Jo Ling Kent

The son of immigrant parents, who immersed himself in American culture growing up, built a career as a filmmaker with hits such as "Crazy Rich Asians" and "In the Heights," tapping into his own identity and translating stories of struggle and ambition to the screen.

Two voice actors are suing an artificial intelligence startup in a proposed federal class action lawsuit for violating trademark laws, to train their AI.Paul Skey Lehrman and Linnea Sage were hired by Lovo, an AI company, back in 2019 and 2020 to provide voice clips for what they were told would be internal research.“On three occasions in writing they had given me assurances of how and where it would be used for internal purposes only and never forward facing,” Lehrman said.But two years later,…

When Joy Sharp built a new home in the small coastal community of Wilmington, North Carolina, about eight years ago, her homeowners insurance cost was a relatively modest $1,400. That was then.Now, and after a series of violent storms slammed the Atlantic coast in recent years, her annual premiums have more than quadrupled. “Now I’ve been given renewal rates of $6,000,” Sharp, 39, herself an insurance agent, told CBS News. “So, it’s just every year, it goes up and up and up, and it’s not coming…

Last year, there were more than 21,000 deepfake pornographic videos online — up more than 460% over the year prior. But Congress could soon make it illegal to share the doctored images.Leading the charge are New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, and Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican, who co-authored bipartisan legislation aimed at cracking down on people who share non-consensual intimate deepfake images online. The legislation proposes criminal penalties that include a fine and up to…

Police were waiting at a motel room in Gallup, New Mexico, on Tuesday when 52-year-old Fernando Clyde showed up to meet someone he was expecting to be a 12-year-old girl. Police body camera video obtained exclusively by CBS News showed Clyde being arrested on charges that he sent unsolicited sexual messages on Facebook Messenger to who he thought was a girl, but was actually an undercover special agent for the New Mexico Justice Department. “These are individuals who explicitly use this platform…

With the clock ticking on TikTok in the U.S., millions of users, including small business owners, are scrambling to figure out what to do. One of them is Brandon Hurst, who says TikTok has changed his life through his plant delivery business. “It allows me to go live, share who I am, but it also makes it easy for people to buy,” Hurst said. Since he started selling plants on TikTok last year, Hurst, better known as “Brandon the Plant Guy,” says he has tripled his business.“In the last year we’ve…

Berkeley, California — You might not expect a business school course to begin with students belting out Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer,” but at the University of California, Berkeley, Swift is not just a “tortured poet,” she’s a case study in how to build an empire. “Taylor Swift is a phenomenon,” UC Berkeley senior Sejal Krishnan, a chemical engineering major, told CBS News. “Her tour has essentially revitalized so much of the economy and boosted the local economy everywhere she goes.” Undergrads…

For Tammy Rodriguez, online safety for kids is literally a matter of life and death. Her 11-year-old daughter, Selena, died by suicide after an extreme social media addiction led to sexual exploitation by online predators.“I had no idea that it could get to that. I would have never let her have it in the beginning,” Rodriguez told CBS News. “These are all things that are all hidden in the background. That, you know, it seems like these big tech companies, they know exactly how to make it work fo…