In “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg Replays the Hits

In “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg Replays the Hits

Margaret, following her nutty North Star wherever it leads, would have been right at home in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977), in which U.F.O. sightings make enraptured believers of a select few. But that’s hardly the only Spielberg joint that gets revisited. A reference to Roswell harks back to the extraterrestrial shenanigans of…

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Musicians shortchanged by AI deals with labels, lawsuit alleges

Musicians shortchanged by AI deals with labels, lawsuit alleges

Musicians have been left out of settlements between major record labels and AI companies, a new lawsuit alleges. The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM), which has 70,000 members, said Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group “received significant compensation” from the AI companies for past copyright violations and licensed…

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Apple revamps Siri as it tries to catch up in the AI race

Apple revamps Siri as it tries to catch up in the AI race

Apple on Monday unveiled a new version of its virtual assistant Siri, to take on its artificial intelligence-powered rivals such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. The California smartphone maker has lagged behind its competitors in the AI race as tech companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into advancing their chatbots and investing in…

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A World-Class Omakase in America’s Most Landlocked State

A World-Class Omakase in America’s Most Landlocked State

Many of the commercial strips in Omaha, a city of about half a million people, have the air of a nineties college town, with low-slung blocks of row houses punctuated by dive bars and cafés, thrift stores and record shops. If the city is known for anything, food-wise, it’s beef; from the mid-nineteenth century to…

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