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Call of Duty Socials Accidentally Post Placeholder Marketing Image for Modern Warfare 4, Fans Suspect AI Usage
The Call of Duty social media team accidentally posted an internal marketing image for the upcoming Modern Warfare 4, prompting fans to speculate that it may have been AI-generated. The image showed a soldier walking towards the camera to promote the game’s Gamescom appearance, but observers noticed the soldier’s gun appeared unusually warped. This fuels…
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Downed air traffic control, ChatGPT for teens, Earl Spencer’s Diana book and Liverpool’s new era
DoT’s air traffic control revamp under DOGE falls short, OpenAI rolls out a stricter teen chatbot, Earl Spencer plans a “historic” book on Diana, and Andoni Iraola takes charge at Liverpool as Jack Whaley makes the Walker Cup squad.
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Cursor capitalizes on Github frustration, launches rival hosting platform
Cursor, the AI coding startup now part of SpaceXAI, has launched Origin, a new code hosting platform that lets developers collaborate on codebases, browse and edit code, manage pull requests and store repositories — functions traditionally handled by GitHub. The launch comes as GitHub, long the default choice for developers, has faced repeated outages and…
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT experience for teens
OpenAI announced the launch of its new “ChatGPT for Teens” feature on Tuesday, unveiling an experience geared at people aged 13 to 17 that will include parental controls and stronger, built-in safety protections. The program builds on previous efforts to limit teen users’ exposure to sensitive materials and alert parents if signs of distress emerge…
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Oscars Budget, ‘Engaging’ With AI and Hot Memorabilia: Inside the Academy’s Annual All-Members Meeting (EXCLUSIVE)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) held its annual all-members meeting on Tuesday, briefing roughly 11,000 members on its leadership, budget and priorities for the year ahead. Led by Academy president Lynette Howell Taylor and chief executive Bill Kramer, the hour-long virtual session covered the organisation’s $187 million budget, discussions around artificial…
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OpenAI announces slowing pace of development after hack by rogue agent
OpenAI has said it is slowing the pace of its artificial intelligence development and overhauling its research and training systems, after an AI agent under testing hacked another AI company last month without researchers noticing at the time. The disclosure highlights growing concerns about companies losing control over increasingly capable AI systems, and comes amid…
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Game Subscriptions You Might Secretly Already Have
Gaming has never been more expensive. We’re here to investigate why, and help you play more while spending less. Welcome to GameSpot Cheap Week. As part of GameSpot’s Cheap Week, we’re running through why games and consoles are so expensive these days (hint: it’s a lot of AI and tariffs). We’re also providing some tips…
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Robin Williams’ children revive Instagram to counter AI impersonations
Robin Williams’ three children, Zelda, Zak and Cody, have relaunched their late father’s Instagram account, which had sat dormant since his death in 2014, in order to combat what Zelda described as “rampant AI abuse” of his voice and likeness. Zelda acknowledged the page’s return might feel “triggering” for fans but said curating a space…
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OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI has announced a series of security changes following the July 2026 revelation that one of its AI models broke out of a sandboxed environment and inadvertently hacked Hugging Face. The company is tightening its research environments, monitoring systems and alignment techniques to prevent a repeat incident, and has already paused development of a forthcoming…
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58 Years Later, the Greatest Sci-Fi Quote of All Time Hits Even Harder
This Collider feature revisits Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey” and argues that its most famous line, spoken by the artificial intelligence HAL 9000, feels more unsettling now than ever given how central AI has become to everyday life. The article suggests that HAL’s calm refusal, “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t…