A barn owl delivers the King's card by relay. But the real birthday present is 50,000 hectares of protected Gloucestershire landscape — and a campaign to bring back the beavers.
The Nobel laureate once counted himself a supporter of Israel. His letter to the Jerusalem festival marks a stark rupture — and quotes the IDF campaign with a survivor's precision.
The Academy's new rules bar AI-generated performances and screenplays from Oscar nomination — but stop well short of banning the technology. The line between 'assisted' and 'generated' is about to get very crowded.
Austria's celebrated pavilion stayed dark all day Friday. So did Belgium's, Japan's, and South Korea's. Roughly a dozen Venice Biennale pavilions shuttered to protest Israel's inclusion — and the art world's biggest event found itself without an answer.
The man who made the world cherish nature has spent his final decades warning it is disappearing. David Attenborough turns 100 on Friday — and the tension in that sentence is his whole career.
Ted Turner launched CNN because he worked late and missed the evening news. The 24-hour cycle he invented has since become something unrecognizable. He died Wednesday at 87.
Two million fans packed Copacabana Beach for a free Shakira show — a crowd so vast it reshaped Rio's skyline. The set list was a victory lap; the setting was the point.
Two years after actors walked the picket lines over AI replicas, their union has a new tentative deal with fresh guardrails around synthetic performers. The full text hasn't been released yet.
A suited man hoists a flag that covers his face, then steps off a plinth into thin air. Westminster City Council says it has no plans to remove it.
The world's biggest music platform now needs a green checkmark to prove artists are human. Rival Deezer says 44% of its daily uploads are already synthetic.
The Academy's new rules carve out a careful distinction: AI as a tool is fine, but AI as a creator need not apply. The burden of proof falls on filmmakers to show their performers are genuinely human.
Nine days before opening, the Venice Biennale has no jury and will let ticket holders pick its top prizes — because the entire panel resigned rather than evaluate work from Russia and Israel.
Pavel Talankin has flown with his Oscar a dozen times without incident. At JFK, TSA called it a potential weapon. By the time he landed in Frankfurt, the statuette had vanished.
Miranda Priestly is back. The magazine world she terrorized is mostly dead. And Disney is about to make $180 million proving that nostalgia beats couture every time.
A study of 20,000 compositions across four centuries confirms what your ears have been telling you: Western music is becoming simpler, more repetitive, and harder to tell apart.
The White House called Jimmy Kimmel a "shit human" and demanded Disney fire him over a widow joke. Disney's response: silence.
Dr Ittai Gradel handed the British Museum a PayPal receipt bearing a curator's name and got a letter back saying his claims were unfounded. He has died aged 61, before any charges were brought.
Swift filed three trademark applications on April 24 — two for her voice, one for her image — in the most aggressive celebrity attempt yet to weaponize trademark law against AI cloning. No court has tested whether it actually works.
Critics called it 'bland and barely competent.' Audiences gave it $217 million in a single weekend. The Michael Jackson biopic just rewrote the rules on what sells.
Carol Guzy's image of two girls clinging to their detained father inside a New York federal building was chosen from 57,376 entries. The family has since vanished from contact.
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