Google DeepMind announces Gemini 4 Carbon as its next frontier AI model

China’s Ministry of Commerce issued Announcement No. 48, described as the country’s first frontier AI export controls. The move could affect global AI technology supply chains and trade, marking a significant shift in China’s export-control policy.

U.S. workers took home the smallest share of national income since at least 1947, according to the report. The decline shows economic gains increasingly flowing to capital rather than labor, with implications for inequality, wages, and household spending.

At a Tokyo event, director Ulrike Ottinger said her Isabelle Huppert vampire film “The Blood Countess” was cut against her wishes. The remarks highlight a dispute over creative control and final cut in filmmaking.

Fan-maintained wikis for video games are increasingly being flooded with AI-written content containing factual errors, according to reporting flagged on Hacker News. The inaccurate pages are muddying a key reference source that players rely on for guides, lore, and patch details. The trend raises concerns about how AI-generated text degrades shared community knowledge as it spreads across hobbyist sites.

Shahrbanoo Sadat and Jelena Maksimović criticized discrimination in film funding during a talk at the Tokyo International Film Festival. They highlighted barriers that filmmakers face in accessing financing and how these inequities affect whose stories reach the screen.