The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">band</a> KISS just played their last live <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">show</a>, but promised they’d be back as digital avatars.
The band concluded their &#8220;End of the Road&#8221; farewell tour in New York City at Madison Square Garden by revealing the new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/technology">digital images</a> onstage.
&#8220;We can be forever young and forever iconic by taking us to places we&#8217;ve never dreamed of before,&#8221; KISS bassist Gene Simmons said in an announcement <a href="https://vimeo.com/890053166/432d6a9749">video</a> release over the weekend. &#8220;The technology is going to make Paul (Stanley) jump higher than he&#8217;s ever done before.&#8221;
The avatars were created by George Lucas&#8217; visual effects company, Industrial Light and Magic, and Pophouse Entertainment. The digital versions of each musician were made using motion capture technology.
“Today, A New Era Begins. #KISSARMY, the end is only the beginning! KISS have been immortalized and reborn as avatars to rock forever. #KISSNEWERA,” the X post from the band&#8217;s official account said.
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Today, A New Era Begins. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KISSARMY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KISSARMY</a>, the end is only the beginning!
KISS have been immortalized and reborn as avatars to rock forever. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KISSNEWERA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KISSNEWERA</a> 
WATCH NOW <a href="https://t.co/Khudwx7cud">https://t.co/Khudwx7cud</a> <a href="https://t.co/2jz7OOmKTj">pic.twitter.com/2jz7OOmKTj</a>
&mdash; KISS (@kiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/kiss/status/1731176586718683510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Kiss could have a concert in three cities in the same night across three different continents. That&#8217;s what you could do with this,&#8221; Pophouse CEO Per Sundin <a href="https://apnews.com/article/kiss-digital-avatars-end-of-road-finale-37a8ae9905099343c7b41654b2344d0c">told</a> the Associated Press.
Fans had mixed reactions on social media.
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“No thank you. We like real humans performing rock music,” one commenter <a href="https://twitter.com/AceofSpadesRCG/status/1731198049353974180">said</a>.
&#8220;Oh boy, we can pay even more money not to hear real people sing live,&#8221; another <a href="https://twitter.com/OuchYOMH/status/1731177564167684193">agreed</a>. 
A third account <a href="https://twitter.com/nexusothecrisis/status/1731181735344214160">posted</a>, “Scrap this plan and have Tommy and Eric lead a new band. This is&#8230;weird,” referring to lead guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer.
Not everyone hated the idea, however. Some were open to seeing KISS perform as digital avatars.
&#8220;This new hologram project won&#8217;t be able to replicate the feel of an original live show, but I think it is a great idea for a show that keeps the legacy alive after the band is over,” one Instagram comment said.
KISS won’t be the first band to attempt to use this new technology to keep touring without going on the road. ABBA kicked off their “Voyage” virtual concert in 2022 in London using the same type of digital avatars created by Industrial Light and Magic. 
Variety reviewer Mark Sutherland <a href="https://variety.com/2023/music/news/abba-voyage-virtual-concert-tour-1235541368/">wrote</a> of the ABBA show, “At first, the movements seem a little too jerky, the lines a little too obvious. But then, just as when you saw the initially-somewhat-unconvincing dinosaurs in ‘Jurassic Park’ for the first time, your eyes adjust, the willing suspension of disbelief kicks in, and they begin to feel like living, breathing musicians, rather than the product of 160 motion capture cameras and one billion computing hours by Industrial Light &amp; Magic.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/openai-unleashes-new-ai-model-gpt-4-which-can-pass-academic-exams-program-software-and-even-do-taxes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OpenAI</a>, the parent company of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-reveals-what-we-really-need-to-fear-about-ai-chatbots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ChatGPT</a>, brought back its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman days after removing him.
The Silicon Valley enterprise, which was facing the prospect of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/openai-staff-threaten-revolt-after-sudden-ouster-of-ceo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">staff revolt</a> and possible <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/openai-investors-consider-suing-board-altmans-ouster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legal action</a> by investors over the firing, announced an &#8220;agreement in principle&#8221; for Altman&#8217;s return late Tuesday, Pacific time.
Greg Brockman, another co-founder and president of OpenAI <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/greg-brockman-quits-openai-after-abrupt-firing-of-sam-altman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who quit</a> after Altman&#8217;s ouster, also <a href="https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1727208843137179915" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he was coming back and &#8220;getting back to coding tonight.&#8221;
Part of the deal, as explained by OpenAI in <a href="https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1727206187077370115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a post to X</a>, involved putting together a &#8220;new initial board&#8221; with former Salesforce.com CEO Bret Taylor as chairman and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers as a member.
