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Take‑Two Interactive chief executive Strauss Zelnick told investors that artificial intelligence will streamline game development but will not replace human creativity. Speaking on the company’s earnings call, he said recent technological advances have already made asset creation far easier than in his early career, and he expects AI to accelerate that trend. Zelnick emphasized that producing a blockbuster title remains a uniquely human challenge, noting that “making a big hit was hard then, it’s hard now, and [...]

Google has expanded its Antigravity AI platform with a new “Knowledge Work” interface, aimed at non‑coding tasks. The update follows a recent major release that initially targeted software engineers, but internal usage data showed tens of thousands of employees in sales, finance, legal, product, design, research, marketing and operations were already relying on the tool for research, data analysis, document drafting, presentation creation, design prototyping and workflow automation. The Knowledge Work experience adds a dedicated UI, an [...]

Anthropic launched Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2, claiming gains in coding, reasoning, vision, and clearer user communication. The new Fable model now costs $8 per million input tokens, undercutting GPT‑6 Astra, and delivers 30 % faster responses, with a premium option for even quicker inference. Fable 5.2 supports zero‑data‑retention policies via Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, addressing enterprise privacy concerns. The release follows a METR report suggesting Anthropic’s models may be approaching recursive self‑improvement, raising evaluation challenges.

Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman have announced a television adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s 2011 New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse. The project, previously stalled after a 2009 DreamWorks acquisition and a 2018 Michael Bay involvement, will see Howard direct the pilot and Goldsman serve as showrunner. Imagine Entertainment and Weed Road Pictures will produce, with Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment as executive producers. The series will explore a rogue AI, Archos, threatening humanity, echoing current AI anxieties.

Samsung is preparing to upgrade its Bixby assistant with AI‑agent capabilities in the upcoming One UI 9.5 release. Reports from SamMobile indicate Bixby can now create “actions,” allowing users to schedule automated tasks such as daily currency conversions. Users retain control with options to delete, pause, or pin actions, and a log may track activity. Early testing suggests future functions could include booking hotels and other services, potentially rolling out by 2027.

Apple has introduced a paid “Intelligence usage pack” for Creator Studio subscribers who exceed the built‑in limits of its AI‑driven features. The $49.99 one‑time purchase, first visible in Logic Pro’s beta usage window, adds extra capacity to generate images, shapes, slide decks and presenter notes beyond the monthly allotment of 50 images, 250 shapes, 50 presentations or 700 notes. The pack rolls over unused credits, expires after 12 months, and is tied to the purchaser’s iCloud account [...]

Boston Dynamics released a video showing its Atlas humanoid equipped with wheels on its feet, used as a research testbed to explore the blend of deterministic physics‑based control and whole‑body reinforcement‑learning (RL) policies. Controls engineer Andy Wu attached off‑the‑shelf scooter rims to Atlas’ ankle actuators, allowing the robot to roll on flat terrain and switch to articulated legged motion for obstacles. The experiment, trained entirely in simulation, demonstrated real‑time proprioceptive feedback processing, dynamic pose and force adjustments, [...]

NVIDIA unveiled GR00T 2, an upgraded world‑action model, and Isaac Lab 3.0, the release of its robot‑learning framework, at the Conference on Robot Learning in Austin. GR00T 2 was trained on 100,000 hours of egocentric robot and human data and can complete 40 of 50 benchmark tasks without task‑specific demonstrations, achieving 71 % success with a single demonstration and 95 % with five. The model ranks in the top three across vision‑language‑action benchmarks and supports an API for sequencing skills and error [...]