Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they’re actually building.
Speaking to us at BlizzCon 2026, World of Warcraft’s Game Director Ion Hazzikostas confirmed that the next big retail expansion will have a “Heroic” world tier.
Aim assist is a crutch, and more controller players figured that out in 2026 than in any year prior. Gyro aiming lets you use a controller’s built-in motion sensor to make small, precise aim corrections the way a mouse does, without relying on the game’s rotational assist to snap onto targets for you. It sounds…
AI Beats Minecraft in Under 10 Minutes Before 2028? Manifold Bettors Now Put It at 70%. A niche Manifold Markets question about whether an artificial intelligence can complete a sub-10-minute Minecraft speedrun is drawing top-tier trading volume, with the YES side priced at 70% as of September 20, 2026. The spike follows a widely covered…
California Independence in 2026? Traders Just Piled Into a Long-Shot Manifold Market. A market asking “Will California independence be voted on in 2026?” sits at roughly 2% implied probability of YES as of September 20, 2026, on Manifold, yet it drew one of its heaviest single-day trading sessions on record. About 38% of the market’s…
Apple’s next-generation chip just did something no iPhone silicon has done before: run a 27-billion-parameter language model, entirely on-device, at double the speed of last year’s flagship. The demonstration, first reported by Wccftech on September 20, 2026, shows an iPhone 18 Pro powered by the new A20 Pro chip generating tokens from a 27B-parameter model…
NetEase pushed MuMu Player to version 6.0 on July 7, 2026, and the headline feature is simple to state and hard for rivals to match fast: it is currently the only mainstream PC Android emulator running an Android 15 base image. Tencent’s GameLoop, meanwhile, keeps shipping quieter but steadier updates, with requirement pages and setup…