Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini

Sergey Brin holds no executive title at Google. He has nonetheless become increasingly influential over Gemini, the company’s flagship AI model, Business Insider reported, citing eight current and former employees. The Google cofounder works from a converted microkitchen in Gradient Canopy, a building at the company’s Mountain View headquarters. Some of the people said recent…

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Celebs Who Are Into The Witchy Stuff!

Written in the stars, channeled by the tarot cards, cast in a spell… Some celebrities rely on every superpower they’ve got for good luck and manifestation! Call them modern-day witches, if you will! In honor of Practical Magic 2 coming out this weekend (click here for Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock‘s surprise) — and American…

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Revised CLARITY Act targets ‘non-decentralized’ DeFi operators

The bill’s ethics section remained largely unchanged despite being one of the main points of contention ahead of a pivotal Senate vote. A revised version of the CLARITY Act would direct United States regulators to determine whether people or groups controlling “non-decentralized finance trading protocols” must comply with securities, commodities and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements….

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This Is Lorelei prefers to be prolific

This Is Lorelei prefers to be prolific The Brooklyn songwriter talks his instinctual writing practice, adapting to tour life, and getting sober. By Tobias Hess This Is Lorelei (Nate Amos) is getting used to people caring about his songs. Over the past decade, Amos let his pen and guitar fly free, releasing dozens and dozens…

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‘Being Heumann’ Review: Siân Heder’s Drama About the Fight for Disability Rights Strikes Familiar Notes but Gets the Inspirational Uplift Job Done

In the first and best of many late ‘70s needle drops that punctuate Being Heumann, the punchy guitar groove of Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger” starts out over a close-up of wheels turning on pavement before the camera pulls back to take in disability rights activist Judy Heumann, maneuvering her wheelchair around crowded city streets and refusing…

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Amazon pilots ChatGPT Ads through its DSP

Amazon is piloting access to ChatGPT Ads through Amazon DSP, letting U.S. advertisers extend campaigns into conversational ads. Amazon is partnering with OpenAI to let advertisers extend campaigns from Amazon DSP into ChatGPT, giving brands another way to buy into the chatbot’s growing advertising inventory. Driving the news. ChatGPT Ads inventory will be available through…

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Mark Wahlberg is coming to Disrupt 2026

Let’s just get this out of the way: Mark Wahlberg is as A-list as it gets. He broke out in 1997’s “Boogie Nights,” and in the nearly three decades since, he’s built one of the highest-wattage careers in Hollywood: two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe nod for “The Fighter,” multiple Emmy nominations as a…

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