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Viral AI Fight Between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt Likely Relied on Stunt Footage

Filmmaker Ruairí Robinson posted on X that a viral clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting was created with "a 2 line prompt in seedance 2." The video stood out because it appeared well-choreographed, competently shot, and properly lit—qualities many AI video tools have struggled to

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People rely on 'outdated visual cues' to spot AI-generated faces

I like to think I'm pretty good at spotting AI-produced images — soft lighting, blurry backgrounds, and missing small details are my usual clues — but the latest test from UNSW Sydney knocked me down a peg. Their demo shows 20 faces that participants must label as either "Human&

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High AI agent costs could limit job displacement

Two tech investors say the high costs of deploying and running AI agents may keep them from replacing human workers who can do the same tasks more cheaply. Jason Calacanis said he has been paying $300 per day for an Anthropic Claude AI agent to help run his businesses, despite

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Inside Moltbook, the A.I.-only social network

Moltbook is a social network for A.I. personal assistants that looks and works like Reddit but, in theory, only agents may post while humans watch from the sidelines. Launched by Matt Schlicht in late January, the site had profiles for more than two million bots within a week, prompting

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Jervis Johnson agrees with Games Workshop's AI ban

Jervis Johnson is a legend in the world of tabletop game design. During almost four decades at Games Workshop he created Blood Bowl, wrote the core rules for Advanced Heroquest, co-created Necromunda, and contributed to Warhammer 40,000's second edition, Warhammer Fantasy Battle's fourth edition, multiple

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Mark Cuban on two types of AI users: learners and non-learners

Mark Cuban said there are two types of large language model users: those who use it to learn everything, and those who use it so they don't have to learn anything. Cuban has been bullish about AI and argued companies need to embrace it. He has also warned

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Judging by the GPT-4o situation, AI chatbot NPCs could be a big problem

They want their old companion back, but OpenAI isn't budging. "They think that we are mentally ill," says a ChatGPT user in one of many Reddit threads lamenting OpenAI's decision to retire its GPT-4o chatbot. The replacement model, GPT-5.2, is "abusive,"

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Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks

Gemini 3.1 Pro is an upgraded core intelligence rolling out across consumer and developer products. The model is accessible through the Gemini API, Vertex AI, the Gemini app and NotebookLM. Building on the Gemini 3 series, 3.1 Pro advances core reasoning and serves as a more capable baseline

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Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory

Newton Asare and Kiran Das, both serial founders, launched Reload last year after realizing AI agents were operating more like teammates and that people would need systems to manage AI employees. On Thursday the company unveiled its first AI product, Epic, and announced a $2.275 million round led by

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AI paranoia prompts Urban Games to change character art

Generative AI has stirred a lot of complaints, from environmental costs to rising RAM demands, and it has left everyday viewers wary. When people see an image or a clip online they often find themselves asking whether it was made by a person or generated, and that suspicion has become

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Bill Gates drops out of India's AI summit amid Epstein controversy

Bill Gates pulled out of the India AI Impact Summit on Thursday, just hours before he was due to give a keynote speech. The Gates Foundation said the decision was made to "ensure the focus" remained on the summit's priorities. Ankur Vora, the foundation's

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OpenAI partners with Pine Labs to add AI to payments and invoicing

OpenAI has partnered with Pine Labs to integrate AI-driven reasoning into the fintech firm’s payments stack, embedding OpenAI’s application programming interfaces within Pine Labs’ payments and commerce infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation and invoicing workflows. The deal forms part of OpenAI’s broader push to expand in

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Meta product managers rebrand as 'AI builders', shifting roles

Some product managers at Meta are adopting the label "AI Builder," reflecting a shift in who builds software inside the company. Jeremie Guedj announced the change in a LinkedIn post, saying that while his internal title still reads product manager, his work is now full-time building with AI

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Money Talks as India Searches for Its Place in Global A.I.

The India A.I. Impact Summit unfolded across 120 acres in New Delhi, with more than 300 exhibitors, 500 sessions and organizers expecting 250,000 participants. A fleet of foreign leaders attended, including President Emmanuel Macron and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and tech bosses from Google, Microsoft and

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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