How AI Sex Is Getting Mainstreamed
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Larian publishing director balks at Square Enix’s push to replace QA workers with AI: ‘The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid … They are a massively advantageous vibe check’
Quality assurance—the sacred task of making sure games break as infrequently as possible—is a non-negotiable part of development,…
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
Palantir CEO Alex Karp talks so much that you’d think that he just likes the sound of his…
$1 Trillion in Tech Stocks Sold Off as Market Grows Skeptical of AI
The market’s confidence in artificial intelligence may be wavering, and companies with big investments in it seem to…
Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan
We’re racing towards a future in which devices will be able to read our thoughts. You see signs…
A new Chinese AI model claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 – and it’s free
Artur Debat/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeawaysMoonshot released its…
The Playboy Mansion of Nerds
Welcome back to Second Thought, where we think about the zeitgeist, then think about it some more. This…
Is Wall Street losing faith in AI?
A rough week for tech stocks might signal a loss of investor confidence in artificial intelligence. The Wall…
Meta Accuses Employee’s Dad of Downloading Gigantic Illegal Goon Stash
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Imags Just when you thought you’ve seen it all, Meta…
Everyone hated the Rabbit R1. They were right, but now they’re wrong
When the Rabbit R1 came out, everyone hated it. It was a $200 AI gadget desperately searching for…
From urban decay to fabulous wealth, how AI revived San Francisco
Three months ago, Frederik Filz-Reiterdank bought a one-way ticket from London to San Francisco. The 29-year-old studied at…
5 AI tools that aren’t another ChatGPT
Mitja Rutnik / Android Authority The only AI most people know are chatbots like ChatGPT, but the tech…