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The biggest power play in media right now involves Elon Musk and a potential ten billion dollar SpaceX investment into a combined Paramount and Warner Bros. entity under Skydance. If it goes through, one of the wealthiest and most influential figures in technology could control an enormous share of how Americans consume news and entertainment.
On a different kind of consent violation, British singer IAMDDB is speaking out after the Israeli government used an AI-generated video featuring her likeness without her permission. She's been clear that she does not support the use of her image for political purposes, and her statement raises urgent questions about how AI tools are being weaponized to put words and faces where they were never offered.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of art and technology, the winners of the two thousand twenty six Epson International Pano Awards have been announced, showcasing panoramic photography pushed to its limits. As AI image generation floods the internet, these human-captured, technically demanding images serve as a quiet reminder of what deliberate craft still looks like.
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