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 Issue Date: 06/25/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
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Dennis Lehand Sparks The Narrative Flame In Apple TV+ Firebug Series “Smoke”
Author and screenwriter Dennis Lehane has a healthy respect for the power of fire. He learned that the hard way — surviving a house fire in Boston in his 30s. Lehane was living on the top floor of an apartment building when a propane tank on the roof exploded and started a blaze. The landlord
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Review: Eva Victor Makes A Disarming Debut In “Sorry, Baby”
The first thing to love about writer-director-star Eva Victor’s extraordinary debut “Sorry, Baby” is how she, as the young professor Agnes, tries, and fails, to hide a tryst with her neighbor. Agnes lives in a quaint New England home where her best friend and fellow former grad student Lydie (Naomi Ackie) is visiting. We are
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Review: Director Gerard Johnstone’s “M3GAN 2.0”
If you want to know how big an upgrade the “M3GAN” sequel has on the original, look no further than the very first scene. “M3GAN” was mostly set in a Seattle house, but “M3GAN 2.0” starts at the Turkish-Iranian border — with a murderous rampage in a secret military installation and the presence of Saudi
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Getty Images Drops Copyright Allegations In High-Profile U.K. Lawsuit Against Stability AI
Getty Images dropped copyright infringement allegations from its lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI as closing arguments began Wednesday in the landmark case at Britain’s High Court. Seattle-based Getty’s decision to abandon the copyright claim removes a key part of its lawsuit against Stability AI, which owns a popular AI image-making tool called Stable
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Anthropic Wins Ruling On AI Training In Copyright Lawsuit But Must Stand Trial On Pirated Books
In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. But the company is still on the hook and must now go to trial over how it acquired those books by downloading them
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Bipartisan bill aims to block Chinese AI from federal agencies
Legislation introduced Wednesday in Congress would block Chinese artificial intelligence systems from federal agencies as a bipartisan group of lawmakers pledged to ensure that the United States would prevail against China in the global competition over AI. “We are in a new Cold War, and AI is the strategic technology at the center,” said Republican
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Impact BBDO’s Ali Rez and Droga5 ANZ’s Damon Stapleton named to The One Club International Board
The One Club for Creativity has named a pair of top creative leaders to its International Board of Directors. Starting three-year terms are Ali Rez, CCO at Impact BBDO Group in Dubai, and Damon Stapleton, co-CCO at Droga5 ANZ, part of Accenture Song, based in Auckland. Board members are responsible for providing input and feedback
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NBA hits 5 billion social views during Finals. OKC’s Game 7 win draws top finals audience in 6 years
The NBA generated more than 5 billion views across social media platforms during this season’s NBA Finals, up 215% from last season’s title series. That figure, released Tuesday, follows a 10% leap in overall viewership for ESPN and ABC during the 34 games they carried in this year’s playoffs as opposed to their numbers from
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