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Microsoft’s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and ‘have a room that it lives in’

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, has a vision of Copilot that involves it being so highly personalized that “it will age.” Microsoft has been increasingly pushing Copilot to be a personalized AI assistant, with a big redesign last year that included a conversational voice mode. Now, Suleyman’s Microsoft AI team is launching a new Copilot […]

The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass

Platforms like Reddit, Bluesky, Discord, and Pornhub have been rolling out mandatory age verification requirements in the UK over the past few weeks to comply with new online safety rules. While the age-gating aims to keep children from accessing pornographic material and other "harmful content" outlined by the UK's communications regulator Ofcom, there's a glaring […]

Elden Ring Nightreign’s duos mode is coming next week

Nightfarers will be able to explore Limveld as a duo — intentionally, that is — in Elden Ring Nightreign starting July 30, developer FromSoftware and publisher Bandai Namco announced Friday. Patch 1.02 for Elden Ring Nightreign will add Duo Expeditions, offering an alternative to solo play and three-player expeditions. Patch 1.02 will also include various quality-of-life […]

Sources: GPT-5 shows improved performance in coding, particularly in practical software engineering tasks, outperforming prior OpenAI models and Claude Sonnet 4 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Sources: GPT-5 shows improved performance in coding, particularly in practical software engineering tasks, outperforming prior OpenAI models and Claude Sonnet 4  —  GPT-5 is almost here, and we're hearing good things.  The early reaction from at least one person who's used the unreleased version was extremely positive.

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a hit, but also being slammed on Steam

Action role-playing game Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is charting some rough waters in the days after launch. Despite its gameplay being top-notch Soulslike action, Wuchang has debuted to nearly 16,000 “mostly negative” reviews on Steam at the time of this writing. It’s only been able to amass so many reviews because so many pirate warriors are […]