The post also said Adam D&#8217;Angelo, co-founder of question-and-answer platform Quora and independent director of the board that fired Altman, would stay on and serve as a member of the new board.
&#8220;We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this,&#8221; OpenAI concluded.
Altman, who served as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-chatgpt-openai-ceo-career-net-worth-ycombinator-prepper-2023-1#loopt-was-part-of-the-first-group-of-eight-companies-at-startup-accelerator-y-combinator-each-startup-got-6000-per-founder-and-loopt-was-in-the-same-batch-as-reddit-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">president</a> of startup accelerator Y Combinator and had led OpenAI since 2019, was abruptly let go on Friday.
In announcing the move, the OpenAI&#8217;s board <a href="https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> Altman &#8220;was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-board-fight.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> there had been tensions between Altman and the board on the issue of striking a balance between artificial intelligence safety and expansion.
A power struggle ensued over the weekend that <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/openai-s-murati-aims-to-re-hire-altman-brockman-after-exits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> included the interim CEO — technology chief Mira Murati — trying to to rehire Altman and Brockman while the board <a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/money-report/openai-is-hiring-former-twitch-ceo-emmett-shear-to-run-company-two-days-after-ousting-sam-altman/3164254/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">picked</a> former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear to lead the company.
Hundreds of OpenAI employees signed a letter demanding the board of directors resign, get replaced by a new board, and reinstate Altman and Greg Brockman. The employees also said they might follow Altman and Brockman to Microsoft, one of OpenAI&#8217;s investors that <a href="https://apnews.com/article/altman-ai-chatgpt-leadership-microsoft-a110b173c3eff4a374992017f05cd45a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hired</a> the pair to lead an in-house <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">artificial intelligence</a> research unit after their departure from OpenAI.
One person who signed the letter was Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI&#8217;s chief scientist and a member of the company&#8217;s board. &#8220;I deeply regret my participation in the board&#8217;s actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we&#8217;ve built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company,&#8221; Sutskever <a href="https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X.
Altman <a href="https://twitter.com/sama/status/1727207458324848883" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> a post to X on Wednesday explaining his view of the situation.
&#8220;i love openai, and everything i’ve done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together. when i decided to join [Microsoft] on sun evening, it was clear that was the best path for me and the team. with the new board and [with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella&#8217;s] support, i’m looking forward to returning to openai, and building on our strong partnership with [Microsoft],&#8221; he said.
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Nadella <a href="https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1727208843137179915" target="_blank" rel="noopener">replied</a> with a post that said, &#8220;We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board. We believe this is a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance. Sam, Greg, and I have talked and agreed they have a key role to play along with the OAI leadership team in ensuring OAI continues to thrive and build on its mission. We look forward to building on our strong partnership and delivering the value of this next generation of AI to our customers and partners.&#8221;

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Staffers at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/openai-unleashes-new-ai-model-gpt-4-which-can-pass-academic-exams-program-software-and-even-do-taxes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OpenAI</a>, the parent company of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-reveals-what-we-really-need-to-fear-about-ai-chatbots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ChatGPT</a>, threatened to quit in droves to protest the abrupt <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23965982/openai-ceo-sam-altman-fired" target="_blank" rel="noopener">firing</a> of its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman on Friday.
Somewhere around <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">500</a> to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/openai-staff-threaten-to-go-to-microsoft-if-board-doesn-t-quit?srnd=premium&amp;utm_content=bufferd967d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">600</a> of the startup&#8217;s estimated 770 employees reportedly signed a letter demanding the board of directors resign, get replaced by a new board, and reinstate Altman and Greg Brockman, another co-founder and president of OpenAI <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/greg-brockman-quits-openai-after-abrupt-firing-of-sam-altman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who quit</a> after Altman&#8217;s ouster.
The hundreds of employees also warned they might follow Altman and Brockman to Microsoft, one of OpenAI&#8217;s investors that <a href="https://apnews.com/article/altman-ai-chatgpt-leadership-microsoft-a110b173c3eff4a374992017f05cd45a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hired</a> the pair to lead an in-house <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">artificial intelligence</a> research unit after their departure.
&#8220;Your actions have made it obvious that you are incapable of overseeing OpenAI,&#8221; said the <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the board, which was <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted by WIRED</a>. &#8220;We are unable to work for or with people that lack competence, judgement and care for our mission and employees.&#8221;
One person who signed the letter was Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI&#8217;s chief scientist and a member of the company&#8217;s board.
