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George R.R. Martin’s Favorite ‘Game of Thrones’ Spin-Off Gets a Colossal Season 2 Update
HBO programming chief Casey Bloys has confirmed that filming on the second season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, the latest Game of Thrones spin-off, is nearing completion, telling fans the team is “finishing up shooting Season 2”. The update is notable because the show has been widely embraced as the most faithful adaptation…
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A New Experiential Gallery Just Might Change Your Mind About AI Art
Renowned digital artist Refik Anadol has opened Dataland, billed as the world’s first “museum of AI arts”, in downtown Los Angeles, seeking to counter the widespread perception that AI-generated art amounts to little more than “slop”. The gallery, cofounded with studio partner Efsun Erkılıç, opened on 20 June and drew more than 10,000 visitors within…
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Pokémon Go fans gather in Times Square to celebrate 10 years of game – video
Pokémon Go marked its 10th anniversary with a large-scale celebration in New York’s Times Square, where fans gathered for a special in-game event centred on defeating the powerful Pokémon species Mewtwo. The gathering highlighted the enduring popularity of the augmented-reality mobile game, which has retained a dedicated community of players a decade after its launch.…
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Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police
Facewatch, a facial recognition system already used by more than 100 UK businesses including Sainsbury’s, B&M and Spar to monitor suspected thieves, is launching a feature that alerts police in real time when its cameras identify serious offenders. The company says the “UK-first” development, due in autumn, will notify police in an average of four…
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America is fighting yesterday’s AI war. Tomorrow’s war is on the way
This Fox News opinion piece, written by a former Army Staff strategist, argues that the United States is misreading its technological competition with China by treating the development of artificial intelligence as a narrow contest over which model performs best on benchmarks. Drawing on the author’s experience advising on foreign arms sales, the article contends…
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France Reaches World Cup Semi-Finals as Violent Unrest Erupts in London
France secured a spot in the World Cup semi-finals with a decisive 2-0 quarter-final victory over Morocco in Boston. The result triggered violent unrest in London, where police forces clashed with football supporters dur
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Police Debunk Fatal Outage Claim as Telstra CEO Faces Executive Scrutiny
A nationwide Telstra network outage on Wednesday disrupted critical Australian infrastructure, affecting train services, payment systems, and emergency triple-zero call capabilities. The incident highlighted serious publ
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The Rolling Stones Roll On With ‘Foreign Tongues’: Stream It Now
The Rolling Stones have released Foreign Tongues (via Polydor/Universal Music), their 25th studio album and the follow-up to the Grammy-winning 2023 record Hackney Diamonds. The 14-track set is available to stream now, marking the continued creative output of a band often described as rock’s greatest surviving act. The album features 12 new compositions — including…
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SAG-AFTRA Recommends Members Opt-Out Of Meta’s AI Feature: “Take Action To Protect Your Likeness”
The actors’ union SAG-AFTRA has urged its members, and all Instagram users, to opt out of Meta’s newly launched AI image tool, Muse Image, amid growing privacy concerns. In a statement issued on Thursday, the union provided instructions on how to adjust Instagram’s settings to “protect your likeness”, warning that “Meta now lets anyone use…
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Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness
Fidji Simo is stepping down from her full-time role leading OpenAI’s work on artificial general intelligence (AGI), moving instead to a position as a “part-time advisor,” she announced on X. The change follows her earlier decision in April to take medical leave shortly after assuming the AGI chief title, and matters because it marks the…