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• 11 Oct 2026Activision files DMCA takedowns against browser versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops II and its Zombies mode that a developer built with the help of AI coding agentsCulture & arts · Vibe coding · xda-developers.com ↗ ⧗
• 20 Jul 2026The court gives final approval to the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement: $1.5 billion, about $3,000 per work; earlier the judge had ruled that training Claude on books was fair use, but storing pirated copies was notJustice & courts · Culture & arts · Large language model · anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com ↗
• 06 Nov 2025Collins Dictionary names “vibe coding” its word of the yearCulture & arts · Vibe coding · kvia.com ↗ ⧗
• Mar 2025Merriam-Webster adds “vibe coding” to its “slang & trending” sectionCulture & arts · Vibe coding · merriam-webster.com ↗ ⧗
• 15 Feb 2024Sora: video from a text descriptionMedia & information · Culture & arts · Generative video · en.wikipedia.org ↗
• 22 Aug 2022Stable Diffusion is released publiclyCulture & arts · Software development · Generative AI · actuia.com ↗
• 12 Jul 2022Midjourney opens its betaCulture & arts · Generative AI · en.wikipedia.org ↗
• 05 Jan 2021A post titled “Dead Internet Theory” appears on the Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe forum: most online content is supposedly made by AI and bots, and the internet “feels empty”Media & information · Culture & arts · Dead internet theory · forum.agoraroad.com ↗
• 05 Jan 2021DALL·E: images from a text descriptionCulture & arts · Generative AI · en.wikipedia.org ↗
• 15 Mar 2016AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 4–1Science · Culture & arts · Reinforcement learning · koreatimes.co.kr ↗
• 01 Aug 2012Oculus Rift raises money on KickstarterCulture & arts · Virtual reality · en.wikipedia.org ↗
• 04 Nov 2010Kinect: a depth camera and machine learning recognize body movementsCulture & arts · Science · Computer vision · hothardware.com ↗
• 06 Oct 2010Instagram launchesMedia & information · Mind & relationships · Culture & arts · Social networks · en.wikipedia.org ↗
• 12 Sep 2008Science publishes reCAPTCHA: while passing the check, people also recognise words from old books; in the first year more than 1.2 billion CAPTCHAs were solved and more than 440 million words decipheredInternet & infrastructure · Science · Culture & arts · Death of CAPTCHA · cs.cmu.edu ↗
• 16 Jan 2007Netflix announces Watch Now streamingCulture & arts · Media & information · Online video · about.netflix.com ↗
• 02 Oct 2006Netflix Prize: $1 million for improving recommendations by 10%Culture & arts · Science · Recommender systems · en.wikipedia.org ↗
• 14 Feb 2005YouTube is foundedMedia & information · Culture & arts · Online video · itpro.com ↗
• 23 Oct 2001Apple releases the iPodCulture & arts · Business & markets · Digital music · npr.org ↗
• 02 Jul 2001The BitTorrent protocol: file sharing without a central serverInternet & infrastructure · Culture & arts · P2P networks · en.wikipedia.org ↗