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Google: the AI era is now a present reality, guided by its AI principles

Google has published its "responsible AI progress report", declaring that "the AI era is no longer a distant promise; it is a present reality" and calling its "AI Principles the north star standards" to guide work over the next year. The document concentrates on

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Engineer says AI won't fix ideas, bureaucracy, or motivation at work

Dax Raad, the software engineer behind OpenCode, argues that coding speed is not the bottleneck for companies. He says the real limits are a lack of good ideas, corporate bureaucracy and "the realities of shipping something real," and that faster code generation won't help if the

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Microsoft removes AI-generated Git diagram after creator calls it plagiarism

Microsoft published an AI-generated graphic on its Learn portal to explain how GitHub works that unmistakably resembled Vincent Driessen’s 2010 diagram, and the image was removed after he called it out. The page has since been updated, but the original version is still visible on the Internet Archive. Driessen

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Arc Raiders' robots aren’t actually learning, design director says

Since launch some players have suggested Arc Raiders' enemies are adapting to human habits—searching familiar hiding spots, taking better angles on players, even squeezing into tighter spaces. Fans have speculated the Arcs might eventually hunt down rats because they learn where they hide. The idea appears to trace

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Anthropic and Its C.E.O. Dario Amodei: A.I. Beliefs and the Pentagon Dispute

The Defense Department has approved Anthropic’s advanced A.I. for classified work, but the company opposes certain uses, including autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. That disagreement threatens a contract worth as much as $200 million and could prompt the Pentagon to bar its contractors from using Anthropic’s technology.

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Defense Department and Anthropic Clash Over A.I. Safety

The Defense Department and the A.I. company Anthropic have been negotiating a contract for use of the company’s systems on classified Pentagon networks, and discussions this week turned into a public dispute. The Pentagon signaled it might declare Anthropic a supply-chain risk, a move that would sever ties,

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Meta strengthens Nvidia partnership with expansive new deal

Meta is deepening its relationship with Nvidia through a "multigenerational" agreement that calls for data centers powered by millions of Nvidia current and next-generation chips for AI training and inference. The deal expands Nvidia's role beyond GPUs to include CPUs, networking equipment, and confidential computing technology

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Unity promises AI tools to spawn games as stock plummets

Unity is pushing generative AI deeper into its engine and plans a new AI beta that it says could remove the need for coding. CEO Matthew Bromsberg said, “AI-driven authoring is our second major area of focus for 2026. At the Game Developer Conference in March, we’ll be unveiling

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China’s dancing humanoid robots showcase advances and limits

Dancing humanoid robots took centre stage on Monday during the China Media Group Spring Festival Gala, the country’s most-watched official television broadcast. They lunged and backflipped (landing on their knees), spun and jumped — not one fell — prompting viewers to ask: if robots can now dance and perform martial arts,

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Gemini app adds Lyria 3 for custom music generation

The Gemini app now offers custom music generation with Lyria 3, a new generative music model rolling out in beta. Provide a description or upload a photo or video — for example, “a comical R&B slow jam about a sock finding their match” — and Gemini will translate it into

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Godot Maintainers Strained by Wave of AI-Generated Pull Requests

Godot Engine project manager Rémi Verschelde says an unending wave of AI-generated pull requests is “increasingly draining and demoralizing” maintainers, with more than 4,600 pull requests currently open on the engine’s GitHub. His comment on Bluesky replied to a post by Adriaan de Jongh, who described the repository

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AI Dominates Conversations and Funding, While Crypto AI Tokens Lag

Mentions of artificial intelligence on social media reached record highs in February 2026, with attention split across applications and concerns. That momentum, however, has not carried over into the crypto space: decentralized AI projects and blockchain-based AI tokens are seeing weak performance and limited visibility even as global interest climbs.

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OpenAI, Meta, and Apple target phone addiction with AI wearables

The average American picks up their phone more than 200 times a day, and teens get roughly 250 notifications daily. Apps meant to curb checking have done little to stop the problem, so some of the companies that helped create our screen dependence are now trying to disrupt it. OpenAI

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Most AI projects fail — 3 priorities to improve your odds

Spending on AI continues to rise — Gartner forecasts fast growth through 2026 — but generative AI has slipped into the Trough of Disillusionment. That cooling of hype has prompted boards to question the returns from AI experiments, a concern reinforced by MIT research suggesting 95% of generative AI projects fail to

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DeepMind CEO: AGI still lags in three areas

Asked at an AI summit in New Delhi whether current AGI systems can match human intelligence, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis replied, "I don't think we are there yet." AGI is a hypothetical form of machine intelligence that can reason like people and solve problems using methods

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Radio host sues Google over AI voice he says sounds like him

NotebookLM, Google’s note-taking tool, includes an AI-generated voice feature that a former NPR host says is too close to his own. David Greene filed a lawsuit in California on January 23, alleging Google used his voice without authorization to develop and refine the product. His lawyer wrote, "This

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EVE Online launches Aura Guidance to assist new players

CCP Games has introduced Aura Guidance, a new help system for EVE Online designed to distill millions of messages from the game's Rookie Help channel into a context‑based question-and-answer tool for new players. Executive producer Snorri Árnason emphasized that "first and foremost, Aura Guidance is not

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OpenClaw creator cites European rules as he moves to the US

Peter Steinberger, the creator of the agentic AI OpenClaw, has been hired by OpenAI and is moving from Europe to the US. An Austrian by birth, he previously split his time between London and Vienna. On X, responding to a European professor's question about retaining tech talent, he

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Perplexity doubles down on subscriptions, eyes business growth

Perplexity is moving away from ads and pushing subscriptions and business sales as its primary monetization route. Executives at a roundtable said the San Francisco AI search startup will take monetization more seriously than it has in the past and is not exploring ad deals, a contrast with OpenAI'

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Elon Musk and OpenAI spar over pizza as AI hiring heats up

Elon Musk and an OpenAI engineer traded posts on X over the weekend, turning free lunch into a recruitment pitch. Musk highlighted xAI's wood-fired pizza while Thibault Sottiaux, an OpenAI engineering lead, countered with praise for OpenAI's dough and campus chef. The exchange began when Musk

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Unity CEO: new AI will let developers prompt full casual games

Just a couple weeks after Google seemingly spooked game company investors with its AI-powered "world model" Project Genie, engine maker Unity said it's chasing the same digital dragon and that "AI-driven authoring" will be one of its major focuses in 2026. "At the

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Godot maintainers overwhelmed by 'AI slop' contributions

Open-source development relies on collaborative contributions, but generative LLMs are sending maintainers of the Godot game engine a steady stream of AI-generated code from contributors who may not understand the changes they submit. Rémi Verschelde, a primary Godot maintainer, calls these "AI slop" pull requests and says they

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Judge questions sincerity of A.I.-written apology in arson case

Judge Tom Gilbert of the district court in Christchurch said he was troubled after discovering that apology letters from a defendant in an arson case had been written with the help of artificial intelligence. The defendant had pleaded guilty to arson and other charges, and remorse can be a mitigating

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The Irish are really into AI, new survey data shows

New survey data reveals uneven adoption of AI across advanced economies. Ireland stands out: roughly seven in ten workers use AI at least monthly for work, followed by Australia, Germany, and North America. At the other end, Japan lags. Fewer than one in five workers report professional AI use — less

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How ChatGPT's Lockdown Mode protects against prompt-injection attacks

Prompt injection attacks can insert malicious instructions into text prompts to alter AI outputs or steal confidential information. These threats affect anyone who uses AI tools, but they pose a particular risk to professionals who rely on them at work. OpenAI has introduced Lockdown Mode to reduce that risk. The