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AIの誤情報を真に受けて米軍が作戦準備。中国と軍事衝突する寸前でストップ

生成AIを日常的に使っている人なら、AIが間違えることを理解していると思います。存在しない情報をAIがもっともらしく答えてしまう「ハルシネーション」も、いまでは珍しい話ではありません。私も普通に騙されたことがあります。ハルシネーションだった…

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'Coyote vs. Acme' Outgrosses All But 3 WB Movies This Year, Heads To Profit

The movie Coyote vs. Acme earned more than Warner Bros.' $30 million tax write-off in just two weeks. And last week the movie officially earned more than its production budget of $70 million. But today the movie passed the $100 million mark. "You asked for it, we delivered, and you showed up!" distributor Ketchup Entertainment posted on social media (adding "Thank you to the fans for making this a massive hit!") With a break-even number of $120 million, the movie "will probably make up any theatrical deficit (should there be any) with its impending releases on video on demand and streaming," writes ScreenRant. Almost three years after the completed film was initially shelved for a $30 million write-off, its cumulative domestic box office has apparently even beat Warner Bros. dinosaur movie The End of Oak Street: In addition to officially joining the chart of the Top 30 movies of the year so far at the domestic box office, by surpassing The End of Oak Street, Coyote vs. Acme has outgrossed five of the eight movies that Warner Bros. has put out in domestic theaters this year.... [It's just $17.6 million behind Supergirl, and within $30 million of Mortal Kombat II and Wuthering Heights.] Their anticipated sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Three also seems guaranteed to land higher than 2026's Coyote vs. Acme on the chart (2021's Dune earned $108.9 million in domestic theaters, while Dune: Part Two earned $282.1 million). With its a small marketing budget of just $10 million, the movie seems to be relying on oddball marketing stunts like their AMA on Reddit's r/movies. And commemorating the spirit of the movie, Crayon-maker Crayola even released a special "Coyote Secret Plan" web page for children to print and color — and partnered with the film's stars for a video on the importance of creativity: Lana Condor: Crayola is all about encouraging kids and grown-ups to turn imagination into action. Will Forte: Which is exactly what Coyote does in Coyote versus Acme. He sees a problem and thinks, "Could this be solved with a rocket, a catapult, or a suspiciously affordable mail order anvil?" Lana Condor: Usually no. Will Forte: Usually very no.

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オレゴン州の電気、すでに4分の1がデータセンター行き(2030年には3割超え)

4分の1って、けっこうな量ですよ。アメリカ・オレゴン州にあるデータセンターが、2025年に州全体の小売電力販売量の約23%を使っていたことがわかりました。地元の調査会社「ECOnorthwest」とバージニア大学がまとめ、ポートランドの非営…

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『モンハンNow』プロモコードあり!! 中止になった東京ゲームショウ2026最終日ライブ配信リポート

過去最多の1138社が出展した今年で30周年のゲーム見本市「東京ゲームショウ2026」が20日に閉幕。当初、計5日間の開催を予定していたが台風の影響で最終日に当たる21日の開催が中止。当日予定されたいた位置情報ゲーム『モンハンNow』のスペシャルステージ...続きを読む
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Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State'

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State ultimately asks the question, "How did we cede control of our democracy to the machines, and can we get it back?" according to the Harvard's Arts and Sciences site, FAS Current: The new title finds Lepore, who used to teach a course at the College titled "The Rise and Fall of the Machine," charting the ascent of what she calls the artificial state: the digital communication infrastructure by which governments and private corporations automate and ultimately control public discourse. Following her Pulitzer Prize win for "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (2025), "I wanted to think about whether liberal constitutional democracies can survive this moment in time," Lepore shared in a phone interview... [In the "current ChatGPT moment"] Lepore found herself asking: "Who are the people who are clamoring to be replaced by machines, to have movies made by machines, and novels written by machines?" And who, she continued, is pushing for our government to be determined by these machines? In the book, Lepore notes that technological tools are increasingly influencing elections around the world... However, she sees the 2026 U.S. midterms as an inflection point. In a recent piece in the Financial Times, Lepore wrote, "This year marks the first AI election. Voters are asking chatbots how they should vote. Campaigns and activists are using AI to analyze the electorate, send micro-targeted messages, produce tailored ads and even deepfakes...." Lepore stresses in the book that "nobody should trust historians to make predictions," but she believes it's possible for democratic citizens to wrest back control. Referencing proposals such as New York's data center moratorium law, Lepore ends by describing a "growing and increasingly noisy tech backlash." "It's not foreordained. This isn't inevitable," she said during the interview. "In the book's epilogue Lepore predicts, as her title suggests, a fall of the Artificial State," writes the California Review of Books. "That argument turns out to be speculative, much more of a hope than a certainty." [Lepore] does support her prediction by positing that the Artificial State is "poorly designed and badly built," that it has not given people safety and happiness but rather a prison of glowing screens, and that a majority of Americans want more control over AI. To escape the Artificial State we will have to imagine a different future by gaining more knowledge of the past in a search for meaning. Of course, powerful forces want to deny that and turn us into servile automatons. The Guardian adds that "While Lepore interprets much classic sci-fi, such as Isaac Asimov, as cautionary, she observes that "the architects of the Artificial State seem to have read these stories, unironically, as instruction manuals, guides for how to build robots that would one day rule the world". (The Atlantic writes that "What one gathers from these misreadings is not so much that science fiction itself is nefarious, but that arrested development might be...") But The Indian Express writes that despite the author's bleak conclusion, "Lepore is not a pessimist. Because the Artificial State is a construct, neither alive, nor truly indestructible, she argues it is still possible to take it apart... [T]his is a clear-eyed reckoning rather than a doomsday tract. It is not an easy read, but an essential one for anyone unsettled by the pace of the AI wave."

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東京ゲームショー最終日、台風で中止に…。これまでの現地レポまとめはこちら

歴代最長の開期になる予定だったけど残念。台風25号の接近を受けて、東京ゲームショウ2026の運営が動きました。明日、最終日の9月21日(月・祝)は終日開催中止。台風の影響で交通機関にも支障が出る恐れがあるとして、来場者・出展社・関係者の安全…

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時代的に仕方なし⋯。アイオーデータ、液晶ディスプレイなど一部製品を値上げ

駆け込み購入、お早めに。PC周辺機器メーカーのアイオーデータ(I-O DATA)が、2026年10月1日より一部製品について価格改定を実施すると発表しました。値上げでございます…。対象となる製品は以下の32型番。もっとも影響が大きいのは、品…

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あいみょん、初ベストでタモリとコラボ 女スパイ姿のSPOT映像公開

メジャーデビュー10周年を迎えたシンガーソングライター・あいみょんが、自身初のベストアルバム『AIMYON BEST ALBUM – 唇を追え! -』のスペシャルムービーを公開した。同作は9月9日にリリースされ、9月21日付「オリコン週間デジ...続きを読む
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データセンター、お金を払わず水を1億1000万リットル使用

2026年5月16日の記事を編集して再掲載しています。データセンターはどうして積極的に評判を悪くするのやら…。昨年、ジョージア州フェイエットビルにある富裕層向けの高級住宅地Annelise Parkの住民たちが、水圧が異常に低下していること…

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