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Star Wars Zero Company gets much-needed first patch so you won’t miss shots with a 100% chance to hit any more
Star Wars Zero Company, the turn-based strategy game set in the Star Wars universe, has received its first major patch since launch. The update addresses a notable bug in which attacks listed as having a 100% chance to hit could still miss, a problem that undermined player trust in the game’s core combat mechanics and…
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Youth-evasion crash kills two Cleveland officers as Gatwick chaos finds its hero
Teesside mourns PCs Blades and Clough after their A66 pursuit crash; a stranded passenger becomes the “hero of Gatwick” amid flight cancellations. Also: Venice’s Gaza documentary NAZA, a New Jersey child-assault case, King Harald’s funeral, an OpenAI data row, and Artemis Two’s astronauts join NASA’s emeritus progra…
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Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play
Collaborative Fund, a New York venture firm with roughly $1 billion under management, is taking a stake in Major League Soccer club D.C. United and its stadium, Audi Field. The move makes it the latest, and smallest, venture firm to follow Thrive Capital into professional sports ownership, a trend that has seen venture money move…
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Anthropic researchers warn of existential AI risks as Musk rejects concerns
More researchers and staff at AI company Anthropic have publicly echoed warnings that their own technology could pose an extinction-level risk to humanity, a day after former researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation citing concerns that Anthropic and rival OpenAI were “gambling with our lives” by developing AI irresponsibly. The wave of statements matters because…
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Furo’s founders left Silicon Valley — and it’s paying off
Furo, a startup building software for industrial battery storage systems, has raised $4 million from mostly US investors after its three co-founders chose to relocate from Silicon Valley back to their native Germany. The move challenges the long-standing Silicon Valley orthodoxy that international founders must be based in the US to secure venture funding, and…
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Meta is testing Community Notes in Latin America. Fact checkers are worried.
Meta has begun testing its crowd-sourced Community Notes feature across 16 Latin American countries, more than a year after rolling out the scheme in the US and dropping its US fact-checking partnerships. The move has alarmed fact-checking organisations, who fear it signals Meta’s intention to eventually phase out third-party fact-checking across the region in favour…
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Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US
Meta’s new AI agent app, Muse, has climbed to the No. 2 spot on the US Apple App Store, boosting investor confidence just days after its Tuesday launch. The app forms a key part of Meta’s push into agentic AI, an emerging field the company believes will reshape how people get everyday tasks done, though…
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Meta’s Muse AI performs well but raises fresh privacy concerns
The Verge’s tech reporter tested Meta’s newly launched Muse, the company’s first major AI productivity assistant, designed to handle tasks such as sorting emails, online shopping and trip planning via a cloud-based virtual computer. While the tool largely performed as advertised, the reviewer found the experience unsettling because of how much personal information Muse gathered…
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Blue Fox Launches Sales On YA Rom-Com ‘Buster Brooks’ With Matt Cornett & Melissa Collazo — TIFF Market
Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to the YA romantic comedy “Buster Brooks”, written and directed by Savannah Ostler, and will launch international sales on the film at this week’s TIFF market in Toronto. The film stars Matt Cornett as a small-town farm boy who moves to Hollywood chasing his acting dream, where he…
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Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs to Launch AI-Powered Music Platform in Expansive Licensing Deal
Universal Music Group has struck a wide-ranging licensing agreement with AI audio firm ElevenLabs to build a new AI-powered music platform based on UMG’s artist catalogue, marking a departure from the label’s earlier one-off licensing deals with tools such as Hook and Udio towards a jointly developed, purpose-built product. The platform will let fans remix…