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Met Gala: Hollywood Elite, Fashion World’s Biggest Night Bombarded by Boycott Calls over Bezos Sponsorship
The A-listers invited to New York’s biggest social event of the year have been asked to dress for the theme “Fashion is Art,” which dovetails with the exhibit “Costume Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. But for the fashionistas, the Met Gala — traditionally held on the first Monday in May —…
FCC Reviews Disney, ABC Broadcast Licenses over ‘Unlawful Discrimination’
The FCC said in its notice that it has been investigating Disney’s ABC for possible violations of the Communications Act of 1934 and the FCC’s rules, including the agency’s prohibition against “unlawful discrimination.” This process is known as an early license review. The FCC licenses ABC’s broadcast television stations, which operate on the publicly owned airwaves. It…
China Blocks Meta’s $2 Billion Acquisition of AI Startup Manus
CNBC reports that China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) foreign investment review arm issued a decision on Monday to block the sale of Manus to Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta. The regulatory body ordered all parties involved in the transaction to unwind the acquisition, effectively terminating the deal that was announced in late December. Manus emerged as a prominent…
Zuck’s Watching: Meta Tracks Employee Keystrokes to Train AI Models
Reuters reports that the social media giant has implemented a new employee tracking tool called Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, which captures keystrokes and mouse clicks from workers using their corporate computers. The initiative aims to gather real-world examples of how people interact with computers to improve Meta’s AI agent development. According to internal documents, the list…
Leftist Superstar Hasan Piker Justifies Luigi Mangione: UnitedHealth CEO Guilty of ‘Social Murder’
Piker, a Twitch streamer, said Americans “understand” why Luigi Mangione allegedly killed Thompson due to the CEO’s alleged role in “social murder.” “Friedrich Engels wrote about the concept of social murder. And Brian Thompson, as the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder,” Piker claimed in an interview with the New York…
Nolte: YouTube Offers Free AI Policing Tool to Elite Celebs
“Executives at the Google-owned platform [say] that their proprietary deepfake detection tool, years in the making, is now open to anyone at high risk of having their likeness abused,” reports the far-left Hollywood Reporter. This includes “Actors, athletes, creators and musicians, whether they have a YouTube channel or not[.]” “What YouTube’s offering is — and I don’t say this…
‘Code Red’ Author Wynton Hall: Anthropic’s AI Threatened to Blackmail Its Boss
Host Chanel Rion said, “Headline number two, meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents. Listen to this. A meta AI agent went full rogue inside the company when asked to help with a routine internal technical question it independently posted sensitive company and user data to engineers who weren’t authorized to see it, exposing…
Pinkerton: The Guide to Averting the AI Apocalypse
For years now, Musk has been warning against the “woke mind virus,” and he has zeroed in on Anthropic, the woke AI company—99.8 percent of $200 million in campaign donations to Democrats— that has been fired from the Department of War by Secretary Pete Hegseth. (Anthropic has filed suit to block its termination, and just on March…
House Intel Democrat Jim Himes: ‘I Am Not Aware’ of NSA Purchasing Americans’ Data
Privacy activists protested outside a town hall after the Democrat congressman spoke about the alleged need to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without significant reforms to the program. Section 702 is a surveillance authority meant to be used to spy on foreign adversaries; however, Americans’ private communications incidentally get surveilled…
Pinkerton: The Guide to Averting the AI Apocalypse
For years now, Musk has been warning against the “woke mind virus,” and he has zeroed in on Anthropic, the woke AI company—99.8 percent of $200 million in campaign donations to Democrats— that has been fired from the Department of War by Secretary Pete Hegseth. (Anthropic has filed suit to block its termination, and just…
