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World leaders want American AI but not U.S. shutdown control

At the G7 summit, leaders including Emmanuel Macron and Narendra Modi warned that the U.S. could cut off access to leading American AI models at any time. Macron told fellow leaders and AI executives — among them Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — that if the U.

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Block’s Builderbot Handles 15% of Production Code

Block rolled out a new suite of AI-native tools called Builderbot, which the company says executes roughly 15% of all production code changes. The tool runs more than 200,000 operations per day and merges about 1,500 pull requests per week. "The best way to think about Builderbot

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No, Pokémon Didn’t Just Announce Generative AI For The Trading Card Game

The Pokémon Company is holding a contest on Google’s Kaggle platform that invites teams to write AI capable of playing Trading Card Game simulations. The competition will culminate in a tournament later this year and offers a cash prize for the winning team. Creating an AI for Pokémon is

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Why many game developers reject generative AI

Generative AI, though pitched as a revolution, remains taboo for many in games. Developers such as Stardew Valley's Eric Barone and Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds openly avoid or malign it, while the makers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 faced severe backlash

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AI failed to recommend sub-$500 gaming chairs for Prime Day

Prime Day is coming, so I tested an AI shopping shortcut and opened Gemini with the prompt: 'I'm looking for a new gaming chair this Prime Day, and I have a budget of $500. Which three would you recommend?' The results were disappointing — two of the

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Vampire Survivors dev reviews Fortnite collab after Epic's generative AI reveal

Epic announced several upcoming Fortnite collaborations earlier today, including one with Vampire Survivors. A few hours after the presentation, Vampire Survivors developer Poncle left a brief Reddit comment suggesting the partnership might not go ahead. “Following today's news about gen AI usage by Epic to create all sorts

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Vampire Survivors Studio Reviewing Future Fortnite Collab After Epic GenAI News

Epic has spent recent weeks pushing generative AI as the future of Fortnite development and game creation via its upcoming Unreal Engine 6. That shift prompted one studio, Poncle, to suggest it might back out of an upcoming Vampire Survivors x Fortnite crossover. On June 17, the official Poncle account

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Unreal Engine 6 to integrate extensive generative AI tools

Epic announced Unreal Engine 6 in a June 17 blog post by engine lead Marcus Wassmer, saying the new engine will unify Unreal Engine 5 and the Fortnite editor while expanding the platform’s AI-powered features. Previous versions of Unreal have powered games such as Gears of War, Ark, Batman:

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1666: Amsterdam demo falters despite intriguing opening

1666: Amsterdam, a long‑troubled project that began at THQ in 2011 and was later resumed by Patrice Désilets’ Panache Digital Games, was re‑revealed at Summer Game Fest 2026 alongside a 30‑minute prologue. The promising, eerie opening — a torchlit forest and an occult ceremony — quickly gives way to

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Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump administration may help sales

Anthropic has seen a string of milestones: it topped OpenAI in business-spending market share in May, raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation at the end of the month, and filed confidential paperwork for an IPO after reporting its first profitable quarter. That momentum hit a snag when the

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Eight vibe-coding startups raising billions

Vibe coding — AI-assisted tools that turn plain-English prompts into working software — has prompted excitement and unease across tech. SpaceX said it was acquiring AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, a move meant to strengthen its place in the AI coding race. Other deals have followed: Cognition acquired Windsurf after

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Steam Next Fest has 8,682 demos; nearly 1,700 disclose AI use

The second Steam Next Fest of 2026 runs until June 22 and features 8,682 demos, roughly double the size of the entire PS2 game library. Among those demos, 1,694 list an AI Content disclosure on their store page, a trend observers say is making storefronts harder to navigate

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Epic shows generative AI adding mistakes to Fortnite art that artists must fix

After criticism six months ago for allegedly using generative AI in Fortnite, Epic Games has openly admitted it via a video demonstrating the generative AI tools its developers use in Unreal Engine to produce buildings, characters and skins. The video shows an artist drawing and refining a character, then using

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Solo dev aims to 'beat the real GTA 6 to launch' with AI-fueled version

A solo developer known as Ziwen has begun building a Grand Theft Auto 6-like game and is sharing progress on Twitter. Early footage shows a large blue object moving across a simple 3D plane with a few platforms, and one update read, 'Day one of building GTA 6. Still

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Ziwen aims to build GTA 6 before the official launch

GTA 6's console release was pushed from its expected May 26 date to November so Rockstar can "finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve." Not everyone is content to wait. Ziwen, an AI start-up entrepreneur, announced a project

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Meta’s new AI Mode on Facebook pulls from public posts

Meta is rolling out a set of AI features on Facebook, led by a new “AI Mode” that uses Meta AI to surface answers drawn from public posts across the platform, including Groups and Reels. Rather than scrolling through search results, users can ask questions in plain language and receive

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Exploring Steam Next Fest With An AI-Blocking Extension Is Very Depressing

I usually have a good time digging through the demos in Valve’s recurring Steam Next Fest event. This time, with a tool installed that warns me if a game or demo includes generative AI content, the event became very depressing — more than half the games I checked out featured

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Anthropic shutdown opens door for Mistral's sovereignty pitch

The White House moved to restrict access to Anthropic's newest cybersecurity-focused models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, citing national security concerns that safeguards for Fable 5 could be bypassed. The restrictions bar foreign nationals from using the two systems; Anthropic suspended access entirely, creating uncertainty about who ultimately

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Why Anthropic suddenly pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone

Anthropic has disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide after a US government export directive citing national security. Other Claude models remain available, but attempts to select Fable 5 now return a message that the model is currently unavailable. The company said the government’s communication

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The quiet, galactic ambitions of Cursor CEO Michael Truell

In 2019 an 18-year-old Michael Truell finished a coding test in under 10 minutes while others took much longer, a moment investors point to as an early sign of his talent. Now 25, he leads Cursor, the AI coding startup that has drawn interest from Elon Musk’s SpaceX in

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Nadella warns a few AI winners could hollow out entire industries

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that a handful of AI providers could capture most economic value and leave industries without ownership of their knowledge. "The last thing any of us want is a world where every company across every sector is ceding value to a few models that eat

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More than 300 Steam games released last week; 120 carried AI disclosures

I checked every Steam listing released in Australia from June 9 through about an hour ago — just under a full week — and found 338 new games, of which 120 included AI disclosures. Many of those disclosures revealed substantial use of generative tools rather than the limited, ancillary uses you might

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Headphones that block annoying noises and preserve favoured sounds

There’s promising work on the horizon: microbots that might mend spinal cords, petri dishes of brain cells that can already play video games, and now headphones that use machine learning to target and eliminate irksome audio. The project, led by Shyam Gollakota of the University of Washington’s Mobile

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White House orders Anthropic to block foreign access after frantic 24-hour push

The White House ordered Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to block foreign access to the company’s latest models, Mythos and Fable, after a frantic 24-hour effort by senior officials to get the company to voluntarily pull a newly released model they believed posed security risks. The decision followed multiple tense

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Amazon warning prompted US crackdown on Anthropic AI models

The Trump administration’s decision to cut foreign access to Anthropic’s most powerful AI models followed calls from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Amazon researchers had found a way to prompt Anthropic’s Fable 5 model into returning information that could be used for cyberattacks, and Jassy contacted senior government