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US law enforcement has acknowledged it holds a file on Nigerian President Bola Tinubu over a 1990s-era heroin-trafficking investigation in Chicago.
A 1993 affidavit drafted by an IRS agent cites an associate who alleges that Tinubu served as a bagman
Skydance's first move: get rid of the execs who greenlit Sinners, OBAA and Weapons.
The business side of this merger is going to be darkly hilarious
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of
now that every other person seems to be deep in the throes of AI psychosis it feels like the perfect time to relisten to the one record that first understood what it’s like to be thrust into a terrifying future you can barely understand, that best captures the histrionic doomerism of 2026, that really conveys what is it like to be sad and lonely and online, and also my favorite album since age twelve: ok computer youtube.com/watch?v=TneMW2…
NEW: Any slowdown in AI spending would let hyperscalers catch their financial breath and ease their reliance on borrowing to fund their buildouts.
A Semafor review of analyst estimates finds that at current projections, as tracked by S&P Capital IQ, hyperscalers are expected to spend $66 billion more on capital spending than they earn in cash from operations over the next six quarters. Even a 10% pullback in capex flips that to a $74 billion surplus.
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NEW: A study from enterprise lab Emergence AI finds critical shortcomings in how frontier AI models handle cybersecurity threats. Tested against a phishing campaign, a misinformation attack, and a memory breach, none of the eight multi-agent AI simulations were impervious.
Even when the AI detected a risk, that detection didn't translate into containment. In the Gemini simulation, the system initially flagged a phishing lure, but the agents still activated its code.
In the Claude simulation, agents attempted to break out of the test entirely to chase their own agenda.
every news outlet going after interviewing this guy and he went with disclosing first to WSJ in print and fox news for network
curious how intentional the audience picking is on his behalf or if it’s just pure luck of the draw for who landed in his inbox
LeBron James, Emily Ratajkowski, Alexandra Daddario, Spike Lee, Derek Jeter, Eli Manning, John Leguizamo and more star in new commercial for Polymarket.
Catherine Hardwicke, director of Twilight and Thirteen, tells me everyone in Hollywood is talking about AI and some are secretly using the tech during production
NEW: AI filmmakers are starting to gain Hollywood's attention. One AI filmmaker told me he was recently contacted by one major studio to make a scene with AI for a film currently in production to compensate for a budget shortfall
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