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Extra.ie
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Bond girl Alison Doody reunites with a View to a Kill co-star to mark 30 year anniversary
Irish star of the silver screen Alison Doody who shot to fame in the 90's with a series of bad girl roles in cult films like Indiana Jones and James Bond, has reunited with one of her Bond girl co-stars to mark 30 years since she starred in A View to a Kill. Southside stunner Alison, first made her Hollywood mark when she was cast as part of the 007 franchise, where she played to perfection the role of baddie Bond girl Jenny Flex in A View to a Kill. Now three decades on from when A View to A Kill first hit movie theatres around the globe, Alison has reunited with her View to a Kill co-star Papillon Soo Soo in the French villa where much of the film was shot, to mark the movie's milestone. Irish star of the silver screen Alison Doody who shot to fame in the 90's with a series of bad girl roles in cult films like Indiana Jones and James Bond, has reunited with one of her Bond girl co-stars to mark 30 years since she starred in A View to a Kill. David Buchan/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images) In the film Alison played Jenny Flex, a beautiful but deadly bodyguard to the film's main machiavellian character Max Zorin played by Christopher Walken. And in keeping with all great Bond movie plots, where good trumps evil and the bad guys and girls invariably meet a grisly end, Alison met her fate when she is double-crossed and left to die. But while she may have been killed off-screen, in real life she lived on and is now reliving her bond girl days in the French villa where the movie was made. Pic: Laurence Wreford/Instagram And thirty years after her big screen debut Alison demonstrated she has those killer looks that shot to international super stardom. Dressed to kill in a sleek black power suit with towering patent black heels Alison is movie starlet personified. Alison Doody. Pic: After her James Bond appearance Alison went on to star alongside Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , where once again her angelic platinum blonde doe-eyed beautiful looks concealed her deadly evil side .
Irish Independent
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Tolü Makay: ‘It may take 10, 20 years but I'll sing a James Bond theme'
The Nigerian-Irish singer on embracing her uniqueness and the viral performance she saw as a sign to keep following her dreams after quitting her job at Google You've got to dream big, says Tolü Makay. The Nigerian-Irish singer has long held 'sing a Bond theme song' as one of her greatest ambitions – and after a recent performance with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, it seems just that little bit more achievable. 'It's been on my vision board for a long time,' the soul-pop singer says, acknowledging how a number of listeners insisted that she should join the pantheon of Bond singers after hearing her stunning rendition of the Bacharach/David classic Walk On By. 'The fact that people are seeing it now too, I'm like, 'OK! Thank you!'. Now, obviously, there are steps to that: you have to be one of the best or biggest stars of the time,' she adds, undaunted. 'So I'm like, 'OK, we need to figure out how this will happen. Maybe it'll be another 10, 20 years – but it's gonna happen at some point.''
NZ Herald
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
French producer woos Hollywood with epic that inspired Game of Thrones
His godfather is Francis Ford Coppola and his family is French cinema royalty, but Dimitri Rassam says he's carving his own path with plans to make a global blockbuster. Dimitri Rassam was destined to make movies. The son of Bond girl and Cesar-winning actor Carole Bouquet and French film producer
Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
It's not your imagination: AI is speeding up the pace of change
If the adoption of AI feels different from any tech revolution you may have experienced before — mobile, social, cloud computing — it actually is. Venture capitalist Mary Meeker just dropped a 340-page slideshow report — which used the word 'unprecedented' on 51 of those pages — to describe the speed at which AI is being developed, adopted, spent on, and used, backed up with chart after chart. 'The pace and scope of change related to the artificial intelligence technology evolution is indeed unprecedented, as supported by the data,' she writes in the report, called "Trends — Artificial Intelligence." There's a certain poetic history to this person writing this kind of report. Meeker is the founder and general partner at VC firm Bond and was once known as Queen of the Internet for her previous annual Internet Trends reports. Before founding Bond, she ran Kleiner Perkins' growth practice, from 2010-2019, where she backed companies like Facebook, Spotify, Ring, and Block (then Square). She hasn't released a trends report since 2019. But she dusted off her skills to document, in laser detail, how AI adoption has outpaced any other tech in human history. ChatGPT reaching 800 million users in 17 months: unprecedented. The number of companies and the rate at which so many others are hitting high annual recurring revenue