Saipriya pradhan

From Sidemen to MrBeast: how YouTube and its creator economy took over TV

Stars and their high-quality content enable streamers and others to pull in younger audiences From MrBeast creating the world’s most expensive reality TV show and Jake Paul’s record-breaking clash with Mike Tyson to the British supergroup Sidemen’s Netflix deal, YouTube’s superstar creators are taking over mainstream television. Last month Netflix launched the second series of…

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Italian opposition file complaint over far-right party’s use of ‘racist’ AI images

Centre-left parties slam ‘racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic’ faked images posted on social media by League party Opposition parties in Italy have complained to the communications watchdog about a series of AI-generated images published on social media by deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini’s far-right party, calling them “racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic”, the Guardian has learned. The…

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The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted microchip – review

Stephen Witt’s entertaining study of the rise of chip company Nvidia portrays its leader, Jensen Huang, as a remarkable entrepreneur – sometimes energised by anger This is the latest confirmation that the “great man” theory of history continues to thrive in Silicon Valley. As such, it joins a genre that includes Walter Isaacson’s twin tomes…

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