tinyBuild's 15th Anniversary Showcase Proves Weird Games Win
While the industry's biggest publishers clear the calendar for Grand Theft Auto 6, tinyBuild threw a party. The indie publisher's tinyBuild Connect 2026…
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GameStop Is Reopening Stores, and Physical Retail Is Writing Its Second Act
GameStop is reopening stores. After years of closures and cost discipline that shrank the chain dramatically, the company announced on social media that select…
Cyberpunk 2077 Leaves Game Pass Today, and Ownership Wins the Argument
Ten games leave Xbox Game Pass today, and the headliners make the point better than any essay could. Cyberpunk 2077 and Frostpunk 2 exit the service on…
Ethereum Just Put a 2029 Deadline on Quantum Resistance, the First Network to Set a Date
Ethereum just did something unprecedented among major blockchains: it put a date on the quantum future. The Ethereum Foundation has set December 2029 as the…
The Senate Votes on Crypto's Rulebook Today, and Developers Made the Final Cut
Today at 2:15 p.m. Eastern, the Senate votes on whether to even debate crypto's future. The procedural vote on the Clarity Act needs 60 votes to proceed, which…
Bitcoin's Options Market Just Flipped Bullish for the First Time in a Year
Follow the money with conviction behind it. Bitcoin's options market has flipped bullish for the first time in 12 months, according to data from options…
A Law Firm Just Committed One Billion Dollars to AI, Then Decided to Sell Its Software to Rivals
The oldest profession is becoming a software industry. Morgan and Morgan, the Orlando firm that bills itself as the largest personal injury law firm in the…
AI's Brightest Builders Are Converging on One Playbook: Pace the Build, Coordinate Across Borders
Something unusual happened in AI this week: the people closest to the technology started agreeing with each other. Bilal Chughtai, a research engineer who…
Big Buyers Are Rewriting the AI Vendor Contract, and Data Privacy Is the Prize
The most valuable sentence in an AI contract this week is the one about data. Palantir, Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton are pressing Anthropic and OpenAI for…
Bungie Moved Marathon's Big Update to December and Left the Season Calendar Behind
Bungie just diagnosed the problem with Marathon, and the diagnosis surprised everyone: the calendar itself. In a blog post on Monday, the studio announced that…
Eighteen Developer Groups Say Apple's New EU App Store Terms Still Miss the Mark
Apple's latest attempt to settle its European App Store fight has united its opponents instead. A coalition of 18 organizations, including the European Game…
52 Percent of Game Developers Call AI Bad for Games While a Third Use It Daily
The game industry's relationship with AI has reached peak contradiction. The 2026 State of the Game Industry report, from the organizers of the Game Developers…
The WTO Says Stablecoins Are Ready for World Trade, and Shared Rules Are the Missing Piece
The technology won. The paperwork is catching up. That was the message from Juan Marchetti, director of the trade in services and investment division at the…
One Wall Street Analyst Says Bullish Wins Either Way the CLARITY Vote Goes
Tuesday's CLARITY vote has Wall Street gaming out scenarios, and one analyst just made the boldest call of the bunch: Bullish wins either way. Compass Point…
The CLARITY Act Got an Ethics Rewrite the Night Before Its Biggest Vote
On the eve of its biggest vote, the CLARITY Act got the rewrite everyone said it needed. Senate Republicans released a revised draft on Monday that includes…
Tavus Shipped Phoenix 4.5, and the AI Human Finally Got a Whole Body
The AI human just got a body. Tavus has shipped Phoenix 4.5, its biggest step forward in real time human rendering, and the headline change is architectural…
Harvey Just Hit 15.5 Billion Dollars, and Law Firms Are Training Their Own Models Now
The most telling number in AI this month is a valuation: $15.5 billion, reached by legal AI startup Harvey on September 9 with a $550 million raise led by…
Anthropic Just Aimed Claude at Financial Advisors, and Wall Street Is Becoming the AI Labs' Favorite Arena
Wall Street just became the hottest battleground in AI, and it happened in four days. On Monday, Anthropic launched Claude for Financial Advisors, a new…
Tetris Just Beat the White House Arcade at Its Own Game
The White House launched a retro style online arcade on September 3, pitching it as a new way to communicate the administration's agenda. One of the launch…
MediaTek Is About to Ship the First 2nm Gaming Phone Chip, and Mobile Is Where AI Graphics Go Mainstream
Tomorrow's biggest chip launch comes from a name the benchmark charts keep underestimating: MediaTek. The company will unveil the Dimensity 9600 Pro on…
