August 15th, 2025

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Video game actors are voting on a new contract. Here’s what it means for AI in gaming

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 11-month strike by video game performers could formally end this week if members ratify a deal that delivers pay raises, control over their likenesses and artificial intelligence protections. The agreement feels “like diamond amounts of pressure suddenly lifted,” said Sarah Elmaleh, a voice actor and chair of the Screen Actors ... Read More »

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Striking video game actors are voting on a new contract. Here’s what it means for AI in gaming

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 11-month strike by video game performers could formally end this week if members ratify a deal that delivers pay raises, control over their likenesses and artificial intelligence protections. The agreement feels “like diamond amounts of pressure suddenly lifted,” said Sarah Elmaleh, a voice actor and chair of the Screen Actors ... Read More »

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sentencing set for Oct. 3 after split verdict in federal sex crimes case

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced in his federal criminal case on Oct. 3, a judge said Tuesday after probation officials rejected the defense and prosecution’s plan to move the date up by about two weeks. Combs, who remains jailed after a split verdict last week, spoke briefly to his lawyer ... Read More »

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Movie Review: A weird ‘Superman’ is better than a boring one

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … a purple and orange shape-shifting chemical compound? Writer-director James Gunn’s “Superman” was always going to be a strange chemistry of filmmaker and material. Gunn, the mind behind “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “The Suicide Squad,” has reliably drifted toward a B-movie superhero realm populated (usually over-populated) ... Read More »

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Macron says France and Britain will ‘save Europe’ as he starts a state visit to the UK

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

LONDON (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday urged Britain to stick close to its neighbors despite its exit from the European Union, saying France and the U.K. will “save Europe” by standing for democracy, law and international order in a dangerous world. On a state visit that mixed royal pageantry with tough political ... Read More »

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Chanel marks 110 years with style – and stars – by supersizing its couture salon in a palace

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

PARIS (AP) — Only Chanel would call its legendary Rue Cambon salon “too small” — then rebuild it, supersized, in a palace. On Tuesday, as the house marked 110 years of its haute couture — a century and more of Coco Chanel’s revolution in how women dress — it blew up its atelier as a ... Read More »

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‘Lord of the Rings’ director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand’s lost moa

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa. His fascination with the flightless ostrich-like bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech company known for its grand and controversial plans to bring back lost species. On Tuesday, ... Read More »

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The Bayeux Tapestry will be displayed in the UK for the first time in nearly 1,000 years

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

LONDON (AP) — The Bayeux Tapestry, the 11th-century artwork depicting the conquest of England, will be displayed in the U.K. for the first time in almost 1,000 years. Officials said Tuesday that the treasured medieval tapestry will be on loan from France and arrive next year at the British Museum, where it will star in ... Read More »

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Chanel turns 110, supersizing its couture salon in a lavish palace set

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

PARIS (AP) — Only Chanel would call its legendary Rue Cambon salon “too small” — then rebuild it, supersized, in a palace. On Tuesday, as the house marked 110 years of its haute couture — a century and more of Coco Chanel’s revolution in how women dress — it blew up its atelier as a ... Read More »

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Stéphane Rolland lets couture speak for itself with space-age glamor

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

PARIS (AP) — StĂ©phane Rolland went back to what he does best on Tuesday: unadulterated couture. This season at Paris Couture Week, Rolland stripped away gimmicks and let the clothes do the talking, unveiling a dazzling palette of ivory, black, and red — with giant spangles shimmering like stardust or cosmic fish scales. A live ... Read More »

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Meet David Corenswet, cinema’s new Superman

By Canadian Press on July 8th, 2025

In true Clark Kent form, the new Superman would like to correct the record. David Corenswet gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly in 2019 where he said his “pie in the sky ambition” was to play Superman. At that point, the role was not on the market. And Corenswet, a Julliard graduate and Philadelphia native, ... Read More »

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