Sam Lake didn't just write Alan Wake II, the new survival horror game from Remedy Entertainment. He's in it, playing FBI agent Alex Casey, a character who, in another twist, shares the same name — and maybe more — with a fictional detective featured in books written by in-game novelist Alan Wake.
Why it matters: It's all supposed to be a bit confusing in the latest game from Remedy. The studio has been building a following for decades in part by blending layers of reality.
The White House is launching new efforts to tout private sector investments in climate-friendly power generation — and make the information accessible at the project level.
Driving the news: Officials are today adding "clean" generation projects — like solar, wind and storage — to the Invest.gov site launched in June that maps various kinds of investments.
China will now limit how much battery metal it exports, potentially casting a cloud over the future of the globe's transition toward electric vehicles.
Amazon-backed Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude generative AI chatbot, is promoting a new form of responsible AI: A constitution for its large language models based on public input.
Why it matters: Who controls and influences AI is controversial given its potential to amplify existing biases and inequalities and to create new ones.
