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- ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Closing Adds To Broadway’s Financial Crunch
Broadway faces an escalating financial crisis, with production costs soaring to unsustainable levels. The fundamental problem lies in a lack of government support.
- Trump Calls Fauci ‘Crazy,’ Says He Was ‘Trying To Protect China’ Ahead Of Senate Hearing
Dr. Anthony Fauci is set to testify before a Senate committee Wednesday morning, days after Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released more than 1,000 pages of his diaries.
- Lawsuit: Penske and Boehly staged Golden Globes boycott to buy it cheap
Former HFPA members say Todd Boehly and Jay Penske engineered a scandal, then swooped in — and now they want $150 million back.
- ‘The Odyssey’ Is So Huge, It’s Produced A No. 1 Album
Ludwig Göransson reaches No. 1 on the U.K.'s Official Soundtrack Albums chart for the first time — after missing out on the top spot by one space earlier this year — with The Odyssey.
- Exclusive: Polymarket launches institute to fund independent academic research on prediction markets
The Polymarket Institute, which the company says is the first of its kind, will examine how event markets challenge traditional polling and projection models.
Technology
- What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?
AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.
- The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, used to work late. But lately, he’s been clocking out on time and heading…
- Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation
Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.
- Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?
Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded.
- The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI
It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury. But that’s exactly what the company 1X promised when it showed off a pair of new, impressively dexterous (and, to some,…
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