After that whole tariff tango, Nintendo is readying its North American pre-order system for the Switch 2. The original Switch 2 price will remain the same, 450, as will the original 500 for the Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle. However, some Switch 2 accessories will receive price adjustments due to "market conditions." There are some fine-print details attached to pre-ordering directly from Nintendo. You must be 18 years or older, sign in with your Nintendo account and register your interest in pre-ordering. Then, you'll get an invitation email when it's time to play your pre-order, and the invitation will be valid for 72 hours.

The Academy said its new language around eligibility for films made using generative AI tools was recommended by its Science and Technology Council. Under further rule changes announced on Monday, Academy members must now watch all nominated films in each category in order to be able to take part in the final round of voting, which decides upon winners. The use of AI in film became a hot topic after Adrian Brody took home the award for Best Actor for his role in The Brutalist at this year's Oscars ceremony in March. The movie used generative AI to improve the actor's accent when he spoke Hungarian. It then emerged similar voice-cloning technology was used to enhance singing voices in the Oscar-winning musical Emilia Perez.

OpenAI says its latest models, o3 and o4-mini, are its most powerful yet. However, research shows the models also hallucinate more -- at least twice as much as earlier models. Also: How to use ChatGPT: A beginner's guide to the most popular AI chatbot In the system card, a report that accompanies each new AI model, and published with the release last week, OpenAI reported that o4-mini is less accurate and hallucinates more than both o1 and o3. Using PersonQA, an internal test based on publicly available information, the company found o4-mini hallucinated in 48% of responses, which is three times o1's rate. While o4-mini is smaller, cheaper, and faster than o3, and, therefore, wasn't expected to outperform it, o3 still hallucinated in 33% of responses, or twice the rate of o1.

Dear Prudence is Slate's advice column. I was browsing a men-seeking-men dating app when I came across the profile of my neighbor, "Gary." He described himself as "single and looking for fun." I happen to know that Gary is married with two kids under 3 years old. The thing is, I don't know his wife "Bethany" that well; we've only ever waved to one another in the neighborhood and briefly engaged in small talk when we run into each other.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Americans are mad as hell about high food prices. They hate paying more at the supermarket even more than they hate paying more at the pump. Food inflation was arguably their main reason for President Donald Trump's win, and Trump's failure to reverse it (while imposing tariffs that accelerate it) is arguably the main reason for his sinking approval ratings. Cost-conscious consumers have been clipping more coupons, dining out less, buying more generic brands, and generally changing their grocery shopping habits to save money.

Have you ever stared in a mirror for a few hours? Try it: Watch as your nose somehow shifts placement on your face, how your eyebrows lose symmetry, how quickly you fail to recognize yourself. Facial dysmorphia would come to anyone tasked with considering their own reflection for too long. It's a similar experience when you promote a book. For the past few weeks, I've been touring Canada and the U.S. promoting my latest book, Sucker Punch.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday to build out domestic artificial intelligence infrastructure that could fuel a robotics revolution, aligning with the government's goal to boost public- and private-sector funding in AI and semiconductors. Huang's exchange with the LDP's digital committee came a day after he met with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and lobbied him to generate more power to fuel AI. "You must build it yourself because it's your intelligence," said Huang, who has run the U.S. semiconductor giant since 1993 and delivered the world's first DGX-1 server to OpenAI in 2016.

Life is about to change on the remote island nation of Tuvalu. To great fanfare, Tuvalu – an entirely cash-based society – has unveiled its first ever ATM, marking its move towards financial modernisation. But while the 10,000 people living in that country may be celebrating no longer having to queue at the bank, I fear their happiness will be short-lived. The world's first ATM was introduced in Britain in 1967, but for me the tyranny of machines that promise convenience but erode human contact really began about 20 years ago, in the form of self-checkouts in our local Sainsbury's. Having watched the Terminator movie franchise during my formative years, I railed prophetically against them, aware that it was just a small slippery slope from "unexpected item in the bagging area" to the extinction of the human race.

Sumitomo and SBI Holdings will each acquire a 20% stake in a unit of Vietnam's software and telecommunications conglomerate FPT to foster artificial intelligence adoption in Japan, according to a statement. Sumitomo and SBI will invest in FPT Smart Cloud Japan, which oversees FPT's Japan AI data center, according to a statement from the Vietnamese technology firm. FPT will remain the unit's major stakeholder, it said. SBI Holdings late last year signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire as much as a 35% stake in FPT's Japan cloud unit. FPT is setting up a Japan AI data center, with an initial investment of 200 million.

Wayve Technologies, a U.K.-based artificial intelligence startup backed by SoftBank, has tapped Japan as the next location in its global expansion. On Tuesday, it announced the opening of a test center in Yokohama, making Japan its fourth market after the U.K., U.S. and Germany as it looks to work with major carmakers in developing AI-driven autonomous driving technology. "The platform we provide can give a safer and more reliable driving performance than any single manufacturer can build on their own," Chief Executive Officer Alex Kendall said during an interview.