Microsoft’s latest pricing ripple has reached an audience few players think about: game developers now face a higher barrier to build for Xbox as Microsoft raises the price of its official development kits from $1,500 to $2,000 — a 33% hike that the company says “reflects macroeconomic...
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A coordinated audit by 22 public broadcasters has issued a blunt verdict: popular AI chat assistants routinely misrepresent news, with nearly half of tested responses containing at least one significant problem that could mislead readers.
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Public-service newsrooms across 18...
AI chatbots are no longer curiosities — they're a primary information conduit for millions — and a new set of audits shows that when people trust these systems for news, the results can be dangerous, confusing, and institutionally corrosive. Recent independent research led by the BBC and the...
Minecraft’s education wing quietly rolled out a clever new way to teach children and young people how to spot AI-driven disinformation: Reed Smart: AI Detective, a noir‑themed, interactive lesson world that uses mystery gameplay to train information literacy, lateral reading, and deepfake...
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USA TODAY’s experiment — feeding every Week 2 NFL matchup to Microsoft’s Copilot and publishing a pick and a score for each game — offers one of the clearest, most public windows yet into how conversational AI approaches sports forecasting: fast, repeatable, rhetorically confident, and...