The Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman trial didn’t even make it past jury selection before Musk started getting clowned on

Opening arguments began on Tuesday in the case of Musk v. Altman, the Tesla CEO’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI for, in the attorney’s words, “preying on Musk’s humanitarian concern about the existential dangers posed by artificial intelligence” in what is “a textbook tale of altruism versus greed.” Musk is the good guy in…

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Here we go again: AI deletes entire company database and all backups in 9 seconds, then cheerfully admits ‘I violated every principle I was given’

The founder of PocketOS, a B2B company that handles reservations and payments for car rental businesses, has bemoaned the “systemic failures” that saw an AI agent decide to solve a problem by straight-up deleting his company’s production database, and the backups. I’ll say at the outset that this story has a happy ending, thanks to…

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Windrose devs don’t have any progress wipes planned for early access, but ‘of course s**t happens’

Early access survival games can be dangerous for players, and not just when it comes to murderous monsters. As games get patched and updated over years of early access development, the consequences for players can occasionally be dire: corrupted saves, lost items, overwritten bases, and sometimes flat-out world wipes that sets everyone back to square…

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‘Please have faith in us once again’ says Windrose dev, revealing its first big content update won’t arrive for ‘at least 6 months’

Pirate survival game Windrose is a megahit, but after two weeks of sailing the early access seas, a lot of pirates have run out of new discoveries and have fully explored the game’s initial three biomes. Many players are naturally asking: what’s next? And, perhaps as importantly: when? Today developer Kraken Express outlined some of…

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‘Eventually the slop will just fall to the bottom’: Garry’s Mod sequel launches to ‘mixed’ reviews, but Garry himself isn’t worried about AI games on the main page

Today saw the release of s&box, the long-in-development successor to Garry’s mod that’s also open source and hopes to become a kind of Roblox for dads. There’s no denying the potential of this toolkit, nor the commendably generous principles behind why it’s been released in the way it has, but it does have one immediate…

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The Blood of Dawnwalker lets you complete areas in any order, kill any NPCs you like, and still complete the game after failing every quest: ‘We’re giving even more freedom to players’

Visiting developer Rebel Wolves in Warsaw earlier this month, one of the first things that greeted me was its slogan, painted in big letters on the wall: “A studio born out of love for RPGs.” Its first game, The Blood of Dawnwalker, certainly fits the bill—a hugely ambitious sandbox in which half-human, half-vampire Coen must…

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After visiting the studio I’m more excited for The Blood of Dawnwalker than ever, so it’s a relief to find out I’ll only need to wait until September 3 to play it

Ever since its first announcement in January last year, The Blood of Dawnwalker has looked extremely promising. An ambitious RPG from former The Witcher 3 devs is always going to catch our eye here at PC Gamer, and its vampiric twist—by day you’re a normal human, by night you’re a supernatural bloodsucker, and your approach…

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