Mastodawn

Keri Douglas Jul 11, 2023

Steve Herman Jul 10, 2023

Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors file copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and #OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train #AI language models. https://www.reuters.com/legal/sarah-silverman-sues-meta-openai-copyright-infringement-2023-07-09/

Sarah Silverman sues Meta, OpenAI for copyright infringement

Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/META.O" target="_blank">(META.O)</a> and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models.

Reuters

Keri Douglas Jul 10, 2023

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/10/i-wanted-vengeance-tibets-last-resistance-fighter

Tibet’s last resistance fighter.

‘I wanted vengeance’: Tibet’s last resistance fighter

Tibet was communist China’s first conquest and now, Tibetans are working to tell the story of how they resisted Beijing.

Al Jazeera

Keri Douglas Jul 7, 2023

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/spirited-amateurs-crack-codes-from-mary-queen-of-scots-letters-latest-tpt9mrph3

Decoding letters by Mary Queen of Scots while in prison in England

The spirited amateurs who crack codes in letters from Mary, Queen of Scots

A musician, a computer scientist and a patent expert made headlines around the world in February when they cracked the code of Mary, Queen of Scots, which had lain unacknowledged for 400 years

The Times

Keri Douglas Jul 4, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/03/astronomers-observe-time-dilation-in-early-universe

Astronomers observe time dilation in early universe.

Astronomers observe time dilation in early universe

Events appear to unfold five times slower when universe was a tenth of its present age, in effect predicted by Einstein

The Guardian

Keri Douglas Jul 3, 2023

Andrew Stroehlein Jul 3, 2023

#journalism #jobs: We're looking for someone in Europe with at least 10 years of professional news editing experience in both English & French for some part-time editing work on our media products.

➡️ Contact me if interested & PLEASE SHARE.

Keri Douglas Jul 2, 2023

KCRW IN LA on AI and the future of voice cloning and ownership. #ai #cloning #voiceactors #kcrw

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/artificial-intelligence-jessy-lanza-craft-contemporary/ai-voice-actors

AI makes it easy to clone voices, but who really owns them?

Voice actors work on cartoons, commercials, video games, and more. Now that artificial intelligence makes cloning voices easier, jobs are in trouble, even as other jobs may be created.

KCRW

Keri Douglas Jul 2, 2023

Mastodon Users Jul 1, 2023

12,900,225 accounts
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Keri Douglas Jul 1, 2023

Lukasz Olejnik Jul 1, 2023

Let's see what happens now with such a new Twitter policy.

Keri Douglas Apr 1, 2023

Wendy Siegelman Apr 1, 2023

NEW: Jared Kushner's firm just published new filings showing the firm has over $3 billion in assets under management

My latest post follows recent reporting from the NYT that a United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth fund invested over $200 million in Kushner's firm and a Qatari entity did the same. This is in addition to $2 billion invested by Saudi Arabia.

#Kushner #JaredKushner #AFinManagement #AffinityPartners #SaudiArabia #UAE #Qatar

https://newstracs.com/jared-kushners-advisory-firm-has-just-reported-that-they-have-over-3-billion-in-assets-under-management/2023/04/01/

Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners reports $3 billion in assets under management

Kushner's firm has just reported over $3 billion in assets under management. Following are highlights, links and the pdfs for more details.

NewsTRACS

Keri Douglas Feb 2, 2023

https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/2023/02/02/new-archive-treasure-trove-to-map-the-history-of-the-uae/

Treasure trove of old documents of history of the UAE.

New archive treasure trove to map the history of the UAE

Second phase of the Arabian Gulf Digital Archive – a digitisation project between the UAE and the UK – will see hundreds of thousands of files made available online

The National