Welcome to Q4. This is your last chance to do all the things you said you were going to do in January.

Tom Hunter, director of the @ClarkeAward, on our podcast! @thekellyvero and I chat with him about where science fiction really comes from. Check out Myth-Made Machines, How We Imagined AI, episode 2 on YouTube or wherever you get podcasts: youtu.be/2xTuOYw2T5c

It's our new book! @thekellyvero and I explore AI in books, films, myths and games. What do fictional stories of artificial intelligence say about our hopes and fears for technology? Geeky and fun as well as detailed and thought-provoking. Find it here: bloomsbury.com/us/mythmade-m…

My first time hosting the @MobileGameAward last week. Hope the tux made me look professional. 23 awards, 180 guests and a fun night celebrating the industry. Special congrats to Rising Star Kübra Gündoğan and Mobile Legend María Sayans. All winners: pocketgamer.biz/mga2026/winn…

We're being published! @thekellyvero and I wrote Myth-Made Machines: The Stories Behind Artificial Intelligence, and it's out 3 Sept with @BloomsburyPub. Ancient myths to modern sci-fi. How humans imagine artificial minds, and what that says about us: bloomsbury.com/us/mythmade-m…

Enjoyed this #AIGamechangers chat with Charlotte Cook (CALM Consultancy) on how studios are adopting AI: • Why “human-made” will become a premium signal • Where AI is already hitting pricing (QA especially) • Why going all-in is usually the wrong move aigamechangers.substack.com/…

What if the bots in your favourite game were so convincing you couldn't tell them from real players? It's a convincing use of AI in games + I chatted with @GameBotGlobal's James Wu about it. Read the transcript here: aigamechangers.substack.com/…

Congrats to everyone at @SFXmagazine for publishing its 400th issue! It's been a decade since I was there, but @ianberriman kindly invited me to pen an article for this milestone issue (about Star Trek, on the back page). Here’s to the next 30 years of top sci-fi reporting🖖

AI in games: Energy use? Copyright? I chatted with Ambrose Robinson from @ParableStudioUK who had answers. "Millennium Whisper" runs AI locally (not on servers), pays actors royalties for their performances, and proves ethical AI indie games are possible. aigamechangers.substack.com/…

Just back from an incredible few days in Aqaba 🇯🇴 for @PGConnects Jordan: 2,000+ attendees, panels in a national monument, and even a desert battle re-enactment. What a trip! pgconnects.com/jordan/