The Heat is on Chris Hemsworth in the Michael Mann-esque Crime 101

Late in the slick if distended new thriller Crime 101, the film’s two main characters, a dogged L.A. cop played by Mark Ruffalo and a master thief played by Chris Hemsworth, namecheck a pair of Steve ...
FierceBiotech

Flagship-founded antibody biotech Generate is latest to mull IPO

Clinical-stage antibody company Generate:Biomedicines is the latest biotech to mull going public as momentum for IPOs continues to build. The Flagship-founded biotech has yet to set out how many ...
IGN

Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters

The patent, submitted in mid-2024 and published in January, claims the system, dubbed "LLM-based generative podcasts for gamers," will generate "unique, personalized podcasts of news that a particular ...
Wired

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X

This story contains descriptions of explicit sexual content and sexual violence. Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has drawn outrage and calls for investigation after being used to flood X with “undressed” ...
CoinTelegraph

Pudgy Penguins brings NFT characters to Las Vegas Sphere during Christmas

The non-fungible token project owned by Luca Netz appeared on the Sphere’s exterior screens, with the animated display going live on Christmas Eve. Pudgy Penguins ran an animated display on the Las ...
TechCrunch

Luma releases a new AI model that lets users generate a video from a start and end frame

Luma, the a16z-backed AI video and 3D model company, released a new model called Ray3 Modify that allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images that preserve the ...
Wall Street Journal

Behind the Deal That Took Disney From AI Skeptic to OpenAI Investor

OpenAI’s strategy team began its early November off-site gathering in the seaside community of Marina del Rey near Los Angeles with an intriguing guest speaker: Disney’s DIS-0.22%decrease; red down ...
abc7NY

Disney to invest $1 billion in OpenAI, permit use of characters on AI video generator

The Walt Disney Company on Thursday announced plans to invest $1 billion in artificial intelligence company OpenAI, in a deal that will grant the company access to copyrighted characters from "Star ...
Yahoo

Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI to let fans generate videos with its biggest characters

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guests pass a statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, in 2023. Disney will soon let fans ...
Today

Disney Strikes Deal With OpenAI To Let Sora Generate AI Videos of Its Characters

The Walt Disney Company announced on Thursday that it had reached a three-year agreement with OpenAI to bring its popular characters to the company’s Sora AI video generator. Disney will also make a ...
TechCrunch

Disney signs deal with OpenAI to allow Sora to generate AI videos featuring its characters

The Walt Disney Company announced on Thursday that it has signed a three-year partnership with OpenAI that will bring its iconic characters to the company’s Sora AI video generator. Disney is also ...