The Legal Landscape of Celebrity Voices in Technology

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss announcements from Microsoft Build, the OpenAI's trouble with Scarlett Johansson, new Sonos headphones, and more.

Further reading:

• Microsoft’s big bet on building a new type of AI computer 
• Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs 
• https://www.theverge.com › microsoft-surface-pro-pric...
• Here’s the eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments 
• How does the Microsoft Surface Laptop stack up to the MacBook Air? 
• Microsoft Build 2024: everything announced
• Windows now has AI-powered copy and paste
• Microsoft is making File Explorer more powerful with version control and 7z compression
• Here’s the eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments
• Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them
• Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures 
• Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents act like virtual employees to automate tasks 
• Microsoft outage took down Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT search features
• OpenAI is ‘in conversations’ with Scarlett Johansson over the ChatGPT voice that sounds just like her
• OpenAI pulls its Scarlett Johansson-like voice for ChatGPT
• Lawyers say OpenAI could be in real trouble with Scarlett Johansson
• Scarlett Johansson told OpenAI not to use her voice — and she’s not happy they might have anyway
• OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
• OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game
• OpenAI’s News Corp deal licenses content from WSJ, New York Post, and more
• OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts
• The US government is trying to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster
• The Sonos Ace headphones are here, and they’re damn impressive
• Sonos CEO Patrick Spence addresses the company’s divisive app redesign
• here’s an electric salt spoon that adds umami flavor 
• Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos 
• Humane is looking for a buyer after the AI Pin’s underwhelming debut 

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