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A think tank report has shown that the percentages of people who have used generative AI differ across the world’s economies. It pointed to a widening divide between usage in the Global North and the Global South.

New Delhi [India], August 30 (ANI): Consumers do not trust artificial intelligence (AI) advice, as the trust level for generative AI drops below 40 per cent but they turn to it anyway, according to research discussed on The McKinsey Podcast. The research highlighted a growing contradiction in consumer behavior, where shoppers increasingly use digital platforms…

Rockstar North has confirmed, in unusually direct on-the-record terms, that Grand Theft Auto 6 will launch with no microtransactions and no generative AI anywhere in its single-player game. The answers came from co-studio head Rob Nelson during a hands-on preview visit by Kinda Funny Games hosts Andy Cortez and Greg Miller to the studio’s Edinburgh…

Journalists are mnemonically dispossessed in the age of large language models. To accept News Corp CEO Robert Thomson’s 2026 redefinition of journalism as an ‘input’ alongside semiconductors and datacentres is to deny the human provenance of what it means to make and to consume news. Licensing deals now being signed between major press groups and…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has opened a public consultation on one of the most challenging questions facing modern healthcare technology: how should regulators oversee medical devices powered by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)? The agency is accepting comments until October 19, 2026, as it considers new approaches to risk assessment, premarket review, and…

The voting is over and there is a winner now known in the much-debated Debian General Resolution voting over an AI policy for the Linux distribution.

In the upcoming issue of Game Informer magazine (subscribe here), we have a feature about the finale of the Talos Principle trilogy, The Talos Principle III. We got feedback from creative director Davor Hunski about what to expect in the final entry in the series, but we also spoke with writers and narrative designers Jonas…

As generative AI tools are increasingly adopted in design education, understanding how AI learning assistants foster perceived learning support (PLS) among design students has become a pressing concern. Drawing on Social Support Theory, the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) framework, Parasocial Relationship Theory, and the Stimulus–Organism–Response (SOR) model, this study examines how AI anthropomorphism and…

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