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Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence laboratory is working on a new technology that can generate soundtracks, even dialogue, to go along with videos. The lab has shared its progress on the video-to-audio (V2A) technology project, which can be paired with Google Veo and other video creation tools like OpenAI's Sora. In its blog post, the DeepMind team explains that the system can understand

• Neom's $10 billion joint venture with DSV has been delayed over missing regulatory approvals.
• The partnership was due to start in the second quarter of this year, per ShippingWatch.
• Despite the setback, DSV says it remains committed to the Neom partnership.

Saudi Arabia's Neom megaproject appears to have hit another stumbling block.

Neom's $10 billion

• Justice Clarence Thomas has taken several trips with GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow in recent years.
• Democrats released new documents last week saying Thomas failed to disclose three additional trips.
• Here is a list of the trips Thomas and Crow have taken together — that we know of.

Supreme Court Justice Clar

Fisker is done.

The company who rose to prominence as one of the independent Tesla "killers" filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware on Monday.

"Fisker has made incredible progress since our founding, bringing the Ocean SUV to market twice as fast as expected," a company spokesperson said in a statement. While impressive in some regards, the Fisker Ocean also earned a bad rep for poor design choices and

• Lobsterwoman Virginia Oliver, 104, has worked in the family business since age 8.
• The centenarian gets up at 3 a.m. thrice a week to start her shift on the water in Maine.
• She told Business Insider she will stay in the job "until I die."

She might be 104, but Virginia Oliver won't quit lobster catching — a job

The US Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, says social media should come with warning labels, writing in The New York Times that social media is an “important contributor” to the teen mental health crisis. Last year, he issued an advisory making similar arguments, saying social media posed a “profound risk” to teen mental health. In his latest op-ed, Murthy cited a study showing higher social media use

It's the dawn of a new era in Microsoft's eyes as the first wave of Copilot+ PCs are now available as of June 18. This "new class of Windows PCs," as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella describes them, contains hardware designed to run as many generative AI processes locally as possible, rather than having to rely on data centers. 

These laptops all have an Arm-based Snapdragon chipset from Qualcomm that

• The franchisee operating the 55-year-old Arby's on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard has closed it down.
• "Truth is, I think it was the pandemic that did us in," 91-year-old owner Marilyn Leviton told KTLA-5.
• California's $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers and a need for new equipment also led to the restaurant's closure, she said.

Beef sandwich

• The 19-year-old daughter of a Russian mining magnate is suing her NYU roommate.
• The lawsuit claims the roommate stole about $51,000 worth of luxury items, including a ruby ring.
• According to the suit, she sold some of the items on The RealReal — a secondhand marketplace.

Aurora Agapov, the daughter of a Russian

• I'm a millennial mom and always dreamt of being the cool parent. 
• While pregnant I came across the concept of gentle parenting and was sold. 
• I realized I was enabling bad behavior from my preschool child, and stopped gentle parenting. 

As a millennial mom, I've always had this fantasy of raising my child as my friend — being the "cool mom" was

NATO has confirmed the first group of European startups and venture capital firms it’s investing in as part of its €1bn innovation fund. Officially launched in 2023, the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) is a multi-sovereign VC fund that will back early-stage deep tech startups and VCs targeting emerging technologies with military and defence applications. The list of technologies ranges from AI, big

• Two people were injured on an Air New Zealand flight due to severe turbulence.
• A passenger was scalded by hot coffee and a crew member hit the cabin ceiling.
• Turbulence is facing a renewed focus in the aviation sector after the death of a Singapore Airlines passenger.

Two people were injured on board an Air New Zealand flight when it