Every video game is a miracle. Long hours, extraordinary technical and artistic requirements and cross-disciplinary collaboration: the very act of making games is difficult, and leaves room for catastrophic errors. It's a wonder any of them make it to release at all. Fulcrum Defender, the new Playdate exclusive from Jay Ma, the co-founder of indie darling Subset Games, is one such miraculous game. Ma began work on Fulcrum Defender following a life-changing Covid infection that has greatly diminished her quality of life and ability to do the thing she loves.

There's a new AI in town threatening to take over your territory. The latest version of Perplexity's iPhone app introduces a new voice assistant designed to perform a variety of tasks. Many of these tasks are typically reserved for Siri, as they are not only interactive but can also access key information on your phone. Just like Siri, you can ask Perplexity's voice assistant to set a reminder, schedule a calendar event, play a song from Apple Music, open a podcast, and get directions via Apple Maps. Simply tell it to perform any of these tasks, and Perplexity will interact with the appropriate app or feature and display the results.

'The Big Weekend Show' co-hosts discuss the impact of new artificial intelligence apps on national security and jobs. FIRST ON FOX: A powerful House Committee is demanding information from DeepSeek on what U.S. data it used to train the AI model as members accuse the company of being in the pocket of the Chinese government. In announcing a new probe into DeepSeek, House Energy and Commerce committee members penned a letter expressing concern that companies like it "harvest Americans' personal and proprietary information and introduce new data security vulnerabilities into the U.S. economy." "DeepSeek admits to sending Americans' personal information to servers in China, where it is undoubtedly accessed by officials connected to the Chinese Communist Party," Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., and Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., said in a statement. "We are concerned that this close relationship with agents having close connections to our primary adversary jeopardizes our data and our national security."

One of the most important annual events in the field of artificial intelligence kicks off this week in Singapore: the International Conference on Learning Representations. As usual, chip giant Nvidia had a major presence at the conference, presenting over 70 research papers from its team. The papers cover topics ranging from generating music to creating 3D-realistic videos, robot training tasks, and the ability to generate multiple large language models at the push of a button. "People often think of Nvidia as a chip company that makes awesome chips, and of course, we're really proud of that," said Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia's head of applied deep learning research, in an interview with ZDNET. "But the story that I think matters the most is that in order for us to make those awesome chips, we have to do research like this, because this teaches us how to make all of those systems."

Microsoft has updated its Microsoft 365 Copilot AI assistant with several new features, The Verge reports. The redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot app now has access to OpenAI's impressive GPT-4o model, which was released last month, via Copilot Create. This means you can now generate cutting-edge images, videos, and other content. Another big feature update is Notebooks, which are project-based notebooks for organizing information like files, pages, and links, which can then be shared with Copilot. This gives Copilot a more focused collection of context to work with, which then informs its answers when you use Copilot for aid in a given project.

Uber is expanding its robotaxi ambitions with the help of Volkswagen. The two companies are teaming up to offer autonomous rides in ID. They plan to deploy thousands of the vehicles in multiple US markets over the next decade. Testing is slated to start later this year with human safety drivers at the wheel. All going well, Uber and VW aim to start running ID.Buzz robotaxi rides in Los Angeles in late 2026.

At the same time, hosted services like generative AI and tailored industry solutions can help companies quickly launch applications and grow the business. To get the most out of these services, companies are turning to cloud optimization--the process of selecting and allocating cloud resources to reduce costs while maximizing performance. But despite all the interest in the cloud, many workloads remain stranded on-premises, and many more are not optimized for efficiency and growth, greatly limiting the forward momentum. Companies are missing out on a virtuous cycle of mutually reinforcing results that comes from even more efficient use of the cloud. Organizations can enhance security, make critical workloads more resilient, protect the customer experience, boost revenues, and generate cost savings.

For decades, the phrase "video game movie" was synonymous with trash, thanks to critically loathed adaptations of games like Street Fighter, Silent Hill, and (the unfairly underrated) Super Mario Bros. But over the past few years, Hollywood has seen audiences embrace a new animated Super Mario Bros. Movie, three Sonic the Hedgehog movies, a prestige drama series based on The Last of Us, and The Minecraft Movie, which has teens going wild, tossing popcorn, and shouting catchphrases in the theaters. With enthusiasm for video game adaptations at an all-time high, there should be no better moment for a movie version of Until Dawn to hit theaters. Even the critically panned Five Nights At Freddy's scored enough box office bank to merit a sequel. However, the filmmakers of Until Dawn face a unique challenge, as this game's whole jam was putting players in the shoes of teens being stalked by a merciless slasher.

AI models have progressed rapidly in recent years and can already outperform humans in various tasks, from generating basic code to dominating games like chess and Go. But despite massive computing power and billions of dollars in investor funding, these advanced models still can't hold up to humans when it comes to truly understanding how real people interact with one another in the world. In other words, AI still fundamentally struggles at "reading the room." That's the claim made in a new paper by researchers from Johns Hopkins University. In the study, researchers asked a group of human volunteers to watch three-second video clips and rate the various ways individuals in those videos were interacting with one another.

Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett discusses the Supreme Court case that will evaluate parents' rights to opt out of classes where LGBTQ books are being used in the curriculum on'The Story.' President Donald Trump signed multiple Executive Orders relating to education Wednesday afternoon, with several tied to the theme of returning meritocracy back to the education system. The orders, seven in total, included actions to integrate artificial intelligence into K-12 school curricula, reforms to school discipline and accreditation guidelines, requirements related to the disclosure of foreign funding to schools and enhancements to the country's workforce development programs. Trump's slew of education-focused orders also included another directive demanding an end to DEI ideology in schools, specifically the use of "disparate impact theory," on top of his previous executive order from January ordering an end to DEI-like programming and ideology in K-12 schools. An Executive Order setting up a White House initiative supporting the efficiency and effectiveness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities was also signed by the president on Wednesday. President Donald Trump holds an executive order relating to education in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Education Secretary Linda McMahon watch.