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☆ Judge bars 'pharma bro' Martin Shkreli from streaming Wu-Tang Clan album after suit says he copied it
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

A federal judge temporarily barred notorious "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli from streaming or disseminating copies of a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album he had forfeited as part of his criminal fraud conviction in 2017. Steven Cooper, a lawyer for PleasrDAO, said Wednesday that he could not comment on whether he has been in touch with prosecutors on Shkreli's alleged violation of his forfeiture order. Shkreli bought the Wu-Tang Clan album in 2015 for $2 million, setting a Guinness world record for the most expensive musical work ever sold. The 31-track, two-disc Wu-Tang Clan album, came in a hand-carved, nickel-and-silver-cased box set, which itself was nestled in a larger leather box. At the time of the sale, Shkreli owed almost $2.4 million on the forfeiture order.

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☆ Opinion | Ethics Questions Raised by Secret Recordings of Justices
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

She is at a private event, not open to journalists. She baits them with leading questions, trying to trap them into agreeing with her stated opinions. One reasonable interpretation is that Justice Alito was agreeing merely to be polite. Lauren Windsor is no brave agent working to trap a drug gang leader, or working in the resistance behind enemy lines. Most decent people of all political persuasions will be disgusted by her behavior and sympathize with the justices who were the victims of her dishonesty.

Persons: Alito, Lauren Windsor, Samuel Alito, John Roberts Organizations: Historical Society

☆ Opinion: The complicated ethics of the secret Alito recording
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Opinion David Zurawik | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —As a journalist and professor who teaches media ethics, I have long been against the kind of undercover secret recording activist Lauren Windsor made of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts. Join us on Twitter and FacebookWhat Windsor discovered does not tell me as much as ProPublica and The New York Times have about the secrecy and shocking lack of ethics in the Supreme Court. But she did make me think Alito is even farther to the religious right than I thought. But while the approach was similar, Maryland has a law against secret recordings; two-person consent is required. But she broke no law in taking us behind closed doors and a little further into the mind of Alito.

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☆ The Alitos and Roberts discuss politically sensitive topics in secret recordings by liberal activist
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —A left-wing activist on Monday released secret recordings of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts, discussing a range of politically sensitive topics. Video Ad Feedback Filmmaker reveals why she secretly recorded Supreme Court Justice Alito and his wife 03:12 - Source: CNNAlito did not respond to questions from CNN about his comments or those of his wife, Martha-Ann. “So they’ll go to hell,” Martha-Ann Alito says in the recording. You come after me, I’m going to give it back to you,” Martha-Ann Alito said. But there will be a way – they will know.”James Duff, the executive director of the Supreme Court Historical Society, slammed the recordings in a statement on Monday.

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☆ The secret recordings of Alito and Roberts will likely backfire
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewEarly Monday, Rolling Stone reported that a documentary filmmaker posing as a Catholic conservative created secret audio recordings of conversations with Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito at an exclusive charity gala. Advertisement"One side or the other is going to win," Alito told Windsor at the event, according to both outlets. Windsor told The Times that making the secret recordings was the only way she believed she could get answers to her questions. "I mean, whether or not Justice Alito thinks that the country's political or tribal divisions are likely to be solved anytime soon doesn't tell us very much." Representatives for the Supreme Court did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.

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☆ AI can't be trusted to do good work. I earn $500 an hour fixing its mistakes.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Bailey Varness | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AI voices can't be directed to keep up with it. With AI voices, a video has already been produced, so I have to match the speed that AI created and still make it sound good. AI voices end up costing moreAI makes a lot of common mistakes. AI voices can give a casual, boring read that most marketers think will be fine, but they can't change tone or enthusiasm. AdvertisementBeware the legal ramifications of using AI voicesThere's also a good chance that if you're using an AI voice, it's been stolen.

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☆ African elephants address each other with name-like calls, study suggests
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Wild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal names used by humans, a new study suggests. These elephants learn, recognize and use individualized name-like calls to address others of their kind, seemingly without using imitation, according to the study published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. Caregiver rumbles are used by an adolescent or adult female toward a calf she is caring for, according to the study. All the elephants could be individually identified by the shape of their ears, as they had been monitored continuously for decades, according to the study. The study authors were not able to conclusively determine whether different elephants used the same name to refer to the same individual, or if they addressed the same individual with different names.

