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All the 2023 Met Gala details you need, including the theme and who’s going
Fashion’s most exciting evening is upon us. Known the world over for its glamorous red carpet moments, the annual Met Gala is organized by Vogue as a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. It’s also an opportunity for A-list celebs, models, and designers to show off their fashion bona fides.
Here is everything you need to know ahead of the big night.
What is the theme?
Each Gala has a theme corresponding to the exhibition inside the Met, which celebs experience as they mingle and dine throughout the evening. This year’s theme is “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.” It celebrates the late German designer’s more than 60-year career in the fashion industry leading the creative direction of Chloé, Fendi, and, most notably, Chanel.
The theme has been criticized by some for celebrating Lagerfeld, who made several fatphobic, racist, and misogynistic comments in the press before his death in 2019.
How to watch the red carpet
Vogue is streaming its coverage of the Met Gala live on YouTube at 6:30 PM EDT / 3:30 PM PDT. The stream will feature Emma Chamberlain, La La Anthony, Derek Blasberg, and Saturday Night Live‘s Chloe Fineman. You can access the stream at this link or simply click on the player embedded below at 6:30 PM EDT / 3:30 PM PDT:
What should we expect to see on the red carpet?
Lagerfeld was known for his distinct personal style, which he refined as he aged, and we should expect to see modern interpretations of it on the carpet. In his later years, Lagerfeld wore almost exclusively black and white, usually a blouse with trousers and a jacket. He used white powder on his hair, which was always swept back into a low ponytail, wore gloves, and was never seen without his black sunglasses. He was beloved within the industry for these and other eccentricities, especially his adoration of his cat, Choupette (who should make an appearance this evening).
Lagerfeld’s more than a half-century of work in the industry is so extensive that it is difficult to summarize. His designs were known for their unfailing elegance, and he often played with hues of pink, white, and black. He rejuvenated the house of Chanel and reinvented its iconic suit, to which he added his own whimsical interpretations of proportion and the brand’s signature tweed. Expect suits, blazers, tweed, pearls, and lace on the carpet, in delicate pastels, white, or black.
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Who is attending?
As Vogue’s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour curates the Met Gala guest list of who’s-who in pop culture and entertainment. Penélope Cruz, Michaela Coel, Roger Federer, and Dua Lipa are this year’s co-chairs and should be in attendance. Florence Pugh, Paris Hilton, Priyanka Chopra, Kim Kardashian, and Elle Fanning have all confirmed they are attending, and it’s all but certain a few of Lagerfeld’s model muses — like Cara Delevingne, Naomi Campbell, Karlie Kloss, Devon Aoki, and Gigi Hadid — will grace the carpet.
The Cut notes that Chanel brand ambassadors like Margot Robbie, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Margaret Qualley, and Jennie from BLACKPINK should make appearances. Last, but not least, Lagerfeld’s favorite feline, Choupette, is the “only guest explicitly confirmed to have gotten an invite” says The Cut, which means the red carpet will be covered in fur by the end of the night.
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Report Details Turmoil Behind Apple’s AI Efforts, ‘Siri X,’ and Headset Voice Controls
The extensive paywalled report explains why former Apple employees who worked in the company’s AI and machine learning groups believe that a lack of ambition and organizational dysfunction have hindered Siri and the company’s AI technologies. Apple’s virtual assistant is apparently “widely derided” inside the company for its lack of functionality and minimal improvement over time.
By 2018, the team working on Siri had apparently “devolved into a mess, driven by petty turf battles between senior leaders and heated arguments over the direction of the assistant.” Siri’s leadership did not want to invest in building tools to analyse Siri’s usage and engineers lacked the ability to obtain basic details such as how many people were using the virtual assistant and how often they were doing so. The data that was obtained about Siri coming from the data science and engineering team was simply not being used, with some former employees calling it “a waste of time and money.”
Many Apple employees purportedly left the company because it was too slow to make decisions or too conservative in its approach to new AI technologies, including the large-language models that underpin chatbots like ChatGPT. Apple CEO Tim Cook personally attempted to persuade engineers who helped Apple modernize its search technology to stay at the company, before they left to work on large-language models at Google.
Apple executives are said to have dismissed proposals to give Siri the ability to conduct extended back-and-forth conversations, claiming that the feature would be difficult to control and gimmicky. Apple’s uncompromising stance on privacy has also created challenges for enhancing Siri, with the company pushing for more of the virtual assistant’s functions to be performed on-device.