rates: also unprecedented. The speed at which costs of usage are dropping: unprecedented. While the costs of training a model (also unprecedented) is up to $1 billion, inference costs — for example, those paying to use the tech — has already dropped 99% over two years, when calculating cost per 1 million tokens, she writes, citing research from Stanford. The pace at which competitors are matching each other's features, at a fraction of the cost, including open source options, particularly Chinese models: unprecedented. For example, she points out that Nvidia's 2024 Blackwell GPU uses 105,000x less energy per token than the company's 2014 Kepler GPU predecessor. Meanwhile, chips from Google, like its TPU (tensor processing unit), and Amazon's Trainium, are being developed at scale for their clouds — that's moving quickly, too. 'These aren't side projects — they're foundational bets,' she writes. The one area where AI hasn't outpaced every other tech revolution is in financial returns. While VCs are pouring money on the AI fire as fast as they can, AI companies and cloud service providers are also burning through cash. AI requires massive investments in infrastructure. That's good for consumers and enterprises, the beneficiaries of fast improvements, while competition lowers costs, Meeker points out. But the jury is still out over which of the current crop of companies will become long-term, profitable, next-generation tech giants. "Only time will tell which side of the money-making equation the current AI aspirants will land," she writes. As for the rest of us: Just hold on to your hats. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch at Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
TechCrunch
a day ago
- Business
- TechCrunch
It's not your imagination: AI is speeding up the pace of change
If the adoption of AI feels different from any tech revolution you may have experienced before — mobile, social, cloud computing — it actually is. Venture capitalist Mary Meeker just dropped a 340-page slideshow report — which used the word 'unprecedented' on 51 of those pages — to describe the speed at which AI is being developed, adopted, spent on, and used, backed up with chart after chart. 'The pace and scope of change related to the artificial intelligence technology evolution is indeed unprecedented, as supported by the data,' she writes in the report, called 'Trends — Artificial Intelligence.' There's a certain poetic history to this person writing this kind of report. Meeker is the founder and general partner at VC firm Bond, and was once known as Queen of the Internet for her previous annual Internet Trends reports. Before founding Bond, she ran Kleiner Perkins' growth practice, from 2010-2019, where she backed companies like Facebook, Spotify, Ring, and Block (then Square). She hasn't released a trends report since 2019. But she dusted off her skills to document, in laser detail, how AI adoption has outpaced any other tech in human history. ChatGPT reaching 800 million users in 17 months: unprecedented. The number of companies and the rate at which so many others are hitting high annual recurring revenue rates: also unprecedented. The speed at which costs of usage are dropping: unprecedented. While the costs of training a model (also unprecedented) is up to $1 billion, inference costs — for example, those paying to use the tech — has already dropped 99% over two years, when calculating cost per 1 million tokens, she writes, citing research from Stanford. Techcrunch event Save now through June 4 for TechCrunch Sessions: AI Save $300 on your ticket to TC Sessions: AI—and get 50% off a second. Hear from leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Khosla Ventures, and more during a full day of expert insights, hands-on workshops, and high-impact networking. These low-rate deals disappear when the doors open on June 5. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you've built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | REGISTER NOW The pace at which competitors are matching each other's features, at a fraction of the cost, including open source options, particularly Chinese models: unprecedented. For example, she points out that Nvidia's 2024 Blackwell GPU uses 105,000x less energy per token than the company's 2014 Kepler GPU predecessor. Meanwhile chips from Google, like its TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) and Amazon's Trainium are being developed at scale for their clouds — that's moving quickly, too. 'These aren't side projects — they're foundational bets,' she writes. The one area where AI hasn't outpaced every other tech revolution is in financial returns. While VCs are pouring money on the AI fire as fast as they can, AI companies and cloud service providers are also burning though cash. AI requires massive investments in infrastructure. That's good for consumers and enterprises, the beneficiaries of fast improvements while competition lowers costs, Meeker points out. But the jury is still out over which of the current crop of companies will become long-term, profitable, next-generation tech giants. 'Only time will tell which side of the money-making equation the current AI aspirants will land,' she writes. As of for the rest of us: Just hold onto your hats.
