YouTube is plugging Veo 3 AI videos directly into Shorts

YouTube is bringing its Veo 3 AI video generation model, which my colleague Allison Johnson recently called “a slop monger’s dream,” to YouTube Shorts later this summer, according to a Cannes Lions keynote from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan. Shorts creators can already take advantage of the previous-generation Veo 2 model to generate backgrounds with Dream…

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Schumer rips Supreme Court decision upholding state ban on transgender treatments for minors: ‘Awful’

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., slammed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday to uphold Tennessee’s ban on transgender “treatments” for minors.  “This Supreme Court seems to have forgotten that one of their jobs is to protect individual rights and protect individuals from being discriminated against. It’s an awful decision,” Schumer told reporters on…

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Futureproof

AI tools are flooding the culture ecosystem — and no corner of the arts space is immune. In this series, we’re looking at the ways artists are embracing AI, pushing back on it, or trying their best to find an equilibrium with a new technology that’s both sweeping and destabilizing. We talk to perfumers questioning…

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‘The View’ hosts have fierce clash over Middle East, Whoopi Goldberg compares U.S. to Iran

“The View” co-hosts clashed fiercely during a discussion about the Middle East on Wednesday as co-host Whoopi Goldberg compared living in the United States to Iran, receiving pushback from Alyssa Farah Griffin.  “Let’s remember the Iranians throw gay people off buildings. They don’t have basic human rights,” Griffin said, as she and co-host Sara Haines…

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Sotomayor warns Skrmetti decision will cause ‘untold harm’ to transgender children in scathing dissent

Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted six of her colleagues on the Supreme Court in a blistering dissent on Wednesday for deciding to uphold a Tennessee law banning specific transgender medical treatments for minors. Sotomayor said the 6-3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti, issued along ideological lines, improperly discriminated against minors based on their sex. The…

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