VCs and private equity have poured millions into AI startups seeking to disrupt film and TV production.
Startups making waves in Hollywood AI include MARZ and Deep Voodoo, founded by the creators of "South Park."
Generative AI has spawned a raft of tools with real-life applications to Hollywood — and VCs are getting in on the action.
There are already AI tools that can write full scripts.
Vendors and investors told Insider that over time, AI tools will change jobs, not replace them.
OUIDAH, Benin, Jan 11 (Reuters) - On Benin's national voodoo holiday, performers dressed as guardians of the night swirled in costumes resembling technicolour haystacks, delighting worshippers and tourists alike.
[1/7] Devotees perform as they take part in the annual celebration of Voodoo festival in Cotonou, Benin January 10, 2023.
REUTERS/ Charles Placide Tossou 1 2 3 4 5"For them, there is a lot of interest in discovering the roots of our ancestors, the African roots," she said.
Only around 350,000 tourists visited Benin in 2020, although numbers have been rising steadily since 292,000 visited in 2016, according to the most recent annual data from the World Tourism Organization.
French tourist Elodie Wine, 23, said seeing the group dances and fantastical costumes of the Ouidah festival was likely to be the highlight of her trip to Benin.
SAN FRANCISCO — Cryptocurrency hasn’t worked out so well for tech investors.
As a consumer product, supplements are associated more with the Kardashians or Joe Rogan than with Silicon Valley.
Roelof Botha, the managing partner of Sequoia Capital, one of the largest venture capital firms in the world, is among those buying in.
He said there’s a “societal reawakening” about the complex biome of the human gut where hundreds of species of bacteria live.
She co-wrote a review of the science this year, and said future probiotic supplements have promise compared to supplements that have been available for decades.
He publicly announced his purchase of Montgomery’s data in August at a gathering in Missouri of hundreds of his followers.
“I own it,” Lindell said of Montgomery’s data, touting it as irrefutable proof Trump was cheated.
On Nov. 9, far-right podcaster Joe Oltmann linked Montgomery’s Hammer and Scorecard claims to a parallel conspiracy theory: that widely used voting machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems were rigged to flip votes from Trump to Biden.
Powell amended her complaint a few days later and dropped the expert’s declaration and the references to Montgomery’s claims.
But the government said in a recent court filing that the order has nothing to do with election data.
Who knew a statistical difference of 0.228 ppt could add $3 trillion to the value of S&P 500 and Nasdaq stocks, and heaven knows how much to Treasuries as yields boasted their biggest daily drop in more than a decade.
It's not often you see the long bond up 3 points in price.
Even Euribor rallied as much as 19 ticks as the market lowered the likely peak for ECB rates, a trend echoed across futures markets.
The dollar has recouped a little of its losses today in Asia, but surprisingly little given the scale of the retreat.
If so, it would be a huge relief to the EM countries having to run down reserves to protect their currencies.
It's not often you see the long bond up 3 points in price.
Even Euribor rallied as much as 19 ticks as the market lowered the likely peak for ECB rates, a trend echoed across futures markets.
The dollar has recouped a little of its losses today in Asia, but surprisingly little given the scale of the retreat.
If so, it would be a huge relief to the EM countries having to run down reserves to protect their currencies.
Come to that, it would also be a major positive for commodities priced in USD.
Reaganomics, voodoo economics, trickle-down theory; whatever you call it, 1980s political economy is back in Britain, and the markets hate it.
The new British government announced surprise tax cuts on Friday costing about 1.8% of GDP, with no explanation of how to pay for them other than some hand-waving at “growth.”
Vasile Botnaru: Știri voodoo la televiziunea nănașulu’Am avut imprudența să mă uit la buletinul de știri la un post de televiziune cu stea în frunte.
Persons:
Vasile Botnaru, Nu .
Vasile Botnaru: Știri voodoo la televiziunea nănașulu’Am avut imprudența să mă uit la buletinul de știri la un post de televiziune cu stea în frunte.
Persons:
Vasile Botnaru, Nu .
CNN —Here’s a look at the life of Keith Richards, musician and founding member of the Rolling Stones.
July 12, 1962 - The Rolling Stones play their first gig together at the Marquee Club in London.
1988 - Releases solo album “Talk is Cheap.”1989 - The Rolling Stones are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
November 12, 2012 - The Rolling Stones release their greatest hits compilation “GRRR!”May 3, 2013 - The Rolling Stones kick off their “50 and Counting” tour at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
September 18, 2015 - Richards releases his first solo album in 23 years, “Crosseyed Heart.” Also, Netflix releases the documentary film, “Keith Richards: Under the Influence,” to coincide with the album’s release.