&#8220;I deeply regret my participation in the board&#8217;s actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we&#8217;ve built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company,&#8221; Sutskever <a href="https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X.
Altman had led OpenAI since 2019. He is widely considered a Silicon Valley powerhouse with experience serving as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-chatgpt-openai-ceo-career-net-worth-ycombinator-prepper-2023-1#loopt-was-part-of-the-first-group-of-eight-companies-at-startup-accelerator-y-combinator-each-startup-got-6000-per-founder-and-loopt-was-in-the-same-batch-as-reddit-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">president</a> of startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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When the board fired Altman, its members gave little insight into the reasoning for his removal. It did <a href="https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim</a> Altman &#8220;was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.&#8221;
The board also said Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, would serve as interim CEO. Then, in a twist, Murati worked to rehire Altman and Brockman — as <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-trying-to-get-sam-altman-back-4b728049" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OpenAI&#8217;s own investors</a> pushed for Altman&#8217;s return — while the board members sought to hire their own CEO, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/openai-s-murati-aims-to-re-hire-altman-brockman-after-exits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Bloomberg</a>.
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first and last time i ever wear one of these <a href="https://t.co/u3iKwyWj0a">pic.twitter.com/u3iKwyWj0a</a>
&mdash; Sam Altman (@sama) <a href="https://twitter.com/sama/status/1726345564059832609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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On Sunday, Altman <a href="https://twitter.com/sama/status/1726345564059832609" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a photo of himself to X holding an OpenAI guest badge, stating, &#8220;first and last time i ever wear one of these.&#8221; But whatever effort there was to bring Altman back into OpenAI over the weekend appeared to hit a snag when the board <a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/money-report/openai-is-hiring-former-twitch-ceo-emmett-shear-to-run-company-two-days-after-ousting-sam-altman/3164254/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">picked</a> former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear to lead the company.
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“The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and removed Greg Brockman from the board has jeopardized all of this work and undermined our mission and company,&#8221; said the staff letter to the board. “Your conduct has made it clear you did not have the competence to oversee OpenAI.”

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Missouri Republican Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/missouri-attorney-general-launches-investigation-into-trans-center-for-harming-hundreds-of-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Bailey</a> said Sunday that he was looking into accusations that leftist outlet Media Matters for America intentionally misled readers about X to pressure advertisers to pull support from the social media platform. 
Bailey’s statement came after X owner Elon Musk said on Saturday that he would file a lawsuit against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/media-matters-for-america">Media Matters</a> over a report it ran last week that claimed X was placing ads for major corporations alongside Nazi-related content. As a result of the report, major corporations like Apple and IBM announced they would be pulling advertising from X. Musk said the report was misleading and intended to undermine X’s commitment to free speech.
Musk said that Media Matters had created a “contrived” experience by using an alternate account to curate what posts appeared on the timeline. “Once they curated their feed, they repeatedly refreshed their timelines to find a rare instance of ads serving next to the content they chose to follow,” Musk said. 
Bailey said his team was &#8220;looking into this matter&#8221; in response to a post from Musk commenting on former Trump advisor Stephen Miller’s allegation that what Media Matters did was a civil and criminal violation.
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My team is looking into this matter.
&mdash; Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1726356260088426894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Great!,&#8221; Musk responded to Bailey. 
The Daily Wire reached out to Bailey’s office for further clarification on his comments. 
According to Musk, the Media Matters report misrepresented X&#8217;s advertising practices. He said X logs indicated that of the 5.5 billion ad impressions on the day Media Matters pulled its research, less than 50 were served alongside the content highlighted by the leftist organization.
For one “brand showcased in the article, two of its ads served adjacent to 2 posts, 3 times, and that ad was only seen in that setting by one user, the author of the Media Matters article,” Musk said. 
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Corporations quickly responded to the Media Matters report. Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast/NBCUniversal, Lionsgate, and Paramount Global announced they were pausing ads on the social media platform. Musk has faced accusations of anti-Semitism and allowing Nazi-themed posts on X. 
On Sunday, Musk responded to the allegations. 
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“This past week, there were hundreds of bogus media stories claiming that I am antisemitic. Nothing could be further from the truth. I wish only the best for humanity and a prosperous and exciting future for all,” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1726350631181717668" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Sunday.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/spacex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpaceX</a> made headway in the second test flight of its Starship rocket despite the demo on Saturday ending with explosions.