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☆ How Israel is using AI to try to get Americans on its side
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewIsrael tried to drum up American support for its war in Gaza with a secret influence campaign targeting US lawmakers and civilians, according to The New York Times. AdvertisementMeta said in its report that it had identified the disinformation campaign, which it linked to Stoic, and removed the accounts. According to a Gallup poll conducted in March, 55% of Americans disapprove of Israel's war in Gaza — and just 36% approve, down from 50% in November. AdvertisementAnd Israel has said it isn't slowing down any time soon, despite a push by the Biden administration to reach a cease-fire.

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Washington CNN —Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared defiant Tuesday as he spent hours fielding questions from lawmakers on a range of topics, occasionally sparring with Republican House members seeking to use his testimony to attack the Justice Department. “These repeated attacks on the Justice Department are unprecedented, and they are unfounded,” he told lawmakers. “I will not be intimidated, and the Justice Department will not be intimidated. “It is not the fault of the Department of Justice that Donald Trump has surrounded himself with criminals,” Lieu said. “Trump brought that upon himself.”Lieu also noted that President Biden’s son Hunter is being prosecuted “in federal court right now” by Garland’s Justice Department.

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☆ Takeaways from Day 2 of the Hunter Biden federal gun trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Marshall Cohen | Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

It doesn’t matter who you are or what your name is.”Melissa Cohen Biden, Hunter Biden’s wife, vigorously shook her head in disapproval when Hines argued that Biden knew he was an addict when he bought the gun. Lowell, well into his statement, had explained how despite claims from prosecutors, the evidence doesn’t show Biden was using drugs the day he bought the gun. Video Ad Feedback Ex-federal prosecutor expects Hunter Biden to be found guilty. The dealer ended the text with, “We will always be friends, bro.”A video of Hunter Biden shirtless is seen on screen during the trial on Tuesday in Wilmington, Delaware. Bill HennessyIn other messages, Biden said he was “sleeping on a car smoking crack” at a street corner in downtown Wilmington that’s only a few blocks away from the federal courthouse where the trial is under way.

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☆ Feds raise concerns that releasing Biden audio would spark a deepfake frenzy
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. The DOJ clapped back against the groups in a legal filing late last week, arguing that releasing the audio could ignite an AI-powered, deepfake frenzy. Though a full transcript of the Biden-Hur interview was released in March, Republicans have been demanding the DOJ release the audio recordings. Nearly a dozen news outlets, including Business Insider, have also sued to get the audio released, Politico reported. A politics and national security expert previously told Business Insider that Republicans could, for example, use the tapes as "raw material for campaign ads."

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☆ Trump's jury asked to re-hear the judge's 'rain metaphor' instruction — here's what that might mean
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe jury in Donald Trump's criminal hush-money trial had a specific request before starting deliberations on Thursday — they asked to hear again what they described in a note as the judge's "rain metaphor" instruction. It advises a jury that they can infer that it's raining — by seeing someone's wet umbrella, for example — even if they don't see the rain themselves. The "rain metaphor," as the jury note called it, is often used by judges in jury instructions. AdvertisementOn Wednesday afternoon, they asked for the judge to read back roughly a half-hour of testimony. After the judge completed his recitation of the jury instructions, two of the court stenographers re-read portions of the testimony.

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☆ Sean ‘Diddy Combs’: A federal grand jury may soon hear from accusers
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | Josh Campbell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Federal investigators are preparing to bring accusers of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs before a federal grand jury, two sources familiar with the probe tell CNN — signaling the US Justice Department is moving toward potentially seeking an indictment of Combs. Combs has been named in eight civil lawsuits since November – seven directly accusing him of sexual assault. One of the eight lawsuits, filed by former girlfriend Cassie Ventura, has been settled. Now, additional sources told CNN that the majority of the plaintiffs who have filed civil suits against Combs have been interviewed by federal investigators. Federal investigators are now “digging deeper,” and some of the accusers have been questioned numerous times, a source said.

