In a recent episode of the Channel 5 podcast, host Andrew Callaghan sat down with Steven Renderos to discuss what they described as the corporate capture of American news media. Among the figures named as key architects of that influence was venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. Renderos listed Andreessen among five individuals he considers the most … Read more
Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon‘s recent push to get more women engaged with artificial intelligence has stirred up a notable backlash online. Recently, a major tech CEO had publicly warned that AI could strip economic and political power from the very demographic the actress is trying to reach. The Oscar-winning actress, producer, and founder of Reese’s … Read more
Most people know Milla Jovovich as the relentless action heroine of the Resident Evil franchise. Far fewer would have guessed that she would one day be behind a technical breakthrough in artificial intelligence memory systems. Jovovich, alongside longtime friend and software developer Ben Sigman, has released MemPalace, a free and fully open-source AI memory tool … Read more
Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings to strip her of her own income. According to sources, the scheme worked like this: someone fed YouTube videos of … Read more
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sat down with Fox Business to mark Apple’s 50th anniversary and did not hold back his feelings about artificial intelligence, making clear that he is far from impressed with where the technology stands today. When the host pointed out that AI now figures out so much for us, Wozniak was immediate … Read more
In a recent appearance on the American Optimist podcast with venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, Jake Paul discussed his involvement with OpenAI’s Sora video generation tool. In the same conversation, however, he also voiced concerns about AI-generated content flooding the internet. When asked directly about his work with OpenAI and Sora, Paul confirmed that he had … Read more
Cursor, one of the fastest-growing AI coding tools in the world, found itself at the center of a controversy after releasing its new model, Composer 2, without disclosing that it was built on a Chinese open-source foundation. Launched on March 18, Composer 2 was presented to the public as a frontier-level coding model available at … Read more
When Krafton acquired Unknown Worlds Entertainment in 2021 for $500 million, the deal came with an important addendum: an additional $250 million earnout tied directly to the commercial success of Subnautica 2, the sequel to the beloved underwater survival game. Sources state that at the time, it likely seemed like a fair arrangement for all … Read more
Travis Kalanick, founder of Uber and CEO of his new company Adams, sat down with TBPN for his first major public interview in years. During the conversation, he had a lot to say about the future of human work in an AI-driven world. His argument, built around a surprisingly simple analogy, is that workers who … Read more
When Sydney-based tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham learned that his eight-year-old staffy-shar pei mix, Rosie, had been given just months to live, he refused to accept that nothing more could be done. Instead, he opened his laptop and got to work. According to sources, Rosie, a rescue dog who had been abandoned in bushland before Conyngham … Read more
