Could a badly named, synthetic starlet really be coming to a theater near you?  Tilly Norwood hopes so. No, that’s not the name of a Hollywood executive or an indie director. It’s an AI-generated avatar that its creator wants to put on the big screen. Norwood isn’t exactly megawatt-star material. Her image is notably unstriking. […]

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Hamas said late Friday that it would release all remaining Israeli hostages, a major condition of a US peace plan put forward earlier this week […]

Editor’s note, October 3, 5:50 pm: Hamas announced that it agreed to release all Israeli hostages in response to President Donald Trump’s peace plan and was willing to “discuss the details” of its implementation. It remained unclear if Hamas also agreed to the other stipulations in the proposal or when the hostage release would take […]

At the end of Taylor Swift’s newly released 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, the narrator makes a somewhat shocking confession. In the album’s final song, the title track, the narrator describes the sordid life of a showgirl: the betrayals, the faithless men, the industry indifference. She urges the song’s second narrator — a wide-eyed […]

Really, it’s almost unfair to hold a tech company to its mission statement. From Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” to WeWork’s “Elevate the World’s Consciousness,” mission statements are usually written in a company’s adolescence, at that awkward moment when their dreams stretch to the horizon, the venture capitalists are all smiles, and no one has heard […]