In a dimly lit rehearsal room in a city under attack, Jenny Cadet raised an imaginary pistol and fired a single make-believe bullet at her director. âLife is a theatre. I am a theatre. We are a theatre. The world is a theatre,â proclaimed the 31-year-old Haitian actor, turning to the audience as she uttered […]
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More than 80% of UK small businesses are planning growth-focused initiatives for 2025, reflecting increased optimism as enterprises report a two-year high in growth projections, according to a Novuna Business Finance study. Key areas of focus include boosting new business sales (43%) and reducing fixed costs (24%). Diversifying business models and developing new products or
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Canada’s Giller Prize was recently awarded to novelist and poet Anne Michaels for her novel Held amid controversy. The Giller Prize is Canada’s most lucrative literary award, with a prize package of $100,000 for the winner and $10,000 for the shortlisted nominees. Read more: Tenderness and technical mastery: Anne Michaels’ poetic novel Held expands the
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OpenAI is in the holiday spirit, it seems. The ChatGPT creator announced “12 Days of OpenAI,” a series of reveals that will be livestreamed at 10 a.m. PT for the next 12 weekdays. Day one of the event saw the launch of ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI’s $200 per month subscription plan, and the full version of
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Progress used to be glamorous. For the first two thirds of the twentieth-century, the terms modern, future, and world of tomorrow shimmered with promise. Glamour is more than a synonym for fashion or celebrity, although these things can certainly be glamorous. So can a holiday resort, a city, or a career. The military can be
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Meta has announced the newest addition to its Llama family of generative AI models: Llama 3.3 70B. In a post on X, Ahmad Al-Dahle, VP of generative AI at Meta, said that the text-only Llama 3.3 70B delivers the performance of Meta’s largest Llama model, Llama 3.1 405B, at lower cost. “By leveraging the latest
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To wake up one morning and learn that one’s job might soon be “disrupted,” or outright eliminated, by the emergence of an overhyped new technology that excites rich people is – let’s start here – a pretty common experience by now. It puts you in good company. A club that includes linotype-machine operators, taxi drivers, some farm
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When mafiosas aren’t drug trafficking or money laundering, it turns out some of them are busy collecting (stealing) valuable artwork. Eighty works, confiscated by the Italian authorities, went on show at Milan‘s Palazzo Reale this week. The exhibition, “Save Arts: From Confiscations to Public Collections,” features paintings, graphic works, and sculptures by Andy Warhol, Salvador
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A panel of judges ruled that a law forcing the sale or ban of TikTok in the US is constitutional. The panel heard arguments about national security and the First Amendment. The case is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court. Once in office, Trump may also intervene. TikTok’s future in the US is
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The debate over AI and its role in creative industries often centers on one question: Can AI ever be as creative as humans? While it’s tempting to philosophize about inspiration and ingenuity, this line of inquiry misses a crucial point for anyone tasked with making practical decisions about content creation: If the audience can’t tell
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