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At ease, Hollywood.OpenAI may be changing its tune about the use of copyright materials in its video-generation tool, Sora.Since launching earlier this week, the new Sora 2 app — which allows users to generate short AI videos from text prompts — has been flooded with clips featuring well-known animated characters and big brands, sparking warnings from legal experts over potential copyright lawsuits.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has now outlined changes that would give rights holders more control over the use of their intellectual property on the platform, which was the No. 1 free app on the Apple App Store on Friday.In a blog…

Agriculture is a thirsty industry, consuming 70% of all fresh water used worldwide. In some countries, like India or Chile, it can be more than 90%. For Mario Bustamante, who lives in Chile, the problem hits close to home. “Lack of water is a big issue here,” he told TechCrunch. Bustamante is betting that AI can help slash water use in farms across the world. His startup, Instacrops, was originally founded to deploy internet-of-things (IoT) sensors on farms to warn farmers about damaging frost conditions, but as the hardware became commoditized, the company pivoted to software and water use. Now,…

OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora. Prior to Sora’s launch this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had been telling Hollywood studios and agencies that they needed to explicitly opt out if they didn’t want their IP to be included in Sora-generated videos. Despite being invite-only, the app quickly climbed to the top of the App Store charts. Sora’s most distinctive feature may be its “cameos,” where users can upload their biometric data to see their digital likeness featured in AI-generated videos. At the same…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Friday night was anything but typical at a bar near Paulista Avenue, one of Sao Paulo’s busiest areas and a popular destination for tourists. Nearly every table was ordering beer, wine or draft beer but no cocktails.Edilson Trindade, the manager who has worked at the bar since 2018, told The Associated Press the establishment usually sells about 80 caipirinhas — Brazil’s national cocktail made with cachaça, lime, sugar and ice — each night. Last week, he didn’t sell a single one. No other cocktails were ordered, either.“Clients have been worried, and we’re advising them it’s better…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Phillies right fielder Nick Castellanos was benched on Saturday for Game 1 of the NL Division Series against Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Shohei Ohtani.The right-handed-hitting Castellanos said he had “communication” issues earlier this season when he was scratched from the lineup by manager Rob Thomson. Castellanos played 147 games and hit just .250 with 72 RBIs this season a year after he played in all 162. Max Kepler got the start in right field against LA, batting seventh.Castellanos played all 34 games for the Phillies over the last three postseasons. He became the first player in MLB…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee’s Jackson Chourio left Saturday’s NL Division Series opener against the Chicago Cubs with a hamstring injury after becoming the first player to have three hits in the first two innings of a postseason game.Chourio spent a month on the injured list after straining his right hamstring while running the bases on a triple in a July 29 victory over the Cubs.“It’s scary,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said during the TBS telecast of Game 1. “He had a hamstring that kept him out a month, and it’s the same hamstring, so we’re worried about it. It’s really…

Gerry Turner, the original Golden Bachelor, is officially “off the market” again.The 74-year-old reality star announced his engagement to girlfriend Lana Sutton in an Instagram post shared Friday.”We’ve got BIG news. The Golden Bachelor is OFF the market. I found my perfect match and she said ‘YES.’ I love this woman,” Turner captioned a photo of the couple by the beach as Sutton flashed her engagement ring, a round-cut diamond on a diamond-encrusted band.Former ‘Golden Bachelor’ Gerry Turner opens up about cancer diagnosis, new girlfriendSutton shared her own post the same day, writing, “BIG announcement… we’re ENGAGED!💍🎉❤️ The Golden Bachelor…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former NFL quarterback and current Fox Sports analyst Mark Sanchez was apparently stabbed in an overnight altercation in downtown Indianapolis and was hospitalized on Saturday.Sanchez, who was in Indianapolis to call Sunday’s Raiders-Colts game, was in stable condition, Fox Sports said on social media.Indianapolis police released a statement that didn’t identify Sanchez but said they were investigating a confrontation that occurred around 12:30 a.m. Saturday between two men, one of whom was hospitalized with stab wounds.The other man received treatment for lacerations, police said. Detectives had reviewed video footage of the confrontation, which police said occurred in…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Jimbo Fisher was brought to tears while returning to Florida State’s campus for the first time since resigning to take the Texas A&M coaching job in 2017.Fisher, now an ACC Network analyst, was wildly cheered at the start of the network’s pregame show outside Doak Campbell Stadium. He turned in his chair, did the tomahawk chop to the crowd of garnet-clad fans and started to cry.“Brings tears to my eyes,” Fisher said. “Remember your family growing up here and hearing that chant. When you heard it, something to it.“The players, the memories. It’s Miami week.”Fisher moved…

Michaela Del Barrio had always known that her family history of breast cancer meant she had a higher risk than most of being diagnosed with the disease.In her 20s, doctors had told her she was too young to dwell on those concerns. However, after the birth of her second child, she began to worry more about her odds.One day, during a standard doctor’s appointment, Del Barrio asked her doctor if there were any options for her to start receiving mammograms early. Her physician directed her to Northwestern University’s high-risk breast clinic. After a risk assessment, she had her first mammogram…