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Microsoft has filed a patent, uncovered by Patentlyze, describing an AI system that can listen to a livestream's audio, swap out words based on a viewer's profile data like age or language, and adjust lip movements to hide the edit. The filing also outlines a separate translation feature that dubs livestreams with matching lip sync while preserving the original recording as a reference.
Itch.io has introduced a 'No AI' filter that lets users exclude games disclosed as containing AI-generated content from browsing and search results. Applying the filter reduced the visible game catalog from over 1.77 million entries to fewer than 425,000. The company said the filter addresses a feature it had been 'critically lacking.'
Fujifilm announced a roughly 10 billion yen ($63 million) investment to expand magnetic tape manufacturing capacity fivefold at its Kanagawa Factory in Odawara, Japan, compared to fiscal 2025 output. The expansion, running from fiscal 2026 to 2028, will add staff and equipment mainly to produce its newest LTO Ultrium10 tape format, marking the company's largest-ever investment in dedicated tape facilities.
An advocate general at the EU's top court said technology companies could be found to infringe copyright law when their AI chatbots draw on news articles to produce answers. The opinion is non-binding but is typically influential in how the Court of Justice of the European Union eventually rules on the matter.
An Xbox manager stated that generative AI is already being used in game development, aligning Microsoft with large publishers like Capcom, Square Enix, Sega, Nexon and Activision that have adopted or pledged to adopt the technology. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has also publicly promoted AI use, while smaller independent studios such as Finji, ConcernedApe and Strange Scaffold have resisted it. Industry surveys claiming roughly 90 percent AI adoption are noted as having limited and possibly unrepresentative sample sizes.
Canva has announced it built its own vision-language AI model aimed at producing design work, rather than relying solely on third-party generative AI systems. The company is positioning the model as a way to address the recognizable, low-quality aesthetic commonly associated with AI-generated graphics, often called 'AI slop.'
A Wired opinion piece, shared via Slashdot, argues that the modern internet has become toxic, citing privacy and mental-health lawsuits against Meta and Google, smartphone bans in schools, youth social media restrictions in several countries, and a flood of AI-generated 'slop' content. The author points to Oxford's naming of 'rage bait' as 2025's word of the year as evidence that manipulative, AI-amplified engagement tactics now dominate online spaces.
A WIRED commentary argues that the modern internet has become toxic, citing Meta and Google settlements over privacy and mental health lawsuits, school smartphone bans, and new under-16 social media restrictions in several countries. It also points to generative AI flooding feeds with low-quality content and Oxford University Press naming 'rage bait' its 2024 word of the year amid reduced content moderation by platform owners.
At Black Hat India, Nathan Hamiel, senior director of research at Kudelski Security, said increasing reliance on AI-driven automation in cybersecurity could weaken professionals' grasp of core technical skills. He traced this concern back to 2005-2006, when he first observed practitioners becoming 'hands-off' monitors of dashboards rather than hands-on investigators, and said generative AI is now accelerating that shift.
A Fiverr survey of 6,000 small business owners released in May 2025 found that 77% use generative AI for business, personal needs, or both. Fiverr's more recent June 2026 Business Trends Index shows searches for AI-related freelance services surging, including a 278% jump in Video & Animation, 94% in Programming & Tech, and 938% for Claude Code specialists, comparing November 2025–April 2026 to the prior six months.
Marvel's new series VisionQuest follows the synthezoid Vision as he reconnects with past memories and other Tony Stark-created AIs, including J.A.R.V.I.S., F.R.I.D.A.Y., E.D.I.T.H., D.U.M.-E., U., and Ultron. The show depicts these AI characters as sentient beings with independent desires, set in a fictional universe where time travel and magic already exist.
Stanford University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute released its 2026 AI Index Report, finding that generative AI reached 53% global adoption within three years of introduction, faster than earlier technologies like the personal computer or internet took to reach similar levels. The report also found 88% of organizations have adopted AI in some form, and 80% of university students currently use generative AI tools.