Amazon is producing a new God of War TV show for Prime Video, and the company is apparently pretty confident in it. According to writer Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, For All Mankind), Amazon has already ordered a second season, even before Season 1 has aired.Appearing on The Sackhoff Show with Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff, Moore said the God of War TV show is his current project, and writers are now putting the show together."Right now I'm working on the adaptation of this video game called God of War that Amazon has ordered two seasons of and they asked me to come in, I'm literally in the writers room and that's my new thing," he said, as reported by GamesRadar.Continue Reading at GameSpot

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Politics can be a divisive subject, and 'political' is a somewhat nebulous term that can incorporate many ideologies. So let's start by saying that, in a bid to keep this clean, this list will focus exclusively on drama series that are set in or around a government office, focusing on the machinations of said office in fictitious circumstances, and will disregard anything based on a specific political figure or attempting to elicit a specific political commentary.

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Microsoft is adding new AI features to Notepad and Snipping Tool in Windows 11, but there's a catch: Some of these are locked behind a paywall. The company is rolling out an AI feature for Notepad that can summarize articles for you, while the Snipping Tool will let you draw shapes with ease. All of these updates are available via the Windows Insider program for those who want to try beta software to test new features before they're released to the general public.Notepad's new AI featureFollowing other upgrades in Windows 11, Notepad now lets testers quickly summarize text in the app. You can paste text in Notepad and use the Copilot menu to try the Summarize feature, or press Ctrl-M after selecting text, and the summary will appear in a popover. However, you may not be able to use the summarize feature, as you'll need a Microsoft 365 subscription and Copilot Pro AI credits to access it. Separately, PCWorld reports that Windows will lock all Notepad AI features behind the Microsoft 365 subscription.With this same update, Microsoft said it's also introducing the ability to view recent files to Notepad. This is, in my opinion, a bare minimum feature for an app like Notepad, so it makes sense that Microsoft says it's a much-requested feature. If you're on the right Windows 11 beta, you can go to File > Recent in Notepad to access recently opened files. You can select the Clear list option in the same menu to remove recent files from this menu. You can try all these Notepad features in the app's 11.2501.29.0 version.Snipping Tool gets better shape creation Credit: Microsoft The Snipping Tool is Windows 11's built-in screenshot app, with a built-in tool for annotating these images. With the newest beta, it's now much easier to draw shapes on your screenshots. If you draw something that looks roughly like an arrow, Snipping Tool will automatically turn it into a straight line with a pointer at one end. While the app has always offered users the ability to draw various shapes on a screenshot, this new tool should save some time by eliminating the need to select the right shape. Simply start drawing the shape you need and Snipping Tool should take care of the rest. This update is available with Snipping Tool version 11.2502.18.0.How to access the newest Windows 11 featuresIf you want to try these new features, you'll need to join the Windows Insider program. If you choose to do so, you'll be running unstable builds of Windows 11 on your PC, so be sure to take a full backup of your machine, and be ready for crashes, the occasional system freeze, and compatibility issues while using your computer. Go to the Microsoft website on your Windows 11 PC, and click the Register button to sign up for Windows Insider. Then, go to Settings > Windows Update > Windows Insider Program on your PC and follow the on-screen prompts to join the program. You need to be on the Dev or Canary channels of the Windows 11 Insider program to receive the updates mentioned in this article.

