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The News The CEO of United Talent Agency is going after one of Hollywood’s biggest trade publications, accusing one of its journalists of trying to deliberately damage the agency’s business. On Wednesday, Variety published a story noting that a slate of high-profile clients has departed from UTA, putting the agency ...

License-plate reading cameras could join data centers as a tech bogeyman in the US midterm elections. A host of politicians — including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan — have this month blasted Flock Safety: The Atlanta-based startup has come under fire following ...

David’s view If you’re running for office right now, the future is a dangerous place to be. The backlash against hyperscale data centers has converted both Democrats and Republicans into AI skeptics, warning that the industry’s rise risks robbing communities of autonomy. The populist rage against Flock and its AI-powered ...

Watch Live 9 a.m. ET on September 16 Young people are facing unprecedented challenges, from rising loneliness and anxiety to an increasingly complex digital world. But building a more resilient generation will require looking beyond any single cause or solution. It demands collaboration across health, education, technology, family, and community ...

The stigma against using AI for writing appears to be wearing off. In what Semafor’s media editor called a “precedent-setting moment,” The Wall Street Journal not only acknowledged that billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller used AI for a newsmaking op-ed, but defended the practice: “AI is a fact of modern life,” ...

OpenAI unveiled benchmarks for its Jalapeño inference chip Tuesday and they are… fast. So fast that they compete with Nvidia’s best chips. OpenAI built the chips in record time by using its own AI models to speed up the design and verification phase of development. It still needed to work ...

Global trade tensions grew among several major powers, with little sign of respite on the horizon. The US is weighing imposing yet more penalties on goods and services from Canada, Bloomberg reported, after Ottawa responded to Washington’s original tariffs with matching levies of its own. China, meanwhile, said it would ...

Chinese authorities indicated they would not increase government spending to revive flagging economic growth, and would instead intensify focus on the broader adoption of cutting-edge technology. Several metrics have shown that China’s domestic economy is slowing, potentially to below Beijing’s official growth target, with Goldman Sachs warning in a note ...

Experts warned that Ebola is spreading “exponentially” in the Democratic Republic of Congo as unpaid health workers struggle to contain the virus. A lack of funding, widespread misinformation, and poor infrastructure have left authorities in the war-torn country scrambling to contain the outbreak, already the fastest-growing on record and which ...

Two people died from measles in Pennsylvania, the state’s first deaths from the disease in 35 years, with experts warning that figure could rise because of falling vaccination rates in the US. While numerous academic studies have shown no connection between the measles vaccine and autism, anti-jab sentiment has festered ...