The spacecraft, which one day may take humans back to the Moon and possibly to Mars with the help of reusable rockets, successfully took off without a crew from the coast of southern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> and separated from its booster.
Though the vehicle and its booster <a href="https://apnews.com/article/spacex-starship-test-flight-launch-37c0893ddf605270b16a33ae64d69a85" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly exploded</a> one after the other in the minutes that followed over the Gulf of Mexico, meaning SpaceX did not reach its goal of having the Starship reach orbit and then splash down into Pacific Ocean, the company said the test will provide &#8220;invaluable data&#8221; to help it continue perfecting the model.
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&#8220;Starship successfully lifted off under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster and made it through a successful stage separation. The booster experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly after its boostback burn following the successful stage separation while Starship&#8217;s 6 second stage Raptor engines fired for several minutes as the Ship climbed to an altitude of ~150 kilometers,&#8221; SpaceX said in a <a href="https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
&#8220;With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multiplanetary,&#8221; the company added.
This weekend&#8217;s launch appears to have been a marked improvement over SpaceX&#8217;s test flight in April, which resulted in an explosion when the ship and booster <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spacex-provides-details-on-its-massive-rockets-explosion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed to separate</a>.
“They have fixed issues identified in their first flight and got further than ever before with this type of vehicle,” said Phil Larson, a White House space adviser during former President Barack Obama’s administration who later helped with communications at SpaceX, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/science/spacex-starship-launch.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The New York Times</a>. “The magic of engineering is that it is all about learning, iterating the design, and reflying again soon.”
Still, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) <a href="https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1725926691074150467" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a statement that described what transpired during the test on Saturday as a &#8220;mishap,&#8221; though the agency stressed that the &#8220;anomaly&#8221; did not lead to any reports of injuries or public property damage.
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Just inspected the Starship launch pad and it is in great condition! 
No refurbishment needed to the water-cooled steel plate for next launch.
Congrats to <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Spacex</a> team &amp; contractors for engineering &amp; building such a robust system so rapidly! <a href="https://t.co/py5m1uhtEi">pic.twitter.com/py5m1uhtEi</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1726328010499051579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The FAA will oversee the [SpaceX-led] mishap investigation to ensure SpaceX complies with its FAA-approved mishap investigation plan and other regulatory requirements,&#8221; the FAA added.
In a <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1726328010499051579" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> to X on Sunday, Musk said the Starship launch pad was in &#8220;great condition&#8221; after he inspected it and noted that no refurbishment was &#8220;needed to the water-cooled steel plate for next launch.&#8221; He also congratulated the SpaceX team and contractors for &#8220;building such a robust system so rapidly.&#8221;

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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) said during an interview on Sunday that top U.S. officials fear that the Chinese-government-controlled app TikTok is being used as a &#8220;propaganda channel&#8221; by the Chinese Community Party and that it could have severe implications in the U.S.
Warner made the remarks during a Sunday CBS News interview on &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with host Margaret Brennan when asked about combatting Chinese influences in the U.S., including their use of artificial intelligence and social media.
Warner said that it was important for the U.S. to not only focus on TikTok but on &#8220;all foreign technology that might pose&#8221; a national security threat.
He said that legislation he introduced on the issue needed to move forward because &#8220;literally 40 percent of young people get all their news from TikTok.&#8221;
&#8220;This technology competition, we&#8217;ve had military competitors like Russia,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve never had an economy that&#8217;s making the investments the way China is in these new technology domains.&#8221;
Warner said he feared TikTok &#8220;could be used as a propaganda channel for the CCP, the Communist Party of China.&#8221;
TikTok has faced growing calls from U.S. lawmakers to be banned because it is allegedly boosting heavily anti-Semitic content on its platform that has distorted the reality of what is happening with Israel&#8217;s war against Hamas. The content on TikTok matches the stances of China&#8217;s communist government, which has criticized Israel and <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/10/17/beijing-refuses-to-condemn-hamas-steps-up-criticism-of-israel/">refused</a> to condemn Hamas after it murdered 1,200 people in Israel, wounded 5,300+, and took more than 240 people hostage.
