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Meta agreed to pay a coalition of U.S. states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose sweeping new limits on how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, according to a court filing Wednesday that ends a landmark trial in California.
Aug 26, 2026
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The video game industry is notoriously tight-lipped about its numbers, filled with members-only metrics like wishlists, preorders and player numbers, so it can be hard to know which games have actually proven popular and ...
Aug 26, 2026
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Europe's largest video game show, Gamescom, opened Tuesday with the spotlight on two hit series, "Final Fantasy" and "The Witcher," as the industry seeks a boost in an era of job cuts and fierce competition.
Aug 26, 2026
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Social media giant Meta has been in discussions with multiple U.S. states to settle a major child privacy and consumer protection case out of court, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday.
Aug 26, 2026
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Like past transformative technologies, from railroads and radio to the internet, artificial intelligence has attracted optimistic investors and inflated valuations, and with them speculation of a bubble market—when eager ...
Aug 25, 2026
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Australia's recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists' livelihoods, a representative said on Tuesday.
Aug 25, 2026
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A newly published study in California Management Review challenges a persistent assumption in today's AI landscape: that the strongest model inevitably becomes the dominant platform. Instead, the authors of "Three Winning ...
Aug 25, 2026
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Europe's largest video game show, Gamescom, opens its doors Tuesday in Cologne, with the industry hoping that the coming blockbuster "Grand Theft Auto VI" can provide a much-needed boost as studios cut jobs amid fierce competition.
Aug 25, 2026
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Computer programmer Fei Zhaojun's boss asked him if artificial intelligence could soon replace humans in coding jobs. Two weeks later, he was laid off from his job in Beijing, together with about 160 of his colleagues.
Aug 24, 2026
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For decades, nuclear fusion has been the physicist's dream: abundant, carbon-free power drawn from the same reaction that keeps the sun burning. Now it might be shifting from scientific ambition to industrial reality.
Aug 24, 2026
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