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As artificial intelligence increasingly makes its way into the entertainment industry, it equips creators with powerful tools—but it also brings new, sometimes troubling, challenges. Professionals in ...

As two more major musicals bite the dust, the local theatre industry hopes a live performance incentive modelled on a ...

AI developments have surged in the past year, happening faster than expected and causing concern for governments due to their recent advancements. It is now possible to create realistic movies using ...

A coalition of music industry and artists’ organizations introduced labels for works that use AI in sound recordings. The labels are simple icons that distinguish between those that are ...

We don’t need to wait until Hollywood opens for business in 2025 to tell you how it will end. Or at the very least, we’re here to take wild (and some not-so-wild) guesses about what’s to come. Yes, ...

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