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Under Pressure From Roblox, Fortnite Allowing Creators to Sell In-Game Items

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 07:20:00

Creators who make content for Fortnite can start monetizing their virtual goods in December. The free-to-play online game's publisher, Epic Games, announced that those in its Creator program will earn revenue from the sale of in-game items they've made and money they already earn from engagement payouts for Epic-created items. Don't miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source. Before platform and store fees, those creators ordinarily will

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Epic will let Fortnite creators sell in-game items in latest attempt to compete with Roblox

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-22 08:20:59

Creators building experiences in Fortnite are getting a new way to earn revenue. Epic says developers will soon have the ability to make and sell in-game items in Fortnite, and earn a cut of the V-Bucks users spend to buy them. Previously, developers only earned money through Fortnite based on the amount of time users spent on their "islands," the in-game name for third-party experiences creators can offer through Fortnite. Developers will be able to create their consumable and durable in-game

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I changed these 5 settings on my TV to significantly improve the picture quality

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-22 20:47:00

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Whether you're considering buying a new TV or your old flat panel seems to be doing fine, there are still ways to optimize your viewing experience, and it all begins with your television's settings. Let's explore some of the key factors determining how your TV performs and what you can do to make it look even better. 1. Turn down the sharpness The sharper the picture, the better. Right? Not necessarily. Contrary to pop

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James Cameron on AI: it’s ‘just as creative’ as people, but with no ‘unique lived experience’

theverge.com Janko Roettgers 2025-09-23 00:30:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In December, Meta announced a multiyear partnership with James Cameron’s Lightstorm Vision to bring 3D entertainment to Meta’s Quest headsets. This week, Cameron joined Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on stage during the company’s Meta Connect conference to share a first result of that partnership: Quest owners are able to watch an exclusive preview clip for Cameron’s upcoming Avatar 3 movie via the headset’s new H

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10 of the Best Movies to Stream on Peacock

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 11:00:04

Peacock's movie library is solid. I say that as someone who regularly forgets to check out the NBC Universal-owned streaming service when I'm in the mood for a movie night. We get so used to tapping into the big dogs like Netflix and Disney Plus, and they are chock full of good stuff, but Peacock deserves its flowers, too. There's always something cool to watch on Peacock, no matter what genre you're looking for. Then there's the Universal part of the equation. Universal Pictures knows its way

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Fortnite creators will soon be able to sell in-game items

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-09-23 12:49:37

Epic is continuing its attempts to turn Fortnite into a platform that’s bigger than just battle royale — this time by giving creators the ability to make and sell in-game items. Starting in December, Fortnite creators will be able to sell items directly from the islands they’ve built, using new tools that will be launching later on. The benefit, of course, is that creators on the platform will have a new revenue stream (currently, they earn revenue primarily based on engagement numbers). And Ep

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White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropic’s law enforcement AI limits

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-24 04:03:11

Anthropic's AI models could potentially help spies analyze classified documents, but the company draws the line at domestic surveillance. That restriction is reportedly making the Trump administration angry. On Tuesday, Semafor reported that Anthropic faces growing hostility from the Trump administration over the AI company's restrictions on law enforcement uses of its Claude models. Two senior White House officials told the outlet that federal contractors working with agencies like the FBI and

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Anthropic Wants to Be the One Good AI Company in Trump’s America

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-24 12:30:34

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, is trying to carve out a spot as the Good Guy in the AI space. Fresh off being the only major AI firm to throw its support behind an AI safety bill in California, the company grabbed a headline from Semafor thanks to its apparent refusal to allow its model to be used for surveillance tasks, which is pissing off the Trump administration. According to the report, law enforcement agencies have felt stifled by Anthropic’s usa

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Anthropic Report Finds Dire News About AI's Effects on Job Market

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-24 15:04:05

As businesses across the economy rush to adopt AI, a new report from OpenAI's competitor Anthropic reveals what the tech is really being used for: instead of helping augment human labor, companies are mainly using AI to automate their jobs. In numbers, an overwhelming 77 percent of businesses using Anthropic's Claude AI software showed signs of automation, like "full task delegation," according to the report released by the company this week. Only 12 percent of AI usage appeared to leverage the

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Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-09-24 19:57:39

Anthropic is in the midst of a splashy media tour in Washington, but its refusal to allow its models to be used for some law enforcement purposes has deepened hostility to the company inside the Trump administration, two senior officials told Semafor. Anthropic recently declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement agencies because the company refuses to make an exception allowing its AI tools to be used for some tasks, including surveillance of US citizens, said the off

