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US actors’ union joins stars in opposition to Norwood, which it says was created ‘using stolen performances’ The controversy around the “AI actor” Tilly Norwood continues to grow, after the actors’ union Sag-Aftra condemned the development and said Norwood’s creators were “using stolen performances”. Sag-Aftra released a statement after the AI “talent studio” Xicoia unveiled …

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A new platform will be an alternative to Kindle, and bookshops will earn 100% of the profit from sales The online store Bookshop.org is launching a platform through which independent bookshops in the UK will be able to sell ebooks as an alternative to Amazon’s Kindle offering. Independent bookshops will earn 100% of the profit …

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Broadway flops despite rising ticket costs, farmers face huge shortfalls largely due to Trump’s tariffs, tech cashes in Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I spent the weekend wondering about the insistent feeling in the United States that few but the ultra-rich, even businesses, are making enough money to afford the basics of a comfortable life. …

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Ek founded Stockholm-based music streaming company nearly two decades ago and will stay on as executive chair Spotify said Tuesday that founder Daniel Ek is stepping down as CEO to become the executive chair. The Stockholm-based streaming giant said Ek will be replaced by two lieutenants who will become co-CEOs: chief product and technology officer …

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It started as a gag, but Eric Zhu’s sperm races are doing good work in putting male fertility under the microscope – literally Remember when Elon Musk challenged Vladimir Putin to physical combat and Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight? Neither of those brawls took place for various reasons. Not least, I suspect, because Musk …

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Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us? Last month, when OpenAI released its long-awaited chatbot GPT-5, it briefly removed access to a previous chatbot, GPT-4o. Despite the upgrade, users flocked to social media to express confusion, outrage and depression. A viral Reddit user said …

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A bunch of code is being pushed as the next Scarlett Johansson, a creation that is already causing pushback from real human actors It takes a lot to be the most controversial figure in Hollywood, especially when Mel Gibson still exists. And yet somehow, in a career yet to even begin, Tilly Norwood has been …

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Platform suspended the US president’s YouTube channel in 2021 after the January 6 Capitol riot YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5m to settle a suit brought by Donald Trump in 2021 that alleged the platform wrongly suspended his channel after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The Google subsidiary is the latest in …

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Revenues down more than £500m after company cut more than a quarter of UK workforce Profits at Dyson nearly halved during a “difficult” year in which the home appliances business, founded by the billionaire Sir James Dyson, cut more than a quarter of its UK workforce. Dyson, which has been based in Singapore since 2019 …

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