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No console-flation: how the thirst for AI chips is sending games console prices soaring
AI datacentres, memory scarcity and factory capacity are costing consumers –and console makers• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt was once a truth universally acknowledged that an ageing console in possession of good revenue must be in line for a price reduction. Those days may be over. In March, Sony…
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Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash
Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
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One of America’s oldest manufacturers says AI is creating jobs — not replacing them
Corning partners with Nvidia to build optical fiber factories in North Carolina and Texas, creating 3,000+ jobs to meet surging AI infrastructure demand.
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Short story accused of being AI-written wins overall Commonwealth prize
Jamir Nazir’s The Serpent in the Grove, which critics allege has ‘obvious markers’ of AI use, was described as ‘original, poetic and deeply moving’ by the judging chairA story widely accused on social media of being written using AI has gone on to win the overall Commonwealth short story prize.Jamir Nazir’s story The Serpent in…
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UN report says policymakers are struggling to keep up with pace of AI development
UN panel says ‘AI is neither inherently good nor bad,’ but better safeguards around it are needed.
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Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007’s best PC games
‘Victory is defeat’.
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‘I cannot do my job when Microsoft refuses to do theirs’, say Xbox union workers as destructive reset looms from a company that spent over $80 billion on AI last year
“Why would a game developer bother to put forward their best work under these conditions?”
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Anthropic says US has lifted export controls on Fable and Mythos AI models after security fears
AI company was forced last month to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationalsBusiness live – latest updatesAnthropic has restored customer access to its powerful newest AI model, Fable, after a more than two-week blackout resulting from US government safety concerns that it could be abused to enable…
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Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.
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“Low-effort slop”: The creators of the Godot engine behind Slay the Spire 2 are cracking down on “vibe-coding” and now require genAI disclosures
The foundation behind the open source Godot game engine have announced a crackdown on the use of generative AI by contributors, following a wave of “demoralizing”, “low-effort slop” that has added to an already overwhelming quantity of requests for code review. While they’ll still let people deploy the chatbot technology for smaller, “menial” jobs such…