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Its fair to say that 2025 continues to fly out the blocks on a wild mission to bring even higher levels of change, unpredictability, and flux shaping our world.But, as I started writing this on Blue Monday in January, apparently the saddest day of the year, this is not intended as an article lamenting the cultural whiplash we are experiencing within our daily feeds. Instead, it is a more positive perspective on how as businesses and brands, we can not just survive but supercharge in this era of incredible unpredictability.The only constant in a changing world is change itselfAccording to an article by GlobeScan, at the end of 2023, nearly 8 out of 10 people believed that the world is changing too quickly for me. But, quoting the immortal lyrics of the Chalamet-rekindled Bob Dylan, its clear that the times they are-a-changin, and they will continue to change, with the only constant in this forever-changing world being change itself.So in an unpredictable world with a market and consumers that believe the world is changing too quickly for them, what is the role and impact that brands can have to bring belief, partnership, and confidence to the communities they serve as they also reel and react to daily change?The answer in a less sporadic and challenged world would be for a companys chief marketing officer to have a clear brand plan that could be adjusted and evolved upon against fluctuating market conditions. But in this new world order of no real order, having a plan is only as useful as the famous Mike Tyson quote, until you get punched in the face. And in a world where we are all ducking and diving daily, thats not enough, and a new posture and mindset is needed for the chief marketing officer, or change management officer as their 2025 moniker might become, to supercharge brand impact on a daily changing basis.Optimism is the 2025 driver of confidenceOptimism is the core value of our company 72andSunny, and has been since we launched 20 years ago. And in 2025 this is the mindset and driver of confidence that we are seeing emerge amongst some of the global brands that we partner with, and more broadly within those pioneering thinkers shaping the marketing industry at large.The optimism we see is a multi-dimensional energizing mindset that stretches way beyond the dictionary definition of optimism as, the hopefulness and confidence about the future or success of something.Optimism challenges the status quoWe see an optimistic mindset that is more ready to challenge the status quo and define new ways of thinking within categories. Whether that is Zurich Insurance creating a global platform What Could Go Right? in an insurance category obsessed with things going wrong, Indeed, championing the need to call out that the world of work isnt working, by creating a global mission to make the world work better and calling out job injustices along the way, or the NFL leading the way to make girls flag football officially a varsity sport in all 50 states. We are seeing the brands that consumers gravitate towards being those that are optimistically challenging convention and bringing new math to the categories and culture they inhibit.Optimism creates unexpected partnershipsWe see an optimistic mindset that is more open and driven by collaboration across sectors and brands to create unexpected partnerships and noise. From the wonderfully bizarre partnership for the Super Bowl of Wrexham FC and Channing Tatum bringing Magic Mike-inspired comedy to their big game ad for Stok Cold Brew Coffee, to Nike opening its doors to Kim Kardashian and the SKIMS crew as the attempt to bring relevancy back to their product in the world. Curating the collaborations that provoke intrigue and innovation is a masterskill of modern marketeers.Optimism provokes playWe see an optimistic mindset that is driving more brands to provoke play and bring a positive energy into the categories they inhibit. On, the running shoe brands latest commercial in a category that is driven by competitiveness and performance flipped the script and brought joy and wonder with the Elmo/Federer campaign created by the equally whimsically named NYC agency The Flower Shop, to e.l.f. curating an e.l.f.time show second screen experience for the Super Bowl to bring a shoppable dose of playfulness to its community during the big game.Optimism drives resultsAnd we get excited by this, because in a world where Ipsos believes that only 31% of people are optimistic about what the future might bring, the world of brand and marketing feels like its finding its own way to reverse that trend with a mindset that creates momentum and real business change. We see this type of marketing optimism being the unlock for boardroom success from Nikes share point having risen by 6.2% post the SKIMS news, to momentum busting e.l.f. posting well over 20 consecutive quarters of growth.And at 72andSunny, a company whose name is imbued with an optimistic disposition, we are excited to see how our industry can flex and drive this cultural and commercial change in the most unpredictable of years.Chris Kay is president international of 72andSunny.The Fast Company Impact Council is a private membership community of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Members pay annual membership dues for access to peer learning and thought leadership opportunities, events and more.

A whos who of musicians, actors, directors, and more have teamed up to sound the alarm as AI leaders including OpenAI and Google argue that they shouldnt have to pay copyright holders for AI training material.In an open letter, submitted to the White House Office of Science and Technology, more than 400 members of the entertainment community expressed concerns about the wish lists of AI companies for the U.S. AI Action Plan. Those recommendations, the letter warned, could severely damage the entertainment community, which supports more than 2.3 million jobs whose wages currently top $229 billion per year. The group urged the Trump administration to not sacrifice Americas leadership in the world of entertainment in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.We firmly believe that Americas global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries, the group wrote. Americas arts and entertainment industry [provides] the foundation for American democratic influence and soft power abroad. But AI companies are asking to undermine this economic and cultural strength by weakening copyright protections for the films, television series, artworks, writing, music, and voices used to train AI models.Included among the prominent signatures on the letter were Paul McCartney, Cynthia Erivo, Cate Blanchett, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Bette Midler, Cate Blanchett, Paul Simon, Ben Stiller, Aubrey Plaza, Ron Howard, Taika Waititi, Ayo Edebiri, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Janelle Mone, Rian Johnson, Paul Giamatti, Maggie Gylenhall, Alfonso Cuarn, Olivia Wilde, Judd Apatow, Chris Rock, and Mark Ruffalo.The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) says the AI Action plan is meant to be the first step in securing and advancing American AI dominance. And AI companies had a comprehensive wish list, submitted during the comment period for the bill, which ended Saturday.Among those was stronger export controls for things like chip exports as foreign competitors, such as DeepSeek, which continues to worry U.S. AI firms. Some developers also pushed for more funding for AIs infrastructure and further government adoption of AI.But it was comments about regulation of that AI training that caught Hollywoods attention. OpenAI, in its submission to the OSTP, seemed to push for the right to train its large language models on copyrighted works without the permission of those copyright holders or any compensation.Our AI model training aligns with the core objectives of copyright and the fair use doctrine, using existing works to create something wholly new and different without eroding the commercial value of those existing works, the company wrote. Ultimately, access to more data from the widest possible range of sources will ensure more access to more powerful innovations that deliver even more knowledge.Google, meanwhile, discussed exceptions to copyright rules that allow for the use of copyrighted, publicly available material for AI training without significantly impacting rightsholders and avoid often highly unpredictable, imbalanced, and lengthy negotiations with data holders during model development or scientific experimentation.Hollywood argued that the ramifications of those sorts of changes could impact far more than the entertainment industry, threatening the work of writers, publishers, photographers, scientists, and basically anyone who generates intellectual property on a computer today.This issue is not just about AI leadership or about economics and individual rights, but about Americas continued leadership in creating and owning valuable intellectual property in every field, the Hollywood collective wrote. It is clear that Google . . . and OpenAI . . . are arguing for a special government exemption so they can freely exploit Americas creative and knowledge industries, despite their substantial revenues and available funds.While OpenAIs letter warns that should AI companies in China be given unfettered access to copyrighted data, America will lose the AI race, the entertainment community dismissed that theory, urging the government to leave todays copyright laws unchanged.Access to Americas creative catalog of films, writing, video content, and music is not a matter of national security, the group wrote. [AI companies] do not require a government-mandated exemption from existing U.S. copyright law.