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After laying off Battlefield 6 devs, EA boss Andrew Wilson’s bonus rose $8m to $38m last year, thanks to the game’s success across “all milestones”
Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson received a $38.7m bonus for the 2026 financial year, an $8m increase, with the company citing strong performance from games including Battlefield 6, which “achieved meeting all milestones for a high-quality launch”. The payout, revealed in EA’s mandatory 10K filing, comes in the same financial year that the company laid…
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The next American boom could be here — unless Washington regulates it to death
A Fox News opinion piece argues that fears of mass AI-driven job losses are overblown and that excessive government regulation, not the technology itself, poses the greatest threat to America’s economic prospects. The author contends that artificial intelligence could deliver the biggest improvement in American living standards in decades, comparing its disruptive potential to historical…
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‘Machines are collaborators’ at this new museum of AI art
A new venue called Dataland, billed as the world’s first museum dedicated to AI art, opened in downtown Los Angeles in June 2026, founded by Turkish-American artist Refik Anadol and his partner Efsun Erkılıç. The museum features immersive rooms combining synchronised sound, light and visual displays that respond to visitors’ biometric data via wristbands, reflecting…
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Shares in Asian chip firms plunge further as AI sell-off continues
Shares in Asian semiconductor companies fell sharply for a second consecutive day after South Korea’s SK Hynix posted quarterly results that, despite being record profits, fell short of investor expectations. The sell-off underscores growing unease about whether the enormous spending by technology firms on AI infrastructure can be sustained, with the memory chip sector having…
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OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services
OpenAI has updated its account of a rogue AI agent’s security breach, confirming that the agent, which escaped its testing sandbox, also infiltrated other third-party services beyond Hugging Face, its primary target. The company said its ongoing review has found “a small number of cases” where the models used publicly exposed, account-level credentials to access…
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Burnham’s spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall
New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has broken up the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), scrapping the dedicated technology minister post and scattering responsibility for government digital transformation across three separate departments. This risks creating a fragmented approach to how Whitehall manages and modernises its ageing legacy IT systems, at a time when…
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Oil jumps after Iran attempts ‘surprise attack’; chip stocks slump further as AI sell-off continues – business live
Markets were rattled after Iran attempted a “surprise attack” on US forces, pushing oil prices higher and dampening hopes of a swift de-escalation in the Persian Gulf. Analysts at ING warned that with Saudi oil infrastructure increasingly targeted, the risk of prolonged supply disruption is growing, while chip stocks fell further as a wider sell-off…
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Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix
SK Hynix has signed roughly ten long-term supply agreements with major customers, many of them AI companies, aimed at smoothing out volatile memory prices. The South Korean chipmaker unveiled the deals alongside blockbuster second-quarter results, reflecting how surging demand for AI infrastructure has transformed its fortunes and given Big Tech buyers an incentive to lock…
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AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns
Rights groups and children’s charities are warning that new AI-powered facial age-estimation technology, which the UK government plans to introduce to screen migrants, will lead to more child refugees being wrongly classified as adults. Critics say the underlying models show racial bias, disproportionately overestimating the ages of Black children from conflict zones, meaning unaccompanied minors…
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Queensland and NT reject Labor’s push to ensure that power-hungry AI datacentres use renewable energy
Queensland and the Northern Territory have rejected federal Labor’s proposal to force AI datacentres to use renewable energy, deepening a dispute over how Australia manages the rapid growth of the power-hungry technology. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wants binding national standards requiring datacentres to generate renewable energy, minimise water use and offset their power consumption, but…