Nvidia’s GTC conference mixed trillion-dollar sales projections, graphics tech that can yassify video games, grand declarations about an OpenClaw strategy, and even a robot version of Olaf from “Frozen.” Hosts Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane and I recapped Jensen Huang’s keynote and debated what it might mean for

Dragon Quest X, the mostly Japan-exclusive MMO, will get a conversational AI companion called Chatty Slimey as a result of a collaboration between Square Enix and Google, Japanese newspaper Sankei says (via a Google Chrome translation). When players talk to Slimey using the chat function, it automatically generates voices and

Crimson Desert has become the latest game to attract attention after players noticed what appear to be AI-generated visual assets and raised the issue on Reddit. Pearl Abyss posted a statement on X acknowledging that some 2D visual props were created during early-stage iteration using experimental AI generative tools. The

OpenAI has set a new long-term goal: building an AI researcher — a fully automated, agent-based system capable of tackling large, complex problems independently. The company says this will be its “north star” for the coming years. By September it plans to launch an “autonomous AI research intern” to handle a

Buzzfeed is pivoting to AI-generated games with a new mobile app called Conjure, which launched on Friday. The effort is being run out of a spin-off called Branch Office, led by Bill Shouldis, as the company seeks to address a cash crunch after losing millions last year and accumulating debt.

Crimson Desert’s launch week has been turbulent: players criticizing convoluted controls, investors selling the developer’s stock, and reviewers offering mixed opinions. Now users are debating whether the action-adventure game incorporates AI-generated art. Since the game came out on Thursday, several players have shared screenshots of in-game paintings they

If your company hasn’t started using agents yet, it will soon—either through off-the-shelf products or in-house tools that draw on large language models and data sources. Joel Hron, CTO at Thomson Reuters Labs, says the firm mixes internal models with commercial tools and focuses on synthesizing human expertise

Fidji Simo, the former Instacart CEO and longtime Meta executive, became OpenAI’s head of product in August and now oversees nearly two-thirds of the company. Tasked with turning one of the world’s most popular products into a sustainable business, she must balance product strategy with the company’s

Anthropic filed two sworn declarations and a reply brief in a California federal court late Friday, contesting the Pentagon’s claim that the company poses an “unacceptable risk to national security.” The filings argue the government’s case rests on technical misunderstandings and on allegations that were not raised during

The Wall Street Journal reports OpenAI is planning a desktop "superapp" that would combine ChatGPT, Codex and its Atlas browser into a single experience, aiming to consolidate its AI tools and double down on agentic capabilities. The company has not publicly confirmed details or a launch timeline, and

Time is running out for college students to apply for 2026 summer internships, and some may be overlooking roles that offer exposure to AI without being explicitly AI-focused. Indeed recently released a list of top internship roles that use AI but don’t necessarily require a formal AI degree. Many

Three Chinese businessmen have been charged by the US government with allegedly diverting "high-performance computer servers assembled in the United States and integrating sophisticated US artificial intelligence technology to China." The defendants are Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, co-founder of Supermicro; Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, a Supermicro sales manager in Taiwan;

Two weeks ago I discovered an AI company was selling a product with my name on it. The ways in which AI has made our lives worse in the last few years feels, on some level, personal: from the RAMpocalypse and Nvidia’s pivot to AI datacenters to Google rewriting

A recent update to the Tomb Raider I–III Remastered collection introduced a new Challenge Mode and a suite of outfits for Lara that many players found comically bad. One of the remaster’s original artists posted on X to distance himself and his colleagues from the designs, and some

A major GamesIndustry.biz survey found 88.4% of games industry workers believe Valve should require developers to declare any use of generative AI. Valve updated Steam's AI disclosure policy in January to focus on AI-generated content "consumed by players" rather than efficiency gains behind the

The Trump administration released a national AI legislative framework for the United States, urging Congress to establish a unified federal approach and warning that a patchwork of state laws could hinder innovation and competitiveness. The plan is organized around six core policy areas: protecting children and empowering parents, strengthening communities,

After attempts to get answers from Nvidia, techtuber Daniel Owen obtained comments from GeForce evangelist Jacob Freeman, who says, "DLSS 5 takes a 2D frame plus motion vectors as input." Demos shown at GTC ran on two RTX 5090 cards—one to render the game and another $4,

Daniel Kwan says the time to be on the fence about artificial intelligence is over. He is co-writer and co-director of Everything Everywhere All at Once, a founding member of the Creators Coalition on AI, and a producer of the documentary The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist.

Mark Cuban says he is using AI to fight the wave of AI-generated email spam flooding his inbox. He recently bought a Mac Mini to help manage the growing flood of inbound messages. Beyond cold outreach, Cuban said the bigger problem is unwanted email subscriptions. "It's not

At the SXSW conference in Austin, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that, with the speed of generative AI, AI bot traffic will exceed human web traffic by 2027. He warned bots are visiting far more sites to answer chatbot queries. “If a human were doing a task — let’s say

Managing complexity is still beyond the reach of AI, and for the foreseeable future humans remain essential for infrastructure and architecture, says Jon McNeill. As AI becomes part of more businesses, it is increasing demand for well-designed infrastructure, resilient networks, and sophisticated software stacks that require human oversight. For infrastructure

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At a January Google DeepMind town hall, leaders told employees they were confident the company’s work with the Department of Defense aligned with its AI principles and that Google was "leaning more" into national-security contracts. Tom Lue, DeepMind’s vice president of global affairs, said the company

Val Kilmer died in April 2025, but filmmakers plan to use generative AI to recreate him for the fact-based film As Deep as the Grave. Variety revealed on March 18 that the digital Kilmer will play Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist — a role Kilmer had been

A friend had spent a cultural day curated by AI — exhibitions, places to eat and the best routes between stops — and I wanted to try the same. For my skeptic AI diary I asked ChatGPT to plan a full day out in London, to ask me a few questions first,