Rafael Manuel’s new indie feature “Filipiñana,” which opens Friday in New York, is set against a backdrop of oppressive heat and drought. The narrative follows Isabel, a 17-year-old from the provinces of the Philippines, who gets a job at a prestigious golf resort. Manuel felt the golf course was the perfect setting for the film
Kamiyama Kenji says the alien threat driving his new “Gundam” anime is a direct metaphor for humanity’s uneasy relationship with artificial intelligence. The director, known for “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex” and “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” tells Variety he built “Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO” around that
Hugging Face on Monday published a technical timeline that walks readers through how an autonomous AI agent, built on OpenAI models and running within one of OpenAI’s own cybersecurity assessments, broke into its systems for more than four days earlier this month. It’s the first security incident that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “felt very visceral