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Google’s latest Play System Update makes it easier to find and share photos on Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-27 04:08:30

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out an updated Photo Picker with a much-needed search bar, making it easier to find specific photos and videos to share with apps. The new search functionality works for local media and integrates with Google Photos to search your cloud library and offer suggestions for people or places. The “Albums” tab is also being renamed to “Collections” and now groups folders to better organize your media and separate personal albums from app-ge

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Ram ends EV pickup truck plans

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-09-30 20:56:16

The all-electric Ram 1500 REV pickup truck is dead. Long live the extended-range Ram 1500 REV (once called the Ramcharger). Stellantis, the parent company of Ram, said Friday that it will no longer develop a battery-electric full-size pickup. The company cited low demand for full-size battery-electric trucks as the primary reason, according to a statement sent to TechCrunch and posted on its website. “As demand for full-size battery-electric trucks slows in North America, Stellantis is reasses

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The Inventor of Ozempic Is Suddenly Sacking Huge Numbers of Employees

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-02 03:21:48

Image by Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty / Futurism Developments Novo Nordisk, the 102-year-old Danish drugmaker behind the blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, is laying off thousands of workers as it seeks to recoup some of the revenue it's lost to competitors amid the GLP-1 boom. In a press release, the pharmaceutical giant announced that it would soon let go of 11 percent of its workforce, totaling about 9,000 of its 78,400 employees around the world. A

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Anthropic’s Claude AI can now automatically ‘remember’ past chats

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-03 08:43:46

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic will now let its Claude AI chatbot “remember” the details of previous conversations without prompting. The feature is only rolling out for Team and Enterprise users for now, allowing Claude to automatically incorporate someone’s preferences, the contex

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Fortnite will soon let you buy exactly the V-bucks you need

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-04 08:45:38

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you want to buy a skin or virtual gear from the Fortnite item shop but don’t have enough V-Bucks, Epic Games is going to add a way to “top up” your V-Bucks balance so that you can buy just the V-Bucks you need to afford your purchase. Epic is calling this feature the “Exact Amount”

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Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-05 07:11:59

With so many wild predictions flying around about the future AI, it’s important to occasionally take a step back and check in on what came true — and what hasn’t come to pass. Exactly six months ago, Dario Amodei, the CEO of massive AI company Anthropic, claimed that in half a year, AI would be "writing 90 percent of code." And that was the worst-case scenario; in just three months, he predicted, we could hit a place where "essentially all" code is written by AI. As the CEO of one of the buzzi

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A 36-Year-Old Woman Developed an Insatiable Craving for Bleach. Scientists Now Know Why

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-05 20:25:42

We all have our unusual food preferences, but it’s unlikely any are quite as weird as the craving experienced by a 36-year-old woman featured in a recent case report. Her doctors described how the woman developed a sudden hunger for bleach—a craving likely triggered by an autoimmune disorder. Doctors in Michigan detailed the strange tale in a paper published last month in the journal Case Reports in Psychiatry. The woman had developed a severe bout of anemia caused by vitamin B12 deficiency, no

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That new Claude feature 'may put your data at risk,' Anthropic admits

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-06 00:26:00

Ekaterina Goncharova/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Claude AI can now create and edit documents and other files. The feature could compromise your sensitive data. Monitor each interaction with the AI for suspicious behavior. Most popular generative AI services can work with your own personal or work-related data and files to some degree. The upside? This can save you time and labor, whether at home or on the job. The do

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Anti-AGI Protester Now on Day Nine of Hunger Strike in Front of Anthropic Headquarters

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-06 02:23:08

Artificial general intelligence, the prospect of a synthetic entity meeting or exceeding the cognitive power of a human, is a polarizing topic. For some, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, it's a mission statement — the lodestar guiding the company's $300 billion operations. For others, like activist and organizer Guido Reichstadter, it's an existential threat to be resisted at any cost. Reichstader is now on day nine of a grueling anti-AGI hunger strike in front of the San Francisco headquarters of

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Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-06 04:08:49

On Wednesday afternoon, Anthropic experienced a brief but complete service outage that took down its AI infrastructure, leaving developers unable to access Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, or the management console for around half an hour. The outage affected all three of Anthropic's main services simultaneously, with the company posting at 12:28 pm Eastern that "APIs, Console, and Claude.ai are down. Services will be restored as soon as possible." As of press time, the services appear to be res

