Electronic Arts has entered a multi year partnership with Stability AI to develop generative AI tools for game creation. The collaboration will support franchises such as The Sims, Battlefield and Madden NFL.
The company said the partnership centres on customised AI models that give developers more control over creative processes. Electronic Arts invested in Stability AI during its latest funding round in October.
Executives at Electronic Arts said concerns about job losses are understandable across the gaming industry. The company views AI as a way to enhance specific tasks and create new roles rather than replace staff.
Stability AI said similar technologies have historically increased demand for skilled workers. Electronic Arts added that active involvement in AI development helps the industry adapt rather than react to disruption.
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Global infrastructure specialist Roxtec has recorded unprecedented growth in data centre projects as demand accelerates for facilities capable of handling AI workloads and expanding cloud computing.
The company supplies sealing, fire-protection and modular transit systems, critical components that help keep data centres compliant with safety and performance standards.
Roxtec executives say the surge reflects the broader AI infrastructure boom, with organisations investing in new facilities and upgrades to house specialised servers, cooling systems and connectivity required for generative AI applications.
The company’s expanded order book and project pipeline are being attributed directly to heightened capacity planning from hyperscale providers, enterprise cloud tenants and edge-compute deployments.
This growth underscores how AI-driven compute demand is reshaping physical infrastructure markets beyond chips and software, spanning construction, power, cooling, and safety components integrated into modern data centres.
Roxtec sees sustained demand ahead as AI use cases proliferate and organisations prioritise resilient, compliant compute environments.
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In a collaboration between Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Hartree Centre, a new AI-based staff scheduling system has been developed to address the complex task of roster planning in one of Europe’s busiest children’s hospitals.
Clinicians traditionally spend substantial time creating rotas manually, juggling annual leave, absences, working patterns and on-call rules.
The AI system automatically generates balanced on-call schedules by incorporating real-world constraints such as staff skills, availability and patterns, producing fairer and more predictable rotas.
The interface allows clinicians to review and adjust schedules while maintaining human oversight, freeing up time previously spent on spreadsheets and administrative tasks, and potentially improving staff wellbeing and operational efficiency.
Future phases aim to expand the tool toward full workforce management, with the potential for NHS-wide scaling.
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Global sportswear brand Puma has unveiled a new AI-enabled co-creation platform designed to engage customers more directly in product ideation, feedback and development.
The system uses AI to aggregate community input, analyse preferences and suggest design directions that reflect consumer sentiment, allowing Puma to tailor future products to what users actually want.
By turning static feedback loops into interactive, data-informed dialogues, the platform enhances brand-consumer engagement, unlocks deeper insights into style and function preferences, and enables Puma to respond quickly to trends.
The company sees this as a way to blend creativity with customer insight at scale, combining human design expertise with AI-driven analytics to strengthen loyalty and drive innovation.
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Generative AI is increasingly affecting creative industries, raising concerns related to authorship, labour, and human oversight. Companies are under growing pressure to clarify how AI is used in creative production.
Many firms present generative AI as a tool to improve efficiency rather than replace human creativity. This reflects a cautious approach that prioritises human control and risk management.
Take-Two Interactive has confirmed that it is running hundreds of AI pilots focused on cost and time efficiencies. However, the company stresses that AI is used for operational support, not creative generation.
According to CEO Strauss Zelnick, generative AI played no role in the development of Grand Theft Auto VI. Rockstar Games’ worlds are described as fully handcrafted by human developers.
These statements come amid investor uncertainty triggered by recent generative AI experiments in gaming. Alongside this, ongoing labour disputes at Rockstar Games highlight broader governance challenges beyond technology.
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Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveiled a new AI startup, Luffu, aimed at helping families monitor and organise health, safety and caregiving information across household members and caregivers.
The platform begins as a mobile app that uses background AI to aggregate data from devices (including Fitbit and Apple Health) and family-entered information like medications, symptoms, lab results and doctor visits.
