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Roblox is coming to PlayStation 4 and 5 next month, significantly shortening the list of popular devices that can't run the widely used virtual world app.

Driving the news: Roblox officials announced the PlayStation plan today during the kickoff of this year's Roblox Developers Conference.

ChatGPT saw a big drop this summer in the amount of time users spent on the chatbot — likely because school was out and competition was up.

Why it matters: The original frenzy around OpenAI has cooled a bit.

When the Securities and Exchange Commission comes knocking, most companies clam up and hunker down, but that's not the way Coinbase Global is doing it.

Why it matters: The crypto exchange's unusually loud strategy could determine the fate of its legal battle with the regulator — a prize fight being watched as a bellwether for the fate of crypto in the U.S.

Apple released software updates Thursday that patch two recently discovered, critical security bugs that hackers have already exploited.

Why it matters: The patches fix a set of vulnerabilities that researchers say helped controversial firm NSO Group install its Pegasus spyware onto a person's phone without being noticed.

Suspected Chinese disinformation operatives are already starting to leverage generative artificial intelligence in their influence campaigns, Microsoft warned Thursday.

Driving the news: Microsoft said in a new report that it has uncovered evidence that suspected China-linked actors are using AI-generated images in their social media campaigns to make them more believable.

Hundreds of cybersecurity workers have received pink slips in the last few months, despite early expectations that the industry would be spared the tech sector's wave of layoffs.

Driving the news: In the last month, at least nine cybersecurity companies have announced layoffs, according to data from Layoffs.fyi.

The latest artificial intelligence area of use: tax collection among the nation's wealthiest.

Why it matters: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it will start using AI and other tools to detect tax violations by high-income earners and large business partnerships

Google on Friday filed a motion to dismiss a federal antitrust lawsuit from Gannett, America's largest newspaper chain. The complaint alleged Google's dominance in digital advertising undercut revenue for news publishers.

The big picture: Gannett's lawsuit, filed in June in the Southern District of New York, is one of several antitrust complaints made in recent years against Google over its ad tech dominance.

One of the most interesting video games of the year is Chants of Sennaar, a nonviolent adventure about the virtues of translating fictional languages.

Why it matters: The unusual and ambitious game comes from a small French team that in 2019 became enthralled with the idea of using a game to show how differing languages can divide and yet also connect people.

Elon Musk said Thursday that SpaceX denied a request to activate its Starlink satellite communications network for a Ukrainian drone attack on Russian military ships in the Black Sea — drawing heavy criticism from Ukrainian and other foreign officials.

Why it matters: Russian ships at the Black Sea port of Sevastopol have served as launch platforms for cruise missiles, which Moscow continues to use against civilian targets.

AI's first language is English — a bias that researchers are racing to counter before it gets permanently baked into the new technology.

Why it matters: Most of today's generative AI tools are built on large language models (LLM) trained on texts and data in English and Chinese, leaving the 6 billion native speakers of the world's more than 7,000 other languages at risk of being left out as the technology reframes work, business, education, art and more.