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- [Bloomberg] Epic Games has delayed an unannounced shooter game featuring Star Wars & Marvel characters. Developers on the game have now been told to only use AI to write the code — “No more hand-written code”; All art for the game would be “generated with full AI workflows"
Bloomberg reports Epic delayed its Star Wars/Marvel shooter to mandate AI-written code and fully AI-generated art.
- All AI is ‘compromised’ and has fewer rules than milk, Microsoft bosses say
Reports Microsoft leaders warning that all AI is “compromised” and less regulated than milk.
- Tech leaders Ellison, Karp, Luckey, Andreessen, Musk, Altman, Thiel and Vance outline AI surveillance, autonomous weapons and concentrated power that can shrink ordinary people's privacy and choices
Collects elite tech figures’ visions for AI surveillance, autonomous weapons, and concentrated political power.
- PdfCraft: The PDF workbench; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat, rebuilt in pure Rust (10.1k stars)
PdfCraft is a 10.1k-star clean-room, pure-Rust open-source reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat.
- I turned my security cameras into a backyard bird counter with BirdNET-Go, and put the results on e-ink frames
A hands-on build turns security cameras into a BirdNET-Go bird counter with e-ink result displays.
- "Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live"
Examines expanding age-verification requirements that could make computers demand users’ ages worldwide.
- Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says researchers have started smoking, believing AI will cure cancer
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says some researchers are smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer.
- Google AI overview answers a question I never asked
Documents Google AI Overviews returning an answer to a question the user never asked.
- Using AI to recreate the last moments of a person's life in order to dramatise his death and plaster it on social media feels like a new level of low for the man killed at Yorkshire wildlife park
Raises the ethics of AI recreations of a victim’s final moments being used to dramatize death on social media.
- Should AI companies need permission to recreate someone's face or voice?
Prompts a timely policy question: whether AI firms need consent to recreate a person’s face or voice.