Epic's Real Announcement: Fortnite Is Becoming the Operating System of Games
State of Unreal 2026 drew more than 2,000 developers in person and hundreds of thousands online, and the headline went far beyond any graphics demo. Epic Games…
Bitcoin Climbed Toward 78,300 While Tech Stocks Turned Red
Monday delivered the kind of session crypto believers have been waiting for. Bitcoin climbed as high as 78,280 dollars, up 1.93 percent since midnight UTC…
Strategy Stopped Buying Bitcoin and Wall Street Cooled on MARA
The two most famous Bitcoin proxies on Wall Street both changed course this week, in opposite directions, and the market barely blinked. J.P. Morgan double…
Crypto Tax Week Is Here, and Miners Finally Get Their Day in Washington
The House Ways and Means Committee just put crypto taxes on the calendar, and the two biggest unanswered questions in digital asset taxation are both on the…
Nvidia Opened Its Server Racks to Rival Chips, and That Is the Real Power Move
The most important AI chip story this week is about a company agreeing to stop fighting over chips. Startup d-Matrix said Thursday it will adopt Nvidia's chip…
Southeast Asia Just Placed a 3.1 Billion Dollar Bet on AI Compute
While the world argues about who gets to build the next frontier model, Southeast Asia is buying the shovels. Zankore, a dedicated AI compute and neocloud…
GPT 6 Astra Just Landed on Amazon Bedrock, and the Model Bazaar Is Open
OpenAI's smartest model yet just walked into the biggest cloud marketplace on Earth. Amazon confirmed today that GPT 6 Astra is generally available on Amazon…
Apple Cut EU App Store Fees to 5 Percent and the Mobile Store Wars Enter a New Round
Apple is rewriting its EU App Store economics for the second time in under three years. Starting October 1, developers distributing through alternative…
Modders Pushed DLSS 5 Onto Older GPUs and Found Out What Neural Rendering Really Costs
Nvidia's DLSS 5 launched on September 3 with NBA 2K27, bringing neural rendering to RTX 50 series cards. An AI model now enriches lighting, skin, and materials…
PlayStation Dropped Kojima's Physint, Xbox Caught It, and the Engine Is the Real Story
PlayStation is stepping away from Physint, Hideo Kojima's action espionage game, and Xbox has picked it up. PlayStation announced the move on September 10…
US Bancorp Just Ran Its First Live Stablecoin Payment on Stellar
A major American bank just put real money on a public blockchain. U.S. Bancorp announced on September 10 that it completed a live pilot transaction using…
Ethereum Just Scheduled Its Biggest Usability Upgrade: Gas Fees Paid in Stablecoins
Ethereum developers just locked in the feature that solves crypto's most annoying wallet problem. At their August 27 call, core developers moved EIP-8141…
Nasdaq Just Bet 100 Million Dollars on Tokenized Stocks That Trade Around the Clock
Nasdaq is putting its money where the blockchain is. On September 10, the exchange operator said its venture arm agreed to invest 100 million dollars in…
Congress Wants AI Data Centers to Pay Their Fair Share of the Power Grid
The AI buildout is getting its first real rulebook in Washington. On September 11, Rep. Suhas Subramanyam introduced the National Data Center Plan, a package…
Cognition Just Hit a 48 Billion Dollar Valuation on the Back of Its AI Software Engineer
AI coding startup Cognition is now worth 48 billion dollars. The company announced on September 8 that it raised over 2 billion dollars in a Series E round led…
Mistral Just Raised 3 Billion Euros to Give Europe Its Own AI Stack
Mistral AI is having its biggest moment yet. The Paris startup announced on September 8 that it raised 3 billion euros, roughly 3.5 billion dollars at current…
Gamescom Under Fire After Indie Developers Lose Laptops Full of Unfinished Games
The world's biggest gaming convention just learned that its smallest exhibitors are its most exposed. Multiple indie developers have reported equipment stolen…
A Steam Hit With an Unpaid Staff: Bit Reactor Furloughs 80 Percent as Star Wars Zero Company Charts
Here is the strangest success story of 2026. Star Wars Zero Company launched on August 27 to the best reviews any Star Wars game has earned in 22 years, an 85…
Sacked GTA VI Developers Tell a Tribunal Rockstar Kept a Union Watch List
The biggest game launch of the decade is about to share its release window with a landmark labor verdict. In a Glasgow employment tribunal this week, a…
Bitcoin Holds 76,700 on a Quiet Sunday as Traders Brace for Fed Week and the CLARITY Vote
Sunday gave crypto traders something rare in 2026: a quiet day. Bitcoin changed hands around 76,700 dollars, down less than one percent on the session, while…
Robinhood's Chain Just Became the Fastest Layer 2 to 1 Billion Dollars in Trading
The fastest growing blockchain in crypto right now was built by a stockbroker. Robinhood's Chain, the company's Ethereum layer 2, became the quickest chain…
