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Everyone might be talking about the new title from gaming’s favourite plumber, but there’s at least one other interesting original launching with the new console this week The interesting thing about console launches is that you never know what unexpected treasures will emerge from the first batch of games. Who could have foretold that the …

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Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it The novelist Ewan Morrison was alarmed, though amused, to discover he had written a book called Nine Inches Pleases a Lady. Intrigued by the limits of generative artificial intelligence (AI), he had asked ChatGPT to give him the …

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home Read More »

After nearly 16 years the veteran standup comic is calling time on the show that redefined podcasting It’s the end of an era: Marc Maron has announced that he’s ending his popular and influential podcast WTF with Marc Maron after nearly 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes. The final episode will be released later …

WTF with Marc Maron is ending. Here are five of the podcast’s best interviews Read More »

He’s spent 24 hours immersed in slime, two days buried alive – and showered vast amounts of cash on lucky participants. But are MrBeast’s videos simply very savvy clickbait – or acts of avant garde genius? Jimmy Donaldson, the 27-year-old online content creator and entrepreneur known as MrBeast, is by any reasonable metric one of …

‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star | Mark O’Connell Read More »

Slinging bodies into a pickup as Kovalsky in Crime Scene Cleaner reminded me of Greg Davies in The Cleaner – there is something grimly satisfying about death’s aftermath Lately I’ve been playing a new job sim game, Crime Scene Cleaner, while also watching BBC’s comedy series The Cleaner, both of which focus on the aftermath …

Crime scene catharsis: how a darkly comic video game and TV show turned me into a murder clean-up specialist Read More »

Move sends shock waves through traditional media industry by posing threat to advertising agencies Business live – latest updates The owner of Facebook and Instagram is to help advertisers to fully create and target campaigns using artificial intelligence tools by the end of next year, in a move that sent shock waves through the traditional …

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta to enable AI ad creation by end of next year Read More »

Sir Jony Ive indicates unease over impact of modern technology amid tie-up with ChatGPT developer The designer of the iPhone has promised his next artificial intelligence-enabled device will be driven by a sense that “humanity deserves better”, after admitting feeling “responsibility” for some of the negative consequences of modern technology. Sir Jony Ive said his …

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Richard Bednar apologized after Utah appeals court discovered false citations, including one nonexistent case The Utah court of appeals has sanctioned a lawyer after he was discovered to have used ChatGPT for a filing he made in which he referenced a nonexistent court case. Earlier this week, the Utah court of appeals made the decision …

US lawyer sanctioned after caught using ChatGPT for court brief Read More »

Guardian investigation reveals promotion of dubious advice, questionable supplements and quick-fix healing methods What is the most common mental health misinformation on TikTok? More than half of all the top trending videos offering mental health advice on TikTok contain misinformation, a Guardian investigation has found. People are increasingly turning to social media for mental health …

More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds Read More »

It is not the cryptocurrencies message that is raising eyebrows, it is Reform’s broader tax and spending policies The message Zia Yusuf wanted to send was clear. With a backdrop of the City of London behind him, from the 34th floor of the Shard, the Reform UK chair laid out an economic policy designed to …

Starmer says Farage would spook the City and give us Truss 2 – he could be right Read More »