AMC Theatres is making it easier for moviegoers to know the actual start time of their film screening and avoid sitting through lengthy ads. A new notice has started appearing when people purchase tickets via the AMC website, warning that “movies start 25-30 minutes after showtime.” This already mirrors the estimated runtime of AMC’s pre-show […]
The US Senate has voted overwhelmingly to remove a moratorium on states regulating AI systems from the Republican “big, beautiful bill.” Legislators agreed by a margin of 99 to 1 to drop the controversial proposal during a protracted fight over the omnibus budget bill, which is still under debate. The vote followed failed attempts to […]
As promised, the first trailer for director Edgar Wright’s take on Stephen King’s novel The Running Man is here — and it looks like a playful throwback to ‘80s action movies. The story centers on a struggling man named Ben Richards, played by Glen Powell, who is a contestant on a mega-popular TV game show […]
After going back and forth over the provision, Sen. Marsha Blackburn offered an amendment to strip the provision alongside Sen. Maria Cantwell.
One way to think about the tech industry is just as a series of people trying to build stuff they saw in movies. Ready Player One helped kick of a flood of interest in the metaverse, despite the movie’s deeply dsytopian undertones. If you’ve talked to anyone working in AI, they’ve surely told you about […]
Several moments of my two-hour hands-on preview of Donkey Kong Bananza felt like I was playing the gritty 2009 action game Red Faction: Guerilla – except this time I was actually playing as a gorilla. For example, I had to level a multistory building during a timed minigame. Just like in Guerilla, I targeted the […]
Genesis AI, which aims to build a foundational model for powering all kinds of robots, has emerged from stealth with $105M in seed funding.
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has raised $5 billion in debt and $5 billion in equity, Morgan Stanley said on Monday.
On June 2nd, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy traveled to Newark Liberty International Airport to celebrate the reopening of runway 4L-22R. This was unusual: few runway openings are glamorous enough to warrant a visit from the airport’s CEO, let alone a cabinet secretary. But as we reported last month, few airports have come to symbolize […]
The major internet architecture provider Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” according to an announcement on Tuesday. With the change, Cloudflare will start asking new domain owners whether they want to allow AI scrapers, and will even let some publishers implement […]