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Harry Styles Revives Trend of Wired Earbuds
Culturebillboard13d ago

Harry Styles Revives Trend of Wired Earbuds

Harry Styles is credited with bringing wired earphones back into fashion, with articles highlighting their benefits like better sound quality and no charging, and where to purchase them online.

BTS's "Arirang" Album Achieves Global Spotify Success, Fans React
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BTS's "Arirang" Album Achieves Global Spotify Success, Fans React

South Korean group BTS has achieved impressive global success with their new album "Arirang" on Spotify, reportedly surpassing Harry Styles but remaining behind Taylor Swift. Fans in Dubai have reacted with excitement to the "Arirang" comeback, expressing hopes for a 2027 tour stop.

Culturerolling-stone28d ago

Every Harry Styles Song Ranked

He’s built one of the wildest, weirdest songbooks of modern times — from Seventies raunch to epic folk beauty to glam grandeur

Harry Styles Crashes Ryan Gosling’s ‘SNL’ Opening Monologue
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Harry Styles Crashes Ryan Gosling’s ‘SNL’ Opening Monologue

Ryan Gosling may be hosting Saturday Night Live tonight, but it’s Harry Styles’ show. The Grammy-winning musician, who’s pulling double duty on the late-nighter next week, unexpectedly crashed the Barbie star’s opening monologue — to take notes, of course. “Is that … Harry Styles?” Gosling questioned. “What are you doing here man?” “It’s been a […]

Harry Styles reflects on Liam Payne's death
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Harry Styles reflects on Liam Payne's death

British musician Harry Styles spoke openly about the impact of his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne's death, emphasizing the importance of living life to the fullest.

Harry Styles Concert Coming To Netflix
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Harry Styles Concert Coming To Netflix

Harry Styles is coming to Netflix. The supestar’s show from the Co-Op Arena in Manchester, in which he will play his new album Kiss All the Time.

How to Livestream Harry Styles on ‘SNL’
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How to Livestream Harry Styles on ‘SNL’

With a number of free streaming options, here's when and where to watch the three-time Grammy-winner pull double duty as host and musical guest of 'Saturday Night Live.'

‘Project Hail Mary’ Review: Ryan Gosling in a Lavish but Derivative Outer-Space Adventure
Culturevarietyhollywood-reporterdeadline28d ago3 sources

‘Project Hail Mary’ Review: Ryan Gosling in a Lavish but Derivative Outer-Space Adventure

The film feels padded, whether it’s stopping in its tracks for Eva to do a full-blown karaoke version of Harry Styles’ "Sign of the Times" or spilling over into a finale that doesn’t know where to end. The sentimental dilemma of whether Ryan, at one point, is going to go forward with the mission or turn the ship around to save Rocky is string-pulling of a very generic order. "Project Hail Mary" will likely be a hit, but the movie we need right now — or, really, anytime — is one whose drama ex...

OpenAI has a Hollywood problem. They just hired a guy to fix it.
TechnologyBusiness InsiderYahoo1mo ago2 sources

OpenAI has a Hollywood problem. They just hired a guy to fix it.

