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Amazon filled with AI-written game guidebooks for unreleased titles

Amazon listings have begun to include AI-written guidebooks for games that haven’t been released. The surge has picked up alongside Amazon’s $50 billion investment in OpenAI and the rollout of the site’s in-built AI helper, Rufus, raising questions about how well the marketplace can police low-quality, machine-generated

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Travis Kalanick's five-minute jet-ski commute to his Austin office

Travis Kalanick posted a video on X showing what he called his "5 minute jet ski commute" across Lake Austin to his new office. He owns a home on the lake and told the TBPN podcast in March that he has had the place for five years, drawn

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David Gaider: generative AI is a 'plague' and 'not ready for prime time'

Longtime Dragon Age narrative lead David Gaider, who left BioWare to co‑found Malys and Stray Gods maker Summerfall Studios, says generative AI is a "virulent plague" in games. He warns models are often trained on material scraped without permission, creating legal and moral problems. david gaider, generative

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Newsom, Anthropic ink deal to expand government use

Governor Gavin Newsom has struck a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of Claude products across California’s government at a discounted cost. The agreement, first shared with POLITICO, would make Claude the first artificial-intelligence tool available to all state agencies and local governments. It comes amid a monthslong

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Plugin makes Steam AI disclosures hard to miss and hides AI-aided games

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has criticized Valve's mandatory Steam disclosures for AI-generated content. A browser plugin called "AI warning for Steam", shared on Bluesky by Linux gamer and coder seeeeew, makes those disclosures far more prominent and can hide AI-aided games in Steam search results.

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Startups may be the best route to big tech roles right now

Larger tech firms have flattened hiring even as funding for AI startups climbs, creating fresh opportunities in smaller companies. Launching a startup or small company can be a calculated gamble, but the innovation pouring out of this sector is astounding. One example: Midjourney, launched on a community model with no

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OpenAI Codex chief says AI still struggles with creative design

OpenAI's head of Codex, Andrew Ambrosino, says AI still can't get creative design right and that the challenge is not only technical. "I think design's a little bit harder to grade than software," Ambrosino said on a recent episode of "Lenny&

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Coinbase CEO outlines five steps to cut AI costs while maintaining token use

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted five strategies to keep AI spending low while still encouraging engineers to maximize token use. He appended a graph showing that token usage recently hit one of the company’s highest levels even as AI spending fell significantly, to nearly half its peak; the exact

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Cognition CEO: token-spend leaderboards 'directionally correct' but flawed

Scott Wu, cofounder and CEO of Cognition, called token-spend leaderboards "directionally correct" but warned some people have "gotten carried away." He said companies should focus on ranking engineers by actual output rather than raw token usage. Cognition was founded in 2023 by Wu, Steven Hao, and

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Study Uses Age of Empires Editor to Show Dangers of Treating AI as Cognizant

Recent documentaries have tried to demystify how computers actually work. Dylan Reibling’s The End of the Internet argues that phrases like “cloud computing” obscure the physical infrastructure—cables, valves and the like—while Amanda Kramer’s So Unreal traces how fantasies from The Matrix and Terminator shape public ideas

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A24's Defense of Its Google DeepMind Deal Fails to Sway Fans

Independent film studio A24 announced it had signed a $75 million 'artificial-intelligence research partnership' with Google DeepMind. The fallout was immediate, as the audience of film buffs the company has cultivated over the past fifteen years began mourning its death within 24 hours of the announcement. Sophia Shin,

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How to spot an AI chatbot on AdultFriendFinder

AdultFriendFinder is one of the most popular adult dating sites, but that attention brings a persistent problem: bots, fake profiles and scammers. With a bit of internet savvy you can still use the site safely; knowing the common AI chatbot types helps you spot and defuse them. The most common

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U.S. control over AI model releases threatens the industry

The U.S. government is increasingly determining which AI models can reach users. After pulling Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos, OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 appears headed to a limited, customer-by-customer preview rather than an immediate general release. If that preview lasts longer than a few weeks—Mythos has already

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Hikers in Kosciuszko rescued within five hours by AI-powered drone

Two men in their 20s who veered off the Dead Horse Gap track in Kosciuszko national park were found within five hours after being reported missing at 7pm. The pair had been about 35km south-west of Jindabyne and were located roughly half a kilometre off the track. Fire and Rescue

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Get lifetime access to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and more for $54.97

Picking the right AI model for a task used to mean opening multiple tabs and running the same prompt several times. ChatPlayground puts GPT, Claude Sonnet 4, Gemini 1.5 Flash, DeepSeek V3, Llama, Perplexity and other models in one interface, lets you enter a single prompt, and shows results

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Claude is gaining paid consumers, narrowing the gap with ChatGPT

Credit card transaction analysis from Indagari shows consumers who pay for AI are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude. Indagari examines billions of anonymized transactions from about 28 million U.S. consumers; its weekly data runs from 2025 through May 10, 2026 and includes payments such as subscriptions and API tokens.

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Japan Reportedly Offering $70 Million to Encourage AI-Generated Translations

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is reportedly set to offer 15 companies a new "overseas promotion" subsidy aimed at expanding original manga, anime and live-action markets. The package, an unannounced 11.5 billion yen (roughly $70 million), would be offered to nine anime

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Hasbro Tries to Secure AI Voice Rights From Child Actors

The spread of AI has posed a growing threat to voice actors, whose performances can be closely replicated by software. After an 11-month strike over the issue, the problem remains: in 2026 examples ranged from Stan Lee’s likeness and voice being sold to an AI company to a Yu-Gi-Oh

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Fans Push Back After Sonic ARG Requests Data for AI Training

On June 23 the official Sonic the Hedgehog account posted: “The Chaos Emeralds have destabilized and are scattering across the U.S. We need your help to recover them before Dr. Eggman finds them so we can power Club Chaos this Fall.” The message invited fans to join a new

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Epic CEO calls Steam AI disclosures 'really irresponsible of Valve'

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticised Valve's AI disclosure policy on Steam, calling it 'really irresponsible of Valve' and saying it makes it 'much, much, much harder for a game developer to have a chance of success.' He warned that requiring what he called

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Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment

Amazon said it will invest an additional $13 billion to expand its AI and cloud footprint in India through 2030. The fresh investment, announced after CEO Andy Jassy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, will fund expansion of Amazon Web Services’ data center capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad.

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Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

Computer use is now a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash, improving performance on agentic computer use tasks. Previously available only as a standalone Gemini 2.5 computer use model, the capability is now integrated natively in the main Gemini Flash model. With built-in computer use, developers can build

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Three tech visionaries on how to build trust and accountability with AI

Three tech leaders argue that establishing trust and accountability with AI will require formal business practices, treating humans and AIs as colleagues, and clear rules for shared responsibility. Dr. Vint Cerf says, "It feels like we've encountered a new life form and we're trying to

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AAA Launches Legal Layer for AI Agent Transactions

The American Arbitration Association and a coalition of tech, crypto and enterprise firms have launched the Legal Context Protocol with Integra Ledger to add a legal layer to agentic AI transactions. The protocol aims to address legal gaps that can arise when software agents negotiate and transact on behalf of

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12 rules for agentic AI to succeed in the enterprise

Many agentic AI deployment failures are architectural rather than AI problems, rooted in poor data, weak governance and missing operational practices. Salesforce and industry research find pilots often emphasize capability and speed while skipping the work of earning business trust; common mistakes include overreliance on language models, encoding policies instead