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Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings

2 months 1 week ago

Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman's human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters. Zoom will show a badge on verified participants' tile.

Ivan Mehta

AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body

2 months 1 week ago

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the trade-off may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.

Steven Levy

Weak job security risks an industry brain drain | Opinion

2 months 1 week ago

We talk a lot about the major challenges that the games business currently faces due to external economic factors, from fears of a consumer-spending-led recession through to price rises driven by component scarcity. That focus can sometimes overshadow other looming challenges – none of which, I would argue, is more potentially damaging and destabilising than the long-term impacts on industry staffing as a result of the past few years of massive layoffs.

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Rob Fahey

Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?

2 months 1 week ago

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says is too powerful to release publicly …but apparently not too […]

Theresa Loconsolo