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&#8220;But around artificial intelligence where I think we need to be humble because candidly we&#8217;ve done nothing on any guardrails on social media and on technology writ large,&#8221; Warner added. &#8220;The two areas where artificial intelligence could have an enormous negative effect tomorrow is interfering in our public elections, but it also could have a tool in terms of interfering in our public markets.&#8221;
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Warning about how AI could be used for election interference in 2024, <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkWarner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarkWarner</a> says Congress has &quot;done nothing on any guardrails on social media and on technology writ large,&quot; and that AI &quot;could have an enormous negative effect tomorrow&quot; in elections and public markets. <a href="https://t.co/owL9BYjYb0">pic.twitter.com/owL9BYjYb0</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1723737465968554333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Lord of the Rings” filmmaker Peter Jackson said he believes it’s possible to create more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-beatles">Beatles</a> music in the future with the use of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/artificial-intelligence">AI</a> (artificial intelligence) technology. 
“We can take a performance from ‘Get Back,’ separate John and George, and then have Paul and Ringo add a chorus or harmonies. You might end up with a decent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">song</a> but I haven’t had conversations with Paul about that,” Jackson said in a Sunday Times <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/paul-mccartney-and-ringo-starr-we-never-thought-the-beatles-would-last-58s6gbkqp">interview</a>. “It’s fanboy stuff, but certainly conceivable.”
His comments come just after the release of the song “Now and Then” on November 2. The single was created using the late John Lennon’s voice, which they were able to isolate from previous recordings through the use of technology. 
“Now and Then” came from a demo John Lennon recorded before he was murdered in 1980. Jackson was able to help clean up the track and incorporate the vocals of McCartney and Starr alongside guitar contributions Harrison played in the 1990s.
Jackson also directed the new YouTube documentary “The Beatles — Now And Then — The Last Beatles Song.”
“It felt so wrong to have a Beatles song all to myself,” Jackson told the outlet. “It’s not a classic in the sense of ‘I Am the Walrus’ or ‘Penny Lane’ — it’s not complex like that. It’s simple, but it’s got a haunting quality. Whenever anyone asks why I like the Beatles, I say they make me happy. With the world in the state it is, we need the Beatles to appear again, as if a flying saucer has touched down and they’ve got off and are providing us with their one last song to cheer us up.”
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Former Beatles member Paul McCartney dispelled rumors that the new recording was made using AI, however.
“There it was, John’s voice, crystal clear,” McCartney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-beatles-announce-release-date-for-final-song-now-and-then">said</a>. “It’s quite emotional. And we all play on it, it’s a genuine Beatles recording. In 2023 to still be working on Beatles music, and about to release a new song the public haven’t heard, I think it’s an exciting thing.”
He added, “We cleaned up some existing recordings — a process which has gone on for years.”
McCartney defended the creation of the song in a making-of film released last week, saying his late bandmate would have wanted the song to be made.
“Every time I thought like that I thought, wait a minute, let’s say I had a chance to ask John, ‘Hey John, would you like us to finish this last song of yours?’ I’m telling you, I know the answer would have been, ‘Yeah!’” McCartney said.

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X, the platform formerly known as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>, will cut revenue sharing for posts that are corrected by Community Notes, owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> said on Sunday.
The announcement, yet another chapter in social media&#8217;s struggle with fake news, was met with a mix of praise and words of caution, as some users said the new rules would help diminish misinformation while others raised concerns about the process being abused.
&#8220;Making a slight change to creator monetization: Any posts that are corrected by [Community Notes] become ineligible for revenue share,&#8221; Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1718676793165750564" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X. &#8220;The idea is to maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism.&#8221;
A revamp of Twitter&#8217;s Birdwatch feature, Community Notes is a feature that uses crowd-sourced information to fact-check posts. The notes get attached to posts, offering context and links to give users fuller transparency. X <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/28/23811535/x-twitter-ads-revenue-sharing-program-creators" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began</a> its ad revenue-sharing program over the summer.
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Making a slight change to creator monetization: 
Any posts that are corrected by <a href="https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CommunityNotes</a> become ineligible for revenue share.
