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Following the release of Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, a Jack Ryan producer has shared her experience on working with the Nickelodeon hitmaker Dan Schneider. Berg, who served as Schneider’s assistant for less than a year, called the Nickelodeon writer and producer a “fucking asshole” and “psychological tormentor” on Monday in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter. Berg alleges Schneider brought on her “panic attacks” and led her to develop a “significant heart arrhythmia,” or irregular…

In an interesting turn of events, Apple is reportedly in talks with Google over the use of its Large Language Model (LLM) Gemini for powering artificial intelligence (AI) features on the iPhone. This development comes just days after the iPhone maker allegedly bought Canadian AI startup DarwinAI ahead of the reveal of iOS 18 in the summer which is reported to bring big AI features to the iPhone.Also Read: Apple iPhone 16 Leak Hints at Upgraded Neural Engine to Support iOS 18's AI Features Apple in talks with…

Maria Diaz/ZDNETGemini, Google's series of artificial intelligence models, is already becoming ever-present on our phones. Gemini powers the Pixel 8's highly-touted AI features, is available in Google Messages, and can be set as your default Android assistant (although when ZDNET's Jack Wallen tested that feature, it didn't go so well).Next up, Gemini might be coming to Apple's iPhone later this year.Also: You can now ask Google's Gemini AI to revise specific details in a responseBloomberg reports that Apple is in…

Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe has said the studio is in talks to bring Palworld to other platforms. Since it launched earlier this year, Palworld has become one of the biggest and most popular games of 2024. Created by indie studio Pocketpair, the open-world creature collecting game is currently available via Steam and Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Now Mizobe has confirmed the studio is in talks to launch on “more platforms”. The interview with Bloomberg doesn’t mention what platforms those might be,…

The `Oppenheimer` star Robert Downey Jr, who will next play four characters in HBO`s spy drama The Sympathiser (coming April 14), spoke about his journey from uninsurable actor to Oscar winner, reported People. Accepting the Best Supporting Actor award, Downey peppered his deadpan speech with emotional moments, addressing the years he spent in the grip of drug addiction in the late `90s and early 2000s. He thanked his wife for "loving me back to life," along with his longtime lawyer, joking that the attorney had spent…

Apple and Google are actively negotiating the use of Gemini to power some of the generative AI features coming to iPhones this year, according to a latest report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurnman. The deal with Apple could be a game-changer for Google's Gemini chatbot which has been embroiled in a number of controversies over…

Former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment and PlayStation worldwide Shawn Layden has spoken about the importance of platform-exclusive games. The discussion around platform-exclusives has heated up in recent months after Microsoft confirmed a number of Xbox-exclusives would be made available on “rival” consoles. Both Grounded and Pentiment are due to come to Nintendo Switch while Hi-Fi Rush and Sea Of Thieves are coming to the PS5. Speaking on the What’s Up PlayStation podcast, Layden said (via VGC): “Exclusivity…

Christina Applegate said she “blacked out” during her rare public appearance at the Emmys earlier this year in a new interview with Good Morning America about her battle with multiple sclerosis. The full interview airs tomorrow, March 12, but in a preview clip, Applegate expressed gratitude for the copious support she’s received since being diagnosed with MS in 2021. But, she remained brutally honest about what life with MS is really like.  “I live kind of in hell,” she said. “I’m not out a lot, so this is,…

THE STREETS LEADING up to the Lab Studios, a recording complex in Miami’s lush Coconut Grove neighborhood, are full of bright, iridescent peacocks. Peso Pluma has set up a weeklong writing camp here in late January to work on his new album, which, he reveals later, is called Éxodo and will be out this summer. It’s almost too fitting that a bunch of decadent birds with stately, metallic feathers are sashaying down the pavement. After all, the Mexican artist, whose real name is Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija, has…

The night of the Oppenheimer world premiere last summer, composer Ludwig Göransson was in his home country of Sweden with his wife Serena and some friends. They wanted to check out the film at a local movie theater in the small village where they were staying, but it was packed and the first showing was nearly sold out. Pleading with the person running the theater, Göransson says he explained that he scored the film and would love to watch along with an audience on opening night. They snagged a few seats — and that was…