September 30, 20220CommentsReport: Bruce Willis sold his “digital twin” likeness rights to Deepcake, for use in ads and possibly even movies; a Russian ad already used a Willis deepfake (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
September 30, 20220CommentsWeb novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
September 30, 20220CommentsCourt records: FTX’s winning bid for Voyager Digital includes a $51M cash payment, and $60M in earnouts and incentives for Voyager users that onboard with FTX (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)
September 30, 20220CommentsDeepfake Bruce Willis may be the next Hollywood star, and he’s OK with that
September 30, 20220CommentsFiling: European Commission sets a provisional November 8 deadline to complete the review of Microsoft’s proposed $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
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