The ugly economics of consumer AI

After this week, you could argue that consumer AI is making a comeback. 

Meta’s personal AI assistant, Muse, and its plush-like mascot Jolly, has been a surprise hit. OpenAI’s Dots, released just yesterday, appears to be chasing the same cartoony personal assistant idea. And the up-and-coming Instinct assistant reached a $10 billion valuation on the strength of its agentic errand-running, focused on booking travel, making restaurant reservations, or cancelling subscriptions. 

Bill Gates says companies that replace human labor with robots should have to pay the same FICA taxes

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Bill Gates wants to tax robots that replace human jobs.

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Bill Gates has a plan to ensure that humans keep getting paid in an AI jobs apocalypse: Tax the robots.

'We Have Been Gradually Preparing': Capcom Already Has a Plan for When Its Resident Evil Remakes Catch Up With Newer Games

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Capcom has a plan for when its rollout of Resident Evil remakes eventually catches up with newer games in the series, and considers Resident Evil 7 as a "turning point."

To celebrate September 30, the day the cop inside of Leon Kennedy died, here's my most traumatic encounters in Resident Evil

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Today's basically a national holiday for Resident Evil fans. September 30 marks 28 years since the day the cop inside Leon S Kennedy died, the day he'll never forget; when Raccoon City was wiped out by Umbrella's classic mishandling of bioweapons in Resident Evil 2.

I have saved GTA 5 from death and also added tornadoes

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I'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier.

Microsoft's Deal for Hideo Kojima's Physint 'Substantially Below What Xbox Would Typically Spend to Develop a Premium Game'

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Microsoft’s high-profile deal for Hideo Kojima’s Physint is reportedly “substantially below what Xbox would typically spend to develop a premium game.”

How HBO’s Casey Bloys Wound Up With the Keys to Paramount-Warner Bros.’ Streaming Empire, and What’s to Come

In the end, Casey Bloys knew he was holding all the cards.

As the industry continued to speculate about whether the HBO boss or Paramount’s Cindy Holland would wind up with control of the two companies’ soon-to-be-merged streaming behemoth, in recent weeks the momentum seemed to be on Bloys’ side.

I tried Ina Garten's and Martha Stewart's easiest pasta recipes. Both delivered quick dinners, but there was a clear winner.

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I compared easy pasta recipes from Martha Stewart and Ina Garten.

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When I'm searching for a quick and easy dinner, I always turn to Ina Garten and Martha Stewart for inspiration. 

At 56, I bought a chateau in France. I never imagined I'd spend my midlife creating my dream home and business.

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Buying a property in France while in my 50s helped me find renovation and community in new ways.

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