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Jay Peters

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    Double Fine staffers have filed a petition to unionize.

    All 42 “regular part-time and full-time employees” of the studio, behind games like Psychonauts and Kiln, will be part of the union, Aftermath reports.

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    Jay Peters
    Google has finally refreshed the Snapseed app on Android.

    Google gave Snapseed its first major update in years on iOS last June, and now the Android app is getting a big upgrade, too, 9to5Google reports. Both apps are now on version 4.0.

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    Jay Peters
    Digg is back again — again.

    Less than two months after shutting down its open beta relaunch and downsizing its team, Digg has launched a new version at di.gg. This updated version of the platform, instead of functioning similar to Reddit, is more like an online sentiment tracker. Right now, it’s focused only on tracking AI news, but “it’s going to be all the things,” according to Kevin Rose.

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    Jay Peters
    A musical Star Fox journey.

    If you, like me, played countless hours of Star Fox 64 growing up, then I think you’ll very much enjoy the 10 tracks from the upcoming Switch 2 remake’s soundtrack that Nintendo added to its music app. They’re so dang good.

    Nintendo also uploaded the game’s prologue, which was shown in this week’s announcement direct, as a separate video.

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    Jay Peters
    Gmail’s “Help me write” AI tool will draft emails that sound more like you.

    Google says it’s rolling out a feature for its Help me write tool that lets it generate emails personalized to your tone and style. Depending on your prompt, Help me write can also pull in relevant context from Google Drive and Gmail.

    A screenshot of Google’s updates to Help me write in Gmail.
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    Jay Peters
    The Golden Globes has also released its rules regarding AI.

    Following The Academy Awards saying last week that only humans can get acting Oscars, the Golden Globes’ eligibility rules seem to have slightly more wiggle room allowing for AI to be used for acting awards.

    “Performances submitted for acting categories must be primarily derived from the work of the credited performer,” according to the rules, but “the use of AI for technical or cosmetic enhancements” like de-aging “may be permissible.”