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NEW YORK (AP) — A manipulated video that mimics the voice of Vice President Kamala Harris saying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of artificial intelligence to mislead with Election Day about three months away.The video gained attention after tech billionaire Elon Musk shared it on his social media platform X on Friday evening without explicitly noting it was originally released as parody.The video uses many of the same visuals as a real ad that Harris, the likely Democratic president nominee, released last week launching her campaign. But the video swaps out the voice-over audio…

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NBCUniversal’s presentation Saturday of the Paris Olympics opening on NBC, Peacock, and across key NBCU platforms posted a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 32.4 million viewers, according to custom fast national data from Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. That beats the opening Saturday of competition for the Tokyo Olympics, which drew 17.7 million across all platforms. Highlighted by Caeleb Dressel and Simone Manuel anchoring respective gold and silver medal-winning 4x100m freestyle relays, a bronze for Katie Ledecky in the 400m free, victory for the U.S. men’s soccer team, beach volleyball, diving, and men’s gymnastics qualifiers, live coverage in the afternoon (Paris…

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Americans continue to find ways to make money outside of their primary sources of income. More than a third, 36% of U.S. adults have a side hustle, according to a new Bankrate survey of 2,332 people. And they’re making a sizable chunk of extra change.The average side hustler is bringing in $891 per month. That’s up from $810 per month in 2023, or a 10% increase altogether, says Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate. The practice is now “quite a bit more lucrative.”There are some differences among generations and not everyone is bringing in hundreds of dollars per month.…

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This pays around £10 a day, and can be lucrative if you can schedule a few clients in the same area each day. Alternatively, you can be a house sitter. When people go away, or into hospital or long-term care, they need someone to live in and look after their home.Sometimes, it includes pet sitting at the same time – and you can charge more for that, too. It’s a great way to travel and save on accommodation costs. You do need to be present in the house most of the day, but can go out a few hours each…

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American YouTuber and Businessman, MrBeast’s Net Worth is estimated to be $1.1 Billion. MrBeast is a very big name. He is a phenomenal personality, who has gathered immense success in very less time. MrBeast is the most subscribed channel on YouTube, with 294 million subscribers as of June 2024. He is also an online personality and philanthropist. MrBeast is counted on the list of the most famous and successful YouTubers of all time. At the tender age of 24, he managed to achieve great heights, which seemed quite impossible for many. MrBeast has plenty of channels on YouTube, in various…

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Yeo Seo-jeong performs in the women’s vault final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics at Ariake Gymnastics Stadium in Tokyo, Japan on August 1, 2021. [NEWS1]   Eight Korean gymnasts qualified for the Paris Olympics, including a full women’s team — three years after Yeo Seo-jeong became the first Korean woman to medal in artistic gymnastics at the Games.     Ryu Sung-hyun, Lee Jun-ho and Hur Woong will represent Korea in the men’s events while Yeo, Eom Do-hyun, Lee Da-yeong, Lee Yun-seo and Shin Sol-yi will represent Korea among the women.   Twelve countries earn a spot in the men’s…

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Brad Jackson firmly believes that every company’s marketing strategy should include experiential. He’s seen the ROIs speak for themselves at his previous roles with NVE Experience Agency, Live Nation, and The University of Iowa’s SCOPE Productions. But in 2018, one thing was inherently clear to Jackson: The event industry was shifting to a freelancer-centric model.“After being freelance for six years, I saw the direction of the industry going more freelance-forward, and there wasn’t a good community platform—one place for all the freelancers to be,” Jackson told BizBash. To catch the trend on the rise, Jackson became a freelance executive event…

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The Gist Cost-efficient upgrade. ChatGPT-4o mini offers significant savings with over 60% cheaper development costs. Benchmark excellence. Outperforms rivals in multimodal and mathematical reasoning evaluations. Tech ecosystem booster. Mini model enhances OpenAI’s competitive edge and enterprise applications. Like other generative AI providers, OpenAI continues to find ways to advance its ChatGPT platform. But this time it’s biggest advancement is its smallest model release.Last week, OpenAI unveiled the ChatGPT-4o mini, a compact model praised for its cost-efficient AI performance. Set to replace the GPT-3.5 Turbo, it becomes the smallest model available from OpenAI. Consumers can access ChatGPT-4o mini through ChatGPT’s web and mobile apps,…

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New documents reveal that the State of Michigan holds millions of dollars worth of investments in the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF). According to a new 13-F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the State of Michigan Retirement System has purchased 110,000 shares of ARK 21Shares BTC ETF (ARKB) worth nearly $6.6 million. Says senior Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, “Just checked and yes, [it] looks like Michigan’s Pension bought up some ARKB (although we have it as $7.4 million) which is small percentage-wise for them but it’s a start, they [are] now [the] third…

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