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☆ GameChanger's AI tech is helping support youth sports and showcase more than 7 million games annually
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Chris Stokel-Walker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

This article is part of "CXO AI Playbook" — straight talk from business leaders on how they're testing and using AI. AdvertisementFor "CXO AI Playbook," Business Insider takes a look at mini case studies about AI adoption across industries, company sizes, and technology DNA. We've asked each of the featured companies to tell us about the problems they're trying to solve with AI, who's making these decisions internally, and their vision for using AI in the future. Users capture more than 7 million games annually through the smartphone app, with more than 750,000 teams using the platform each year. The company is also planning to expand its engineering and product teams to bolster its AI competency.

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☆ Trump’s Case Heads to the Jury: 5 Takeaways From Closing Arguments
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Jesse Mckinley | Kate Christobek | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As the criminal trial of Donald J. Trump began its seventh week, the prosecution and the defense made their final pitches to jurors, sending the landmark case into deliberations on Wednesday. A defense lawyer, Todd Blanche, spent three hours Tuesday hammering Michael D. Cohen, the prosecution’s star witness, including accusing him of perjury. He attacked Stormy Daniels, the porn star whose account of a tryst with Mr. Trump in 2006 set in motion the charges the former president faces. Mr. Trump, 77, is charged with falsifying 34 business records to hide Mr. Cohen’s reimbursement for a $130,000 hush-money payment he made to Ms. Daniels. Mr. Trump has denied the charges and the sexual encounter.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Todd Blanche, Michael D, Cohen, Stormy Daniels, Joshua Steinglass, Daniels

☆ A new Netflix docuseries unravels what it calls a ‘cult’ for TikTok dancers
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Over two years ago, a 40-minute-long public plea made on Instagram Live rippled across social media. Melanie and Miranda had performed together as the Wilking Sisters, but the family said Derrick had disappeared from their lives. Until then, it’s unlikely that Derrick’s millions of followers would have noticed anything amiss, based on her social media accounts. Melanie Wilking and Miranda Derrick (formerly Wilking) built up a following together on social media platforms including YouTube and TikTok as the Wilking Sisters. They have maintained through social media posts that Miranda's issues with her family are a personal dispute.

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☆ Opinion: Here’s how I, as an attorney, would try to persuade the Trump jury in closing arguments
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Opinion Joey Jackson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

If the jury agrees, Trump would become a convicted felon, and could face up to four years in prison. But Trump’s defense attorneys will have much to say Tuesday about the evidence presented by prosecutors in an attempt to avoid that outcome. As to ledgers and invoices keeping track of these checks, Trump is the owner of the organization, not the bookkeeper or finance person. Cohen claims Trump was with the bodyguard at the time, and that he handed Trump the phone. The evidence shows that in order for checks to be issued to Cohen, Trump would have had to give his approval.

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☆ UK rainforests: Photos reveal the ancient and rare woodland habitat
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Nell Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Lush greens, tangled wood, blurs of light – giant images of rainforests hang on the walls of a church in London. The images are not of tropical rainforests, but very rare temperate rainforest in the UK. Forest bathingVestey’s first trip to a temperate rainforest was in Devon, southwest England. Since then, Vestey estimated she has visited around 60% of the remaining temperate rainforests in the UK. They started spending more time in the ancient woodland at Cabilla, their family’s 300-acre farm on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.

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☆ OpenAI is really, really trying to show it didn't copy Scarlett Johansson's voice
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI's "Sky" voice was not created to sound like Scarlett Johansson, The Washington Post reported. The agent for the actor who voiced "Sky" told the outlet Johansson was never mentioned by OpenAI. Johansson said the bot's voice was "eerily similar" to her own, despite declining to be involved. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementChatGPT's "Sky" voice was never explicitly intended to sound like Scarlett Johansson, according to documents that OpenAI shared with The Washington Post.