Luffu’s AI learns everyday patterns, flags notable changes (such as abnormal vitals or sleep shifts), and provides proactive alerts and plain-language insights, easing the administrative and emotional burden of caregiving.
Users can log data by voice, text or photos, and even ask conversational health questions about family members’ well-being.
Currently in private beta with an open waitlist, Luffu is positioned as a family-centric health coordination hub rather than a medical diagnostic tool, with plans to expand into complementary hardware devices in the future.
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The Geneva Engage initiative, launched in 2016 by the Geneva Internet Platform under DiploFoundation with the support of the Republic and Canton of Geneva, continues to track how International Geneva connects with audiences worldwide. Through research and annual awards, it assesses how Geneva-based actors communicate on global policy issues ranging from development and human rights to health, the environment, and digital governance.
The 11th edition of the Geneva Engage Awards was held on 3 February 2026 at the World Meteorological Organization building, and it came at a moment of significant change in how people access information. Under the theme ‘Back to basics in the AI era’, the event explored how International Geneva can remain a trusted source as users increasingly rely on AI assistants rather than traditional searches, websites, and reports.
Each year, the Geneva Engage Awards recognise excellence in digital outreach across three main categories: international organisations, non-governmental organisations, and permanent representations. The evaluation focuses on how effectively these actors use digital tools to engage global audiences, build trust, and remain visible in an evolving information ecosystem.
The methodology combines quantitative analysis across three areas, social media outreach, web relevancy, and web accessibility. Performance is measured using engagement data from social media platforms, the visibility and relevance of web content in global search results, and accessibility standards that assess how usable and inclusive websites are for diverse audiences.
Together, this year’s results highlight how digital trust, accessibility, and relevance are becoming central to diplomacy in an AI-driven information landscape.
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Nvidia’s plans to export its H200 AI chips to China remain pending nearly two months after US President Donald Trump approved. A national security review is still underway before licences can be issued to Chinese customers.
Chinese companies have delayed new H200 orders while awaiting clarity on licence approvals and potential conditions, according to people familiar with the discussions. The uncertainty has slowed anticipated demand and affected production planning across Nvidia’s supply chain.
In January, the US Commerce Department eased H200 export restrictions to China but required licence applications to be reviewed by the departments of State, Defence, and Energy.
Commerce has completed its analysis, but inter-agency discussions continue, with the US State Department seeking additional safeguards.
The export framework, which also applies to AMD, introduces conditions related to shipment allocation, testing, and end-use reporting. Until the review process concludes, Nvidia and prospective Chinese buyers remain unable to proceed with confirmed transactions.
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Preparing to restrict social media access for children under 15s, Greece plans to use the Kids Wallet app as its enforcement tool amid rising European concern over youth safety.
The Ministry of Digital Governance intends to rely on the Kids Wallet application, introduced last year, as a mechanism for enforcing the measure instead of developing a new control framework.
Government planning is advanced, yet the precise timing of the announcement by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has not been finalised.
In addition to the legislative initiative in Greece, the European debate on children’s online safety is intensifying.
Spain recently revealed plans to prohibit social media access for those under sixteen and to create legislation that would hold platform executives personally accountable for hate speech.
Such moves illustrate how governments are seeking to shape the digital environment for younger users rather than leaving regulation solely in private hands.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a generative AI model to guide scientists through the complex process of materials synthesis, a significant bottleneck in materials discovery.
DiffSyn uses diffusion-based AI to suggest multiple synthesis routes for a material, factoring in temperature, reaction time, and precursor ratios. Unlike earlier tools tied to single recipes, DiffSyn reflects the laboratory reality in which multiple pathways can produce the same material.
The system achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on zeolites, a challenging material class used in catalysis and chemical processing. Using DiffSyn’s recommendations, the team synthesised a new zeolite with improved thermal stability, confirming the model’s practical value.
The researchers believe the approach could be extended beyond zeolites to other complex materials, eventually integrating with automated experiments to shorten the path from theoretical design to real-world application dramatically.
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