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Krafton's new chief AI officer says the company 'uses AI as a tool to amplify human imagination and creativity, not replace it' 3 months after it announced a hiring freeze and launched a voluntary resignation programme
6+ min ago (409+ words) Krafton loves AI. Indeed, the publisher loves it so much that it followed a record-breaking quarter in November by starting a hiring freeze and a voluntary resignation programme so it could restructure itself around AI. Instead of investing in people,…...
Meta AI safety director watched OpenClaw AI 'speedrun' deleting her inbox
1+ hour, 50+ min ago (377+ words) Not the kind of error you want an AI director of safety and alignment making. Last month I checked out the hype surrounding Moltbot, AKA Clawdbot, AKA OpenClaw (third time's the charm?). I spent a lot of time highlighting the…...
'The engineers let the AI resolve an issue without intervention': Reports say recent AWS outages were caused by an AI coding tool running amok, while Amazon says user permissions were at fault
6+ hour, 16+ min ago (407+ words) The vibes may have been off. A report from The Financial Times claims that, according to four of its sources, two recent AWS outages were caused by engineers allowing its Kiro AI coding tool to make changes without oversight. According…...
Fed up with HDD prices, this UK redditor flew all the way to New York to buy ten 28 TB external drives
7+ hour, 18+ min ago (690+ words) The good folks over at the r/DataHoarder subreddit take storage seriously. This, I would imagine, is obvious. One user, however, took their desire for silly amounts of hard drive space to the extreme when they flew from the UK…...
A Grok update was apparently delayed because Elon Musk wanted it to be better at answering questions about Baldur's Gate
16+ hour, 31+ min ago (189+ words) He wants it to be able to play League of Legends as well. Business Insider's sources say that "a model release was delayed for several days because Musk was dissatisfied with how the chatbot answered detailed questions about the video…...
Indie publisher alleges TikTok is AI-generating offensive ads using its characters and they can't make it stop
1+ day, 22+ min ago (313+ words) Finji CEO Rebekah Saltsman called out TikTok for "a profound void where common sense and business sense usually reside." Night in the Woods and Tunic publisher Finji said TikTok is using its characters and art without its consent to run…...
Heart of the Machine, the strategy game that lets you be the fun kind of evil AI, leaves early access in March with two possible endings: 'One is focussed on committing ALL the war crimes"
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (458+ words) One of the many things that annoys me about modern AI technology is if it did somehow destroy the world as its early boosters often (and bizarrely) claimed it might, it's far more likely to do so by accident than…...
New Xbox boss Asha Sharma promises no 'soulless AI slop' after moving over from Microsoft's CoreAI products division
3+ day, 38+ min ago (437+ words) "We will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop," said the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming. Long-time Microsoft Gaming boss Phil Spencer has retired, and Xbox president Sarah Bond has resigned. Filling their shoes will…...
Xbox boss Phil Spencer is retiring, and his replacement is an AI executive who joined Microsoft in 2024
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (297+ words) Sarah Bond, who was widely expected to take the reins one day, has instead resigned from the company. We sometimes say "it's the end of an era" to mark a notable occasion of one sort or another, and sometimes it's…...
Microsoft's beginner-friendly AI PC guide shows how fragmented the term has become, although '2026 is the moment', apparently
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (476+ words) It's very simple, let me just break out this whiteboard. Late last year, Microsoft said that it was making 'every Windows 11 PC an AI PC', so congratulations, you've probably already got one in some form or fashion. However, a blog…...