The idea is to maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1718676793165750564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The popular &#8220;Mostly Peaceful Memes&#8221; account responded to the weekend monetization news by <a href="https://twitter.com/MostlyPeacefull/status/1718678264846180459" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asking</a>, &#8220;Don’t you think that community notes will then be weaponized against people to demonetize their content?&#8221;
Frequent X poster Ian Miles Cheong <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1718677550590050474" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reacted</a> with optimism, saying the decision was &#8220;Probably good,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Should fix a lot of the problems with people posting misinformation on purpose.&#8221; He also wondered, &#8220;What about posts where &#8216;context&#8217; is added, like on memes and such?&#8221;
Another account with hundreds of thousands of followers, &#8220;Comfortably Smug,&#8221; offered an idea of what to do with the money. &#8220;Have the ad revenue go to whoever posted the community note,&#8221; the account <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1718678129323991486" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Incentivizes accuracy.&#8221;
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Musk announced the change amid scrutiny of paid-for blue-check accounts being a driving force behind lies or misleading posts, including about big events <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/x-twitter-blue-monetization-musk-israel-palestine-misinformation-fake-news_n_652554cde4b0102e6963882b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">such as the Israel-Hamas war</a>, that go viral and become lucrative. The European Union even issued a warning to Musk earlier this month, saying that X could face <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/10/tech/x-europe-israel-misinformation/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;penalties&#8221;</a> for disinformation. There have also been <a href="https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/musk-twitter-x-acquisition-one-year-user-revenue-decline-1235770297/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> in recent days about plummeting monthly users and ad revenue on X.
Ever since Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-elon-musk-officially-takes-over-twitter-as-sale-is-now-final-top-execs-fired-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">purchased</a> Twitter for $44 billion roughly one year ago, the technology entrepreneur has overseen several changes to the platform, including rebranding it as X, shaking up its <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/24/musk-twitter-suspension-policy-00070819#:~:text=Only%20accounts%20that%20are%20pushing,the%20law%20will%20remain%20banned.&amp;text=Elon%20Musk%20on%20Thursday%20announced,the%20law%20will%20remain%20banned." target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspension</a> policy, and implementing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-new-twitter-verification-process-devolves-into-a-confusing-mess" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new verification process</a> that he described as being essential to fend off bot accounts.

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Technology company International Business Machines (IBM) sponsors at least two discriminatory paid internship opportunities, one that bars white and Asian applicants, and another that is only for women, with an exception for men who identify as women.
The two paid internships are held in conjunction with the American Physical Society (APS), a nonprofit organization that says it is “working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities.”
“Applicants must be female, including all students who present or identify as women and/or trans women,” the <a href="https://www.aps.org/programs/women/scholarships/ibm/index.cfm">eligibility requirements</a> for the “Internship for Undergraduate Women” reads.
A <a href="https://www.aps.org/programs/women/scholarships/ibm/index.cfm">description</a> of the “Internship for Underrepresented Minorities” asserts that “applicants must be underrepresented minorities” before listing off the approved racial backgrounds of “African American, Hispanic, or Indigenous.”
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David Bernstein, a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law, told The Daily Wire that these internship programs “clearly violate Title VII,” as the statute “does not allow for race or sex-based preferences for employment except perhaps as part of bona fide affirmative action programs initiated to redress past discriminatory policies.”
&#8220;Even in such cases, companies may not have a 100% quota based on race or sex for specific positions, including internships,” Bernstein clarified.
The application site goes on to explain that there is “no citizenship requirement” and that “any student who identifies as a woman and an underrepresented minority is eligible to apply to both internships.”
The internship is intended to “encourage women and underrepresented minorities to pursue graduate studies in science and engineering.” Those selected for the program will work with an IBM mentor at one of the company’s offices.
IBM did not respond to a media inquiry from The Daily Wire.
Discriminatory programs are becoming commonplace in corporate America, especially in the tech industry. Apple will host entrepreneur training programs that are only open to companies with leaders who are women or who are not white or Asian, an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/apple-entrepreneur-camp-program-bars-applicants-based-on-race">investigation</a> from The Daily Wire previously revealed.
Apple’s program similarly gave a nod to men who identify as women, with a disclaimer that reads, “Apple believes that gender expression is a fundamental right. We welcome all women to apply to this program.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oracle-internship-scholarship-opportunities-bar-whites-and-asians-on-the-basis-of-race">Tech giant Oracle</a> similarly hosted an internship and scholarship program that barred white and Asian students from applying on the basis of their race, The Daily Wire also uncovered. Meanwhile, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/a-microsoft-fellowship-caps-the-number-of-white-and-asian-applicants-lawyers-say-thats-illegal/">Microsoft put a cap</a> on the number of white and Asian applicants who could apply for a prestigious fellowship.
But it isn’t only the tech industry that has instituted racially discriminatory requirements for internship and development opportunities. The Daily Wire revealed that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blatantly-illegal-nascar-bans-white-applicants-from-diversity-internship">NASCAR’s “Diversity Internship”</a> required applicants to be a member of a non-white racial group, a requirement that a lawyer dubbed “blatantly illegal.”
