White House claim that China is 'engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil US frontier AI systems' called 'pure slander' by Chinese embassy

White House claim that China is ‘engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil US frontier AI systems’ called ‘pure slander’ by Chinese embassy

It looks like the US government might be getting a little more serious about tackling the growth and development of foreign AI companies, judging by a White House memo seen by the Financial Times. The memo reportedly says: “The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate,…

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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says ’employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality’ after the company laid off more than 1,000 people

Just yesterday, Epic Games announced that it had laid off more than 1,000 employees from across the company, as well as cutting over $500 million in contracting, marketing, and closing job posts. According to CEO Tim Sweeney, Epic is still “spending significantly more than [it’s] making,” despite the company running one of the most popular…

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I’m declaring 2025 the year of the ninja: we’re being spoiled with one glorious assassination game after another

In spite of a very long history, nobody’s ever really gotten tired of pretending to be a ninja. From the distant past of Capcom’s sidescrolling Strider and The Ninja Warriors’ widescreen robo-ninja violence through the still-missed sneakiness of PlayStation classic Tenchu to the lyrical excesses of Metal Gear Rising, no one’s immune to the allure…

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