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Hollywood’s covert race to produce the first AI blockbuster — with Scorsese, Affleck involved

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Hollywood’s covert race to produce the first AI blockbuster — with Scorsese, Affleck involved

Hollywood is secretly full throttle on Artificial Intelligence, creating a “new space race” to generate the first (mostly) AI blockbuster. The film industry is notoriously slow to adopt change. Some directors refuse to swap 35mm film for digital, others feel using CGI or blue screen “compromises their art.” Therefore, AI has officially been met with … Read more

From Green Beret to CIA covert operations: A fascinating career

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From Green Beret to CIA covert operations: A fascinating career

When Michael G Vickers was 17, he decided he might like a career in the CIA. “I imagined myself doing things that only a James Bond could do,” he writes in “By All Means Available – Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Specials Operations, and Strategy” (Alfred A. Knopf). “Diving headfirst through a window and coming up … Read more