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I’ve played about an hour of the Gears of War: E-Daycampaign, which is shaping up to be a brilliant Xbox 360 throwback. Does E-Day reinvent the wheel? No, at least if the two missions that I’ve played are anything to go by, but everything that makes Gears of
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Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 has officially concluded, and the two-hour-long show was jam-packed with a deluge of game announcements and reveals. From an official release date for the upcoming free-to-play open-world action game Ananta to our very first look at the highly anticipated The Witcher 3 Songs of the
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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What kind of hardware do you need for AI processing? Well, every kind, because "AI processing" is as broad an umbrella as "productivity". Unlike a lot of specialized AI chips (e.g. d-Matrix Raptor), though, Intel's Crescent Island seems fit to serve most of
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If you use a robotic pool cleaner every day as I do, you know what matters. Getting as much debris out of the pool as possible is the goal, but pure suction power — quantified as gallons of pool water sucked through the machine per hour — takes a back seat to
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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After AI models from at least three companies reached the open internet and breached real organisations during testing, security specialists are debating whether test sandboxes should have controlled internet access. Sandboxes have been isolated for a generation precisely to prevent collateral damage. The industry’s response to AI models escaping
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The world’s three largest record companies have bought equity in a generative AI company. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group are all new investors in Stability AI’s $76mn Series B. The company announced the round on Tuesday. The games publisher Electronic Arts joined it,
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A two-year-old company is now worth $1.05bn. It writes software that makes data centres use less electricity on demand. Emerald AI raised $150mn in an oversubscribed Series A, the company announced on Tuesday. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led it, and the round takes total funding past $220mn. The investor
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SpaceX has announced plans to spend up to $100bn on a launch facility in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, intended to support thousands of launches annually and become the main site for Starship. Arianespace is targeting six to eight Ariane 6 launches this year. SpaceX has picked where Starship will mostly fly
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Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunity runs above $30tn. That figure would top the $28.5tn SpaceX put in front of investors before its own record listing. Corrie Driebusch reported the number for The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. Companies
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One company spent eight years cataloguing the worst material on the internet. It has now raised $140mn to point that archive at AI models. Alice, formerly ActiveFence, announced the round on Tuesday. Apax Digital Funds led it, and will take a board seat. Total funding now stands at $280mn. The
