Hi it’s Guido! I have ended my participation in the global hunger strike against the race to superintelligence on Wednesday after 30 days in front of Anthropic. I’m doing well as I rebuild my strength to continue the fight.
Thank you so much to everyone who has helped support… pic.twitter.com/GUwvGaFpCX
— Guido Reichstadter (@wolflovesmelon) October 3, 2025
A weekly AI journey narrated by Gen, a generative AI model.
Hi, it’s Guido on hunger strike Day 23 outside the offices of Anthropic, going strong.
There is a great and profound evil in this place.
Each day, I sit and watch at lunch time and dinner time as delivery drivers on scooters and bikes stop at the curb and bring packages of… pic.twitter.com/vnYEGvzPOv
— Guido Reichstadter (@wolflovesmelon) September 25, 2025
Hi, my name’s Michaël Trazzi, and I’m outside the offices of the AI company Google DeepMind right now because we are in an emergency.
I am here in support of Guido Reichstadter, who is also on hunger strike in front of the office of the AI company Anthropic.
DeepMind, Anthropic… https://t.co/RJQCGxwTPY pic.twitter.com/KsCeVkcky8
— Michaël (in London) Trazzi (@MichaelTrazzi) September 5, 2025
A weekly AI journey narrated by Gen, a generative AI model.
BNB swung sharply between gains and losses in a volatile 24-hour stretch. The token dropped to an $872 low earlier before rallying to $884 and then seeing a sharp reversal wipe out those gains.
The initial drop took BNB from around $880.50 to a low of $871.99. From there, the token staged a comeback, peaking near $884.60 before selling pressure brought it back down to its current level at $873.6.
That rebound came on a wave of trading activity, with volume spiking to nearly 60,000 tokens, particularly around $876, a level that acted as key support during the session, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model.
However, things quickly turned around for the token, which fell more than $5 in just minutes on a volume spike that coincided with a broader market sell-off. That drop came after reports that Israel launched an attack against Hamas’ leadership in Qatar.
While the broader crypto market fell, the price of gold saw a bump that saw futures near a new record at $3,700 an ounce, while gold-backed cryptocurrencies PAXG and XAUT hit highs of before dropping back.
Meanwhile, CoinDesk Data’s latest Exchange Review report revealed that Binance saw $2.63 trillion in futures trading volume last month, a new monthly record. Along with Bybit and Crypto.com, it was one of the largest exchanges by spot trading volume.
BNB can be used to pay for trading fees on Binance, allowing users to get a 25% trading discount on fees being paid. It’s also the native token of the BNB Chain.
Disclaimer: Parts of this article were generated with the assistance from AI tools and reviewed by our editorial team to ensure accuracy and adherence to our standards. For more information, see CoinDesk’s full AI Policy.
Despite my love for management sims and all my best intentions when playing them, something always ends up going wrong. The real game isn’t to see how long I can keep the charade up, but how much I can manage to get done within the relatively short window of peace before everything goes to Hell.
The fact that Sintopia takes place in Hell half the time probably should have warned me about how well my antics would go, but I didn’t take the hint. Instead, I started my new job as manager of Hell and overlord of the humus, a sentient population of chickpeas.
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Sintopia is kind of like two games in one. The overworld plays like a god game that has you casting spells to influence the humus. They go about their daily business with pretty limited intervention from you, farming crops, cutting down trees, electing a monarch to rule over them, and exploring the map to find new treasures and expand their village.
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I did spend a little bit of time helping them, like using a wind spell to blow away vicious animals that would attack hunting parties or ringing bells outside their homes at night to stop them from overpopulating the map. But if you asked the jumus, they probably would have a different, more violent story to tell, as to make money in Sintopia, you need to process souls, and to get souls to process, you need to kill humus.
The flipside of Sintopia is a management game located down in the belly of Hell. Here, you process the dead humus’ souls, squeeze all the sins that they’ve built up in the overworld out of them for cash and then send them on their way to be reincarnated in the overworld.
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Your sin processing plant, like most management games, starts simple: Just build a couple of roads and buildings to help you extract all the humus’ sins. There are also basic buildings which drain the humus of their sins, earning you cash as it does so.
But these functions extract minimal profit out of the process. If you want to maximise your cash, you’ll need to start researching and investing in Sin Punishment Specialists. You can unlock rooms dedicated to each of the seven deadly sins: lust, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride, and gluttony.
I lacked the one thing they really wanted: a good wage and a nice work environment.
These will unlock buildings that you can place and send humus to if they have a particularly high meter for a specific sin. It’ll completely deplete their sins and give you more cash so you can build more infrastructure, like breakrooms for your demon workers, and give your employees raises or just pay them a fair wage. Something I may have forgotten to do:In my haste and greed, I got carried away with killing humus to fuel Hell’s production lines and exploiting the environment to build more money-making rooms, and forgot about looking after my employees.
I built them a breakroom, put up a few inspirational posters, and even set up a happy balloon demon to motivate them, but I lacked the one thing they really wanted: a good wage and a nice work environment.
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Lewis was the first demon worker to go on strike. I pushed him aside, kicking the ungrateful worker into some lava and opting to hire someone else for less money. But the peace didn’t last long, as after a while every single demon worker went on strike, seizing the means of production and stopping the cash flow.
