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Even Sony hasn’t made its mind up about the PlayStation 6 release date, admits CEO Hiroki Totoki
We already know that console manufacturing is being heavily impacted by the on-going component shortage, driven by the proliferation of AI datacenters, the war in Iran, and accusations of price fixing. It turns out that these factors are putting so much pressure on console manufacturers that Sony hasn’t even got a release date for the…
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Beatport is now banning fully AI-generated songs
Songs that are predominantly human-made, but created with AI assistance can stay on the platform but will be labelled for more transparency The post Beatport is now banning fully AI-generated songs appeared first on NME.
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The Son Of Billy Joel’s Early Adversary Announces Another Unauthorized Piano Man Film, And This One’s AI
Back in 1971, when he was just coming off the release of his solo debut Cold Spring Harbor, the 22-year-old Billy Joel gave a college radio interview on Long Island. A recording of that interview was recently rediscovered, and now it’s about to become an animated AI film project, made by the song of a…
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Kingdom Hearts 4 Delay, You Say? No Way, Series Co-Creator States
Over the weekend, Disney’s D23 expo not only revealed that Kingdom Hearts 4 will feature Pixar’s Coco, but also that the action-RPG is set to arrive in late 2027. Now, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen a new mainline installment in the Square Enix series–already over seven years at this point. So people…
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Motion Picture Association Strikes Deal with ByteDance for IP Protections in AI Video, Image Models
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and ByteDance have signed a memorandum of understanding to protect film and television intellectual property across ByteDance’s AI generative tools, including the video and image generators Seedance and Seedream. The agreement marks a significant shift from confrontation to cooperation, coming months after the MPA sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist letter and…
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‘Humiliated’: Sainsbury’s store pauses AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation
Supermarket chain says ‘human error’, not its Facewatch technology, to blame for ejecting a customer Sainsbury’s has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected from the shop. “I was embarrassed, mortified even, and felt quite humiliated and powerless,” Matt…
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Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028
Cheaper tokens won’t help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns
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Sainsbury’s suspends use of AI cameras in branch after customer wrongly accused of being a shoplifter
Sainsbury’s has halted its use of live facial recognition technology at one of its branches after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and asked to leave.
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Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work
Anthropic has clarified how it’s planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe’s AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude’s text marking system is “a version of the SynthID-Text approach” – an open-source watermarking technology developed by Google DeepMind that creates detectable patterns using wording probabilities. This…