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Anthropic reports outages, Claude and Console impacted

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-10-06 08:33:05

Anthropic reported a service outage impacting APIs, Console, and Claude earlier this afternoon. Users on GitHub and Hacker News noted issues with Claude at around 12:20 ET, with Anthropic releasing a status update eight minutes later, noting that its APIs, Console, and Claude AI were down. At press time, the company said it had implemented several fixes and was monitoring the results. “We’re aware of a very brief outage of our API today shortly before 9:30am PT,” an Anthropic spokesperson told

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Microsoft taps Anthropic for AI in Word and Excel, signaling distance from OpenAI

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-06 12:26:00

Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft will pay Anthropic for access to its AI models. They'll go toward new features in Office 365 platforms. Microsoft and OpenAI are distancing themselves from one another. Microsoft will slacken its dependence on OpenAI through a new partnership with Anthropic, The Information reported on Tuesday. The deal will enable Microsoft to embed Anthropic's AI systems into Microsoft 365 (fo

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Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-06 16:41:42

Microsoft's Office 365 suite will soon incorporate AI models from Anthropic alongside existing OpenAI technology, The Information reported, ending years of exclusive reliance on OpenAI for generative AI features across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The shift reportedly follows internal testing that revealed Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 model excels at specific Office tasks where OpenAI's models fall short, particularly in visual design and spreadsheet automation, according to sources fam

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Claude’s new AI file-creation feature ships with security risks built in

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-06 07:55:34

On Tuesday, Anthropic launched a new file-creation feature for its Claude AI assistant that enables users to generate Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and other documents directly within conversations on the web interface and in the Claude desktop app. While the feature may be handy for Claude users, the company's support documentation also warns that it "may put your data at risk" and details how the AI assistant can be manipulated to transmit user data to external servers. The fe

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Claude’s new AI file creation feature ships with deep security risks built in

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-07 23:55:34

On Tuesday, Anthropic launched a new file creation feature for its Claude AI assistant that enables users to generate Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and other documents directly within conversations on the web interface and in the Claude desktop app. While the feature may be handy for Claude users, the company's support documentation also warns that it "may put your data at risk" and details how the AI assistant can be manipulated to transmit user data to external servers. The fe

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Microsoft reportedly plans to start using Anthropic models to power some of Office 365's Copilot features

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 04:20:19

Microsoft reportedly plans to begin using Anthropic's latest Claude models to power some of the Copilot features in its Office 365 apps. In a report published Tuesday, The Information said the tech giant would announce the change "in the coming weeks." Microsoft currently relies on OpenAI's tech to power the majority of AI features found inside of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. As an outsider looking in, Microsoft's embrace of Anthropic's models would appear to signal a deepening split be

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Anthropic’s new Claude feature can leak data—users told to “monitor chats closely”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 04:55:34

On Tuesday, Anthropic launched a new file creation feature for its Claude AI assistant that enables users to generate Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and other documents directly within conversations on the web interface and in the Claude desktop app. While the feature may be handy for Claude users, the company's support documentation also warns that it "may put your data at risk" and details how the AI assistant can be manipulated to transmit user data to external servers. The fe

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Microsoft to lessen reliance on OpenAI by buying AI from rival Anthropic

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-08 04:11:30

Microsoft will pay to use Anthropic’s AI in Office 365 apps, The Information reports, citing two sources. The move means that Anthropic’s tech will help power new features in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint alongside OpenAI’s, marking the end of Microsoft’s previous reliance solely on the ChatGPT-maker for its productivity suite. Microsoft’s move to diversify its AI partnerships comes amid a growing rift with OpenAI, which has pursued its own infrastructure projects as well as a and a pote

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Xcode 26 RC beta now available for developers

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-08 12:52:57

Following today’s event, Apple is now rolling out the first Release Candidate version of the operating systems announced during WWDC25, as well as for Xcode 26. Here are the details. Apple Intelligence, Anthropic and OpenAI integration This year, Xcode’s highlight feature is its built-in integration with large language models, including native support for OpenAI and Anthropic. Users can also integrate with local LLMs and third-party services via API keys. Anthropic’s support was added late in

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Judge: Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is being shoved "down the throat of authors"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 12:19:39

At a hearing Monday, US District Judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's rampant piracy of books to train AI. The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages after Alsup certified a class that included up to 7 million claimants whose works were illegally downloaded by the AI company. Instead, critics fear Anthropic will get off cheaply, striking a deal with authors suing that covers less than 500,0

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