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Archives for August 2024

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Oprah will interview Sam Altman, Bill Gates, MKBHD, and more next month.

She’ll be speaking to them as part of an ABC special, titled “AI and the Future of Us,” that will debut on September 12th at 8ET and be available on Hulu the next day, TheWrap reports.

Adi Robertson
Adi Robertson
SB 1047 has passed the California Senate.

The Senate was widely expected to pass the bill, which has now officially cleared every hurdle except a final signature from Governor Gavin Newsom. Newsom has until the end of September to make his call.

Adi Robertson
Adi Robertson
Midjourney is “getting into hardware.”

As Ars Technica notes, the AI image generator company was founded by former Leap Motion CTO David Holz and recently hired former Apple Vision Pro engineer Ahmad Abbas, so it’s got some hardware design veterans on board. And apparently it’s not making an AI pendant. Beyond that, your guess is as good as ours.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Napoleon: The Director’s Cut has invaded Apple TV Plus.

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon was already huge (runtime-wise) when it hit Apple TV Plus back in March, but with “48 minutes of new, never-before-seen footage,” the new Director’s Cut that has just hit the streamer (right on time for Labor Day weekend) is even bigger.