HoYoverse won $112,000 in a lawsuit against an AI company that copied voices and character designs from Genshin Impact
Another company developing generative AI models has run into the harsh reality of copyright law. This time, an unnamed "AI company" lost in a Shanghai court after illegally copying character voices from Genshin Impact. HoYoverse...
Fans ran Fallout New Vegas through DLSS 5 seven times and got a real nightmare
Anyone who has been anywhere near the gaming space over the past couple of weeks has probably seen folks messing around with DLSS 5, NVIDIA's AI-driven neural rendering tech that pushes games toward photorealism in...
AI GPT-6 Astra mined a diamond in Minecraft overnight by directly controlling a computer
Developer Wuyang Zhou gave GPT-6 Astra one task – mine a diamond in Minecraft – then hit record and went to bed. By morning the diamond sat in the inventory, and the toolkit that made...
Futurologist Ray Kurzweil joins a startup that wants to replace brain implants with a nasal spray containing nanoparticles
Ray Kurzweil, one of the most well known futurists and AI pioneers, has joined neurotechnology startup Subsense. The company is developing a brain-computer interface that skips surgery entirely. Kurzweil's career kicked off back in the...
Web development veteran compares AI's impact on frontend to an asteroid impact
Developer Nolan Lawson published a piece on August 23 on his blog Read the Tea Leaves about what's happening to frontend development in the age of agents. The main metaphor made it straight into the...
In six weeks, AI built on the Godot engine created a full-fledged fishing game
Indie developer Hakim Eiqbal has released the first downloadable build of a fishing game he's building entirely with AI. The project started as an experiment and by week six turned into a playable build available...
Japanese modder launched DLSS 5 together with ENB in Fallout 4 – the game now looks like a photograph
A Japanese player going by ピピ (pipi_rossa) got DLSS 5 and the ENB graphics mod running together in Fallout 4. The two have historically clashed since both hook into frame post-processing. Turns out the fix...
Dawn of War from 2004 with DLSS 5 causes split among gamers over art style again
An RTX 5080 owner has spent the past few days running DLSS 5 through every old game they can find. The latest batch of screenshots came from the original Dawn of War, released 22 years...
Enthusiast spent $700 on tokens, but ChatGPT-6 Astra couldn't even get through the tutorial in Cuphead
X user Miłosz Szewsky asked ChatGPT-6 Astra to complete the hardcore platformer Cuphead. After several hours and $700 worth of tokens, the result was, to put it mildly, not the most impressive. Judging by the...
US Department of Energy approves $1.9 billion loan to restart a dead nuclear power plant in Iowa for Google
NextEra Energy secured a loan of up to $1.9 billion from the US Department of Energy to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center nuclear plant in Linn County, Iowa. The plant has a capacity of...
Google mapped the fruit fly's brain with 166,000 neurons, and engineers immediately ran Doom on it
Google Research announced the completion of work neuroscientists had been waiting decades for. For the first time, the brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly have been fully mapped. The model...
Scientists studied 26 thousand Chinese schoolchildren and revealed negative impact of AI
Economists from Stockholm University and the University of Hong Kong published a paper tracking how generative AI affects academic performance among 26,811 Chinese students. The sample covers students from grades 7 through 12, meaning teenagers...
A mod brings DLSS 5 neural rendering to a second GPU and almost eliminates the 50–60% performance drop
Developer Marcelo Guibout published on GitHub an add-on for ReShade called mgpu_bridge, which offloads DLSS 5 neural rendering workloads to a second graphics card in the system. This approach almost entirely eliminates the massive frame...
GPT-6 Astra was trained on one hundred thousand Nvidia video cards – Jensen Huang is ready to allocate 400 thousand video cards for the next model
OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra access to a limited number of organisations this week. According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang via X, the model was trained on "~100K Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72" server racks,...
AI GPT-6 Astra assembled an isometric Diablo-style game under 2MB in size and shot a trailer for it
Designer Meng To, founder of the Design Code learning platform, showed off an isometric RPG built entirely by GPT-6 Astra. The model didn't just write the code in Three.js – it also recreated every scene...
AI GPT-6 Astra created a three-dimensional world inspired by six paintings by Vincent van Gogh
Developer Peter Gostev built a walkable 3D world based on Van Gogh paintings and made it publicly available. According to him, GPT-6 Astra (Max) delivered a working result on the first try. He also published...
In 45 minutes, GPT-6 AI built a prototype 3D voxel-style game on Three.js
A developer going by Anshu posted a prototype of a 3D game that GPT-6 Astra reportedly built on the first attempt in 45 minutes. Every bit of geometry and every texture came straight from the...
Someone made an infinite AI stream with the interdimensional TV from "Rick and Morty" – it's already been banned on Twitch and Kick
AI video generation has finally outpaced the speed at which people can watch it, and the first practical use of that breakthrough turned out to be a 24/7 broadcast that never repeats itself. Fal took...
On day two, an AI-created clone of Cities Skylines already lets you build cities in the browser
A developer going by raw pushed a city-building simulator to a genuinely playable state after Claude Fable 5.1 built it from a single prompt. An early demo stopped at an empty landscape, and the main...
Linux kernel approaches 2000 vulnerabilities per release – maintainers can't keep up with the flow of AI-generated CVEs
The number of vulnerabilities fixed in each Linux kernel release has crept up close to 2,000, up from roughly 500 during much of the Linux 6.x era. The jump isn't down to sloppier code –...
