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Even as it faces a lawsuit from the recording industry for using countless copyrighted songs to train its music-generating AI model, Suno has become the fifth most-used generative-ai service in the world — and the company is still pushing its technology forward. A new, notably more realistic model, V4, is available today to paid subscribers, and will eventually reach all users. “I think it crosses into something I actively want to listen to,” says Suno co-founder Mikey Shulman. “Instead of, like, something that I want to keep making it better.”

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Issa Rae and Project Greenlight are highlighting the underrepresented. Deadline reports the Insecure creator and digital studio have picked up a new series called Minimum Wage.From writers Rebecca Hu, Arpita Kumar, and Maya Houston, the anthology comedy "centers around five unique employees who work at a run-down fast food restaurant in La’s Koreatown as they try desperately to improve its business in addition to their personal lives."Read More…...

“To Climb a Gold Mountain,” an inspiring documentary about the Chinese immigrant experience in early California, as seen through the eyes of women, will screen as part of the La Femme International Film Festival on Saturday, Oct. 22. Directed by Alex Azmi and Rebecca Hu, written by David Fulmer, music composed by Ilsik Byun and executive produced by Alex Azmi and Raymond Bell, "To Climb a Gold Mountain" traces the lives of four women of Asian descent who lived in America from the 1850s to the present day. The women came from different backgrounds and lived dramatically different lives. Each woman’s story represents a distinct theme of struggle and triumph, and ushers in the succeeding story leading up to the present time. The film...

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Project Greenlight Digital Studios and Issa Rae’s ColorCreative.TV have announced Minimum Wage, a six-episode comedic anthology series. Minimum Wage stems from Project Greenlight and ColorCreative.TV’s The New Normal writing contest, created by the two companies to find underrepresented voices in media. Written by Rebecca Hu, Arpita Kumar, and Maya Houston, the series centers around five unique employees who work at a run-down fast food restaurant in La's Koreatown as…...

Project Greenlight Digital Studios, in partnership with Issa Rae’s ColorCreative.TV, has announced the new series “Minimum Wage,” a six-episode comedic anthology series centered around five unique employees who work at a run-down fast food restaurant in La’s Koreatown as they try desperately to improve its business in addition to their personal lives. There series is executive produced by Rae, best known as the creator and star of the new HBO series “Insecure” and the web series “Awkward Black Girl.”

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The series came about from Project Greenlight and ColorCreative.TV’s ‘The New Normal’ writing contest, which was created to find underrepresented voices in media to express their unique point of view. Contestants were asked to submit a one-page pitch for an original anthology series idea about the theme of a “trophy...

The 3rd Annual Arizona Underground Film Festival provided another slate of edgy and creative films this year, with the film I would most strongly suggest trying to check out is the poignant and entertaining new film 1001 Ways To Enjoy The Missionary Position, which is made its World Premiere in Tucson at the fest.  The film will be screening at the upcomingChinese American Film Festival.  I was able to do an interview during the Azuff with the film's Executive Producer Peter C. Godwin and Producer Rebecca Hu.  Here is Part One of that interview, and I must tell you, they...