Stevie Bonifield

The “AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act,” introduced by Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Josh Hawley (R-MO), would require government agencies and publicly-traded companies to report how many people they fire, hire, and retrain due to AI. It comes just a few weeks after union leaders called for more regulation around AI.

Story Kitchen, the studio behind the Sonic the Hedgehog movies and the upcoming Life is Strange show, is developing a film adaptation of the Roblox game Grow a Garden, as reported by Deadline.

The DOJ is charging two former ransomware negotiators at DigitalMint, along with a former incident response manager at Sygnia, for allegedly hacking and attempting to extort at least five US-based companies using ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware, as reported by the Chicago Sun-Times. The “rogue” trio allegedly got a $1.2 million ransom from one victim. DigitalMint and Sygnia say they are cooperating with the investigation.

The new WhatsApp watchOS app announced today lets you send and receive full-length voice and text messages, get call notifications, use reactions, view images and stickers, and view your full chat history, all end-to-end encrypted.

A judge ordered Jesse Keighin, who streamed under the name EveryGameGuru, to pay Nintendo $17,500 in damages for streaming unreleased games, as reported by VGC. Keighin sent Nintendo gutsy emails in response to takedown requests, saying he had “a thousand burner channels” and could “do this all day,” but he didn’t respond to Nintendo’s legal complaint.