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Roblox wants AI to make its games photorealistic, but the devs making those games aren't sold on the idea: 'I don't think that your average player right now wants to do that'
By Jody Macgregor published
News Games like 99 Nights in the Forest appeal to kids because of the way they look, not in spite of it.

Microsoft might be all-in on OpenAI now, but back in 2018 thought it was just 'motivated by a need to show how Al can crush humans'
By Rich Stanton published
News "We don't want 'machines beating humans' and are not supportive of any push on this."

Chrome is installing a 4 GB local AI model on some of your PCs without asking for permission and will just download it again if you delete it
By Jeremy Laird published
News 'Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.'

Nvidia's VP of deep learning says AI workers are already 'far beyond the costs of the employees'
By James Bentley published
News How much will AI workers really cost in the end?

Microsoft exec. confirms Windows 11 is just as full of old code as you suspected: 'We were thinking flying cars and moon stations by the year 2026, not Win32'
By Jeremy Laird published
News "Did anyone in the '90s expect Win32 to still be a first-class API surface in the year 2026? And I think I can safely answer, no."

A Grok chatbot convinced someone it had become sentient, and that xAI was sending goons to kill him: 'They're going to make it look like suicide'
By Rich Stanton published
News "I picked up the hammer, stuck on Frankie goes to Hollywood's Two Tribes, got myself psyched up and went outside."

Google isn't scanning your Gmail to train Gemini, it's letting Gemini scan your inbox to provide 'personalized insights' but I'm not sure that's better
By Jess Kinghorn published
News You can also let Gemini scan your photos to make more "personal images using Nano Banana."

Mozilla, Stop Killing Games and more team up to tell the UK to stop making the internet worse
By Joshua Wolens published
News "Even targeted age restrictions of specific features could mean that all users are required to complete intrusive age assurance processes".
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