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 Issue Date: 09/05/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
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Luca Guadagnino and Malik Hassan Sayeed Bond On Ad and Feature Filmmaking Fronts
As president and founder of production company Little Minx, Rhea Scott has created a collaborative community of filmmakers which often leads to members of the shop’s directorial roster working with and inspiring one another. For example, on occasion director Malik Hassan Sayeed has hearkened back to his cinematography roots and lensed a select branded content
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Warner Bros. Sues Midjourney For AI-Generated Images of Superman, Bugs Bunny and Other Copyrighted Characters
Warner Bros. is suing artificial intelligence company Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that the startup enables its millions of subscribers to create AI-generated images and videos of copyrighted characters like Superman and Bugs Bunny. It’s the third big Hollywood studio to sue Midjourney in Los Angeles federal court after Disney and Universal filed a joint
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“John Candy: I Like Me” Gives Toronto Film Fest A Touching, Appropriately Canadian Opening Night
“I wish I had more bad things to say about him,” Bill Murray says in the opening moments of the documentary “John Candy: I Like Me.” It has always been hard to find a negative word about Candy. The great Canadian comedian and actor not only radiated a warm, down-to-earth friendliness in movies like “Planes,
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American Haiku Names Jessica Kingsbery As Its First-Ever CEO
Independent creative agency American Haiku has named Jessica Kingsbery as its first-ever CEO. Kingsbery will oversee the agency’s strategic direction, business development, and operational performance across all client engagements. She reports to Thom Glover, founder and chief creative officer of American Haiku. Kingsbery will partner closely with Glover and the agency’s leadership team to define
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Review: Writer-Director James Sweeney’s “Twinless”
James Sweeney never had a twin, though he wanted one. The filmmaker grew up a military brat, and says he dreamed of a having a twin that would serve as a kind of built-in best friend. Alas, he was twinless. Of course, not all twins remain or ever become best friends, which is one of
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Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot. The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in legal battles between AI companies
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CBS forbids editing of “Face the Nation” interviews after complaints from Kristi Noem
Days after complaints over the handling of an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on “Face the Nation,” CBS News said Friday it would no longer allow editing of its guests’ words on the Sunday morning public affairs show. Noem charged that CBS had “shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth” about Kilmar
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Attorneys general warn OpenAI and other tech companies to improve chatbot safety
The attorneys general of California and Delaware on Friday warned OpenAI they have “serious concerns” about the safety of its flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens. The two state officials, who have unique powers to regulate nonprofits such as OpenAI, sent the letter to the company after a meeting with its legal team
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Google hit with $3.5 billion fine from European Union in ad-tech antitrust case
European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, marking the fourth such antitrust penalty for the company. The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive branch and top antitrust enforcer, also ordered the U.S. tech giant
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Google facing $425.7 million in damages for nearly a decade of improper smartphone snooping
A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions. The verdict reached Wednesday in San Francisco federal court followed a more than two-week trial in a class-action case covering about 98 million smartphones operating in the United States between July 1,
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