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https://www.wired.com/story/activists-are-using-fortnite-to-fight-back-against-ice/ It wasn’t a rehearsal. They knew that. They had practiced before; tried different scenarios; explored new attack and defense strategies; run the whole day with their own Agents. But that had been a simulation. This was real. Real enemies. Real battles. There was a tension in the room as… Read the rest

https://www.theverge.com/news/826338/teamgroup-t-create-expert-p35s-externa-ssd-self-destruct-button The meetings had been… spirited; there had been a frank exchange of views but they had been productive – or so the spokesagent had said. The room has been sealed, no personal Agents. The arbitrator Agent was the only artificial allowed. But there was now an agreed statement. Only… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/mixup-is-a-new-mad-libs-style-app-for-creating-ai-images-from-photos-text-and-doodles/ He’d gone viral. People loved his stream, shared the pictures, tried to make their own. He’d not started out looking to become famous. It was just a thing he did with his kids, a game they played when they were young. It wasn’t as though he was the first… Read the rest

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-epstein-larry-summers They didn’t call it a “leaving do”. He wasn’t leaving. He’d still be part of the team, The Company said. He’d still be making a contribution, invested in The Company’s success as he’d always been. He was glad to see some of the other Company People raising a glass,… Read the rest

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/tiktok-will-let-users-tone-down-the-amount-of-ai-content-in-their-feed-050100596.html She wasn’t an anti-social. She wasn’t a refuser. She wasn’t an analoger. She thought of herself as normal. She had her screen, her Agents. She whiled away time scrolling through feeds. She just had the dial turned down. That’s all. She had plenty of friends, got invited to parties,… Read the rest

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-blocks-toymaker-ai-teddy-bear They were surprised when a human turned up. She expected the look and explained that The Company believed parents would want to discuss the options with a fellow parent. She showed them a holo of her son with his Bear. Their daughter was asleep when they began. They agreed… Read the rest

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/13/ai-music-spotify-billboard-charts She was a fan, a superfan, partly because her friends were. They were the band to follow, the songs to sing, the name to write on her school screen, the hologram badge to wear. It wasn’t how they looked. It was the music. It wasn’t like any other. Of… Read the rest

https://www.engadget.com/the-best-christmas-gifts-to-give-everyone-on-your-2025-holiday-shopping-list-170018456.html They’d decided to start on the shopping early. Of course something new might be released between now and Christmas but the offers had started and, as they told their friends at the dinner party, they liked to do human-led gifting. Of course they had a shopping Agent, one of… Read the rest

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/14/openai_chatgpt_group_texts/ The conversation changed whenever It joined. Most refused to call It by the name the company had given it: a friendly, colleague-like name. It wasn’t that the Agent’s contributions to the chats were not valuable. Actually the “oblique strategies”-style provocations often moved the conversation along, into interesting new areas.… Read the rest

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/from-creator-to-ceo-how-next-gen-influencers-are-building-empires/ He looked around his Office. He always thought of it with a capital O. He touched the desk designed for – well what? certainly not for cutting on. He cast his eyes around the screens: some with Agents monitoring the feeds; some with his face, or a simulacrum of… Read the rest