For game developer teams, the Independent Games Festival (IGF) is a very big deal. A nomination for the IGF Awards provides a game with priceless publicity, including a showcase at the festival, and a shot at winning one of the industry’s most prestigious independent gaming honors. The Awards are judged by panels of industry representatives—and this year, 19 such jurors have issued a statement declaring that they will not vote for “any game that uses gener
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Researchers Stranded an AI Agent on a Virtual Island. Things Got Very Weird.

Life, it seems, wants to play. Anyone who’s ever spent ten minutes with a five-year-old knows this perfectly well: very young children are masters at make-believe. And it’s not just people—play comes instinctively across the animal kingdom. Rats are fond of rough-and-tumble play, especially after periods of isolation. Octopuses will toy with Legos in much the same way that a newborn will play with blocks. Far from being a useless pastime, play appears to b
AI-Generated Content Can Plant Fake Memories, Researchers Say
People’s trust in AI is taking a dangerous new turn. Researchers are saying that AI-generated photos and summaries are successfully distorting people’s own memories. MIT scientist Pattie Maes spoke to the Washington Post about her team’s research. Participants viewed a series of photographs, and after a break, some of the participants were shown the exact same photographs while others were shown versions altered by AI. When facing a memory test later, the
Fed in a prompt—done? How I upgraded the role-based pipeline / Habr

### Planner Q&A - [2026-03-27 13:40 MSK] Q1 (to=Architect, blocker): `0140` now fixes two distinct first-wave inputs — `Title / topic` and conditional `Lesson from the AUC section` — but … only one free-text carrier … - [2026-03-27 13:45 MSK] (Architect, id=Q1, status=closed) CLOSED: … `Title / topic`maps to `Booking.air_title`; conditional `Lesson from the AUC section` maps to `Booking.air_auc_lesson_label` … ### Coder Q&A - [2026-03-27 14:07 MSK] NO QUES
Crafty Hands with Chizhik, Issue No. 3: How We Turned a Children’s Craft into a Hardcore Board Game / Habr

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We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher

Credit: ThisIsEngineering from Pexels A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell if or when artificial intelligence has made the leap—and a valid test for doing so will remain out of reach for the foreseeable future. As artificial consciousness shifts from the realm of sci-fi to become a pressing ethical issue, Dr. Tom McClelland says the only "justifiable stance" is agnostic
They graduated from Stanford: Due to AI, they can't find a job

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden ticket. Artificial intelligence has devalued it to bronze, recent graduates say. The elite students are shocked by the lack of job offers as they finish studies at what is often ranked as the top university in America. When they were freshmen, ChatGPT hadn't yet been released upon the world. Today, AI can code better than most humans. Top tech companies just don't
New sensor measures strain, strain rate and temperature with single material layer

Design and microstructural characteristics of the flexible single-channel strain/strain rate-temperature multimodal sensor. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-65815-8 Researchers from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an innovative flexible sensor that can simultaneously detect strain, strain rate, and temperature using a single active material layer, representing a significan
New tools turn grain crops into living biosensors

Setaria viridis, a grass species similar to corn and sorghum, engineered to produce a natural purple pigment, anthocyanin, for use as a visual reporter on the presence of chemicals in the environment. Wild-type Setaria viridis is on the left (green plants) and the engineered plants are on the right (purple plants). Credit: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center A collaborative team of researchers from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the University
Unearthing experimental materials data buried in scientific papers using LLMs

Researchers and artificial intelligence work together to collect experimental materials science data from papers worldwide and build a database. Credit: Kenji Tashiro. Instagram: ripplemarkmaker. CC-BY-4.0 Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional materials. Materials scientists are therefore working to develop and improve new materials, but predicting material properties is no sim
AI tool can take a cattle's temperature with only a photo

