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On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety’s Corbin Bolies reports from Las Vegas where he is covering the AI4 conference with a slew of top leaders and true believers. The excitement around generative AI is still as hot as the temperature in Sin City, but the polarizing effect of the technology is evident as well, Bolies reports. Bolies, who joined Variety earlier this year as our first AI beat reporter, made the trek to Las Vegas in part to moderate a session with filmmaker Scott Mann, who heads the AI tech firm Flawless. There is Mann’s focus is on…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Jane Street is in talks to refinance its debt with a small group of investors including Pimco in a landmark private credit deal that would help the secretive trading firm boost its AI investments. The deal would shift its $11bn debt load from public markets into a private vehicle, according to people briefed on the matter. The size of the loan could be upsized and come as soon as next week, one person added.Jane Street’s talks with investors come as the firm…
Trump signs new executive orders to deny US citizenship to children born to so-called “birth tourists”One month after the United States supreme court struck down his first attempt to restrict the guarantee of birthright citizenship enshrined in the US constitution, Donald Trump signed executive orders on Thursday that aim to deny US citizenship to children born in the United States to so-called “birth tourists”.The orders, which have not yet been made public, apparently expand the definitions of children the White House deems ineligible for birthright citizenship and seek to ban “birth tourism”, which the president claimed on Thursday is practiced…
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A Texas man is accused of murdering three people in the northern state of Coahuila and then fleeing with his 3-year-old son toward the United States, before being arrested while trying to cross the border. The suspect, identified as Chad Eberle, a former police officer, allegedly shot and killed two women and a man while seriously wounding another woman inside a home in the Espinoza Mireles neighborhood of Saltillo, the Coahuila state capital, on Tuesday afternoon. Murder suspect Chad Eberle during his days as a law enforcement officer in a small Texas town.(Bangs, Texas, Police Department) The Coahuila Attorney General’s…
Double Lives of Suburban Wives proves once again that there’s always more that meets the eye. In Us’ exclusive sneak peek of the Sunday, August 9, premiere of TLC’s newest reality show, viewers meet Missouri resident Tammy as she attempts to maintain her “double life.” “For the last couple of years, I’ve been doing something a little unconventional. I’m not exactly hiding it, but some people might judge me for it,” she explains in the clip. “I am known as Tammy to a lot of my friends and family, but a lot of people in our online space know me…
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Sydney Towle, a popular social media influencer who shared her experience living with a rare, aggressive form of cancer, has died at the age of 26. Towle’s family announced her death, from complications related to bile duct cancer that had spread to other parts of her body, on her social media accounts on Thursday.”Syd went peacefully last night after an almost three-year-long battle with cholangiocarcinoma,” her brother Austin said in a video message, alongside their mother, on TikTok. Towle, who was moved to hospice care earlier this week, had over a million followers on TikTok and over 200,000 on Instagram.…
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A pair of rising atomweight stars who have been impossible to stop this year will collide in the ONE Friday Fights 165 main event, and a life-changing US$100,000 contract could be awarded to whoever makes the bigger statement.Petninmungkorn NamkangIceland and Pet Suanluangrodyok will collide in an atomweight Muay Thai clash at ONE Friday Fights 165, which goes down live in Asia primetime from Bangkok’s legendary Lumpinee Stadium this Friday, August 7, and each man can’t afford to take a backward step.AdvertisementWith absolutely everything on the line, both warriors have made their intentions abundantly clear, and neither one is planning to…