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Rooftop Series’ Renewed for Season 2 at BET

Keep on laughing: BET’s “ComicView” reboot has been renewed for Season 2. BET has ordered 20 more episodes of the revived stand-up franchise, which premiered in June as “ComicView: Rooftop Series.” Chris “CP” Powell returns as host of the program, which will see 60 comedians performing on a Hollywood rooftop. Veteran comics Affion Crockett, Cocoa Brown, Lavell Crawford and Luenell join the Season 2...

New prize launches for books co-written with AI

A prize for AI-written books has launched this week. The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA invites submissions of manuscripts co-written with AI tools, with the winner promised publication. Entrants are asked to submit an unpublished manuscript of between 10,000 and 50,000 words, along with information about which AI model and prompt were used to generate the text. All major language models are allowed, including...

What He Put Into the Woodchipper Were Children

As Elon Musk tries to save face by claiming he’ll give every American child a chunk of SpaceX stock, here’s a chilling reminder of what he did that affected millions of children the second he had a whiff of federal power. In a new interview, the documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney, who directed a just-released four-hour look at the billionaire’s life titled “Musk,” discussed the...

Why the most dangerous AI may be the one we trust too much

Machines don’t have to become superintelligent to cause catastrophic harm. As artificial intelligence spreads through military decision-making, they just have to be wrong – and trusted by the humans in charge. In 1991, Terminator 2: Judgement Day gave us one of popular culture’s most enduring images of AI gone wrong. Humanity builds Skynet, an artificial intelligence given control of strategic defence. It learns at...

6 Spring/Summer 2027 Men’s Fashion Trends Worth Wearing

For the average guy, even one interested in clothes, what’s happening at Fashion Week can feel almost alien. When you see outlandish concepts paraded down the runway, it can be hard to imagine how any of it might translate to your wardrobe. But the trick is to look at individual elements rather than viewing each look presented by designers as a whole. This is...