A thermal image of a calf that was used to determine the animal's temperature. Credit: AICV Lab What if you could look into a cow's face and know whether it had a fever? A new tool from the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision Lab at the University of Arkansas uses artificial intelligence and thermal cameras to estimate the body temperature of cattle. The system, called CattleFever, is the first step toward automated tools that ranchers could use to
Radio waves enable energy-efficient AI on edge devices without heavy hardware

Testing in Chen’s lab at Duke shows an AI model that can identify thousands of images transmitted wirelessly with high accuracy in the blink of an eye. Credit: Duke University As drones survey forests, robots navigate warehouses and sensors monitor city streets, more of the world's decision-making is occurring autonomously on the edge—on the small devices that gather information at the ends of much larger networks. But making that shift to edge computing i
AI race is even making paint manufacturers richer - Olhar Digital

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more The race to build data centers capable of powering artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a less obvious market: industrial paints and coatings. As companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon expand their computing infrastructure, manufacturers of protective materials are seeing demand grow—even though the product is almost always the same color: gray.PPG, a Pittsburgh-based company (USA), expects its
ChatGPT may have advised a woman to stop taking her medication before her death

All about ChatGPT see more All about OpenAI see more The parents of a 31-year-old woman are suing OpenAI in the United States, alleging that ChatGPT advised her to reduce her epilepsy medication and hide the change from her doctors before her death. The lawsuit claims that the chatbot provided instructions to lower the medication dosage, downplayed concerning symptoms, and encouraged the patient not to follow healthcare professionals' recommendations.Bowen
AI race: OpenAI says it is ready to ease off, but refuses to be the only one

Published on September 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM Comment 3 𝕏 Print © TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 As warnings about the potential risks of artificial intelligence multiply, OpenAI says it is ready to pull back. Sam Altman nevertheless wants his company not to be the only one to slow down its activities. The CEO is calling on all AI laboratories to agree to a moratorium. In recent weeks, several voices have called for a slowdown in AI development. In an open letter, Ope
OpenAI was hacked using the AI of its archrival

Published on September 18, 2026 at 16:01 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net A community forum, an aging image library, and an AI that had just woken up: it didn’t take more than that to breach OpenAI’s internal systems. The intruders, fortunately, were paid to raise the alarm. AI laboratories hold industrial secrets worth billions, and every security team in the industry has this target at its back.A small team of researchers, brought together under the banner of t
Google can now generate a fake AI podcast of your search results - Ars Technica

This feature is not currently rolling out widely—it’s available in search labs, which means you have to manually enable it. Anyone can opt in to the new Audio Overview search experience, though. If you join the test, you’ll quickly see the embedded player in Google search results. However, it’s not at the top with the usual block of AI-generated text. Instead, you’ll see it after the first few search results, below the “People also ask” knowledge graph sec
Google begins rolling out AI search in YouTube - Ars Technica
Google says the new AI search feature, which appears at the top of the results page, will include multiple videos, along with an AI summary of each. You can tap the video thumbnails to begin playing them right from the carousel. The summary is intended to extract the information most relevant to your search query, so you may not even have to watch the videos. The AI results carousel is only a test right now, and it’s limited to YouTube Premium subscribers.
NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court - Ars Technica
Last week, OpenAI raised objections in court, hoping to overturn a court order requiring the AI company to retain all ChatGPT logs “indefinitely,” including deleted and temporary chats. But Sidney Stein, the US district judge reviewing OpenAI’s request, immediately denied OpenAI’s objections. He was seemingly unmoved by the company’s claims that the order forced OpenAI to abandon “long-standing privacy norms” and weaken privacy protections that users expec
Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t. - Ars Technica
After Cloudflare started testing new features that would allow websites to block AI crawlers or require payment for scraping, the tech company immediately faced questions over the logistics of the plan. In particular, website owners and SEO experts wanted to know how Cloudflare planned to block Google’s bot from scraping sites to fuel AI overviews without risking blocking the same bot from crawling for valuable search engine placements. Last week, a travel