Michael Patrick Thornton on ‘Waiting for Godot,’ Apple’s ‘The Savant’

One of the most iconic moments of 20th century theater isn’t two men sitting under a tree, waiting for a God that won’t come, in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot“: It’s a long, unpunctuated speech delivered by the character Lucky that makes James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” look like Ernest Hemingway. In “Sunset Blvd.,” director Jamie…

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Apple’s new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with ‘third-party AI’

Apple on Thursday introduced a new set of App Review Guidelines for developers, which now specifically state that apps must disclose and obtain users’ permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI. The change comes ahead of the iPhone maker’s plan to introduce its own AI-upgraded version of Siri in 2026. That update will see…

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