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A DualSense controller that used to last a full weekend of gaming and now dies before halftime isn’t broken beyond saving. It’s a battery problem, and it’s a fixable one. The stock cell inside Sony’s PS5 pad is rated at 1,560 mAh, a number that sounds generous until a few hundred charge cycles chip away…
Google and Blackstone have put a name on the TPU-focused cloud venture they first disclosed in May 2026: Crux AI. The bigger news landed alongside it. On September 10, 2026, the joint venture confirmed it had hired Alan Duong, Meta’s longtime vice president and head of data center engineering and construction, as its new chief…
Samsung Electronics has agreed to lead a €3 billion Series D funding round for French AI lab Mistral AI, pushing the company’s post-money valuation above €21 billion, according to reporting from Kingy AI and The Bright Minded. The round, announced September 8, 2026, is one of the largest single AI financings Europe has produced, and…
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, 2026, and unlike prior Claude releases, the Mythos-class model went generally available on every platform on day one, with no preview stage. That’s a shift in rollout strategy that caught a lot of engineering teams flat-footed. If you’ve been running production workloads against Claude Opus 5 or…
Grand Theft Auto 5 has been the reigning king of open-world gaming for thirteen years, and it is not close to done: Take-Two reported the game had crossed roughly 230 million copies sold by mid-2026, spread across three console generations. Grand Theft Auto 6 arrives November 19, 2026, and it is aiming to unseat its…
Three weeks ago, a single line item on a benchmark tracker started a debate that’s still running through engineering Slack channels: an open-weight model from DeepSeek matched a flagship Claude release on coding accuracy at roughly a tenth of the price. That comparison, and the parallel rise of Meta’s Llama 4 family, has pushed a…
The Millennium Prize breakthrough is proof of AI’s accelerating and terrifying progress
Simmering worries that the technology could wipe out civilization and launch cyberattacks reached a boil inside the office and around the dinner table.
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