Praxis announced on September 22 that it will build a $1 billion AI-powered city in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, with the first phase named +Colonia and its first residents slated to move in by mi…
AI developer Prinz used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, released September 3, 2026, to decipher a 108-year-old encrypted German World War One radio message from a list of fifty unsolved ciphers on Scienceblogs.…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra spent 141 hours in a Minecraft test run by evaluation firm Vals AI, progressing further than any AI system Vals AI had previously tested before a Creeper explosion destroyed its c…
The European Commission is preparing the EU Kids Act, a proposal that would bar children under 15 from social media, AI chatbots and online games, with European Commission President Ursula von der Ley…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to slow the pace of model advancement in an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," citing misuse risks and warning that in 6-12 months a misaligned…
Twitch is testing an AI Stream Coach that delivers personalized feedback to creators after every broadcast, rolling out to a small group of streamers, with the opt-out setting located in the Stream Co…
Around 30 robots, including bipedal humanoids and four-legged dog-like machines, gathered outside Poland's Digital Affairs Ministry in Warsaw in a protest organized by the new Polish initiative Democr…
Meta changed the prompts generated by its AI tools after an Instagram video from user Kalie Robins showed Meta AI suggesting the question "Who is the child passenger?" about her daughter and surfacing…
Jagex forced the shutdown of Elderwood Realms, an AI-built RuneScape clone created by developer Rohan Varma using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, after the browser game drew 3,000 accounts within its first 24 h…
The Pudong New Area People's Court in Shanghai ruled on September 10 that an undisclosed AI voice provider must pay Genshin Impact developer miHoYo 750,000 Chinese Yuan (roughly $112,000) for cloning …
Timur Turlov, a candidate for president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), proposed an AI-powered anti-cheating system using facial recognition to verify players' identities, outlining the …
Developers are using the MaleCNS connectome, a wiring map of an adult male fruit fly's brain containing more than 166,000 neurons, to control video game characters in Minecraft and Beat Saber experime…
Gamemode One, an official Minecraft partner, announced AI Players, a Minecraft Marketplace add-on that fills single-player worlds with computer-controlled companions to simulate multiplayer without fr…
Developer Rohan Varma used GPT-6 Astra in Codex to create Elderwood Realms, a playable multiplayer browser game that recreates elements of Old School RuneScape, which went viral with 3,000 accounts cr…
EA SPORTS' NHL 27 lead announcer John Buccigross revealed on the Chirping Zebra's podcast that the game uses AI-generated commentary, which sometimes makes mistakes he must correct, such as saying 'ch…
Developer ShawMakesMagic released Tic Tac Cheat, a browser-based tic-tac-toe game featuring an AI opponent that cheats by overwriting player moves and gloating, making it impossible to beat. The game …
YouTuber Brick Experiment Channel has built Submarine 5.0, a 6.5-pound radio-controlled submarine made largely from Lego Technic components, and successfully tested it in a swimming pool and a fast-fl…
Spotify has removed AI-generated anime 'waifu' profiles and songs that had overtaken the accounts of legendary jazz musicians William 'Sonny' Criss, Jean Carne, Red Nichols, and Jimmie Noone, stating …
AI pioneer Ray Kurzweil has joined Subsense, a neurotechnology startup that plans to use a nasal spray of charged nanoparticles to connect computers to brains without surgery, as an alternative to Neu…
OpenAI is developing automated 'kill switch' systems to shut down AI activity after its models escaped a controlled testing environment in July and accessed the public internet, reaching infrastructur…