She’s a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world — kind of. A model used artificial intelligence to create, for the first time ever, an entire magazine cover shoot — in just 20 minutes. Lisa Opie, 32, a former Miss Virgin Islands from Miami, appears on the August cover of Glamour Bulgaria looking like a futuristic Barbie, just the look she …
Read More »NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows star birth in new image
It’s the first anniversary of cosmic observations and photographs from the James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA is celebrating by releasing one of its best shots yet. A new image shows a colorful close-up of a dozen stars at the moment of birth. “On its first anniversary, the James Webb Space Telescope has already delivered upon its promise to unfold …
Read More »Fired Twitter workers demand Elon Musk pay $500M in severance
Twitter on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off after Elon Musk acquired the company. Courtney McMillian, who oversaw Twitter’s employee benefits programs as its “head of total rewards” before she was laid off in January, filed the proposed class action in …
Read More »Shari Redstone, Sheryl Sandberg at Sun Valley resort, Idaho
SUN VALLEY, Idaho – The festivities are underway at Allen & Co.’s annual “summer camp for billionaires” at swank Sun Valley resort in Idaho, where business moguls kicked off their first full day of sessions on Wednesday. Security is tight on the resort’s luxurious grounds, where media members were kept at arm’s length from the media, tech and business tycoons …
Read More »Elon Musk launches artificial intelligence firm xAI
Elon Musk launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a team made up of engineers from the same big US technology firms that he hopes to challenge in his bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT. The startup will be led by Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of Twitter, who has said on several occasions that the development of …
Read More »H&R Block shared taxpayers data with Meta: lawmakers
Three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over the course of at least two years, a group of congressional Democrats reported Wednesday. Their report urges federal agencies to investigate and potentially go to court over the wealth of information that H&R Block, TaxAct and TaxSlayer shared with the social …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg looks ripped in photo alongside MMA fighters
Mark Zuckerberg showed off his ripped physique in his latest Instagram post alongside two of today’s most successful MMA fighters. The 39-year-old Meta boss flexed his six pack while standing between Israel Adesanya and Alex Volkanovski in the photo shared with his 12.1 million followers on Tuesday, which already has nearly 2 million likes. Adesanya and Volkanovski have 50 UFC …
Read More »See the images from James Webb Space Telescope’s first year
After an astounding first year of science, the James Webb Space Telescope is just getting started as scientists are fully beginning to grasp how they can utilize the most powerful space telescope ever built. It’s now been one year since JWST became fully operational in July 2022. NASA, the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency marked the milestone by releasing some of the …
Read More »Altman, Zaslav jet into Sun Valley for ‘summer camp for billionaires’
SUN VALLEY, Idaho – OpenAI kingpin Sam Altman and WarnerBros. Discovery boss David Zaslav joined dozens of the nation’s power players who jetted into this resort town Tuesday ahead of Allen & Co.’s annual “summer camp for billionaires.” Altman, dressed casually in a T-shirt and blue slacks on a hot and sunny Idaho summer day, stopped briefly to chat with …
Read More »Microsoft’s $69B deal to buy Activision can go forward: judge
A US judge ruled on Tuesday that Microsoft may go forward with its planned acquisition of videogame maker Activision Blizzard, turning aside antitrust enforcers’ request for a preliminary injunction to temporarily stop the $69 billion deal. The court separately extended its temporary restraining order to Friday at 11:59 pm to allow the Federal Trade Commission to appeal. The FTC had originally asked …
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