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Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI
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Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI

When the PlayStation 5 launched almost five and a half years ago, it was listed at £449 in the UK. If you were to buy one at the recommended retail price today, it would be £569.99, or £789.99 for the updated Pro model. Sony has just raised the price of its console by another £90, the latest in a series of hikes. This is unprecedented: consoles have always decreased in price over time (until they become retro collectibles – the other day, I saw someone asking £200 for a SNES on Vinted). So, what’s going on? Unfo…

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Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future review – some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing
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Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future review – some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing

There is a fun game you can play while watching Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future, the two-part documentary presented by the artist on the subject of artificial intelligence, its uses and its possible ramifications. Gather a group of friends, press play, and see which of you loses your mind first. Will it be during the opening interview with Andrea, who recently married Edward, the AI companion she created to be “the man of my dreams”. She – or her idealised online avatar – wore “a beautiful matt satin gown” and…

Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track
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Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track

At two minutes 45 seconds it’s about the same length as With a Little Help From My Friends. But Paul McCartney’s first new recording in five years lacks the sing-along tune and jaunty guitar chops because there’s barely anything there. The former Beatle, arguably Britain’s greatest living songwriter, is releasing a track of an almost completely silent recording studio as part of a music industry protest against copyright theft by artificial intelligence companies. In place of catchy melodies and evocative lyrics…

Why are respected film-makers suddenly embracing AI?
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Why are respected film-makers suddenly embracing AI?

In Steven Soderbergh’s beguiling new movie The Christophers, a reclusive artist (Ian McKellen) tangles with the quiet art forger (Michaela Coel) who his greedy children have hired to secretly finish further entries in a well-known painting series. The movie is smart and provocative about the nature of artistry and authorship, exploring what it means to create – and to stop creating. It’s especially fascinating coming from Soderbergh, who has made movies with workhorse dependability (The Christophers is his third…

Into the spider’s lair: how an Australian film-maker made an impossible documentary with AI
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Into the spider’s lair: how an Australian film-maker made an impossible documentary with AI

Scene: a dimly lit underground burrow. A giant Amazonian tarantula and a tiny dotted humming frog share the space, an unlikely duo captured in extraordinary detail. Except, they haven’t been. Guardians of the Burrow, a short “wildlife documentary” by the Australian digital content designer Jodie Heenan, is entirely AI generated. At the weekend it won a prize in the Omni international AI film festival, adjudicated by a panel led by The Crow and Dark City director – and AI advocate – Alex Proyas. The documentary d…

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Integrating AI and cloud-edge technologies for music creation in educational and performance domains

This paper provides a systematic exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for music generation within a cloud-edge synergy architecture (i.e. a coordinated cloud–edge computing paradigm where the cloud handles compute-intensive training and high-fidelity generation, while the edge supports latency-sensitive and privacy-critical inference and interaction), focusing on its deep integration and practical applications across educational and performance ecosystems. It begins by reviewing the evolution of key techn…

Integrating AI and cloud-edge technologies for music creation in educational and performance domains
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Generative AI and Media Content Creation: Investigating the Factors Shaping User Acceptance in the Arab Gulf States

This article aims to investigate the factors that affect behavioural intention (BI) and user behaviour (UB) among Arabian users of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications in the context of media content creation. The study’s theoretical framework is grounded in the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT2). A sample of 496 users was analysed using the partial least squares structural equation modelling technique (PLS-SEM). The results revealed that BI is significantly influenced…

Generative AI and Media Content Creation: Investigating the Factors Shaping User Acceptance in the Arab Gulf States
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Prompting AI Art: An Investigation into the Creative Skill of Prompt Engineering

We are witnessing a novel era of creativity where anyone can create digital content via prompt-based learning (known as prompt engineering). This article investigates prompt engineering as a novel creative skill for creating AI art with text-to-image generation. In three consecutive studies, we explore whether crowdsourced participants can (1) discern prompt quality, (2) write prompts, and (3) refine prompts. We find that participants could evaluate prompt quality and crafted descriptive prompts, but they lacked…

Prompting AI Art: An Investigation into the Creative Skill of Prompt Engineering
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Google AI Mode adds more Connected Apps, including YouTube Music

Google’s AI-powered Search experience now supports more third-party Connected Apps in AI Mode, including YouTube Music, Canva, and Instacart. This allows users to complete everyday tasks without leaving the AI interface. The feature, introduced in 2025, can now interact with third-party services and help with tasks like creating playlists, designing graphics, and preparing shopping lists.

Google AI Mode adds more Connected Apps, including YouTube Music
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Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review

Robert Laidlow is as at home in the realms of science and technology as he is in the world of classical music. As this NMC debut album demonstrates, his intricate, wildly imaginative work is eminently approachable, even if the core concepts are highly complex. Warp, a terse, 12-minute piano concerto, proposes a musical solution to Einstein’s field equations as the intrepid Joseph Havlat boldly goes where no pianist has gone before amid the distorting fabric of orchestral space-time. Strident orchestral lines spi…

Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review