Angelo

OpenAI rode a hype-fueled rocket to business leadership over the last year. CEO Sam Altman managed to put a consumer-friendly wrapper on a years-old technology and capture the world’s attention. And now, for better or worse, OpenAI is better positioned than anyone to build the tools that will save or destroy the world. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the prize, what Altman recently called “magic intelligence in the sky.” If we ever get there, it may be OpenAI’s six-member board that decides if we’ve reached the…

British band Massive Attack have led the tributes to their “brilliant and eccentric” guitarist Angelo Bruschini, who has died aged 62.Bruschini, who helped develop the Bristol trip-hop collective’s distinctive sound as well as playing guitar in the city’s art rock band The Blue Aeroplanes, revealed in the summer that he had cancer.He wrote: “Twice now I have been told ‘good luck’ by specialists at the hospital over lung cancer, I think I’m fucked! Had a great life, seen the world many many times, met lots of wonderful…

It’s setting up to be a slow year for Hollywood productions. Leadership for SAG-AFTRA, the national guild for screen actors, unanimously voted to send a strike authorization vote to its members. The guild represents over 160,000 entertainment and media professionals, and all of them now have an email in their inboxes: do they support a strike?ChatGPT’s Creator Buddies Up to Congress | Future TechOver the past year entertainment unions have had overwhelming strike support during the lead up to contract negotiations. From…

‘It’s incredible what comes out of Angelo,” David Lynch once said. “He is a master of heart and beauty.” Those qualities, as well moments of droning dread and subtle jazz grooves, oozed out of Angelo Badalamenti’s fingertips when he touched his piano and shaped Lynch’s cinematic worlds. Badalamenti’s music was not simply a sonic accompaniment to his images but something that pulsed, swelled and swayed through Lynch’s surreal terrain, almost a character in its own right.Badalamenti had an esteemed and varied career writing…

Angelo Badalamenti, the acclaimed composer who created haunting music for David Lynch projects including Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, has died at the age of 85.Badalamenti died on Sunday of natural causes, surrounded by family at his New Jersey home, his niece told the Hollywood Reporter.Lynch and Badalamenti would become close friends and collaborators, working together on Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive.…