Manchester United’s operating profit rose to £13m in the financial year’s first quarter compared with an equivalent £7m loss 12 months earlier, with the chief executive, Omar Berrada, stating this was down to “the difficult decisions made in the past year” by Sir Jim Ratcliffe. Since Ratcliffe became the largest minority owner in February 2024,…
It looks like Disney wasted no time delivering on CEO Bob Iger’s promise to bring AI-generated content to Disney+. On Thursday, the company announced the start of a three-year licensing agreement with OpenAI to bring more than 200 of its beloved characters, including those from Star Wars and Pixar, to the Sora app and ChatGPT….
Adobe has teamed up with OpenAI to bring Photoshop, Express and Acrobat tools directly inside ChatGPT. As noted in the company’s blog, users can ask the chatbot to edit images, generate designs or work with PDFs without opening separate applications. The Photoshop features offered within ChatGPT cover both basic and advanced edits, while…
Walt Disney has announced a $1bn equity investment in OpenAI, enabling the AI startup’s Sora video generation tool to use its characters. Users of Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that draw on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters as part of a three-year licensing agreement between…
Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner fake it so real in this Army simulation exercise in the California desert. Source link
BERLIN, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Ageing Germany’s population could shrink by almost 10 million people, to around 75 million, by 2070 as the baby boomer generation gives way to much smaller cohorts, the statistics office said. In its latest population forecast, published on Thursday, the office said it expected one in four people in Germany to…
It was a pleasant March morning when I suddenly woke up with a strong feeling of visiting the revered Mehandipur Balaji temple in Rajasthan. It is a revered temple where Lord Hanuman is prayed in his child form. I had never been to the temple before but heard several (unbelievable) stories about the temple’s power…
Lucy Charles-Barclay had been dealing with stress fractures, joint pain and low energy before her coeliac disease diagnosis. Source link
Pakistan’s former spy chief has been sentenced to 14 years in prison by a military court, on charges including violation of state secrets and interfering in politics. Faiz Hameed led Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from 2019 to 2021, during the tenure of now-jailed former prime minister Imran Khan. He was known to be a…
Twas three weeks before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for my 13-year-old daughter, who emerged from her lair with a level of vim uncommon in daylight hours. As she made her approach with laptop aglow, her droll little mouth was drawn up in a bow. It then became…