One Battle After Another is, as the refrain goes on social media, “the movie of the year.” Paul Thomas Anderson’s propulsive, nearly three-hour loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland starring Leonardo DiCaprio has been the rare grown-up drama that’s drawn enormous critical praise, high audience scores, and solid box office – crossing the $100 million mark worldwide to score the …
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Getty Images Indigo Sun has more than 100 tanning salons across the UK A Scottish-based tanning salon chain made “irresponsible” claims that sunbed use reduced cancer and heart disease deaths, the advertising watchdog has said. Indigo Sun ran an online ad saying moderate, responsible sunbed use brought major health benefits, citing a University of Edinburgh study to make its case. …
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Experts at OpenAI and Anthropic are calling out Elon Musk and xAI for refusing to publish any safety research — and for potentially not having done any at all. In the wake of Grok, xAI’s chatbot, calling itself “MechaHitler” and publicly spewing a ton of racist and antisemitic vitriol, safety experts at those rival firms are, as flagged by TechCrunch, extremely …
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