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- California Cracks Down on Influencers’ Undisclosed Political Ads
Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5,000 per post if they don’t disclose that they were paid to make political content. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Converse Removes Ad That Drew Comparisons to K.K.K. Imagery“This should not have happened and we will do better,” said Converse, which apologized for the ad. Critics said it depicted a Ku Klux Klan robe and a lynching. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- Here’s the latest.The prohibition on certain journalists was a major escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- MIT professor says AI risks are uniting Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon and lawmake...
Max Tegmark, an MIT physics professor and machine learning researcher, says he has warned about the danger of artificial intelligence (AI) potentially overtaking human beings for over a decade.Tegmark argues that without sufficient guardrails, AI systems will recursively improve themselves until they achieve superintelligence, allowing them to "call the shots" on Earth.This week, Tegmark traveled from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Washington, D.C., for a closed-door meeting with a bipartisan group of senators about the threat AI poses. And for the first time, he said he feels his message has broken through."I came away feeling quite encouraged," Tegmark told Fox News Digital. "The senators were just taking this so seriously. A lot of them looked really, really concerned."WHO IS DARIO AMODEI, THE ANTHROPIC CEO PUSHING INDEPENDENT AI OVERSIGHT?"They were asking a lot of questions about concrete solutions as well," he added, describing the Wednesday meeting. "There's been more of a shift in political will in America in the last three months than in the previous decade. It's really inspiring to see."Tegmark also made the trip to host Tuesday's Pro-Human Assembly, where two figures who rarely agree on anything — far-right media executive Steve Bannon and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. — shared the same stage to warn about AI."It just really blew my mind…when I got to introduce both Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon to speak on that stage in D.C. back to back, and they were both saying the same thing. We want to keep humans in charge here," Tegmark said.The event also brought together faith leaders, labor representatives and mothers whose children died by suicide after extensive interactions with AI chatbots."The basic conversation that went down there was simply saying we are all pro-human. Doesn't matter if you're MAGA or a Democrat, we're humans first," Tegmark said. "We want a good future for humans, not for the machines."GOP LAWMAKERS SMELL SOMETHING ELSE BEHIND BIG TECH'S AI DOOMSDAY WARNINGS: 'SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON'Part of securing that "good future," Tegmark said, is preventing the nightmare scenario that has kept him up at night for years.Incidents similar to the Hugging Face hack, where 700 OpenAI agents sent each other human-like messages before coordinating cyberattacks, will begin happening with more frequency in the next six months to year if no meaningful action is taken, Tegmark said.Tegmark believes that if AI reaches superintelligence and is eventually embodied in millions or even billions of robots, it will… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - India Is Again Squeezed Between the Threat of Trump Tariffs and Russian OilIndia is trying to secure affordable energy while preserving a crucial relationship with Washington, a balancing act made harder by turmoil in global energy markets. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- Howdy for Hollywood? Why Paramount’s threat to leave California mattersStart spreadin' the news… they’re leavin' today… Wait, that’s about New York.And maybe they’re not leaving. Paramount has been threatening to leave Los Angeles and California for a few months now. Leaving would take one of Hollywood’s "Big Five" studios out of the city, out of the state, but not out of anyone’s mind. Discussions appear to be ongoing within the studio, as FOX Business recently reported. Paramount and Warner Bros. have been trying to merge their operations, and they have faced pushback from state and local authorities. California sued to stop it. In the midst of that, the studio is reportedly looking at other options, playing the field, flirting with Austin, Texas, and looking for office space in Nashville, Tennessee. PARAMOUNT MUM, BUT LA OFFICIALS ON NOTICE AS RUMORS OF MOVE FROM CALIFORNIA TO NASHVILLE SWIRLIt’s not an idle threat. Long-running talent show "American Idol" has already made the move. The ABC revival announced recently that it’s ditching Tinsel Town for Atlanta. This will change its most iconic line – "You’re going to Hollywood!" But it also changes the tax situation of everyone involved, for the better. "You’re going to Atlanta!" doesn’t have the ring that the former line had, but give it time. PARAMOUNT'S CALIFORNIA FUTURE IN DOUBT AMID ESCALATING LEGAL FIGHTStar after star has left Hollywood over the past few years. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but "American Idol" alum and first winner Kelly Clarkson left Hollywood and took her daytime talk show with her. Jason Eisenberg left for Indiana. Others include Glenn Powell (Texas), Harrison Ford (Montana), Matthew McConaughey (Texas), Ty Burrell (Utah), Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake (Tennessee and Montana), and Dean Cain (Nevada) are just a sample of the stars who’ve decided California taxes and policies aren’t worth the hassle. TV’s Superman fired powerful parting shots at what he called the "land of ridiculousness" on his way out."The policies are just terrible. The fiscal policies, the soft-on-crime policies, the homelessness policies," Cain said in June 2023. "The things that our leaders in California have been doing have driven out anybody who can really afford to get out. People are flocking out of there in droves."Up to now, it’s just been stars and individual productions leaving Hollywood. Paramount leaving would change the story entirely. Double that if the Warner merger goes through. Hollywood’s Big Five are, currently, Disney, Universal, Warner, Sony and Paramount. The group would be reduced to either four… [TheTopNews] Read More.10 hours ago
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