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Like with most AI tools, there is no single best AI image generator, and any roundup that claims otherwise is probably skipping actual testing work. The reality is that each AI image generator is good at different things.

Kylie Leia Perez made more than $5.4 million on OnlyFans between 2019 and 2023, performing under the stage name Natalie Monroe. This week, a federal judge sentenced her to a year in prison for it. Well, not for the content itself. No, Perez is going to prison not for what she did, but what she didn’t do with the IRS. Perez, 31, pleaded guilty in May to filing a false federal tax return for 2019 and failing to pay at least $1.5 million owed across the following four years.

Isla Moon had roughly CAD $2 million in investments and a straightforward, entirely conventional ask of her bank. She simply wanted to borrow against that portfolio instead of selling it, the same move investors make constantly to free up cash without cashing out. She needed the money the day before her production started shooting, but what should have been routine financing turned into a crisis the moment her bank found out how she’d earned the money in the first place.

James Fishback spent his entire campaign for Florida governor promising to take half of Sophie Rain’s money. Tuesday night, Florida voters said no thanks. The anti-OnlyFans candidate finished a distant third in the Republican primary with just 10.5% of the vote, crushed by Trump-endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds, who cruised to the nomination with 47.8%.

Despite increasing competition, ChatGPT is still the AI chatbot of choice for most people, and not just because its name has become synonymous with AI. The platform itself is capable, offers tons of features, and can help with all kinds of tasks. But that doesn’t mean it is the best tool for every job. As the AI chatbot market has grown, it has also specialized.

A 60-year research project studying marmots in the Rocky Mountains was staring down its own extinction this summer, killed not by predators or habitat loss but by federal budget cuts. Then it got saved by, of all things, OnlyFans and a meme coin.

“DANNY WICENTOWSKI — Dozens of Lime damaged bikes awaiting repair turned up in an alley behind a warehouse in August. Ten months after bike sharing companies turned St. Louis streets into a mishmash of brightly colored bicycle s, Lime, which first launched its fleet in April 2018, is calling it quits on the traditional pedals-and-gears mode of transport.

“Ania Cunningham learned about the Grove a little bit earlier than she should have. “”This might sound bad, but I used to run down here and underage drink during GroveFest,”” she says. Cunningham, now 31, has worked in the Grove, a stretch of Manchester Avenue between Kingshighway and Vandeventer in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood, since she was 20. In the past, when Cunningham got off of work at 1:30 a.m., she would bar-hop down the strip. “”I would pop out and pop everywhere,”” she says.

On a dark rural highway, a week before Christmas in 1993, two Hispanic males barreled east through Missouri in a 1978 Mercury Cougar . Stashed in the trunk was nearly 100 pounds of marijuana. “Since I’ve been here in prison, I’ve met lots of people in for murder, rape, robberies, all kinds of violent crimes. I’ve seen a lot of them go home on parole.

Raising Cane’s is turning 30, and instead of throwing itself a parade, the beloved chicken finger chain is throwing local shelter dogs a fundraiser. St. Louis-area locations are marking the milestone by donating net proceeds from a limited-edition plush puppy to three area animal welfare organizations: Five Acres Animal Shelter, Metro East Humane Society, and Stray Rescue of St. Louis.