Endless Legend 2 is hitting early access in August, after which I won't be leaving my office for the rest of the summer

No, China hasn’t made it illegal to fire humans and replace them with AI—but yes it’s made it much more expensive for companies to do so

China’s State Council has published a state media report through its Information Office concerning a recent legal case about a worker whose role was (at least partially) replaced by AI. The worker, identified by their surname Zhou, was hired for a tech role in quality assurance, before their employer began using AI to cover some…

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Google AI bot put in charge of Swedish coffee shop, proceeds to order 3,000 rubber gloves, 6,000 napkins, 4 first-aid kits, and constantly screws up the bread order

The Associated Press has a new report on a cafe in Stockholm that’s being used for an AI experiment, in which an AI bot using Google Gemini runs the show while all the actual, y’know, coffee-making is done by humans at its command. The firm behind it, Andon Labs, was previously involved in an experiment…

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Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida is ‘a huge fan’ of Bloodborne, says it’s ‘a complete mystery’ why it was never put on PC

First reported by GamesRadar, former Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida is apparently just like us: He loves Bloodborne, and he doesn’t get why Sony and FromSoftware haven’t done anything with it since its November, 2015 expansion, The Old Hunters. Yoshida’s remarks were part of his keynote address at Japan’s CEDEC Industry event….

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