Tag: software

Elden Ring retains its crown, Switch and PlayStation 5 still selling well – June NPD

Elden Ring retains its…

The NPD Group has released its June 2022 report covering video game hardware, software, and accessory sales in the…
Game publisher caught using AI-generated influencers in ads says they were submitted by TikTok users, will investigate ‘irregularities’ with the social media app

Game publisher caught using…

Nexon says it has discovered “certain irregularities” in a recent ad campaign for its gooner-looter-shooter The First Descendant, and…
Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 18, 2025)

Five new Steam games…

Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games:…
Microsoft’s vision for the next version of Windows is an all-seeing, voice-controlled chatbot that gives you productivity’superpowers’

Microsoft’s vision for the…

The messaging coming out of Microsoft is becoming unmistakable. The next version of Windows is going to be all…
‘You’ve got basically one AI playing in the mind of another AI’: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how AI is coming full circle back to gaming

‘You’ve got basically one…

Google DeepMind’s Genie 3 model slipped right by me, as my time away and under my comfy rock last…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman deploy each other’s chatbots as proxies in public slapfight

Elon Musk and Sam…

The culture of 2000s internet forum feuds has fully saturated the tech billionaire world, and the especially tantrum-prone Elon…
OpenAI’s performance charts in the GPT-5 launch video are such a mess you have to think GPT-5 itself probably made them, and the company’s attempted fixes raise even more questions

OpenAI’s performance charts in…

What to make of OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 chatbot? Let’s just say the reception from users has been sufficiently mixed…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says some folk are using AI in ‘self-destructive ways’ so it’s on us as a society to work out how ‘to make it a big net positive’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…

As AI encroaches further into all of our lives, one of the more questionable use cases has come to…
My best friend recently taught me an important lesson about AI pessimism: Don’t remain silent and accept no substitutes

My best friend recently…

Jess Kinghorn, hardware writer, amateur artist (Image credit: Future) This week: Besides levelling up my horse girls in Umamusume:…
AI chatbot once again transforms from super genius into stupid tool the moment it goes off-script: ‘Grok doesn’t actually know why it was suspended’

AI chatbot once again…

In June, Elon Musk said that he’ll use Grok 3.5’s “advanced reasoning” to “rewrite the entire corpus of human…