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“Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen have appeared as volcano experts, astronauts, thriller protagonists, podcast hosts, and academic co-authors across hundreds of independently produced AI-generated documents, never having lived,” a new preprint research paper from Samsung and the University of Warsaw said. The paper identified a number of names that co-authored ...

Ahead of playing Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields, artists explain why female-first festivals are due for a resurgence When I first saw the poster for Olivia Rodrigo’s inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival in June, I assumed it was AI. Chappell Roan, Doechii, Mitski, the Breeders, Bikini Kill and Garbage, all arranged ...

It’s about ‘kitchen-table populism’: focusing on Americans’ day-to-day economic struggles This year’s Democratic primaries look and sound a lot more populist than usual. Brian Poindexter, a union iron worker running on a “workers first” message, won a House primary outside Cleveland. Sherrod Brown is mounting a Senate comeback in Ohio ...

The pioneering Japanese artist talked openly about how her mental health and neurodivergence informed her creativity, paving the way for the likes of Turner prize winner Nnena Kalu Yayoi Kusama – who has died at the age of 97 – was 10 when she first started experiencing vivid hallucinations consisting ...

The Scoop The Senate’s bipartisan college sports bill is getting more air support as it faces resistance from the Congressional Black Caucus. Saving College Sports, a group founded by wealthy businessman and Texas Tech University Board of Regents Chair Cody Campbell, is launching a seven-figure ad buy supporting the legislation, ...

by Heather Lenz. The 2018 documentary follows the late Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who died this month at the age of 97, from her conservative upbringing in Nagano, through her emergence as one of the mid-20th century’s leading artists, to her startling 1977 decision to live out the rest of ...

Jon Gray, chief operating officer of the $1.3 trillion asset manager Blackstone, says one of the firm’s distinguishing habits is to “go big” when it finds a theme it believes in. But he also says successful convictions need to be challenged, particularly as Blackstone invests heavily around artificial intelligence. “You ...

As diplomats, schoolchildren, and business executives trickle back into the region, inbound flight data for August paints a picture of uneven recovery. Abu Dhabi is whole again: Arrivals into Zayed International were within 18 flights of last August, according to data provided to Semafor by Cirium. Dubai, which relies much ...

LIV Golf is laying off the majority of its workforce while it tries to secure funding to keep the breakaway competition alive, after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund said it wouldn’t provide any more cash. Affected employees will leave in the first week of September as work continues to raise ...

US Geological Survey says massive glacial collapse caused catastrophic flash floods in the Himalayan border region of Nepal ⁠and Tibet Follow latest updates live Tell us: have you been affected by the flash floods? At 8.37am on Wednesday, an enormous section ⁠of a glacier in the Himalayas sheared free and ...