Deborah Kirk

1 month ago | diablomag.com | Deborah Kirk

To celebrate its 100th anniversary, Mills College Art Museum is presenting a pair of photography exhibits that showcase two of the museum’s greatest strengths: its long-standing role as a creative home for contemporary artists and the depth of its permanent collection. The museum commissioned Oakland photographer Kija Lucas to create images of botanical subjects that explore how we view nature. “My work sort of visually mimics scientific imagery,” she says.

1 month ago | jdsupra.com | Alistair Ho |Deborah Kirk

Artificial intelligence (AI) took a lead role at the Oscars on 2 March 2025, with several filmmakers and actors using their speeches to touch on AI’s impact on the industry, in particular the presence of AI-generated content in some of the nominated films. In “The Brutalist,” which won for best actor, cinematography and original score, the AI tool Respeecher was used to tweak the Hungarian accents of nonnative speakers.

1 month ago | lexology.com | Deborah Kirk |Alistair Ho

Artificial intelligence (AI) took a lead role at the Oscars on 2 March 2025, with several filmmakers and actors using their speeches to touch on AI’s impact on the industry, in particular the presence of AI-generated content in some of the nominated films. In “The Brutalist,” which won for best actor, cinematography and original score, the AI tool Respeecher was used to tweak the Hungarian accents of nonnative speakers.

Jan 24, 2025 | diablomag.com | Deborah Kirk

Last summer, Roger Thompson, Ed.D., became the 31st president of Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, bringing decades of experience as a leader in higher education. Most recently the vice president for student services and enrollment management at the University of Oregon, Thompson spoke with Diablo about his vision for Saint Mary’s. “We are just 45 minutes from Silicon Valley, the innovation capital of the world.

Jan 8, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Alistair Ho |Deborah Kirk |Nicola Kerr-Shaw

[co-author: Aleksander Aleksiev]On 13 December 2024, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published the report of outcomes from its consultation on generative AI (genAI). The report sets out key themes that emerged from responses to the ICO’s five-part genAI consultation series that launched in January 2024, which covered: The relevant lawful basis for using web scraping to train genAI models. Purpose limitation in the context of genAI.