HR software provider Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, an anti-tokenmaxxing product that helps a company track and contain its AI spending. One of the most interesting features is that it maps how much individual employees, teams, and roles are spending and if they are genuinely more productive, or generally producing more AI slop.
IT sovereignty is vitally important in some cases — but enterprises too often opt for sovereignty overkill rather than accurately evaluating risks.
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The sovereignty rules governing IT inside large companies almost always look the same: one line in a policy document saying that every system touching customer data has to run in a sovereign environment, no exceptions.
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Unlikely duet previews Synonym, an ambitious covers album featuring Cynthia Erivo, Chaka Khan, Brandi Carlile, and WILLOW
Meshell Ndegeocello is taking one of the Eighties’ frostiest break-up pop anthems somewhere much warmer. The bassist, singer, and producer has shared a new version of Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me” with Cat Power, reimagining the synth-pop classic as a laid-back reggae song that swaps intense, icy keyboards for horns and an easy, swaying groove. The track is the latest preview of Synonym, Ndegeocello’s upcoming album of collaborative covers due Oct. 2.
Belgian-born actress Virginie Efira (All of a Sudden, Parallel Tales, Benedetta, Paris Memories) took the stage in the central Piazza Grande square at the 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on Friday evening to receive this year’s Leopard Club Award.
The Legend of Zelda movie has reportedly picked up Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' actress Lydia Peckham to its steadily growing list of cast members.
It's yet another update to the cast list for the live-action Nintendo movie after a flurry of new names joined the adventure yesterday (via Deadline). Like some of the other names who have boarded The Legend of Zelda, details about her role in the project remain a mystery for now.
The original Pokémon TV series is officially streaming on Disney+. Some of it, at least.
Of the 80ish total episodes that comprise the original Indigo League arc, only 27 are now available on Disney+. That's not an entirely random number — the first season of Pokémon was split into three parts when it was brought to DVD in North America, and Disney's episode count lines up with what was included on Viz Media’s first compilation.
Ryan Reynolds really wanted that Hugh Jackman-signed Wolverine trading card, but he wasn’t quite ready to drop $1,000 on it. So what’s the guy who epitomizes Deadpool to do? How about cut a deal?
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Bill Watterson remains undefeated over 30 years later
Image: Bill Watterson/Andrews McMeel PublishingLast New Year's Eve marked the 30th anniversary of the ending of Bill Watterson's seminal newspaper strip Calvin and Hobbes, the impact of which is still being felt throughout Western print media to this day.
The court heard how Levy, from Tottenham, targeted the three vulnerable women, all of whom carried out street sex work in order to fund drug addictions.
He declined to give evidence during his trial but pleaded not guilty to the two murders, as well as two counts of rape, grievous bodily harm with intent, and non-fatal suffocation against the surviving woman.
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Mick Gordon, the composer of Doom 2016’s award-winning soundtrack, is taking the game’s music tp a festival for the first time ever — and he’s bringing the Doom Machine with him.