Crypto and Banks Take Their Lobbying War to the States Ahead of Tuesday's CLARITY Vote
The fight over America's crypto market structure bill has left Washington and gone home for the weekend. With the Senate scheduled to vote Tuesday on the…
Europe Stress Tests Claude and GPT 6 Astra While Anthropic Disrupts Weaponization Plots
AI governance just moved from rulebooks to the workbench. The European Union's cybersecurity agency ENISA has been granted access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 model…
Meta's Muse Agent Wants to Run Your Day: Book Trips, Sell Cars, Send Payments
Meta just shipped the most ambitious consumer AI agent yet, and it lives inside the chat apps you already use. The company's Muse agent, known internally as…
Anthropic Picks Nasdaq While OpenAI Stays Private: AI's Two Giants Choose Opposite Roads
The two companies defining the AI era just told us they plan to fund the future in completely different ways. Anthropic has selected Nasdaq for its potential…
Valve Says AI Data Centers Helped Push the Steam Machine to 1,049 Dollars
Valve finally put a number on the Steam Machine, $1,049 for the 512GB model and $1,349 for 2TB, and then explained the number in refreshingly honest terms…
Nearly 1,900 Blizzard Workers Ratify a Union Contract That Puts AI Bargaining in Writing
Nearly 1,900 Blizzard Entertainment workers have ratified their first union contract with Microsoft, ending more than two years of bargaining and setting a new…
Roblox Cuts the Tether: Creators Can Ship Games as Standalone Apps by Year's End
Roblox made the most surprising move of its developer conference on Friday: by the end of this year, creators can distribute their games as standalone apps on…
Stablecoins Moved More Than 90 Trillion Dollars in a Year as the GENIUS Licensing Clock Ticks
The Block Research reported September 8 that stablecoin supply held near $290 billion from October 2025 through August 2026, even as Bitcoin fell more than 50…
Decision Day Looms for Warsh's Fed, With Markets Pricing 62 Percent Hike Odds and Trump Pushing Cuts
The Federal Open Market Committee meets Tuesday, September 15, and announces its decision Wednesday at 2 p.m. Eastern, with Fed Chair Kevin Warsh holding his…
Thailand Proposes a 151,000 Dollar Daily Cap on Stablecoin Transfers at Licensed Platforms
Thailand's securities regulator has approved consultation principles for a daily cap of 5 million baht, about $151,000, on stablecoin transfers per licensed…
The DOJ Is Checking Whether Nvidia's 17 Billion Dollar Groq Deal Sidestepped Antitrust Review
The Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia structured its $17 billion licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq to avoid antitrust scrutiny, the New…
How a Bitcoin Miner Became Anthropic's Landlord in a 35 Billion Dollar AI Deal
The most telling deal of the AI buildout runs through a bitcoin miner. Anthropic agreed to a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, a cloud provider…
Amodei Calls for Slowing the AI Race, Altman and Musk Agree, and Trump Says the Race Is On
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei dropped a 3,800 word essay early Saturday calling for "pacing the frontier": deliberately slowing how fast AI capabilities improve…
Miami Beach Says Yes to GTA VI Money While Miami Dade Keeps Debating
Grand Theft Auto VI arrives November 19, and South Florida is already living in its world. Miami Beach commissioners voted 4 to 3 on Thursday to authorize…
Sony Faces a 457 Million Dollar Dutch Lawsuit Over the Future of Game Ownership
Sony's plan to end physical PlayStation game discs is now a $457 million legal fight. Dutch consumer group Stichting Massaschade and Consument has filed a…
Saudi Wealth Fund Weighs Folding EA and Savvy Into One Gaming Giant
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is considering merging Electronic Arts with Savvy Games Group, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, a move that would create…
Five Percent Yields Are Fueling a Tokenization Boom
Everyone treats 5 percent Treasury yields as a headwind for crypto. Brendan Ma, head of investment strategy at the Arbitrum Foundation, says look again. Higher…
Solana Holds Near 100 as ETF Flows and Record Usage Point Toward 130
Solana is knocking on a big round number again. SOL traded around $100 this weekend, with 21Shares strategist Matt Mena saying the setup favors holding above…
Bitcoin ETFs Just Pulled In One Billion Dollars Across Three Trading Days
Bitcoin's quiet bid just got loud. US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $1.01 billion in net inflows across three trading days, including $730.8 million on September…
OpenAI Now Wants Binding US Rules on Powerful AI, and It Is Backing Bills It Once Fought
