New: A Microsoft executive called the training of artificial intelligence models the “largest theft of labor in human history,” according to legal brief filed by the New York Times and unsealed Thursday. w/ @gerritd.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

EXCLUSIVE 🪩 Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is a rock inspired fantasy nodding to David Bowie and The Who. “Narnia is literally a world made out of music,” she tells Empire. “And rock ’n’ roll to me felt like a world made out of music.” Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny

Trump on High Gas Prices as a result of the Iran War: It’s a very inexpensive price to pay…. It’s a little more—frankly, even if it was a lot more…

Nearly everyone at Hyper Light Drifter maker Heart Machine has been laid off and the entire studio risks closing down after a publishing partner recently... https://kotaku.com/nearly-everyone-laid-as-hyper-light-drifter-studio-risks-closure-im-not-sure-yet-how-or-if-heart-machine-survives-2000735172

There has been a lot of talk about the Amazing Spider-Man milestone. However, it's not the only big one. 2000 AD Prog 2500 comes out today (digitally and in the UK) and in the US in a few weeks. It's a good jumping-on issue. More details: 2000ad.com/news/2000-ad...

Vance's midterms pitch: "Give us another chance. Give us another couple of years"

CEO of MicrosoftAI on anthropomorphization: “AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. They are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans.“

Mike Johnson on OpenAI and Anthropic: "They can self-police. They can self-regulate."

Breaking: Du Jour will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

[Video, 1:04] "Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Godwin announces collaboration with world-renowned Jim Henson's Creature Shop on puppets for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. * [It will play] DEC 4, 2026–JAN 10, 2027 at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Harman Hall in Washington, D.C."

Meta uses David Bowie's Five Years song in this AI ad "News had just come over We had five years left to cry in News guy wept and told us Earth was really dying And all the somebody people I never thought I'd need so many people Five years, that's all we've got" — 'Five Years', David Bowie

BREAKING: The Max Rebo Band will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Use of untested 'Wolverine' peptide backed by US Health Secretary Kennedy on the rise, study finds reut.rs/3SJy7Rq

*Four* acts have now withdrawn from Ed Sheeran’s tour in rapid succession: FINNEAS Lukas Graham Beoga Aaron Rowe

Metroid has been on my list for a while, so the new reveal made the perfect opportunity - the Metroid Ravenous Font & Logo Generator is live now!

Wardogs lead says the studio won't hire people who decry crunch on social media

I know I harp on this a lot, but what *have* we been doing for the past 15 years with computers that hasn't just been a build up to this moment of momentous stupidity, when we've decided that creating infinite shitty throwaway software is the most valuable industry in human history?

Make a band deadly: Sleater-Killey