X Pauses Taylor Swift Searches as Deepfake Explicit Images Spread

Attempts to search for her name on the site resulted in an error message and a prompt for users to retry their search, which added, “Don’t fret — it’s not your fault.” Searches for variations of her name such as “taylorswift” and “Taylor Swift AI” turned up the same error messages. “This is a …

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Xi Jinping celebrates China’s rising power — and his own

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: That was decidedly warmer than Mr. Trump’s past criticism of China and its economic and trade policies. But other U.S. officials are more critical of Beijing’s actions. REX TILLERSON, Secretary of State: China, while rising alongside India, has done so less responsibly. Source link

News Wrap: Sessions insists he didn’t lie about Russian contacts to Senate

HARI SREENIVASAN: The Post also reported on another incident today. It quoted the father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan as saying the president offered $25,000 from his personal account, but never followed through. We will get more detail on all of this after the news summary. The death toll in Northern California’s wildfires …

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Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments

Sir Lucian Grainge, the chairman and C.E.O. of Universal Music Group, the largest music company in the world, is curious, empathetic, and, if not exactly humble, a master of the humblebrag. His superpower is his humanity. A sixty-three-year-old Englishman, who was knighted in 2016 for his contributions to the music industry and has topped …

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Politics threatens to spoil Paris 2024 Olympics – POLITICO

Despite the IOC’s ultimate recommendation to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in Paris as neutrals — that is, without a national flag or anthem — the International Gymnastics Federation recently decided not to include any Russian gymnasts on the list of athletes permitted to take part in qualifying competitions for the 2024 …

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Surprise as Black Democrats work with Republicans to undo electoral maps | Michigan

A lawsuit brought by Black Democrats who partnered with Republican attorneys has undone Michigan’s first independently drawn legislative maps, in a development some other Democrats have labeled a GOP “power grab”. Republicans for decades controlled all or part of the state legislature, and developed districts that a judge in 2019 characterized as a “gerrymander …

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Trump Tears Into UAW President: ‘Get Rid of This Dope’

Ronda Churchill/Reuters Donald Trump’s feud with United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain shifted up a gear on Sunday with the former president calling the union boss a “STIFF” who is playing into the hands of China. The 2024 GOP frontrunner’s screed came after Fain denounced Trump earlier in the day during an appearance on …

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Florida Lost $2.7 Billion in One Year Due to Red Tides

Florida’s toxic red tide has caused losses of billions of dollars in just one year, due to a lack of tourists. The state’s economy is estimated to have lost $2.7 billion due to the red tide blooms that occurred in 2018, a new study from the University of Central Florida’s Rosen College of Hospitality …

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