Atlas Artists Promotes Brad Pence to Partner

EXCLUSIVE: Atlas Artists talent manager Brad Pence has been named partner at the management division of Charles Roven’s Atlas Entertainment. Pence, who joined Atlas Artists in 2018, represents both established and emerging talent across film, scripted and unscripted television and digital. His roster of clients include one of the hottest names at the moment, Heated … Read more

How Elon Musk’s Grok spread sexual deepfakes and child exploitation images

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s Grok AI model lacked safeguards to stop users generating sexualised deepfakes of women and children, according to experts who warn that many AI systems are vulnerable to producing similar material. On Friday, the … Read more

Wall Street Moves Onchain as Banks Embrace Digital Assets

For years, major banks treated cryptocurrency primarily as a risk to be contained. That posture is now giving way to a more deliberate form of engagement. Rather than debating crypto’s legitimacy, banks are increasingly deciding how and where to integrate it, from regulated investment products to blockchain-based payment rails. This shift is on full display … Read more

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The fact that it hasn’t happened yet tells me something serious about Silicon Valley’s leadership: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are … Read more

‘Bugonia’ Writer Will Tracy On ‘Succession’ Inspiration

When Ari Aster saw Korean director Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet! he felt inspired to call upon Will Tracy to write a remake. Tracy’s writing credits include Succession, The Menu, The Regime and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, all of which perfectly placed him to write a screenplay about a disenfranchised man absorbed … Read more

US Lawmakers Demand Ethics Safeguards for Market Structure Bill: Report

Democratic leaders on key committees considering crypto market structure legislation are reportedly drawing a line in the sand over elected officials profiting off the industry. A number of Democratic lawmakers in the US Senate are reportedly pushing for conflict-of-interest guardrails in a crypto market structure bill under consideration. According to a Thursday report from Punchbowl … Read more

GH Spoilers Video: ‘All The Evidence Points To Her!’

GH Spoilers Video: ‘All The Evidence Points To Her!’ – Soap Opera Digest Use left and right arrow keys to navigate between menu items. Use escape to exit the menu. Sign In Sign InUp with your social account Continue with Google Continue with Amazon Continue with Apple We won’t post to any of your accounts … Read more

Exxon tells Trump Venezuela ‘uninvestable’ without big changes

ExxonMobil’s chief executive Darren Woods said that Venezuela is “uninvestable” without “significant changes”, striking a sceptical tone over Donald Trump’s call for a flood of investment. The head of the biggest US oil company said he was ready to put a technical team on the ground within weeks to assess opportunities in Venezuela. But he shied … Read more