Call of Duty is back, and it's got a battle on its hands There are some things you can always rely on, and a new Call of Duty game coming out each year is one of them. As one of the best-known names in video games, it's a series that needs little introduction. According to publisher Activision, it's sold an estimated 500 million copies, a movie adaptation is on the way, and despite having launched in 2003 it still reliably appears at - or near - the top of the annual bestseller charts. But this year the world's top military shooter might have a fight on its hands. Battlefield 6, which has been a huge hit for rival gaming giant Electronic Arts, has been drawing attention away from its veteran competitor.

All MAGA Wanted Was the Epstein Files. For years, MAGA influencers demanded the release of the Epstein files. Now that 20,000 documents have been released, many raising questions about Donald Trump, they're shrugging. MAGA could care less about the latest document dump on disgraced financier and convicted sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein . On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee released 20,000 documents from Epstein's estate, a number of which directly reference president Donald Trump.

Actor Morgan Freeman revealed to The Guardian on Monday that he has already taken legal action regarding unauthorized AI uses of his voice and likeness.

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No, That AI-Generated Country Song Isn't a No. 1 Hit Welcome back to In the Loop, new twice-weekly newsletter about AI. If you're reading this in your browser, why not subscribe to have the next one delivered straight to your inbox? This week, many headlines declared that an AI-generated song, "Walk My Walk" by Breaking Rust, had become the biggest country song in America. This is unequivocally not true. "Walk My Walk," a laughably generic country song about independence and defiance, had middling organic momentum on streaming and search before it topped Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart last week.

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Janta Power secures $5.5 million in seed funding to expand vertical solar towers that produce 50% more energy than traditional flat panels while using one-third the land.

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Windows Recall is one of the biggest AI features Microsoft has added to Windows 11. It's useful, but it comes with some privacy trade-offs. If you're a Windows 11 user, and specifically an owner of a Microsoft Copilot+ PC that has the necessary AI processing power, you can now take advantage of Windows Recall. It works like a memory for your computer, using screenshots to keep track of everything you're doing on Windows, and then letting you search back through it. The idea is to give you something like your web browsing history, but for the whole computer.

Is "Six Seven" Really Brain Rot? The viral phrase is easy to dismiss, but its ubiquity suggests something crucial about human nature. Recently, my wife was texting with a friend who lives in Singapore. The news from the other side of the world turned out to be that kids there had discovered "six seven." On Halloween, our friend reported, a boy with a handmade "six seven" jersey had earned applause as he made his way through her neighborhood--a place that's a long way from Sixty-seventh Street in Philadelphia, which the rapper Skrilla may have been referencing in his song "Doot Doot (6 7)," which came out last December.