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Three California gamers filed a class action lawsuit against Valve Corporation and ten of the video game industry’s largest publishers on August 27, 2026, accusing the companies of conspiring to keep PC game prices identical across every digital storefront. The complaint, Shimota v. Activision Blizzard, Inc., was lodged in San Mateo County Superior Court and…
Every distributed database vendor now claims to offer global scale with strong consistency, but the three products actually shipping that promise in production take wildly different paths to get there. Amazon Aurora DSQL bills by the Distributed Processing Unit and forces you to give up foreign keys. CockroachDB runs anywhere you can run a container…
AWS and Google Cloud are no longer fighting for the same growth curve. Amazon still runs the biggest cloud on the planet by a wide margin, but Google Cloud posted 82% year-over-year revenue growth in its most recent quarter against AWS’s 37%, according to earnings breakdowns reported by The Motley Fool on September 9, 2026.…
As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device. Portable Computer is a local version of the agent Perplexity Computer that plans and carries out multistep tasks. Accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs, it uses local models to analyze data, bring together information…
Christina Koch sits down with James Manyika, Google’s Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society.
Development teams are under increasing pressure to ship software faster, even as the environments they rely on grow more complex. However, modern development has only become harder to provision and maintain with AI-assisted The post Build anywhere, stay in flow: How Windows 365 is redefining the developer experience appeared first on Windows Blog.
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When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to “pace the frontier,” signing on at least partially to a…
This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the technology, from its…
A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications for alignment researchers trying to keep swarms of autonomous AI agents in…