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Another group recently compared messages translated by humans and A.I. A Democratic firm tested four versions of a voice-over ad — two spoken by humans, two by A.I. The era of artificial intelligence has officially arrived on the campaign trail. With less than six months until the 2024 election, the political uses of A.I. The Biden campaign said it has strictly limited its use of generative A.I.

Persons: Biden, Trump Organizations: Democratic Locations: Mississippi

☆ The chilling parallels a woman sees between the Trump trial and her accusations against Harvey Weinstein
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

I reported him and then I just tried to follow the justice and what they told me to do,” Battilana Gutierrez told CNN in a recent interview. Battilana Gutierrez says she sees chilling parallels between the alleged conspiracy surrounding a hush-money payment connected to Trump and what happened to her. “It would be very interesting to see if he had to speak about the Harvey Weinstein trial,” Battilana Gutierrez said of Pecker. Of Battilana Gutierrez, he added, “Harvey wishes her well and hopes only for happiness and success for her.”Eventually, Battilana Gutierrez did sign a non-disclosure agreement with Weinstein’s legal team. Mark Peterson/Redux“Both Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump were ‘FOPs’ – Friends of Pecker,” Cartwright told CNN.

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☆ This Man Did Not Invent Bitcoin
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( David Yaffe-Bellany | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For much of its existence, the cryptocurrency company nChain was governed by a golden rule of office politics: It was not a good idea to challenge Craig Steven Wright, the chief science officer. At nChain’s London offices, Dr. Wright, an Australian computer scientist, was treated as a sort of philosopher king. In 2017, Martin Sewell, an nChain employee, circulated a skeptical memo documenting technical errors in a series of papers that Dr. Wright had published about economics and computer science. A manager called Mr. Sewell into his office and told him that he had to stop. The deference to Dr. Wright “was just this extraordinary arrangement,” Mr. Sewell recalled.

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☆ Amazon, Meta back Scale AI in $1 billion funding deal that values firm at $14 billion
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Riley De León | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Artificial intelligence startup Scale AI said Tuesday that it has raised $1 billion in a Series F funding round that values the enterprise tech company at $13.8 billion — almost double its last reported valuation. 12 on this year's CNBC Disruptor 50 list, has now raised $1.6 billion to date. Existing investors including Y Combinator, Nat Friedman, Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Coatue, Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, Nvidia, Tiger Global Management, Greenoaks, and Wellington Management also participated in the round. Scale AI is playing a key role in the rise of generative artificial intelligence and large language models, with the data — whether it is text, images, video or voice recordings — needing to be labeled correctly before it can be digested and used effectively by AI technology. Scale AI has evolved from labeling data used to train models that powered autonomous driving to now helping to improve and fine tune the underlying data for nearly any organization looking to implement AI, powering some of the most advanced models in use.

Persons: Elad Gil, Y Combinator, Nat Friedman, Alexandr Wang Organizations: CNBC, Accel, Cisco Investments, Intel Capital, ServiceNow Ventures, AMD Ventures, WCM, Color Genomics, Meta, Ventures, Founders Fund, Spark Capital, Nvidia, Tiger Global Management, Wellington Management Locations: San Francisco, AGI

CNN —Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett criticized Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her “racist,” following a tense House Oversight markup Thursday evening that quickly devolved into personal attacks. Speaking to reporters on Friday about the incident, Crockett said, “That’s all it is, it is racism. After a series of votes in response to Greene’s explosive rhetoric, Crockett made a dig that appeared to be directed at the Republican. Crockett said on Friday that Greene is unserious and does not respect the process. The top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, said that House Republicans’ behavior “brought disgrace to the whole institution,” criticizing Greene’s conduct in the hearing.

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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks while meeting with the Joint Chiefs and Combatant Commanders in the Cabinet Room of the White House May 15, 2024 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over an audio recording of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur, the Republican federal prosecutor who declined to recommend charges against the president over his handling of classified documents. White House counsel Ed Siskel notified Reps. James Comer and Jim Jordan of the decision in a letter on Thursday. The decision came after Attorney General Merrick Garland recommended that Biden assert executive privilege. Biden defended his memory, and Garland later said it would be "absurd" for him to have tried to block Hur's language about the president's memory.

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