Cook and other senior executives requested changes to Siri to prevent embarassing responses and the company prefers Siri’s responses to be pre-written by a team of around 20 writers, rather than AI-generated. There were also specific decisions to exclude information such as iPhone prices from Siri to push users directly to Apple’s website instead.
Siri engineers working on the feature that uses material from the web to answer questions clashed with the design team over how accurate the responses had to be in 2019. The design team demanded a near-perfect accuracy rate before the feature could be released.
Engineers claim to have spent months persuading Siri designers that not every one of its answers needed human verification, a limitation that made it impossible to scale up Siri to answer the huge number of questions asked by users. Similarly, Apple’s design team repeatedly rejected the feature that enabled users to report a concern or issue with the content of a Siri answer, preventing machine-learning engineers from understanding mistakes, because it wanted Siri to appear “all-knowing.”
In 2019, the Siri team explored a project to rewrite the virtual assistant from scratch, codenamed “Blackbird.” The effort sought to create a lightweight version of Siri that would delegate the creation of functions to app developers and would run on iPhones instead of the cloud to improve performance and privacy. Demos of Blackbird apparently prompted excitement among Apple employees owing to its utility and responsiveness.
Blackbird competed with the work of two senior leaders on the Siri team who were responsible for helping Siri understand and respond to queries. These individuals pushed for their own project, codenamed “Siri X,” for the 10th anniversary of the virtual assistant. The project simply aimed to move Siri’s processing on-device for privacy reasons, without the lightweight, modular functionality of Blackbird.
Hundreds of employees working on Blackbird were assigned to Siri X, which killed the ambitious project to make Siri more capable. Siri X was mostly completed in 2021 and now many of the voice assistant’s functions are processed locally.
Most recently, the group working on Apple’s mixed reality headset were reportedly disappointed by the demonstrations provided by the Siri team on how the virtual assistant could control the headset. At one point in the device’s development, the headset team considered building an alternative method for controlling the device using voice commands because Siri was deemed to be unsatisfactory.
This article, “Report Details Turmoil Behind Apple’s AI Efforts, ‘Siri X,’ and Headset Voice Controls” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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The Nun 2 Reveals First Details Of Valak’s Return
The first footage from The Nun 2 has debuted at CinemaCon this week, and while the teaser hasn’t been made publically available, attendees at the con have described the debut footage. The film sees Taissa Farmiga returning as Sister Irene, to face off against Bonnie Aarons as The Nun, also known as the demon Valak. Euphoria’s Storm Reid will also be joining the cast in her Conjuring universe debut.
According to a description of the trailer from Slash Film, it opens with a group of girls playing a game called “Defy The Devil” in a spooky abandoned church. The footage shows a statue hidden under a sheet slowly move its head, which initially goes unnoticed by the girls. As part of their game, they dare each other to look for the devil in the form of a monstrous goat in the church’s stained glass windows. There does turn out to be a goat depicted in the window, and its eyes glow red as the Nun appears behind one of the girls. She tries to run but is trapped in the church as the statue starts to move again, the sheet slowly falling off to the sound of the girl’s screams.
The trailer takes us back to Sister Irene after this cold open. A priest is asking for her help in dealing with the demon nun Valak, who has returned to the world to wreak havoc. After a montage of what is described as “religious horror imagery,” the trailer ends with a short scene of two girls exploring a crawlspace, where they encounter an eerie woman with her back turned. The woman grabs one of the girl’s faces in one final jump scare.
The Division Heartland gameplay details and opening cinematic shared by Ubisoft
Ubisoft has announced new gameplay details for The Division Heartland, the standalone, survival-action multiplayer shooter announced in 2021.
Originally set to release on PC and consoles in 2021-2022, the game takes place in a new setting, providing a new perspective on the world.
Heartland takes players to Silver Creek, a once pleasant town in the American Midwest, left in ruins following the spread of the Dollar Flu. This is a hostile environment filled with contamination, enemy hordes, and the threat of sickness and dehydration.
Street Fighter 6 showcase details new locations, modes, RPG elements, more – demo now available
Capcom hosted a Street Fighter 6 showcase yesterday with Lil Wayne as the MC and dropped new information on the upcoming game.
This new information included details on World Tour, customized avatar battles, accessibility features, the Year 1 roadmap, and a demo that kicks off today on PS4 and PS5. The demo will arrive on Xbox and Steam next week on April 26.
Quite a bit of information came out of the showcase, so grab a beverage and a snack real quick before diving in.