Cannes is finished for another year, but Venice and San Sebastian are next on the major film festival calendar.

American film executive Julie Sisk is cap…

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Anthropic chief Dario Amodei, the new deity of artificial intelligence, was a no show at the very private CAA-Graydon Carter party at Hotel du Cap where he was slated to be co-host, according to Vanity Fair.

Amodei, the son of an Italian leather craftsman, has found himself the brand ambassador for ethical AI after a dispute with the White House super charged usage of Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude. As Jeff Bezos sat down to defend his taxes with CNBC, Amodei and his sister Daniela, the company president, spoke to Oprah about how they have engineered their technology to help people improve their lives while avoiding screen addiction. The interview already has more than a million views. This week Anthropic executives head to Rome to meet Pope Leo to help inform the debate around, “the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence.”

It’s beyond time for tech overlords to start explaining themselves as AI rapidly demolishes parts of the creative business and the “lower value human capital.” I chatted to film and TV people across Cannes about their fears and what tools they are embracing tools to make movies cheaper. Here’s what they told me.

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While the Hollywood studios didn’t field anything for the main event, the entertainment biz isn’t so much shunning Cannes as wholly decamping here for the …

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The Cannes Film Festival’s first red carpet got underway tonight, featuring 88 year old provocateur, Jane Fonda and Chinese actress Gong Li who were on hand to give New Zealander Peter Jackson an hon…

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In Dubai, some 2,000 hotel rooms have been shuttered and Michelin star restaurants are running half-off deals. The tourists have disappeared and losses are runni…

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The proposed $111 billion deal to turn Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery is poised to create the world’s biggest and most powerful news and information giant. A host of global outlets from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, joint venture CNN Arabic connected to TikTok has broad implications for our perceptions of the world.

“We’ve never seen a company that combined the strength in so called traditional media as PSky [Paramount Skydance] will have going forward with Oracle, the presence in social media, that’s just never happened,” said Jon Miller, chief executive of TPG-backed investment firm Integrated Media. Miller also ran AOL and was on the board of ad giant Interpublic Group. He knows exactly the power such an entity will have in targeting advertising based on viewing data. “It’s training and targeting data in a way that we’ve never seen before,” he adds, suggesting it could be, “the most culturally influential company ever created.”

Let’s look at the kind of scale that the Larry Ellison-funded new entity might be privy to:

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For guys who just made a dream deal to sell their company for an ungodly sum that will make them rich beyond their wildest dreams, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels sounded downbeat at the sudden outcome that they are being swallowed whole by Paramount Skydance.

Speaking to staff mid-morning on Friday in a Town Hall, Zaslav went out of his way to praise CNN and the network’s coverage of Minnesota, presumably referencing the coverage of the shooting deaths of two ICE protestors, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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As CNNers swing through the doors of Hudson Yards this morning they’ll be choking on their matcha lattes at the armageddon that awaits them after last night’s bombshell news that Paramount Skydance has won the bidding for their owner Warner Bros. Discovery. They’ll hear more today from the Warner CEO David Zaslav at a Town Hall.

Just three months ago I wrote that Warner had accepted a winning bid from Netflix and that CNN would be transferred into a separately spun-off venture carrying most of the company’s debt. Things change fast in the media business. Charlie Gasparino, the Fox Business anchor who has been covering every twist of this deal, seemed to confirm everyone’s assumptions that Bari Weiss, the controversial 41 year-old in charge at CBS News, is poised to run CNN too. CNN’s current boss Mark Thompson told staff in a memo to not “jump to conclusions until we know more.”

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Klaus Schwab built Davos on a single proposition: get enough important people in one room and something good happens. Now he’s gone, and this year we get to find out if he was right.

First-timers expe…

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About a decade ago, Netflix made a realization that quietly but permanently rewired the media business: the future of entertainment would not be won by creativity alone, but by capi…

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CNN staff got up this morning to find the ground beneath them is shaking yet again. Their Warner bosses are scheduled to discuss the latest news affecting corporate …

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AUSTIN, TX -- USLege, the AI-powered legislative intelligence platform transforming how government affairs professionals monitor and respond to state policy, today announc…

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ISTANBUL, Türkiye -- Istanbul has firmly established itself as the global epicenter for hair transplant procedures, attracting over 100,000 …

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TOKYO, Japan -- With U.S. retailers preparing for another record-setting Black Friday and Cyber Monday season, Spider Labs warns that advertis…

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President Trump rolled out the red carpet today for the Saudi leader Prince Mohammed bin Salman who received a military fly-over, a cannon salute and a deal for some American-made fighter jets. Saudi…

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ISTANBUL, Türkiye -- Around 42% of men worldwide are estimated to be bald or have significantly thinning hair with many of them resorting to the global epicenter of hair transplantation — Turkey. In …

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