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    TV Publicity Campaign nominations set for 60th Annual ICG Publicists Awards

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    LOS ANGELES --

    The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) Publicists have unveiled the nominees for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Television Publicity Campaign to be presented at the 60th Annual ICG Publicists Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Friday, March 10, 2023. The award honors active members working in television whose achievements in publicity and promotion during the previous calendar year are deemed outstanding. 
     
    “This year’s nominees exemplify outstanding efforts by publicists to bring significant, large audiences to a broad range of various television genres featuring competing drag queens, comedic ghosts, an intergalactic alien predator, an outer space franchise prequel and passionate inner-city teachers from both Streamers and Networks,” said Tim Menke who chairs the ICG Publicists Awards along with Sheryl Main.
     
    NOMINEES FOR THE 2023 MAXWELL WEINBERG AWARD FOR TELEVISION PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN:

    • Abbott Elementary (Warner Bros. Television/ ABC)
    • Ghosts (CBS Studios/ CBS)
    • Prey (20th Century Studios/ Hulu)
    • RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars (MTV Entertainment Studios/ Paramount+)
    • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (CBS Studios/ Paramount+)

    The Publicists Awards Committee selects nominees from qualified submitted applications for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Television Publicity Campaign. The final recipient is determined via an online ballot of the publicist membership. Final online balloting will be held Jan. 31 – Feb. 6, 2023.
     
     

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    Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died

    Saturday, December 21, 2024
    Suchir Balaji poses for a photo in Hawaii in 2018. Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024. (Balaji Ramamurthy via AP)

    Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.

    Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products.

    "We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time," said a statement from OpenAI.

    Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said "appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation." The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide.

    His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a "happy, smart and brave young man" who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends.

    Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT.

    "Suchir's contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn't have succeeded without him," said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what... Read More

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