Dame Judi Dench, John Cena and Awkwafina will all voice Meta AI – the artificial intelligence being rolled out by Instagram and Facebook owner Meta. As part of an update to its Llama model, people will now be able to interact with Meta AI – the company’s ChatGPT-like chatbot – by speaking and getting responses from the celebrities. Frozen’s Kristen ...
Hundreds of thousands of Instagram users, including actors Julianne Moore and Ashley Tisdale, have shared a post that supposedly revokes Meta’s right to train its artificial intelligence tool using their information. “Goodbye Meta AI,” it says before saying the user does “not give Meta or anyone else permission to use any of personal data, profile information or photos”. It doesn’t ...
The moon will get a companion this week as an asteroid around the length of a double-decker bus enters Earth’s orbit. The temporary guest, called 2024 PT5, should arrive on 29 September and is expected to befriend the regular moon for around two months. “A mini-moon is a small object orbiting another solar system body,” said Daniel Brown, an associate ...
Amid online backlash over her recent criticism of the Democratic and Republican parties ahead of the presidential election, singer Chappell Roan said on TikTok on Wednesday that she’ll vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. However, Roan said she wouldn’t endorse Harris, criticizing the Democratic Party’s views on transgender rights and the Israel-Gaza war. “I’m not settling for what has been ...
MADISON, Wis. — A years-long fight over voting rules in the swing state of Wisconsin sparked a criminal investigation this week after a mayor — wearing a hard hat and Department of Public Works jacket — carted off a ballot drop box the city clerk was about to make available to voters. The move by Wausau Mayor Doug Diny came ...
“All told, almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during his presidency, starting before the pandemic hit, making Trump one of the biggest losers ever on manufacturing.” — Vice President Kamala Harris, in an economic speech in Pittsburgh, Sept. 25 “Even before the pandemic, he lost manufacturing jobs, by most people’s estimates at least 200,000.” — Harris, a few hours later ...
Foreign leaders traveling to the United States to attend the U.N. General Assembly this week in New York have also been meeting with former president Donald Trump, as they hedge their bets in case of a Trump victory in the November election. Trump is scheduled to meet this week with the president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed bin Zayed ...
Republican Rep. Clay Higgins (La.) published racist comments about Haitians on Wednesday — only to delete them after being confronted by House colleagues. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Higgins called Haitians “thugs,” called Haiti the “nastiest country in the western hemisphere,” and repeated false and dehumanizing claims about pet-eating. The remarks were called out and he deleted the ...
Corrine Morse cast her vote in the 2016 presidential election from a glacially slow, often glitchy fax machine in Antarctica. For 20 minutes, Morse watched as the machine whirred and beeped eerily before finally printing the confirmation page she had been waiting for — her absentee ballot had been sent to Texas, where she was registered to vote. The fax ...
Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has pulled clearly ahead in Maryland’s unusually competitive U.S. Senate race with a double-digit lead among likely voters, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll, in a contest critical to deciding control of the chamber next year. Alsobrooks leads Republican Larry Hogan — a former governor elected twice in the deep-blue state — by 11 percentage ...