Charles Porch (with red flower), formerly of Meta and now OpenAI, at the Met Gala. Theo Wargo/FilmMagic OpenAI just hired Charles Porch, Instagram's head of partnerships. Porch has deep connections to celebrities and Hollywood, and plans to talk to them about their "fears" of AI. Maybe OpenAI is realizing they need celebrities to stop publicly hating AI so much. A "detriment" to human creativity, said Vince Gilligan, creator of "Breaking Bad" and "Pluribus" about AI. "Horrifying," said James Cameron about the possibility of AI actors. "I'd rather die," said Guillermo del Toro. "Incredibly destructive," said Cate Blanchett. It's not hard to see why OpenAI recognizes it has a bit of an image problem among some people in Hollywood. It appears that the company is now trying to change that. OpenAI just poached Charles Porch from Meta, where he oversaw celebrity partnerships for over a decade, as Vanity Fair reported earlier. Porch is generally recognized for helping make Instagram the cultural juggernaut it is today by helping celebrities who might have been confused by or disinterested in newfangled social media join and use the platform. Porch has deep connections in the entertainment industry — celebrities like Harry Styles attended his lavish wedding this summer in France. Porch wrote on his personal Instagram about his job change: "From helping Beyoncé figure out how to launch an album exclusively on social media to onboarding Pope Francis to Instagram (he held my hands and asked me to pray for him) to watching creators become the next generation of entrepreneurs, the impact on culture that me and the team have been able to have is something that I take great pride in." It's not clear exactly what Porch's new gig will entail. He told Vanity Fair that his first step will be to go on a "listening tour" to hear the hopes and fears about AI from creatives and celebrities. I've asked OpenAI for comment. For Hollywood actors, filmmakers, and studio executives, those fears are pretty big. Why wouldn't Brad Pitt be alarmed to see a passably real AI-generated version of himself in a fist-fight against Tom Cruise? The idea that AI could replace actors, screenwriters, and other creatives is alarming, especially as Hollywood as an industry is hurting. Box office sales haven't bounced back from the pandemic, streaming is complicated, fewer and fewer projects are being made, and efforts to cut costs by filming overseas have devastated Los Angeles' middle-class of film industry workers. On top of that, AI is, as far as I can tell, widely considered a theft machine that gobbled up tons of images and videos from movies and TV for training data, largely without permission or compensation. You can see a filmmaker or actor's point of view here: They stole my face and my work to build this tool, and now they want to use it to make soulless slop that will undercut the value of my work? Why OpenAI's hire has a tough road ahead Not great! I imagine Porch has his work cut out for him. OpenAI and other AI companies have started making deals with Hollywood. Disney made a $1 billion deal with OpenAI around the time Sora 2 launched, licensing Disney characters like Mickey Mouse and Darth Vader, and also becoming a customer and investor in OpenAI. Lionsgate and AMC made deals allowing their catalogs to be used for training Runway. (Business Insider, through our parent company, has a somewhat similar deal with OpenAI.) But those deals with studios, while they might stave off copyright lawsuits and create some cash flow, aren't winning over the hearts and minds of the celebrities and creatives — the kinds of people who make headlines when they call AI "horrifying." Perhaps OpenAI is realizing that celebrities still hold the kind of cultural capital that can't be built in the Bay Area. And while OpenAI has been pretty successful in pushing its agenda in Washington, thanks to an AI-friendly administration, it still has an uphill battle to win over the general public, which remains fairly skeptical of AI. And for that, you need to get the celebs on board. There's a beautiful irony now that these big AI companies are paying big bucks to hire human writers, and VCs are now obsessed with the concept of "taste." It turns out that kinds of "soft skills" that had long been undervalued in Silicon Valley are more relevant than ever now that AI can do a lot of the technical work. And someone like Charles Porch, who has the connections and ability to charm a roomful of Hollywood types and other cultural elites, is more valuable than ever. That's the kind of job AI can't take. Read the original article on Business Insider

Bons Sons Festival Announces Lineup for 20th Anniversary Edition
CultureThe GuardianpublicoThe Week22h ago3 sources

Bons Sons Festival Announces Lineup for 20th Anniversary Edition

The Bons Sons festival, held in Cem Soldos, Tomar, announced the program for its 13th edition, which will take place from August 6 to 9, celebrating its 20th anniversary with artists like Xullaji, Fidju Kitxora, Luca Argel, and Mães Solteiras.

Hard work, romance and bell hooks: how Olivia Dean became British pop’s newest megastar
CultureThe Guardian1mo ago

Hard work, romance and bell hooks: how Olivia Dean became British pop’s newest megastar

After a Grammy and a global breakthrough, the 26-year-old singer could sweep the board at next week’s Brits. Her closest collaborators explain her massive appeal Saturday’s Brit awards will feature performances from heavy hitters such as Harry Styles and Mark Ronson – but all eyes will be on Olivia Dean, the Londoner who has become one of the UK’s biggest breakouts in years, thanks to her second album The Art of Loving and its mega-smash UK No 1 single Man I Need. Nominated for five awards, t...