A new Hollywood-focused startup is proposing the use of so-called “AI bounty hunters” to help studios track down potential misuse of film and television content generated by artificial intelligence, according to a report from Deadline. The company, called LightBar, is developing a system that would allow internet users to test AI tools and submit examples […]

Casey Wasserman, the Los Angeles entertainment executive leading preparations for the 2028 Olympic Games, plans to sell his talent agency following mounting backlash tied to newly released documents connected to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Wasserman announced the decision in a memo to employees Friday, saying his appearance in recently unsealed Justice Department files had […]

Hundreds of judges across the nation have ruled over 4,400 times that President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement arm is detaining people unlawfully, according to a new Reuters review of court documents. And that’s just since October.  The Trump administration’s immense increase in detainments rests, in part, on their decision to detain people while their immigration […]

Police in West Covina are searching for an 18-month-old boy who investigators say was abducted Friday evening by a relative who remains at large. Officers with the West Covina Police Department responded around 5:50 p.m. Feb. 13 to a residence following a reported kidnapping, according to authorities. Investigators said Isaiah Sunel Nava, 18 months old, […]

A teenager was rushed to a hospital after gunfire erupted during a street takeover in downtown Los Angeles overnight. According to a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson, officers were in the area of 18th and Main streets when they heard gunshots ring out around 1:06 a.m. Saturday. “The officers arrived and located a street takeover that was just dispersing,” the LAPD spokesperson said. […]

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University walked out of their introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and limited view” that perpetuated “a problematic and inefficient system of […]

On Oct. 28, 1954, the day he received word that he had won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Ernest Hemingway made a decision few expected. He announced he was gifting his Nobel Prize medal to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Charity in Cuba, (the Virgin de la Caridad del Cobre).

The logistics have been smooth, but 19 deaths suggests some serious problems that need to be addressed.