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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 appears in Saros with a lovely Easter egg

Saros features a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Easter egg, drawing a connection between two popular PS5 games.

Doctors Confirm Rudy Giuliani In Liquid But Stable Condition

WEST PALM BEACH, FL—Emerging from the procedure after hours of touch-and-go treatment, doctors attending to Rudy Giuliani said Monday that the former New York City mayor was now in liquid but stable condition. “We’re relieved to report that, aside from some minor ripples and dribbling, the mayor is currently in a safe fluid state,” said […]

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A Star Wars life-sim is long overdue

Star Wars is the perfect choice for a life-sim game or management simulator, and now that Lucasfilm has the license back, maybe we'll finally get one

Anthropic Executive, One Year Ago: Fully AI Employees Are a Year Away

Sam Sabin, writing for Axios one year ago:

Anthropic expects AI-powered virtual employees to begin roaming corporate networks in the next year, the company’s top security leader told Axios in an interview this week. [...] Virtual employees could be the next AI innovation hotbed, Jason Clinton, the company’s chief information security officer, told Axios.

Agents typically focus on a specific, programmable task. In security, that’s meant having autonomous agents respond to phishing alerts and other threat indicators. Virtual employees would take that automation a step further: These AI identities would have their own “memories,” their own roles in the company and even their own corporate accounts and passwords.

Unlike Anthropic’s ambitious prediction regarding the vertiginous rise in AI code generation, this one, I think we can say, has fallen flat on its face. This isn’t how companies are using AI — or at least they shouldn’t. But contra Axios’s year-ago headline (“Exclusive: Anthropic Warns Fully AI Employees Are a Year Away”), this wasn’t a warning. It was an advertisement — and exactly the sort of wink-wink-nudge-nudge software-brain “warning” that has tanked public sentiment regarding AI. It wasn’t an indication that Anthropic actually believed there would exist “fully AI employees” today, but rather that they wanted to build enthusiasm amongst the sort of ghoulish “let them eat cake” executives who really wish that they could “hire” fully AI employees.

Lego announces Sega Genesis console set coming in June: First photos

The Lego Sega Genesis (aka Mega Drive) is now available for pre-order and ships on June 1, 2026, Lego and Sega announced.