So far, browsing the feed feels like a confirmation of AI skeptics’ biggest criticisms.
DoorDash has agreed to buy the UK-based food delivery service in a deal worth around $3.9 billion. It adds nine new countries to DoorDash’s global reach, which will now stand at over 40 countries and 50 million monthly active users.
[businesswire.com]
LG Display’s 100ppi automotive stretchable display can “turn every interior space into a display,” including the center fascia area where it can expand by up to 50 percent to transform into raised buttons and dials. “When the screen is touched, the previously flat display flexibly expands and protrudes touch buttons, making it easy to operate even while driving,” says the company. It doesn’t say how much it’ll cost to repair.
Stephan Tetrault, the owner of Canada-based toymaker and distributor Imports Dragon, has acquired GameStop Canada and will relaunch it as “EB Games Canada,” according to a press release.
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen publicly called for interested buyers on X in February.
[prnewswire.com]
Uber and China’s WeRide are currently operating a small fleet of autonomous cars in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, and plan on launching soon in Dubai. Now they expect to deploy robotaxi service to 15 additional cities, some of which will be in Europe, over the next five years.
For anyone who caught some of our stories about Trump’s first 100 days in office this week, I went on Decoder to talk a little more about the issues that six of our writers explored. For anyone who didn’t, I make the case for why you should check them out!
Miles Klee at Rolling Stone reported out a widely circulated Reddit post on “ChatGPT-induced psychosis”:
Sycophancy itself has been a problem in AI for “a long time,” says Nate Sharadin, a fellow at the Center for AI Safety ... What’s likely happening with those experiencing ecstatic visions through ChatGPT and other models, he speculates, “is that people with existing tendencies toward experiencing various psychological issues,” including what might be recognized as grandiose delusions in clinical sense, “now have an always-on, human-level conversational partner with whom to co-experience their delusions.”
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0Hidden in an Xbox blog post today is the news that not only are remasters of the first two Ecco the Dolphin games in the works, but a brand-new entry is also in development. There aren’t any real details yet, but series creator Ed Annunziata says that after the remasters are done, “we will make a new, third game with contemporary play and GPU sensibilities.”
The automaker’s software chief Doug Field explains why the company cancelled its ‘FNV4’ project, and why a domain-style system may work better for Ford’s gas and hybrid vehicles.
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The office collaboration / messaging app is still functional, but a notice on Slack’s website confirms there’s an issue affecting the Later tab for saved items in its desktop and web app as of about 1PM ET.
We’re looking into an issue impacting the Later tab on the desktop app and browser. Users may be having trouble switching from the In Progress tab to the Archived or Completed tab. Items may also be missing from the Archived or Completed tabs.
We’re investigating and will let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.
The BBC has some details on the “massive luck” that was part of the making of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The game’s lead writer, for example, originally got involved in the project after sending an audition for a voice role in response to a Reddit post from the game’s director.
How about 108 billion instead? Following up the previous 10 gigapixel scan of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring painting is a new version that ups the resolution significantly, while also letting you explore the art in 3D. It’s so big there’s even a minimap to help you navigate.
Microsoft’s Skype mobile app points toward Microsoft Teams, as spotted by my colleague Tom Warren. The company shut down Skype for good today.
0Long Story Short, the new animated series from BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg has a premiere date: it’ll be streaming on Netflix on August 22nd. The series follows the story of a single family, but jumps around in time, letting you “follow the Schwooper siblings from childhood to adulthood and back again.” You can get a first glimpse at it in these images.
Here’s the first, very brief, teaser for Highest 2 Lowest, which has Denzel Washington and Spike Lee working together once again. The thriller is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, only set in New York in the present, and it also stars Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky. It hits theaters on August 22nd before streaming on Apple TV Plus on September 5th.
During an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, President Donald Trump said he’d “be willing” to extend TikTok’s June 19th deadline if its China-based parent company, ByteDance, doesn’t reach a deal to divest the app’s US business in time. China backed out of a potential deal last month after Trump imposed up to 145 percent tariffs on goods imported from the country.
[bloomberg.com]
Last week, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby partially blamed a “walkout” by air traffic controllers, along with equipment failures and understaffing, for massive delays and the cancellation of 35 daily round-trip flights.
On Monday, the New York Times reports a National Air Traffic Controllers Association statement saying the April 28th incident wasn’t a walkout. After radar and comms dropped out for about 90 seconds, according to Bloomberg, leaving them shaken and concerned about possible accidents. “...controllers took absences under a law that allows federal workers who are physically injured or experience a traumatic event on the job to leave work.”
Update: Added NATCA statement and newer reports.
