Tech
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Beyond the Tilly Norwood Hype, Studio Execs Explain How AI Is Actually Being Used
TheGrill 2025: Execs reject the idea of a synthetic actor and say AI’s arrival in Hollywood is happening in quieter ways
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Hailee Steinfeld’s Immersive ‘Asteroid’ Producers Say ‘Synthetic Actors’ Can’t Replace Real Ones: ‘Why Do That?’
The Grill 2025: The project, featured in a discussion at TheGrill, embraces artificial intelligence and new tech in ways that add benefit to viewers, 30 Ninjas’ Jed Weintrob says
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Disney Hits Character.AI With Cease-and-Desist Over Unauthorized Character Use
The AI platform removed the copyright characters after its “infringing chatbots” were accused of being “harmful and dangerous to children”
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WME Won’t Sign AI Actress Tilly Norwood, Leaders Say: ‘We Represent Humans’
TheGrill 2025: “If she has a future, it won’t be at WME,” co-chairman Richard Weitz tells TheWrap
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Adobe’s Premiere Comes to iPhone With an App Designed for Creators
The free-to-use offering will let users edit videos using AI
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YouTube to Shell Out $24.5 Million to Settle Trump Lawsuit Over 2021 Account Suspension
The settlement marks the last of the big three tech companies paying out millions for the president
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Electronic Arts to Go Private in $55 Billion Deal
The acquisition by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners is the largest leveraged buyout in history
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Amazon to Pay $2.5 Billion to Settle FTC Allegations of Deceptive Prime Enrollment Practices
The tech giant will pay a $1 billion civil penalty and provide $1.5 billion in refunds back to consumers
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Trump Administration Cozies Back Up to Elon Musk With New AI Tech Deal
The xAI government partnership comes after President Donald Trump and Musk sat with each other at Charlie Kirk’s memorial
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Paramount Plans to Reinvent Itself as a ‘Tech-Forward’ Company. Here’s What That Means
David Ellison will blend the “creative heart of Hollywood” and “innovative spirit of Silicon Valley” through an embrace of Oracle cloud services, AI and more
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TikTok Will Generate $178 Billion in US Economic Activity After Oracle Deal, White House Says
The algorithm will be “secured, retrained and operated” in the United States outside of ByteDance’s control, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt adds of the deal, set to be signed this week
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TikTok Deal Will Include Fox Corp Investment With Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch Involved
The group also reportedly includes Oracle technology chief Larry Ellison and Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell
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Why YouTube’s New AI Tools Are a Game Changer for Creators
The platform is incorporating new technology into the backend for its next era
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TikTok in Final Talks to Be Bought by Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz
Negotiations are becoming more serious as the Sept. 17 deadline approaches
