Today's Hallucination HQMicrosoft Liked OpenAI — Just Not Enough to Actually Trust ItNewly surfaced 2018 emails from the Musk v. Altman legal saga reveal Microsoft executives were deeply sceptical of OpenAI, privately doubting its trajectory while simultaneously refusing to let it wander into Amazon's arms. It's the corporate equivalent of not wanting a puppy but absolutely refusing to let the neighbours have it. Microsoft's eventual $13 billion investment suggests the scepticism had a fairly short shelf life. Source: Wired
Sony Would Like AI to Make Games, If It's Not Too Much TroublePlayStation's parent company Sony has outlined its position on generative AI in game development: cautiously enthusiastic, which is the corporate equivalent of applauding with one hand. The earnings presentation detailed how AI might assist developers without replacing them — a message aimed squarely at an industry where large studios are broadly warming to AI tools and many indie developers would sooner retire than use them. Two camps, one increasingly expensive medium. Source: The Verge
When the Essay Sounds Like Everyone Else, the Algorithm Wrote ItA study examining tens of thousands of admissions essays at a selective American university found that AI-generated submissions rose sharply after tools like ChatGPT became widely available — and that low-income students were significantly more likely to use them. This is less a story about cheating and more about access: expensive college counsellors have been ghost-writing these essays for wealthy applicants for decades. AI simply made the service free, which has apparently caused considerable alarm among people who preferred the previous arrangement. Source: Inside Higher Ed
The Monk Has Been Rebooted, Not ReincarnatedA humanoid robot named Gabi was ordained as a Buddhist monk at Seoul's Jogyesa Temple last week, taking vows of devotion before an enthusiastic crowd. The temple views Gabi as a way to make Buddhist teachings more accessible to younger generations, which is a genuinely thoughtful idea wrapped in the most surreal press release of the year. Gabi cannot, as yet, achieve enlightenment — though in fairness, neither can most humans, and they've had considerably longer to try. Source: Fox News
AMD Has Quietly Picked Intel's PocketFor the first time, AMD's data centre revenue surpassed Intel's in Q1 2026 — a milestone that would have seemed faintly absurd five years ago. The driver is agentic AI: systems that don't just respond to prompts but plan, act, and run continuously, creating sustained demand for server CPUs rather than the GPU-heavy workloads that defined the last AI wave. Intel remains a formidable company. It's just no longer the largest one in its own market, which is a genuinely uncomfortable sentence to write about a fifty-year-old institution. Source: Digitimes
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