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Image: Tada Images (Shutterstock)It appears that the artificial intelligence fatigue is upon us: OpenAI’s website traffic has fallen for the first time since the company launched the viral chatbot ChatGPT in November.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksWeb analytics firm SimilarWeb reported this week that worldwide traffic to OpenAI’s ChatGPT webpage, including both desktop and mobile traffic, dipped 9.7 percent in June. In the U.S. alone, the traffic drop is estimated to be 10.3…

Image via Dimension Films If the internet somehow survives the extinction of the human race, then we’re doomed to be forever represented by an archive of starkly ungrateful voices. Indeed, the simple fact that a horror franchise can claim to still be at least steady after six films is nothing short of a historic feat, and even if you can’t entirely get behind every movie that Wes Craven’s Scream saga has put out so far, it nevertheless deserves a pat on the back for being as consistent as it has been. Anyway,…

It’s been a gloomy year for the economy, with high inflation and recession anxieties leading to sharp downturns in the stock market. Tech companies have suffered some of the largest shocks: Netflix’s stock is down more than 60 percent so far this year; Meta’s has fallen about 58 percent. According to Google Finance, Amazon and Google stocks have both dropped around 30 percent year-to-date in 2022. With tech stocks plummeting, the industry’s billionaire leaders have seen losses to their personal fortunes too. That’s one…

Last Thursday, Konami announced its latest Bomberman title would release exclusively on Apple Arcade the following day. The game, titled Amazing Bomberman, was shown off with a 30-second trailer that feels and hears like a person swiping through a Dance Dance Revolution song menu at the arcade.After watching it, I thought, could this actually be a weirder, distinct Bomberman game? Are getting a rhythm Bomberman? Could this be the new game that catapults Apple Arcade into the spotlight?No, no, and likely no. But that’s…

US consumer spending on video game products has fallen by $1.78 billion in Q2, according to market research firm NPD. Overall, spending in video gaming in the US totaled $12.35 billion in the recent quarter, down 13 percent year over year. The findings follow both Microsoft and Sony reporting revenue declines in gaming as the pandemic growth slows. Sony warned of a weaker PlayStation business earlier this week as it saw game software sales plummet 26 percent year over year. Sony blamed the slump on a lack of big…