‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom | Books
If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly…
Analyst: AI-focused M&A deals are “weakening” the games investment landscape
A new M&A report from analyst S&P has indicated a weakening investment environment for games, with available funding…
Time to Buy Nvidia or SpaceX Stock After Their AI Partnership? – August 7, 2026
As two of Wall Street’s most covered stories, Nvidia (NVDA Quick QuoteNVDA – Free Report) ) and SpaceX…
Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
AI coding tools deliver immense value: at Databricks, agentic coding has measurably improved every velocity metric we track…
Google AI Leaks Dev’s Content Plans Hidden Inside Google Docs
A solo indie dev behind a relatively small game has revealed that, somehow, Google’s AI had gained access…
AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription
AI and ML Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent…
After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
HR software provider Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, an anti-tokenmaxxing product that helps a company track…
‘SaaSpocalypse’ debate intensifies as software stocks swing wildly
Michael Cannon-Brookes, co-CEO of Atlassian. Scott Mlyn | CNBC The “SaaSpocalypse” was raging this week. Then it got…
China’s AI ecosystem is not as open as it claims. Nor is any other country’s | AI (artificial intelligence)
Ambassador Zheng Zeguang rightly celebrates openly released AI models, and the Chinese labs behind Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi…
Former Icelandic minister joins Fenris Creations to lead new AI partnerships
Fenris Creations has appointed former Icelandic minister Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir as senior director for AI partnerships. Sigurbjörnsdóttir will…
YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate
YouTube’s system for suppressing low-quality AI content mistakenly targeted Kurzgesagt, causing the animation channel to suffer its worst-performing…
“Ideas like this usually just die”: Inside generative AI’s effect on modding, and how host sites struggle to maintain transparency
I’ve been scrolling through Nexus Mods near enough every weekday morning for three or four years now. On…