CNET

This Animation Startup Wants to Make It Easier to Tell Open-Ended Stories

Founded by former OpenAI scientist Andrew Carr and former Google creative director Jonathan Jarvis, Cartwheel is bridging the ...

China’s state media turns to social media and AI to tell its story — and often mock the US

The messaging from China’s Communist government may once have been rigid, but not anymore. Beijing is using social media and ...
World Bank

Building Local Capacity for Monitoring World Bank–Funded Projects in Fragile Contexts and Beyond

Over the course of three dynamic days in Ramallah, government officials and project implementers from World Bank Group-funded projects across the Palestinian territories, gathered in person and online ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Project Hail Mary’ Contains Not a Single Greenscreen Shot in the Entire Movie, Director Says

Amazon-MGM's entire 156-minute, big-budget sci-fi gamble was shot without any green (or blue) screen, Christopher Miller says. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large The highly anticipated, big-budget Ryan ...
GeekWire

Tech Moves: Code.org has a new leader; Synapse vet joins Amazon; ex-Tableau CEO lands at Code Metal

Tech Moves covers notable hires, promotions and personnel changes in the Pacific NW tech community. Submissions: [email protected] by Kurt Schlosser on Feb 20, 2026 at 12:00 pm February 20, 2026 at 11 ...
Variety

EFM Animation Days Sets Packed Edition With Global Toons, Artists and Producers Poised to Dig Into Toons

Last year underscored the huge impact of animation at the box office as China’s “Ne Zha 2” grossed $2.25 billion, Disney’s “Zootopia 2” took in $1.8 billion and European co-production “Flow” made ...
Mashable

10 cool examples of Project Genie, the AI world model that sent video game stocks diving

Google rolled out a brand new experimental AI tool last Thursday called Project Genie. By Friday, video game stocks were tumbling as a result. Gaming industry giants like Unity Software, Roblox, ...