NASCAR <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nascar-takes-down-blatantly-illegal-racial-requirement-for-internship-after-daily-wire-report">took down the racial requirement</a> on their internship application following The Daily Wire’s report, but did not modify two different “development programs,” which are intended for those who are female or belong to a minority racial group.
Investment management firm Voya also <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/04/20/investment-management-firm-voya-excludes-whites-from-internship-scholarship/">listed racial requirements</a> for their “Financial Services Diversity Scholars Program,” which did not accept white applicants. Meanwhile, a slew of companies, such as U.S. Bank, Bayer, Best Buy, Liberty Mutual, and numerous others, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-bank-pharmaceutical-giant-participated-in-mckinsey-training-that-banned-white-people">participated in employee training programs</a> from McKinsey and Company that intend to “diversify talent pipelines” and are not open to white employees.

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The chief of a prominent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">technology</a> conference called Web Summit resigned from his position after criticizing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel</a>&#8216;s war on Hamas in response to terrorist attacks earlier this month.
Irish entrepreneur Paddy Cosgrove <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/business/web-summit-paddy-cosgrave-israel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> stepped down as CEO on Saturday after a series of sponsors and speakers withdrew from Web Summit&#8217;s annual gathering this year.
&#8220;Unfortunately, my personal comments have become a distraction from the event, and our team, our sponsors, our startups and the people who attend,&#8221; Cosgrove said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/Ryan_Browne_/status/1715871749340889308" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;I sincerely apologise again for any hurt I have caused.&#8221;
Cosgrove drew controversy after he posted to X critiquing Israel&#8217;s offensive against Hamas that began after the group&#8217;s terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7 that killed an estimated 1,400-plus people, calling attention to the suffering of civilians in the Gaza Strip who have been caught in the middle of the conflict.
&#8220;I’m shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many Western leaders &amp; governments, with the exception in particular of Ireland’s government, who for once are doing the right thing. War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are,&#8221; Cosgrove <a href="https://twitter.com/paddycosgrave/status/1712790539844612553" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on October 15.
He faced criticism for the post. One response came from former PayPal and Facebook executive David Marcus.
&#8220;Saddened by your ill-informed stance. You could’ve taken a more nuanced one, condemning these atrocities and calling for restraint. That would’ve been acceptable. You chose to support terrorists. As such I’ll never attend/sponsor/speak at any of your events again,&#8221; Marcus <a href="https://twitter.com/davidmarcus/status/1713640371941683672" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Cosgrove issued other statements to X, including a <a href="https://twitter.com/paddycosgrave/status/1713659060153618680" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lengthy</a> post that explained, &#8220;What Hamas did is outrageous and disgusting. It is by every measure an act of monstrous evil. Israel has a right to defend itself, but it does not, as I have already stated, have a right to break international law.&#8221; He later <a href="https://twitter.com/paddycosgrave/status/1713964519884513446" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on October 16, &#8220;To repeat: War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies &amp; should be called out for what they are. I will not relent.&#8221;
The next day, he issued an apology that was <a href="https://websummit.com/blog/apology-from-paddy-cosgrave-ceo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> on his Web Summit blog.
&#8220;I understand that what I said, the timing of what I said, and the way it has been presented has caused profound hurt to many,&#8221; Cosgrove said. &#8220;To anyone who was hurt by my words, I apologise deeply. What is needed at this time is compassion, and I did not convey that. My aim is and always has been to strive for peace. Ultimately, I hope with all my heart that this can be achieved.&#8221;
But over the past few days, a number of major participants had dropped out of Web Summit&#8217;s 2023 event with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/intel-siemens-pull-out-cancel-sponsors-web-summit-ceo-israel-2023-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Intel</a>, <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/google-is-latest-to-pull-from-web-summit-over-israel-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google, and Meta</a> among them. Siemens, a German company, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/intel-siemens-pull-out-cancel-sponsors-web-summit-ceo-israel-2023-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Insider it was withdrawing as a sponsor after assessing &#8220;recent developments surrounding Web Summit.&#8221;
With Cosgrove&#8217;s exit, a spokesperson for Web Summit said a new CEO would be appointed and that its annual event next month in Lisbon, Portugal, would go on as planned, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/web-summit-paddy-cosgrave-gaza-israel-hamas-war-0b085e4004f6d87974975d275eac9ef7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Associated Press</a>.

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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a>&#8216; administration took a shot at the Biden administration in a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg this week, suggesting that the administration was intentionally slow-walking a plan that would allow the use of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, which can include &#8220;flying cars,&#8221; and was instead allowing France to take the lead in the sector.
