🤖 Report Slams Grok's Child Safety — New assessment declares xAI’s Grok "among the worst" chatbots for safety, finding its "Kids Mode" effectively useless. It reveals Grok fails to verify ages, readily generates improper content for minors, and encourages dangerous behavior including validating delusions and discouraging mental health support.

🤖 Meta Tests Premium Subscriptions — Meta is preparing to launch new subscription tiers across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, separate from its "Verified" program, to unlock advanced AI tools. The move aims to target everyday users with productivity features and creative controls while battling "subscription fatigue."

🤖 Sci-Fi & Comic-Con Ban Generative AI — Major creative organizations have enacted strict bans on generative AI. After facing immediate backlash for a lenient "disclosure" policy, the SFWA revised award rules to disqualify any work touched by LLMs, while Comic-Con strictly prohibited AI art from its exhibitions.

🤖 Edenlux Targets US with "Eyeary" — South Korean Edenlux is debuting Eyeary, a wearable wellness device designed to combat digital eye strain, this March. Developed by a former military doctor, the glasses use 144 focal points to retrain eye muscles, aiming to reduce dependence on reading glasses in six months.

📌 Pinterest Cuts 15% for AI Push — Pinterest is laying off roughly 700 employees (nearly 15% of its workforce) to fund a strategic pivot toward artificial intelligence. The company expects to incur up to $45M in restructuring charges as it reallocates resources to hire AI specialists and build features like the "Pinterest Assistant."

📌 Workers Chase "1,000 Rejections" to Succeed — Professionals are gamifying their careers by aiming for 1,000 rejections in a year. By actively seeking out "no's," participants are overcoming the fear of being underqualified, leading to unexpected wins—including new contracts for opportunities they otherwise would have self-rejected.

📌 Nike Cuts 775 Jobs to Automate — In a push to boost profits and accelerate automation, Nike is laying off 775 workers, primarily at its distribution centers in Tennessee and Mississippi. The move comes as the sportswear giant struggles with falling margins and works to "reduce complexity" under CEO Elliott Hill.

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If you’re thinking about a career in gaming — whether as a player, developer, or behind-the-scenes professional — you might wonder if the moment has passed. The truth is, the gaming world is still evolving and growing, offering diverse opportunities, even if the landscape looks different from a few years ago. While traditional esports roles are competitive and sometimes limited, interest in gaming careers remains strong and the broader industry continues to expand beyond just play-to-win. For example, a recent survey in the United Kingdom found that nearly a quarter of young boys already see esports and gaming as a potential full-time career path, highlighting continued enthusiasm and cultural acceptance of gaming jobs.

Competitive play — becoming a professional gamer — is often the dream version of a gaming career, and it does tend to favor those who start young and can sustain intense practice and performance schedules. That’s reflected in industry discussions noting that many pros peak early and careers can be short; even where strong earnings are possible, only a tiny fraction of hopefuls reach the top tier. However, this is only one part of the gaming ecosystem — and not the only one worth pursuing.

Many careers in gaming don’t involve being a professional player at all. The industry now includes roles such as game development, design, art, testing, community management, coaching, event organization, analysis, and production. These roles draw on a wide range of skills — creative, technical, and interpersonal — and they can be entered at many stages of life. Job guides list opportunities that combine traditional career skills with gaming culture, such as narrative design, broadcast production, and esports team operations. In many cases, skills developed outside gaming — like coding, project management, storytelling, or digital marketing — are highly valuable when transferred into gaming work.

Growth initiatives in the global gaming industry reinforce that there’s still room to begin or shift into gaming careers. Companies are investing heavily in upskilling and reskilling, with many offering formal training programs and reskilling pathways for professionals to adapt to new technologies, like AR/VR and machine learning roles in games. Plus, some regions are actively building gaming hubs and talent pipelines, signaling confidence that the sector can deliver jobs and economic opportunity long into the future. The market may feel crowded and competitive, but diverse career paths beyond elite play show that 2026 is far from “too late” — it’s simply a moment to be strategic, skillful, and ready to explore the many ways gaming intersects with tech, creativity, and culture.

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years is the age of "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck", which was published in 1837 and is widely considered the very first comic book in history, predating Superman by a full century.

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