fraud and money laundering for diverting $11 million in Netflix…

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BigTech Companies

Netflix’s Growth: A Blueprint for Hollywood’s Future

Netflix's reported $82 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery assets signals a fundamental reordering of Hollywood, positioning the streaming pioneer…

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Artificial Intelligence

Disney & OpenAI: A Game-Changer for AI Copyright

Disney and OpenAI have formed a strategic partnership, granting OpenAI a license to use Disney characters in its Sora video…

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Entertainment

NASA Reveals the Most Scientifically Accurate Sci-Fi Movies

NASA scientists have identified a selection of science fiction films, including classics like "Gattaca" and "Contact," that are notable for…

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Artificial Intelligence

AWS Wants You to Trust AI Agents

AWS announced a major push into AI agents at its re:Invent conference, introducing new tools to automate complex business tasks…

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Culture

Fortnite Chapter 7 Map: All New Season 1 Changes

The new Fortnite Chapter 7 map is set in a vibrant southwestern U.S.-themed environment, replacing previous Mediterranean and Japanese-inspired islands…

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Digital Marketing

Cameron Diaz’s Avaline: The Digital Playbook for Wine Clarity

Cameron Diaz and Katherine Power launched Avaline by asking a simple question: Why doesn't wine have an ingredient list? The…

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Entertainment

HDR10+ Advanced Aims to Eliminate the Soap Opera Effect

HDR10+ Advanced introduces intelligent frame rate conversion technology to eliminate the soap opera effect caused by motion smoothing on modern…

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