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Beast of Reincarnation is an epic, emotional, action-packed rollercoaster from start to finish, and despite some glaring hiccups, it successfully sticks the landing

Beast of Reincarnation left me surprised in several ways and expertly blends several aspects from popular titles like From Software's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice to Square Enix's Final Fantasy 16. Most importantly, though, developer Game Freak has taken its experience with its Pokémon games and crafted an entirely new and engaging game, delivering some of the best and most satisfying combat I've seen in a long time, and a narrative that will keep you guessing until the credits roll. It's not perfect and has a fair number of issues, but it has a worthy payoff.

Pros

+Fantastic combat
+Incredible sound design
+Great soundtrack, but...
+Immersive, captivating narrative
+Good replay value/New Game Plus, including new difficulty

Cons

-QoL issues/repeated dialogue
-No cosmetic changes with new gear
-...can be repetitive, lacking variation
-Slow dialogue/some unnecessary cutscenes

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China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

The AI arms race reached a fever pitch on Monday after Chinese e-commerce and cloud provider Alibaba called into question America’s technological lead with the launch of Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter model that goes toe-to-toe with the best models from Anthropic and OpenAI. The new model

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LinkedIn says it won't be spending big on AI hardware this year — but it has a good reason why

* LinkedIn will hold GPU investment and its compute and storage footprint flat rather than expanding its AI data centers * The company says it roughly doubled the efficiency of its existing GPUs in six months through accumulated improvements to utilization, model distillation, and workload allocation, not a single breakthrough * This makes

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Asana built AI agents that won't leak secrets | VentureBeat

Enterprise teams building AI agents keep hitting the same wall: a chatbot that can answer a prompt but can't remember what the last five people asked it, and can't tell you whether last month's version actually worked. In a fireside chat with VentureBeat'

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Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI market: autonomous software engineering and long-horizon enterprise