Blade Runners of LinkedIn are hunting for replicants – one em dash at a time

I've seen things you people wouldn’t believe… like the em dash being cancelled. [...]

Judge rules that Krafton must rehire fired Subnautica director

A judge has ruled that publisher Krafton must reinstate Ted Gill as CEO of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company fired Gill and two other co-founders last year [...]

AppLovin Backs Velocity As The AI Industry Looks Beyond Subscriptions For Growth

The artificial intelligence industry has no shortage of users. The harder problem is turning that usage into a sustainable business. As generative AI applications spread across consumer and enterprise [...]

ChatGPT faceplants while translating Crunchyroll anime, and some viewers are demanding human localization

Crunchyroll used ChatGPT to translate anime and it did not go well. [...]

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

A few hours ago, Chinese delivery app company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on GitHub, Hugging Face, and its native platform, unmasking the model as the computational engine behind "Owl [...]

Hollywood studios can't make money from AI-powered fake movie trailers on YouTube anymore

YouTube has demonetized two fake movie trailer channels that were apparently sending money to Hollywood studios for using AI. [...]

The UK spent £900 million on Palantir. Now it is spending £175 million on a British AI company to fix the tax gap.

  HM Revenue and Customs has awarded a 175 million pound, ten-year contract to Quantexa, a London-based AI company, to modernise the tax authority’s data infrastructure and deploy artificial intell [...]

Google AI Pro's new annual subscription brings you big savings – here's how it compares to ChatGPT

You can now pay for Google AI Pro for a whole year if you'd like to save money, though you pay more up front. [...]

Trump temporarily drops export controls to smooth negotiations with China

After previously saying that the US would block exports of key AI chips to China, Donald Trump's administration may have backtracked. The US will now temporarily block restriction on exports of c [...]