Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood Return to Urbanworld as Ambassadors of 30th Anniversary Festival
Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood will serve as ambassadors of the 30th annual Urbanworld Film Festival taking place Oct. 14-18 in New York City.
The post marks a notable return to Urbanworld for the married filmmakers who have a long history with the festival. Prince-Bythewood screened her adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees at Urbanworld in 2008, and the 2014 festival opened with her romance drama Beyond the Lights. Bythewood also brought ESPN’s 30 for 30 episode “One Night in Vegas” to Urbanworld in 2010 and the BET TV movie Gun Hill in 2013. The pair attended the festival in support of NatGeo’s Genius: MLK/X in 2023 as well.
OpenAI will add a digital watermark to text and code generated in the EU - Engadget
This is to comply with the region's new AI transparency rules.
OpenAI just announced its plans to comply with part of the European Union's new AI transparency rules. The company will soon begin adding an invisible watermark to text and code generated in the EU. This follows a similar move by Anthropic earlier this year.
Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account
Instinct, the AI agent now valued at $10 billion as of its latest funding round, is expanding into group chats. The startup announced on Monday that users will be able to add the agent to chats with friends, which could be helpful in certain scenarios like travel planning, snagging event tickets, running fantasy leagues, organizing carpools, or managing who’s bringing what to Thanksgiving.
Luis Silberwasser Exiting TNT Sports as Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Closes
Luis Silberwasser, chairman and CEO of TNT Sports, is leaving as Paramount’s takeover of TNT parent Warner Bros. Discovery comes to a close.
Silberwasser informed his staff Monday that he’ll step down after the deal closes. The $111 billion merger, which will create an entertainment, sports and news behemoth under the Skydance name, is set to be signed and sealed on Tuesday, Oct. 6.
Council Post: When Your Data Architecture Becomes The Constraint On Your Application
As the CEO of Arango, Shekhar Iyer leads the company’s mission to make enterprise AI contextual, scalable and trusted.
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AI and other mission-critical applications can work exactly as designed in development and still fail to meet production requirements. Consider an AI support agent. It works fine in development. But once in production, it encounters new variables and may recommend the wrong resolution because it lacks a customer’s product configuration or prior case history. That’s just one example.
Mike Leigh’s ‘Tender Loving Care’ to Compete as Comedy at Golden Globes (EXCLUSIVE)
Mike Leigh is bringing love and care to the Golden Globes’ comedy race.
Bleecker Street will submit “Tender Loving Care,” Leigh’s likely final film, in the musical or comedy categories at the upcoming 84th Golden Globes, Variety has learned exclusively.
Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin Board ‘Sicario 3’
The waiting game for Sicario 3 may soon be over with news Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin are set to return for the latest sequel, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Fairshake crypto PAC network backs 32 House candidates in midterms
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Cryptocurrency's biggest political spending network is making its first broad push into general-election House races this cycle, saying it plans to back 32 incumbents in hopes of preserving a pro-crypto bloc in Congress.
Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’
A shadow Conservative Home Office minister has claimed there are “no-go zones” in Luton where “white people won’t go”.
Blake Stephenson, the MP for Mid Bedfordshire who was appointed to the Tory frontbench role two weeks ago, claimed the town was “a very dangerous place” where some communities “live in ghettoes”.
Versailles Gives ‘Marie Antoinette’ (and Sofia Coppola) the Royal Treatment 20 Years Later
When Sofia Coppola was granted access to the Château de Versailles’ hallowed halls for her 2006 film, Marie Antoinette, their collaboration was unprecedented. Though the film initially received criticism for its unconventional portrayal of the young French queen (intentionally opting for an anachronistically stylish over stuffily period-appropriate approach), 20 years later, its legacy is undeniable. This fall the anniversary is being fêted with a new documentary on the movie’s making (directed by Coppola’s late mother, Eleanor), a book featuring behind-the-scenes photographs by Andrew Durham, who also produced her first short movie, Lick the Star (1998), as well as a theatrical re-release in the United States. Now the palace itself is joining in on the fun, too.