Billy Bob Thornton has denied claims that he is quitting Landman after two seasons.
The star has led the Paramount+ drama, which focuses on his titular oil crisis executive Tommy Norris, since its debut last year.
The show wrapped up its second season over the weekend, though in last week’s penultimate episode, Norris was fired from his job by company boss Cami Miller (Demi Moore).
Some reports subsequently emerged that Thornton could be departing – though he has dismissed them as fake.
Minecraft will reportedly be adding controversial age verification features for UK gamers next month.
According to a statement shared on social media, Mojang will reportedly require owners of adult Minecraft accounts to verify they’re at least 18 years old in order to keep access to social features such as chat.
When the European Commission announced on 15th of January a €307.3 million funding call for AI and related tech under Horizon Europe earlier this year, the press materials presented it as a strategic push toward trustworthy AI and European digital autonomy. The funding targets trustworthy AI, data services, robotics, quantum, photonics, and what Brussels calls “open strategic autonomy.”
Viewed in isolation, the number itself isn’t eye-popping. By global standards, where the private sector alone pours hundreds of billions into AI, €307 million is barely a rounding error. Yet this sum matters less for its scale and more for what it reveals about Europe’s longstanding dilemma: how to balance ambitious tech leadership with a cautious, value-driven regulatory culture.
Stellan Skarsgård has criticised Donald Trump after he threatened to annex Greenland.
The US president has recently been ramping up rhetoric around potentially taking the autonomous island territory, which is self-governed, though matters of foreign policy and defence are run by Denmark. Trump has claimed a takeover is for security purposes.
Google has toyed with personalized answers in Gemini, but that was just a hint of what was to come. Today, the company is announcing extensive “personal intelligence” in Gemini that allows the chatbot to connect to Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube to craft more useful answers to your questions. If you don’t want Gemini to get to know you, there’s some good news. Personal intelligence is beginning as a feature for paid users, and it’s entirely optional.
Elon Musk’s X has filed an antitrust lawsuit against several major music publishers and their trade organisation, the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA).
The platform (formerly known as Twitter) alleged earlier this month that the companies and NMPA had illegally colluded to coerce X into purchasing industrywide licenses, without which they cannot host many thousands of songs.
The suit, filed January 9, alleges that both the companies and NMPA attempted to “leverage monopoly power” to compel the social media site to buy licenses from all music publishers at unfairly high rates.
