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The $200 billion video game industry is caught between studios eager to cut ballooning development costs through AI and a player base that has grown openly hostile to the technology after a string of visible blunders. As Bloomberg News reports, Arc Raiders, a surprise hit from Stockholm-based Embark Studios that sold 12 million copies in three months, was briefly vilified online for its robotic-sounding auto-generated voices -- even as CEO Patrick Soderlund insists AI was only used for non-essential elements. EA's Battlefield 6 and Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 both drew gamer anger this winter over thematically mismatched or poorly generated graphics, and Valve's Steam has added labels to flag games made using AI. Some 47% of developers polled by research house Omdia said they expect generative AI to reduce game quality, and PC gamers -- now facing inflated hardware prices from AI-driven demand for graphics chips -- have turned reflexively antagonistic.

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The Foreign Office was criticised when the Sussexes revealed in their own press release that they had been hosted by the British Ambassador in Amman, Phillip Hall.

ChatGPT maker announces $110B in new investment amid flurry of self-serving deals

The headlines say OpenAI on Friday announced $110 billion in new investment from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, though terms and conditions apply.…

Who is knocking at the Dohdoor?

Digital intruders with possible links to North Korea have been infecting US education and healthcare sectors with a never-before-seen backdoor since at least December, according to security researchers.…

Halliwell, 53, was a semi-regular fixture on race weekends alongside her husband, often appearing in the paddock at prominent races such as the British Grand Prix, before he was sacked.

Latest ORCA test results out

exclusive  Current-day LLMs are prediction engines and, as such, they can only find the most likely solution to problems, which is not necessarily the correct one. Though popular models have mostly become better at math, even top performer Gemini 3 Flash would receive a C if assessed with a letter grade.…

A baffling triangular formation deep in the Nevada desert is igniting theories that it could be the handiwork of a forgotten ancient civilization.

The official cause of death has been released for Nathan Smith, the 27-year-old son of rapper Lil Jon.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year (YoY) in 2026 to 1.1 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This decline will bring the smartphone market to its lowest annual shipment volume in more than a decade. The current forecast represents a sharp decline from our November forecast amid the intensifying memory shortage crisis.

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By-election winner Hannah Spencer co-owns homes worth over £1m, has offered tips to others on making the most of property deals and enjoyed jetting off on foreign holidays

The date for 2026 has been confirmed

Lab aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US grid

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is hoping to turn its technical expertise to the problem of growing electricity demand from AI datacenters.…

Nasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon, as the US space agency grapples with technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon. From a report: The abrupt shift in strategy was laid out by the space agency's recently confirmed administrator, Jared Isaacman. Announcing the changes on Friday, he said that Nasa would introduce at least one new moon flight before attempting to put humans back on the lunar surface for the first time in more than half a century, in 2028. The new, more incremental approach would give the Nasa team a chance to test flight and refine its technology. As part of the changes, the Artemis II mission to fly humans around the moon this year, without landing, would also be pushed back from its latest scheduled launch on 6 March to 1 April at the earliest. "Everybody agrees this is the only way forward," Isaacman told reporters at a news conference. "I know this is how Nasa changed the world, and this is how Nasa is going to do it again."

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Bill Clinton issued a blistering statement attacking Republicans for forcing Hillary to testify about his relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

In the incident on Friday afternoon, a tram from line 9 was traveling along Viale Vittorio Veneto in Milan, coming from Piazza della Repubblica when the vehicle made a turn

Max, 37, appeared on the show to chat to Ranvir Singh, 48, and Kate Garraway, 58, about the British Heart Foundation's latest campaign.

Earlier this month, Dawson's Creek star James Van Der Beek died after a two-year battle with bowel cancer. Alarmingly, he is not the first young celebrity to die of the disease in recent years

On Wednesday night I stumbled across episodes of The Bill from 2002. (And before some of you start grumbling: Here he goes again, banging on about ancient TV shows... bear with me.)

From the Noughties through to 2020, I lived The Devil Wears Prada fantasy. But now at 42 I'm cleaning up the mortar between the bricks of a wall I've just built. Why did I make this unlikely pivot?

I first came face to face with Ian Huntley in the very school of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. He was employed as the caretaker, giving him quiet authority and access, but hid the monster within.