For many kids, the last bell of the school year sounds like freedom. But for millions of others, it signals the end of a reliable meal. More than 21 million children qualify for free and reduced-price school lunches. During summer, that number drops to 3.2 million. The children left behind have not stopped being hungry,
Indeed CEO Deko Idekoba says he thinks AI is a “bit too slow” to change the labor market. That may sound counterintuitive amid warnings that AI is wiping out entry-level jobs and disrupting white-collar work. But Idekoba is concerned with how uneven AI’s impact is: While the new tech advances rapidly through office work, skilled
Acclaimed Catalan filmmaker Carlos Marques-Marcet (“10,000 km,” TIFF Platform winner “They Will Be Dust”), with his first showrunning gig, and sisters Mireia and Joana Vilapuig (“Selftape”) will rub shoulders with creators from Galicia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Mexico and Portugal at the second edition of iSerielizados Mind the Gap co-pro series contest. The international series pitch,
The race between the world’s two biggest economies to dominate AI recently escalated with new accusations and raised the question of how China came to rival the U.S.’s AI capabilities. Six Chinese AI companies, U.S. officials alleged earlier this week, found a shortcut to closing the gap with American AI labs by buying bulk subscriptions
Walmart marketing alum Justin Breton has joined Gap Inc. to drive original content across a range of genres and platforms to support the apparel giant’s “Fashiontainment” business initiative. Starting Aug. 31, Breton will serve as Gap’s VP of development, reporting to Pam Kaufman, the Nickelodeon and Viacom alum who joined the company in February as
As policymakers debate how to govern increasingly powerful AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos, a Chinese open-weight model has narrowed the gap with the industry’s leaders. GLM-5.2, the open-weight AI model from China’s Z.ai, is only a few months behind OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 on cyber and bio capabilities,
