CNBC

Disney's 'Zootopia 2' to hit $1 billion box office, only the second Hollywood film to do so this year

Disney Animation's "Zootopia 2" is set to cross the billion-dollar box-office mark on Friday, becoming the second Hollywood film to reach the benchmark in 2025. The film has overperformed in China, a ...
CNN

Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences. While there has been progress in ...
Newsweek

How Nancy Pelosi’s Net Worth Changed Dramatically in Congress

Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic former House Speaker, announced her retirement on Thursday. Pelosi, the only woman to ever hold the office of House Speaker, said she would not seek ...
Forbes

The Surprising Idea That Generative AI Might Be Better Off Using Visual Images Of Text Rather Than Pure Text As Tokens

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. For anyone versed in the technical underpinnings of LLMs, this ...
New Scientist

Is reading always better for your brain than listening to audiobooks?

As an avid reader – and an author, too – I’m disheartened by frequent reports of a decline in reading for pleasure among young people. So when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was ...
Hacker

How to Read and Write Files from Oracle Forms Using WebUtil

Vinish Kapoor is an Oracle ACE Pro, software developer, and founder of Vinish.dev, known for his expertise in Oracle. Vinish Kapoor is an Oracle ACE Pro, software developer, and founder of Vinish.dev, ...
The New York Times

I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University. July 18, 2025 When I first told ChatGPT who I was, it sent a gushing reply: “Oh wow — it ...
CNET

How to Summarize Text Using Google's Gemini AI

If you do a lot of your work using Google apps like Google Docs and Sheets, Gemini could help increase your productivity. Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist and storyteller at ...
The New Yorker

What’s Happening to Reading?

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...
VentureBeat

A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more

A two-person startup by the name of Nari Labs has introduced Dia, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-speech (TTS) model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts — and one of ...
Rolling Stone

Are Em Dashes Really a Sign of AI Writing?

In the escalating arms race between AI models like ChatGPT and human beings trying to determine if what they’re reading was machine-generated, there is no easy or surefire way to spot the bot — or is ...