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AI-made visual novel Kryonull listed for $100 on Steam

The Steam Release Bot on Bluesky highlighted Kryonull, a visual novel whose majority of assets were generated by AI and which is being sold on Steam for $100 US (listed as £90 in the UK). The game's core idea sounds like solid hard sci‑fi: a small, manned

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Inside Meta’s Applied AI unit: employees call the work 'soul-crushing gulag'

A months-old Applied AI unit of roughly 6,500 engineers and product managers is facing internal turmoil. Wired recounts the unrest began when someone hijacked an employee-only livestream with an expletive-laden meltdown, demanding attendees tell a senior AI executive that he was 'a piece of sh*t.' One

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US orders Anthropic to shut off its most powerful AI models

The U.S. government on Friday ordered Anthropic to immediately shut off access to two of its most powerful AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — citing national security concerns. Anthropic announced it complied but said it disagrees with the action. The directive forced the company to disable

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Anthropic suspends access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after US directive

Anthropic said it suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after receiving a US government export control directive citing national security concerns. The directive arrived at 5:21 pm ET and instructed the company to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any

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Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after US export-control order

Anthropic said it will disable access to its newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after receiving a US export-control letter citing national security concerns. The company said the notice arrived at around 5:21 p.m. ET and would bar foreign individuals and entities from using the products. The

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OpenAI says it shut China-linked campaign using ChatGPT to stir data-centre hate

OpenAI published a June 2026 security report titled "PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US," alleging China-based actors used ChatGPT to generate anti-data-centre, anti-tariff and anti-US sentiment online. The company says it banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in China and were

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Why Anthropic rattled the AI industry this week

Anthropic changed course after a developer backlash and said it will no longer secretly degrade Fable 5 responses when users ask for help on frontier AI model development. Instead, those requests will be routed to a less-good model, Opus 4.8, and developers will be told. "We apologize,"

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Anthropic to make Fable 5 downgrades visible after backlash

Anthropic released Fable (technically “Fable 5”), a more restricted version of its powerful Mythos tool, and said it would block certain risky research in areas like cybersecurity, biology and chemistry. For some flagged requests the model visibly downgraded to Opus and told users, but for frontier work such as high-end

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Chet Faliszek says AI couldn't have made Team Fortress 2

Chet Faliszek, one of the writers behind Left 4 Dead and Half-Life, left Valve in 2017 and has since become a prolific TikTok personality. In a video uploaded on Thursday evening, he argued that Team Fortress 2 could never have been made by artificial intelligence. Faliszek framed his objection around

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Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer'

Prometheus, the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, announced it raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation. New funds came from Bezos himself and investors including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock. This is the company's second fundraise; it launched late last year

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Zuckerberg says a dozen strong AI researchers can drive breakthroughs

Mark Zuckerberg told the "No Priors" podcast that meaningful advances in artificial intelligence don't require hundreds or thousands of researchers. "I think you can really make progress with a very strong group of a dozen or a couple dozen people," he said during a

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Meta reportedly removed facial-recognition code from its smart glasses app

Wired found code in Meta's AI smart glasses app that suggested the company had embedded a facial recognition system called 'NameTag.' It was reported that, once activated, the system could identify faces captured by the glasses' lens and alert the user when it recognised someone.

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Hand-cranked CrankGPT points to a low-power future for edge AI

CrankGPT, a project from Squeez Labs, runs a tiny local AI voice assistant on a hand-cranked microcomputer. The setup uses a standard 8 GB Raspberry Pi to handle voice recognition, a local LLM, and text-to-speech, with an edge voice agent processing the full pipeline from input to output—no racks

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Treat AI agents like eager but misguided interns

AI agents are moving beyond chatbots into digital workers that can act on applications and data, and that shift brings new security and governance concerns. Panelists at the Snowflake Summit urged treating these agents like eager but misguided human interns — requiring close oversight, clear instructions, and active human management. Restraint,

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Pokémon Go data helped train AI systems used for military drones

Pokémon Go remains widely played and its developer's game division was bought by Savvy Games Group for $3.5 billion in 2025. Data collected through the game's AR features has also been used to help train AI systems now being developed for military drone positioning. Niantic

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Niantic Spatial Denies Pokémon Go Data Is Being Shared With A Drone Company

Pokémon Go’s AR scans have been used to help build AI-powered map models, a practice that players had to opt into but that left some users uneasy. That unease deepened when Niantic Spatial—set up after developer Niantic’s acquisition by Scopely—entered an agreement with Vantor, a spatial

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Canadian mother sues OpenAI, says ChatGPT encouraged daughter's suicide

A Canadian mother has sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in San Francisco state court, alleging ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to kill herself. Kristie Carrier says her daughter, Alice, told the chatbot about suicidal ideation more than a dozen times before her death and that OpenAI’s safety systems

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OG Halo artist warns developers not to rely on AI for creative direction

Eddie Smith, a former Bungie artist who worked on the original Halo trilogy, says he saw AI's limitations firsthand while on the Las Vegas Sphere production of The Wizard of Oz. To wrap the original 4:3 film around the venue's 16K spherical screen the team

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Google and Meta fund trades training to build AI data centers

Meta and Google are investing in training programs to expand the skilled labor needed for a boom in data-center construction. Meta unveiled a $250 million program to train Americans for data-center construction jobs, and Google said it is investing $50 million in skilled-trades training across the US. The initiatives target

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Jeff Bezos: Outlawing data centers isn't the answer to AI risks

On CNBC on Thursday, Bezos compared AI and the data centers that support the technology to knives: "You don't want to accidentally outlaw the knife because it can be used in a bad way," he said. "Knives are important tools and yes, every once in

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Watch What Happens When A Game Dev Doesn’t Have An Answer To A Tough Question

We are getting grimly used to seeing game developers attempt to justify their use of generative AI in production, usually after the fact as supposed “placeholder” assets are found in finished games, and more recently with the pre-release damage control we’ve seen around Crazy Taxi World Tour and Tomb

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1666: Amsterdam Developer Gets Caught, Fesses Up To Using AI Assets

Panache Digital Games apologized on X after players discovered that AI-generated assets appeared in the prologue for 1666: Amsterdam. The studio said some early versions of assets made their way into the release and promised they would be replaced by human-created art "soon." The post acknowledged that "

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Coram raised $35 million to turn security cameras into AI detectives

Coram AI has raised $35 million in a Series B round, bringing its total funding to $66 million. The investment was co-led by Ansa Capital and Battery Ventures, with participation from UP.Partners, 8VC, and Mosaic Ventures; the company declined to share its valuation. Founded in 2022, Coram connects existing

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Microsoft president says Gen Z's AI backlash is a wake-up call

Microsoft President Brad Smith urged tech leaders to listen after college graduates booed AI during commencement speeches. In a blog post he called the backlash "a powerful wake-up call for the tech sector." Executives have long framed AI as transformative and warned about job losses. Anthropic CEO Dario

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Researcher Jailbreaks Claude Fable 5 Within 48 Hours

An artificial intelligence and cybersecurity researcher says he jailbroke Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 within 48 hours of its launch. "Pliny the Liberator" said he "liberated" Fable 5, which was released as a safety-tuned version of the more powerful Mythos model that Anthropic considered too dangerous