Europe’s privacy watchdog has opened yet another investigation into themillions of sexualized images, some of children, produced and shared on the platform last month. It joins theEU’s DSA effort already underway, whateverFrance is doing, and a fewmore in the UK.
Lockdown Mode is “not necessary” for most people and “tightly constrains how ChatGPT can interact with external systems to reduce the risk of prompt injection–based data exfiltration,”according to OpenAI.
I was impressed with foveated streamingon the Steam Frame, which, when you’re interacting with games streamed to the headset, renders what’s right in front of your eyes at the highest fidelity. I hope it’s just as good on the Vision Pro.
Apple announced visionOS’s foveated streaming as part of the first developer beta for visionOS 26.4.
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Despite developers being increasinglyskeptical of generative AI, “AI-driven authoring is our second major area of focus for 2026,” Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg said in earnings remarksreported on byGame Developer. The company plans to reveal more about the new prompting tools at the GDC Festival of Gaming in March.
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Should Anthropic get the designation, “anyone who wants to do business with the U.S. military has to cut ties with the company,”Axios says. The two sides have apparently been negotiating for months over how the military can use Anthropic’s AI tools.
Activisionremoved the game from app stores in May because it “did not meet our expectations.” If you’re still playing it, you’ll have a couple months until it’s offline for good.
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It’s a new feature showing up in the app as part of the first iOS 26.4 developer beta,as reported by9to5Mac.
The beta also includes anew “Playlist Playground” feature that uses Apple Intelligence to make a playlist from a text prompt.
Update: Added Playlist Playground details.
GameHub on Android let Sean Hollister playthe Steam version ofHollow Knight: Silksong on his phone, and GameSir says its new Mac app is“coming soon.” Gamesir claims the app will let you run Windows games natively, and it’s teasing a new controller, too.
St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican has partnered with Translated, an AI-assisted live-translation service, to make the liturgy available in 60 languages. Vatican visitors can use their smartphones to access audio and text translations via the web by scanning QR codes within the Basilica, no app or special equipment required.
It only took an on-camera F-bomb, accusations of cheating, and then video confirmation to get people to take interest. Is the Olympic sport that features frantic brooming having aHawk-Eye moment?
