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Kimi: Threat or menace? | TechCrunch

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, generating another wave of discourse about China and open source AI. Moonshot said that although Kimi K3 “still trails the most powerful proprietary models, Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol,” the new open source model “demonstrated frontier-level performance across our…

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A live-action Princess Tiana movie is in the works from Colman Domingo and Robert O’Hara

A new Disney princess might be getting the live-action treatment soon: Princess Tiana, from 2009’s The Princess and the Frog. SEE ALSO: ‘The Odyssey’ sails towards a record-breaking opening weekend On Friday, Deadline reported that Emmy and Oscar nominee Colman Domingo (Euphoria, Sing Sing) and Tony-nominated director Robert O’Hara (Slave Play) are in talks to…

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Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You

Hours of San Francisco Police Department drone video footage exposed on the open web illustrates a new era of incredibly granular—and consequential—urban surveillance. Meanwhile, the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google this week demanding that the tech giants delete 13 AI nudifying “face-swap” apps from their app stores that…

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