Xbox’s New Boss Promises Not To Flood It With ‘Soulless AI Slop’
Xbox boss Phil Spencer is retiring after 12 years leading Microsoft’s gaming division. His replacement is Asha Sharma,…
Inside XAI: Elon Musk Is Locked in for a Big Year for Grok, IPO
At xAI’s Palo Alto headquarters, engineers cheered. It was February 2, and they’d just received a memo from…
Finji Says TikTok Published Racist AI Ads Of Its Game
Finji, the company responsible for publishing games like Night in the Woods, Tunic, and the upcoming Usual June,…
AI hit: India hungry to harness US tech giants’ technology at Delhi summit | India
India celebrates 80 years of independence from the UK in August 2027. At about that same moment, “early…
Tensions between Pentagon and Anthropic reach a boiling point
Over the last week, tensions between the Pentagon and artificial intelligence giant Anthropic have reached a boiling point.…
A redditor claims to have found a horrifying, AI-generated, multi-limbed figure in a rental house listing photo and it’s exactly the sort of Phasmophobia-style jump scare I didn’t need this morning
Picture the scene: You’re scrolling away through rental property photos late at night, trying to sort through the…
My internet troll turned out to be an AI bot gone rogue
Until last week, Scott Shambaugh was a private, almost anonymous, software developer from Denver, Colorado. Now the world…
Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books
“I think that the regurgitation and the creation of fan fiction, they both could flag copyright issues, in…
Nascent tech, real fear: how AI anxiety is upending career ambitions | Technology
Matthew Ramirez started at Western Governors University as a computer science major in 2025, drawn by the promise…
8 companies making smarter investment decisions in the AI era
Investors are watching which companies are spending wisely in the AI era. BNN Bloomberg contributor Jon Erlichman spoke…
QuitGPT is going viral — 700,000 users are reportedly ditching ChatGPT for these AI rivals
In early February 2026, something unusual started happening in the AI world: people did more than complain about…
China’s AI surge — real threat or hype?
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