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The gaming community is mourning the loss of Richard Gray, known to millions as Levelord, the level designer whose work on Duke Nukem 3D and other landmark shooters helped define how first-person games feel to move through. He was sixty-eight years old, and his spatial instincts shaped an entire generation of players.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, a new Harvard study reported by Wired found that more than half of men surveyed claimed to recognize AI leaders who were entirely made up. The phenomenon, sometimes called overclaiming, suggests that social pressure to appear knowledgeable about AI is producing a measurable confidence gap between what people know and what they say they know.
And on the business side, a new SAP report finds UK companies are spending an average of twenty point six million pounds on AI annually, a twenty-seven percent jump year over year, with projections suggesting spend could rise another forty-five percent between twenty twenty-six and twenty twenty-eight. Yet two thirds of those same firms say poor data quality is quietly undermining all of it.
The money is flowing, but the foundations are still catching up. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
