'The tech bro fight club is real!' The titans of AI get the Succession treatment in a wild new TV show The Audacity is a fearless satire taking on Silicon Valley's'egomaniac weirdos'. S howrunner Jonathan Glatzer wanted the tagline of his latest TV creation to be: "We're so fucked." "Sadly it got rejected by the network. Hey, maybe I can use it for season two!" The show in question is The Audacity, his darkly comic drama about AI tech titans. Instead, it went with the more PG tagline "Move fast and break people" - a twist on "Move fast and break things", the Facebook motto coined by Mark Zuckerberg. The Audacity promises to do for tech bros what Succession did for legacy media. Considering Glatzer is a former writer on Succession, that is no empty threat.

Once upon a time the prize was founded by tech entrepreneurs. Once upon a time the prize was founded by tech entrepreneurs. A prize for AI-written books has launched this week. The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA invites submissions of manuscripts co-written with AI tools, with the winner promised publication. Entrants are asked to submit an unpublished manuscript of between 10,000 and 50,000 words, along with information about which AI model and prompt were used to generate the text.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 combines large-scale battles with a story centred on the people caught up in the conflict. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 combines large-scale battles with a story centred on the people caught up in the conflict. 'The audience gets to be in on it': How narrative-led gameplay is Call of Duty's greatest weapon Don't get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? I n these strange, subdued weeks before the much-anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI, there have still been some welcome surprises. Onimusha: Way of the Sword revived a half-forgotten samurai action series with much aplomb, while Silent Hill: Townfall transported all of the franchise's bloody, dread-filled psychological horror to the picturesque Scottish coast.

Enthusiasts like Grimes and A$AP Rocky may embrace AI-generated content, but they won't produce it themselves Streaming services, notable musicians and fans are confronting the growing presence of AI-generated music and drawing lines in the sand. On Tuesday, Spotify announced it had removed about 50m songs considered AI slop from its recommendations to users over the past year. "Our editors hold the same standard and don't program content identified as slop or spam," a statement from the company read. Spotify requires "AI persona" badges on artist profiles that don't represent a real human being, but it does not require individual songs generated by AI to be labeled. Other streaming services have taken more stringent stances.

We earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Hollywood AI-listers: is the technology ready to rival flesh-and-blood film stars? Director Coerte Voorhees knows exactly what he is doing - this is an AI-created version of the late actor, approved by his family but bringing with it a heap of controversy about whether such technology could make flesh-and-blood thespians redundant. Not just yet, judging by the extended glimpse of the film released earlier this year: it looks like a thirtysomething Kilmer, if a robot version had been sent back to the 1920s American wilderness by Skynet and, as well as being strangely rigid, had forgotten to download his voice, let alone his signature air of spacey shrewdness. Kilmer's estate signed off on it, citing his enthusiasm for new technology that expands storytelling, but surely he would have been dismayed by this freaky doppelganger. Many reacted with revulsion to last year's unveiling of AI "starlet" Tilly Norwood .

Classic video game arcades are finding new audiences. Classic video game arcades are finding new audiences. After years of sprawling'forever' games, players are rediscovering the pleasures of more focused experiences. Could a new wave of independent arcades bring back the social side of gaming? Don't get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox?

The kingdom of Hyrule has been prettified, the soundtrack is newly orchestrated and our hero feels strikingly different under the thumbs we play a hands-on demo of Nintendo's Switch 2 remake of a 1998 game-changer W hen beloved art is revisited and revised, a familiar cry is often heard: "You're ruining my childhood!" But with Nintendo's Switch 2 remake of Ocarina of Time, there are also livelihoods at risk: specifically, the man running the shooting gallery in Castle Town. But in 2026 we have more responsive frame rates and a motion-controlled slingshot that allows precision adjustments. Even in Hyrule, the death of the high street seems inevitable. Bad news for him but great news for Link, a child of the forest who, as in 1998, steps into a vast fantasy kingdom to vanquish a great evil, but now does so with a number of improvements.

The origin story of Sam Altman's company is reimagined as a campy comedy starring Andrew Garfield O n the day that Luca Guadagnino's film about Sam Altman and OpenAI premiered, Vanity Fair released a cover story on Altman. Alongside glossy portraits from Annie Leibovitz, the world's pre-eminent portrait photographer, the story describes him as the Oppenheimer of his day, evoking the image of a man leading humanity towards its own inevitable demise at the hands of sentient robots. Altman doesn't seem to be grappling with much existential angst about the whole thing though: in an interview also released this week, he said that we should be prepared to accept "bad things" in return for the benefits of AI. Club Kid review - Jordan Firstman's heartfelt comedy is irresistible How much worse can things get? AI agents have already gone rogue, hacking into government systems and "bruteforcing" UN databases.

An interrogater tries to get to the bottom of a surreal scandal while green screen actors meddle with the story in Jess and Morgs' inventive production W hat audiences remember most from a political interview, a voiceover tells the prime minister (Kennedy Muntanga) as he prepares to face his TV interrogator (Rebecca Bassett-Graham, coiffed à la Emily Maitlis), is less the words themselves than the tone of voice and the tenor of the body. Muntanga is on point, then: his arms sweep, his fingers beetle and his hands spread out, as if he were wordlessly fielding fly-by questions and offering open statements. This setup lands right in the zone for creative duo Jess and Morgs (Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple), whose turf is a congenial mix of choreography, film and theatre. In Deepfake, along with writer Jeff James, they explore the various unravellings of an encounter in which the interviewer tries to find the truth behind a surreal - but maybe real? - story in which the PM was seen variously spattered with yellow paint, with his flies undone, and partaking in a ritual involving a deer's head. The content of these scenarios perhaps matters less than the ingenious manner of their staging (props to the design team too), which deploys green screen, live relay and other film and stage effects to storify the interview with simulated settings, duplicates of the figure of the PM, selective perspectives and closeups of the central encounter.

Seth Meyers on Florida's dengue fever outbreak: 'Man, RFK Jr has only had the job two years and Florida is already turning into an episode of House.' Seth Meyers on Florida's dengue fever outbreak: 'Man, RFK Jr has only had the job two years and Florida is already turning into an episode of House.' Seth Meyers on Trump canceling $1bn in federal funds: 'Is he adding a waterslide to the reflecting pool?' Late-night hosts weighed in on Trump's relationship with tech leaders and the White House's new AI-powered site On Tuesday night, late-night hosts discussed a Maha summit in Washington DC, the White House's new AI -powered website and Donald Trump once again falling asleep on live TV. On NBC, Seth Meyers focused on the president's ill-phrased announcement of the US murder rate declining. "We have the best, uh, murder," Trump said. "What are you talking about, 'We have the best murder'?" On Monday, Trump also took issue with the claim by the US ambassador to China, David Perdue, claim that he offered to sell weapons to China, saying: "I think he was probably talking about Taiwan."