OpenAI just asked the United States government to regulate it. In a policy statement this week, chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane called for binding…
IBM and NASA Just Released an Open Source AI Built for the Moon
The most interesting AI release this week has nothing to do with writing your emails. IBM and NASA just released their Lunar Foundation Model, an open source…
DeepSeek Ships Its Smallest Model Yet While Gearing Up for a Shanghai Stock Listing
DeepSeek just shipped a new model called V4.1 Flash, and the headline detail is its size. The Chinese AI lab says V4.1 Flash is the smallest model in its new…
Saber Pledges Zero AI in Space Marine 3, Jurassic Park
Saber Interactive just drew one of the brightest lines in gaming. The studio behind Space Marine 2 says there is absolutely zero generative AI in its biggest…
Arm Wants Your Phone to Paint Game Worlds With AI
The chip inside your next phone could draw game worlds the way a concept artist sketches, with AI filling in the fine detail. Arm just introduced CSS for…
Nasdaq Puts 100 Million Into Kraken Parent to Bring Stocks Onchain
Nasdaq is putting real money behind tokenized stocks. Its venture arm agreed to invest 100 million dollars in Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange…
Wall Street Falls for Moonshots Again as SPAC Deals Chase Rockets, Robots and AI
The blank check is back. SPAC sponsors are lining up a fresh wave of mergers aimed squarely at frontier tech, with the latest deals targeting robotics…
Oracle Adds 30 Billion in AI Cloud Deals and Wall Street Cheers the Backlog
Oracle shares jumped 5.5 percent in premarket trading Friday after the company booked more than 30 billion dollars of additional AI cloud contracts in its…
Nintendo Throws One of Its Biggest Sales Ever, With 30 Percent Off Switch Games
Nintendo is throwing one of the largest promotions in company history. The Customer Appreciation Sale runs September 12 through 26 and takes 30 percent off…
Oil Holds Near 100, the 10 Year Nears 5 Percent, and Next Week Brings the Fed Call
Markets head into next week's September 15 and 16 Federal Reserve meeting with energy prices and bond yields doing most of the talking. WTI crude surged past…
Apple Goes Foldable: iPhone Duo Headlines the Biggest iPhone Event in Years
Apple's September 9 'Surprise and Shine' event, the first major product launch led by new CEO John Ternus after Tim Cook stepped down in April, delivered the…
OpenAI Takes ChatGPT to Wall Street, Built for Bankers and Researchers
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services on Thursday, a version of ChatGPT built specifically for investment bankers and equity researchers. The product…
Solana Triples What Fits in a Single Transaction, Giving Apps Room to Build Bigger
Solana developers got a bigger canvas this week. The network targeted Wednesday, September 9 for Transaction v1, a format upgrade that raises the maximum size…
Bitcoin Keeps 80,000 in Sight as August CPI Lands at 3.4 Percent
Bitcoin traded near 77,000 dollars on Friday after the August Consumer Price Index matched expectations at 3.4 percent compared with a year earlier. The…
BlizzCon Roars Back: Diablo 5 and StarCraft Return
BlizzCon roared back to life on Saturday as Blizzard Entertainment opened its first in person fan convention since 2023. The two day show runs September 12 and…
Suno Shows How AI Music and Artists Get Paid Together
The AI music fight just found its blueprint for peace. On Wednesday, AI music startup Suno launched its new v6 model family in partnership with Warner Music…
Zcash Vaults Past $1,000 on ETF Demand and a Wave of Private Transactions
Privacy money just enjoyed its biggest week in years. Zcash blasted through $1,000 on September 4, trading as high as about $1,023 after starting the day near…
Ethereum Reclaims $2,600 as August Inflation Prints and the Fed Decision Approaches
Ethereum buyers came back with force on Friday, lifting ether through the $2,600 level after the August consumer price report landed in line with forecasts and…
The CLARITY Act Heads to a Senate Vote: Washington's Crypto Rules Moment
Crypto's biggest political week of the year arrives with real momentum. The Senate returns to Washington on September 14, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune…
Bitcoin Just Had Its Best Month Since 2024, and Wall Street Is Listening
Bitcoin just closed its strongest month in almost two years. The orange coin climbed 25 percent in August, its best monthly performance since November 2024…
Inside OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra: Why the AGI Era Is Now on the Table
Something shifted last week, and the whole industry felt it. On September 4, OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra, which the company calls its most intelligent…
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