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Scarlett Johansson, who voiced the AI Samantha in that movie, said last week that she had hired lawyers after she heard GPT-4o using a voice that sounded “eerily similar” to her own. This was after Sam Altman tried to hire her to voice the AI bot, and she declined. 

OpenAI paused the voice, saying a different actress was behind it, and that the voice was cast before Altman reached out to Johansson. That one of the AI voices sounds a great deal like a Hollywood star who declined to work with OpenAI is purely coincidental. OK!

It’s not a good look for OpenAI, which is facing continued questions over its truthfulness right as it tries to become a fixture in all of our lives.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said OpenAI might have breached YouTube’s terms when training its Sora model. Authors are taking legal action over breach of copyright. There have been multiple high-profile departures in recent months.

Six months on from his brief ouster as CEO, Altman is under pressure again.

So far, it’s been a disaster.

Inside Ellison’s disastrous bet on healthcare.

The cofounders say automation will challenge an industry rife with arbitrary decision-making — and it could wind up saving patients tens of thousands of dollars.

Here’s how it works.

A portion of the generation is focused more on financial independence than cutting out work completely. The result means they can create their own version of life after work.

Millennials throw some cold water on FIRE.

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But now it’s become a full-blown epidemic as builders try to redevelop portions of cities into their image. And it’s not just an innocent name game. Oftentimes it’s about erasing the history — and pushing residents out — of the original neighborhood.

The great neighborhood renaming.

“I channeled a thick-skinned character who thrived in a man’s world.”

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Matt Turner, deputy editor-in-chief, in New York. Jordan Parker Erb, editor, in New York. Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York. Grace Lett, associate editor, in Chicago. Lisa Ryan, executive editor, in New York.

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