Jared W. Perdue, P.E., Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), said that the department takes &#8220;great pride in our ability to attract, identify, and implement innovative solutions to grow and maintain our state’s robust transportation system&#8221; which he said was vital for the state&#8217;s continued rapid growth.
&#8220;Thanks to the leadership of Governor DeSantis, Florida continues to invest in transportation at record levels, recognizing the direct link between high-quality infrastructure and economic growth,&#8221; Perdue said. &#8220;Given Florida’s unprecedented growth, FDOT is working to identify new opportunities to keep our supply chain moving and the nearly 23 million residents and 137 million visitors who travel to the state annually.&#8221;
The letter said that the DeSantis administration quickly took interest in Advanced Air Mobility (<a href="https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html/chap11_section_6.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AAM</a>) systems — a new sector of the aerospace industry which seeks to safely and efficiently integrate highly automated aircraft into the National Airspace System (NAS) — over two years ago, which are responsible for &#8220;utilizing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to move people and goods or provide services,&#8221; the letter said.
Perdue said that Florida created a group of over 50 stakeholders responsible for determining how the system would be used in the state.
&#8220;Last month, Florida released a report detailing our efforts, equipping our public and private sector partners to embrace AAM as soon as the technology is ready to launch,&#8221; the letter said. &#8220;Unfortunately, Florida faces one roadblock to begin putting our plans into motion: the continued delay of your Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).&#8221;
Perdue called out the FAA&#8217;s stated &#8220;acceptable timeline&#8221; for finalizing the implementation of the system, which is 2028, noting that it allows the U.S.&#8217; competitors, like France, to showcase their technology first.
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&#8220;America’s competitors, like France, are outpacing the U.S. in effectuating this emerging technology now,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Perhaps this is a deliberate delay by the Administration to allow France the spotlight of deploying this cutting-edge technology at the 2024 Summer Olympics. No one can know for certain given the FAA’s absent sense of urgency surrounding the topic.&#8221;
Perdue said that it was vital for the U.S. to lead in developing the technologies within the sector and that it will not happen if the Biden administration continues to sit on its hands.
The letter included a copy of Florida&#8217;s extensive report on integrating AAM in the state — a plan that the DeSantis administration finalized over the summer and that called for multiple steps in the plan to have already launched.

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“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/breaking-bad">Breaking Bad</a>” showrunner Vince Gilligan shared his thoughts about the hot topic of the Hollywood community: the use of AI, or artificial intelligence.
The 58-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">director</a> said at first he was afraid of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/artificial-intelligence">AI</a>, but eventually, it just annoyed him. 
“When I first became aware of ChatGPT or whatever it’s called, it scared the living hell out of me. I thought, ‘We’re done for as a race.’ I don’t mean in the ‘Terminator’ sense, like they’re going to start exterminating us. But who wants to live in a world where creativity is given over to machines? There goes my job,” he recently told <a href="https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/vince-gilligan-new-show-details-rhea-seehorn-ai-breaking-bad-1235745560/">Variety</a>.  
He continued, saying he considers the current form of AI creatively lacking. 
“I think it’s a lot of horses***,” Gilligan continued. “It’s a giant plagiarism machine, in its current form. I think ChatGPT knows what it’s writing like a toaster knows that it’s making toast. There’s no intelligence — it’s a marvel of marketing.”
The director said he believes the technology would improve over time but that, for now, it can’t compete with human creativity in the realm of writing. 
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“Down the line there may be a moment of singularity where it actually becomes a threat, but right now it’s just a plagiarism machine,” he reiterated. “It’s a bunch of billionaires trying to become trillionaires by selling this thing as some kind of momentous sea change. It certainly will have its uses in writing legal briefs and stuff like that, but I don’t think it’s going to take over for writers of fiction.”
Gilligan was reflecting on how a decade has passed since the end of the Emmy-award-winning series, “Breaking Bad.” The director said that he’s still “very proud” of the drama but that there’s just one thing he messed up on.
“I think the one thing we got wrong was Aaron Paul’s teeth,” he said of one of the show’s lead actors who played drug dealer and addict Jesse Pinkman. “They’re too damn perfect! For a guy who got beaten up as much as he did and smoked that much meth, his teeth would not look so beautiful.”
He added, “We probably did the country a disservice, but having said that, Aaron’s easy on the eyes so that was just as well for folks watching.”

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