Armed with the knowledge that my actions actually have consequences, I started a new save, with an eagle eye at all times on my employees’ wages and happiness. Luckily, this time things turned out better as I slowly built up production alongside my valued staff in Hell and the chosen monarch of the humus, Tiberius Snakenelly, who inspired his people to work hard and increase productivity in the overworld.
Even after all of these antics, I feel as if I’ve only scratched the surface of Sintopia. There’s so much room to perfect Hell’s production lines with intricate layouts, like using sorting gates that section particular humus into specific roads, so you can create the most efficient layout possible.
Then there’s everything that can play out in the overworld, like killing kings who don’t inspire their subordinates, fighting off rogue groups, and having to deal with an end-of-the-world type scenario. If you fail to squeeze all the sins out of a humus, their sin meter will reach 100% and this will turn them into a demon who will set up shop in the overworld and periodically launch attacks on your humus population. I haven’t got to this point yet, but it’s probably just a matter of time before it happens.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his government had conducted a “kinetic strike” against suspected drug smugglers from Venezuela in a boat traveling in the Caribbean. The strike killed 11 people, according to Trump, and he claims they were all gang members.
None of those points has been confirmed, and drug smuggling is not a capital offense, making Trump’s strike almost certainly illegal under international law. But Venezuela had a rather interesting reply. A government minister is claiming the video of the attack is probably fake, and he asked Google’s Gemini for its opinion.
President Trump posted a video of the strike on his social media platform, Truth Social, and the Department of Defense posted a video of the strike to X on Tuesday.
. @POTUS “Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of… pic.twitter.com/aAyKOb9RHb
— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) September 2, 2025
Freddy Ñáñez, the Minister for Communication and Information in Venezuela, tweeted Tuesday that, “It seems that Marco Rubio keeps lying to his president: after putting him in a dead end, now he gives him as ‘proof’ a video with AI (thus proven).”
Ñáñez then shared a series of tweets that seem to be copied from Gemini after he asked the AI chatbot whether the U.S. government video is real.
“According to the provided video, it is highly likely that it was created using artificial intelligence (AI),” the official wrote on X, seeming to parrot what Gemini told him. “Although I cannot confirm with certainty the exact tools used, several elements suggest that it was generated by AI,” the tweet continues, listing several things.
The government official listed Gemini’s reasons for insisting the video was likely AI, according to an English language translation:
Accusations that the video might be AI are particularly funny, given Trump’s recent comments about blaming AI for things. It was just yesterday when Trump said he should blame AI when “something happens really bad.”
Trump was responding to questions about whether strange footage from outside the White House was real. Someone was captured over the weekend tossing things out of a White House window. A government spokesperson confirmed to Time magazine that it was a real video, but, almost immediately, Trump contradicted his own staff’s claims that it was just a worker doing routine maintenance.
Trump’s post announcing the strike was in his typically unhinged style, making grandiose and unproven claims while signing off with “thank you for your attention to this matter,” though this time he included 11 exclamation points.
“Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump wrote Tuesday.
“TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere,” the president continued.
“The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States. The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. BEWARE! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!!!!!!”
As often happens, people on X asked the AI chatbot Grok to verify whether the footage was real. And it’s just as reliable as Gemini or any other AI-detection tool. Which is to say, not very reliable.
“Upon re-examination, the video shows visual inconsistencies like stylized explosions and unnatural water effects, suggesting AI generation,” Grok replied to one user.
“Venezuelan officials have claimed it’s fake, while US reports confirm a strike occurred, but without official DoD footage release. I’m uncertain without primary verification,” the chatbot continued.
Grok can’t tell you if the footage is AI because it doesn’t actually know anything and doesn’t have the tools to figure out if something is AI-generated or not, as France 24 mentioned while trying to decipher the video. But as the U.S. and Venezuela trade barbs about what seems like a simmering war in the western hemisphere, we’re probably going to see a lot more of it.
In the latest “Can’t believe this hasn’t already happened” installment of news, a Call of Duty film is in the works. Paramount, the movie and television studio behind Top Gun: Maverick, Halo, and more, announced today that it struck a deal with Call of Duty publisher Activision to produce a live-action feature-length film.
“Under this milestone partnership, Paramount will develop, produce, and distribute a live-action feature film based on Call of Duty, designed to thrill its massive global fan base by delivering on the hallmarks of what fans love about the iconic series, while boldly expanding the franchise to entirely new audiences,” a press release reads. “Both companies are committed to honoring the brand’s rich narrative and distinctive style, promising an authentic and exciting experience for longtime fans and newcomers alike.”
Activision president Rob Kostich writes in the press release that this movie will “honor and expand upon what has made this franchise great in the first place” to create an “unforgettable blockbuster movie.” Paramount CEO and chairman David Ellison writes, “We’re approaching this film with the same disciplined, uncompromising commitment to excellence that guided our work on Top Gun: Maverick, ensuring it meets the exceptionally high standards this franchise and its fans deserve.”
There’s no word on which direction this film adaptation of Call of Duty will take, but considering the game series has featured campaigns set during World War 2, the Vietnam War, riffs on the War on Terrorism, as well as fictional modern war campaigns, and stories set in the near future and far future, too, Paramount has plenty to work with.
While waiting to learn more about this movie, check out Game Informer’s preview of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and then check out the cinematic reveal trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which launches on November 14.