The Scoop: The battle over Scarlett Johansson’s voice

Plus: Topps makes a baseball card of fan hit with ball; E.l.f. boosts marketing spend for simple reason.The 2013 film “Her” was ahead of its time. It features a charismatic AI assistant, voiced by Scarlett Johansson, who enters into an unconventional relationship with Joaquin Phoenix.
It’s perhaps not surprising that OpenAI head Sam Altman thought of Johansson’s performance when he began to develop new, more natural-sounding AI voices. The Wall Street Journal reports that