Adding Google Shorts to your homescreen is part of Google's wider mission to keep you inside its ecosystem and watching its ads. At the moment, the homescreen recommendations are for movies and shows, often sending you other services; by adding YouTube Shorts to the mix, you might potentially watch lots of videos from Google's own services, each with ads. Vertical video isn't the only addition coming to Google TV. As of today, if you're a US owner of a TCL TV with Gemini (such as the TCL QM8K) you can access more generative AI tools in the form of the Nano Banana and Veo apps, for generating i
Google TV will start pushing vertical-video YouTube Shorts right on your homescreen — as if we aren't already fatigued enough with ad-heavy smart TV platforms, now we've got more clutter we didn't ask for…They are now pushing for data sovereignty, local talent, and better terms from foreign providers, the experts said. “Africa’s push for digital sovereignty cannot mean total independence from global AI supply…
Crimson Desert dev Pearl Abyss has released a groveling apology after generative AI assets were discovered in the enormous PS5 open world game. In a statement posted to X (or Twitter ) moments…
…She didn't deserve to have an AI-generated image slapped across her face because, as Nakanishi puts it, her design is already pretty flawless to begin with. 4.0 /5 Resident…
The ongoing AI boom that is fueling a chip crisis may bring Sony to push the PlayStation 6 release to 2028 or even 2029, according to a new report
This is something that has bothered me for quite a while, and I don't see a lot of people talk about it: Agents, in most cases, impersonate the human operator, by design, with no way to enforce, disclose, or control it. …
Sharing a small Mac app I built around OpenAI’s gpt-realtime-2 model. You call up a voice coding agent and talk to it like you’d talk to a freelancer ("make the hero tighter, put a product image on the right, that one's …
Hi HN, I'm James. Over the last few months I built a Warhammer 40K 10th-edition vertical slice as an experiment in how far GenAI tools can take a solo dev on a non-trivial 2D game.For sprite generation, whilst creative e…
Throughout my career I've worked on many different teams that often spanned many different projects and repos. Sometimes the tech stack was similar but naturally the tooling and development process grew in different dire…
There’s a lot of hype (and hate!) right now around "Vibe Coding". And rightly so. The idea that you can build out software entirely by kicking back and commanding AI agents to do the typing for you is an incredibly excit…
OpenAI's adult mode reportedly won't generate pornographic audio, images or video The company's own council on wellbeing and AI appears to be against the feature. By Igor Bonifacic March…
PC gaming in 2026 is increasingly becoming a matter of AI upscaling and frame generation. Assuming you're comfortable with that, good on you. You're going to have a great time…
A new PlayStation patent filed in 2023 but made public this month reveals a new AI assisted technology that would generate highlight reels based on your gameplay. As spotted by MP1st , the…
…a general manager at CoreAI who'll be in charge of a team of engineers tasked with simplifying development. Those hires and Sharma's decision to retire Copilot suggests that AI might…
News PC Hardware May 5, 2026 by Nick Farrell Google eyes Intel packaging for TPU push Google may tap Intel for its next-generation TPU chips, but packaging yields could decide whether…
…Spotify has already faced significant backlash for pushing AI-generated music, and people generally don't view AI-generated content favorably . Companies are now betting that getting emerging artists to normalize AI…
