Agent Skills vs RAG : Why Procedural Workflows Are Replacing Long Prompts

Agent skills shift AI agents toward procedural tasks with skill.md steps; progressive disclosure reduces context window bloat in real use.
Digital Production

Gradient Generator: free Cinema 4D tool for procedural gradients

Pi-Slices has released Gradient Generator, a free tool for Cinema 4D 2025+ that creates editable gradient patterns, syncs to ...
PBS

WATCH: House passes bill on government funding to end partial shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Tuesday passed a roughly $1.2 trillion spending package to end the partial government shutdown, sending the measure to President Donald Trump and setting the stage for a ...
Forbes

Why World Models Like Google’s Project Genie Work

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Google's Project Genie is an experimental model that lets you create, edit and explore ...
techtimes

The Future of AI in Gaming: Smart NPCs, Realistic Graphics, and Next-Gen Game Design

AI in gaming is revolutionizing how players experience virtual worlds. From AI NPCs that remember past actions and adapt to player behavior to procedural generation creating endless quests and dynamic ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Hytale's devs hope to "redefine the block-game genre" with their world generation, and they've now explained how it works

Hytale blocks up in early access this month, having swiftly gone from thing in need of ressurection to thing that's coming out. As such, the team of devs led by original Hypixel co-founder Simon ...
IEEE

Controllable Procedural Generation of Race Track Surroundings for Iterative Level Design

Abstract: Modern racing games often take place on race tracks with huge surroundings, including forests, fields, cities, or mountains. While not being important to the racing itself, the surroundings ...
The New York Times

Everybody Wants to Be Gen X

Some of the generation’s most iconic creators reflect on how the cohort once synonymous with slacking came to leave such an indelible impression on the culture. Everybody wants to be Gen X. We were ...
TechSpot

Engineer creates 3D-printed marble fountain using procedural generation

What the heck is that? Marble Fountain is a piece of "tech art" that looks like a huge tangled mess of string. However, flip a switch and ball bearings trickle forth, each riding one of eight ...
The Conversation

The psychology of generation Alpha

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
PCGamesN

Arc Raiders dev "in no way uses generative AI whatsoever" for its visuals, but here's why Embark still has to disclose on Steam

Embark Studios has pulled off a truly impressive feat - making an extraction shooter appealing to the masses. 24 hours out from launch, Arc Raiders sits proudly as Steam's third most-wishlisted game ...