Author: Michael

Ella Langley led the 60th Annual CMA Awards with nine nominations in part to her record-breaking hit “Choosing Texas.” The country music hit has spent 21 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, moving her one week closer to beating Mariah Carey’s record for most weeks spent at the top of the chart for “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Other top nominees include Miranda Lambert with seven nominations and Kacey Musgraves and Ben West with five nominations each. “For six decades, the CMA Awards have celebrated excellence in Country Music,” Sarah Trahern, CMA chief executive officer,…

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After 700 pages of eligible contenders, 120 categories of nominees and more than five hours of awards shows last weekend, it’s down to this: 19 remaining categories and 113 nominees hoping to go home victorious at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards. The nominations were wild and, at times, contradictory, with a pair of previous winners, the medical drama “The Pitt” and the showbiz comedy “Hacks,” leading the way with 25 and 24 nominations, respectively. Both seemed to be facing serious threats from bold new shows, with the dystopian future of “Pluribus” and the creepy comedy of “Widow’s Bay” coming on…

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When it comes to artificial intelligence, the debate over whether AI “will kill us all” is less relevant than asking why it’s taking so long for someone to do something about it.  The notion that AI poses an existential threat isn’t new — “Terminator 2” called it back in 1991 — but warnings from some of the people working on these AI systems have dragged this threat into reality. The latest red flag was raised on Tuesday, when Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon said on X that he had resigned from the company and claimed “the people building AI earnestly…

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