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CH.04 Civilization 7's latest update adds more depth to peace deal brokerage and leader relations, as Firaxis gear up for "bigger additions" Civ 7's July update drops today, July 28th, delivering a handful of useful tweaks as devs Firaxis continue to build on their substantial revamp of the strategy…
CH.02 Google's Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era Article URL: https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3819083 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081644 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
CH.02 What Even Are Microservices? Article URL: https://var0.xyz/posts/what-even-are-microservices.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081594 Points: 27 # Comments: 31
CH.02 About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6 Article URL: https://support.apple.com/en-us/128067 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081555 Points: 42 # Comments: 20
CH.02 Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children Hugging Face isn’t doing much to prevent the AI models it hosts from spitting out sexualized deepfakes. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty…
CH.04 'I have been hunted down by HR reps, lawyers, and comms people:' Developers discuss the pain and prevalence of side work clauses How an industry renowned for creativity is actively stifling it.
CH.02 7.1 Earthquake in Japan Article URL: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20260728163528&lang=en Comments URL:…
CH.03 Blood Death Knight Dance of Midnight Apex Talent Hotfixed Blood Death Knight Dance of Midnight Apex Talent Hotfixed Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums) On Friday at about 12:30 p.m. PDT, we…
CH.02 Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts Article URL: https://arsastronomica.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079727 Points: 67 # Comments: 9
CH.02 Neutrino-1 8B Article URL: https://www.fermionresearch.com/models/neutrino-8b/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079490 Points: 90 # Comments: 29
CH.02 PyTorch: A Reference Language Article URL: https://docs.pytorch.org/devlogs/compiler/2026-07-25-pytorch-a-reference-language/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079454…
CH.02 Using an open model feels surprisingly good Article URL: https://matthewsaltz.com/blog/using-an-open-model-feels-surprisingly-good/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078583 Points: 289…
CH.02 EYG: A Programming Language for Humans Article URL: https://crowdhailer.me/2026-06-08/a-programming-language-for-humans/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078463 Points: 70 #…
CH.02 A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review Article URL: https://fermisense.com/when-machines-take-the-wheel/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078454 Points: 209 # Comments: 56
CH.02 Vehicle Motion Cues Article URL: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iphone-comfortably-riding-a-vehicle-iph55564cb22/ios Comments URL:…
CH.03 The Stream Team: Etch A Sketching Project Gorgon’s Serbule While exploring in Project: Gorgon last time, Massively OP’s MJ noticed that clearing the fog of war looked just like drawing on an Etch A Sketch. Although she…
CH.02 DConf 2026 in London Article URL: https://dconf.org/2026/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076840 Points: 97 # Comments: 42
CH.02 C/C++ projects packaged for Zig Article URL: https://github.com/allyourcodebase Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076791 Points: 63 # Comments: 35
CH.03 Sea of Thieves adds tweaks to Custom Seas and balance updates, shares some of August’s events Sure, having a free camera in Sea of Thieves’ Custom Seas feature is pretty nice, but weirdly enough, player characters weren’t allowed to emote while using…
CH.02 Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API Moonshot AI released open weights for Kimi K3 today and it's live on Telnyx Inference. The architecture and Moonshot's own benchmarks are in their technical…
CH.02 Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench Article URL: https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.md Comments URL:…
CH.02 X Money is launching in the US starting today X Money, a core part of Elon Musk's mission to turn X into an "everything app," is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform offers a…
CH.02 Our position on open-weights models Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076057 Points: 944 # Comments:…
CH.03 Quinfall plans a focus on improving PvP content and rewards, boss difficulty, and party mobs in future patches There comes a time in every MMORPG’s life when all of its systems get a bit creaky and don’t play out the way its developers hoped. It’s a completely natural…
CH.02 Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
CH.02 Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers Starlink has a Texas factory but also makes routers in Vietnam.
CH.02 Razer’s analog Huntsman V3 Pro is over 20 percent off The Razer Huntsman V3 Pro features doubleshot PBT keycaps. Gaming keyboards have evolved over the years to add RGB LEDs, extra knobs, and buttons with screens,…
CH.03 WoW Classic’s Burning Crusade Anniversary servers gate-crash the Black Temple next month You’d think with all of the inconsiderate houseguests constantly kicking down his door and making a mess of his home, Illidan would move to a nice, quiet, and…
CH.02 Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies Kennedy has focused on nutrition but has neglected food safety, critics say.
CH.02 iOS and macOS 26.6 arrive today, paving the way for iOS and macOS 27 These are likely the last updates of note before Apple's bigger fall updates.
CH.02 A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months When the first step goes wrong, bad results follow.
CH.02 “Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win Google's and Reddit's use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.
CH.03 Helldivers 2 players have earned the ability to unlock a new in-game vehicle this October “What have Helldivers 2 players won, Johnny?” “A new caaaar!” Cue raucous cheering from the audience and perhaps even those players, as this October will…
CH.02 Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals Hi HN! This is George, Lucas, and Jona from Rise Reforming (https://www.rise-reforming.com/). We’re developing a process to convert gas produced at landfills,…
CH.02 Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening didn't just cause issues for people trying to play digital games - it blocked people from playing their…
CH.02 Nanoleaf’s colorful pegboard and shelf kit is half off Nanoleaf's Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit comes with nine color-changing LED panels. | Image: Nanoleaf Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun…
CH.02 5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find.
CH.03 New Housing Decor in Patch 12.1 Curse of Ula'tek New Housing Decor in Patch 12.1 Curse of Ula'tek Patch 12.1 Curse of Ula'tek brings over 100 new housing decor items, available from vendors, neighborhood…
CH.03 Conqueror’s Blade Three Kingdoms is a new standalone strategy MMO that fans say is hamstrung by grind and P2W You would think that a new entry in the Conqueror’s Blade series of multiplayer strategy titles would be a thing to be celebrated, but it would seem as though…
CH.02 Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.
CH.02 Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions Article URL: https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073942 Points: 149 # Comments: 32
CH.02 Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on. It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input.…
CH.02 Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a "dead end" for rapid reuse NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for decades.
CH.03 Here are all the big reveals from Black Desert’s Heidel Ball, from the Agent class to Edania Part 2 This past weekend was a big one for Black Desert fans, as the MMORPG’s Heidel Ball event from southern California heralded another round of big additions…
CH.03 Necesse says that this week’s romance update will make the game more ‘lively’ and ‘cozy’ Only in the quirky world of Necesse is love and rust paired together in a content update, but why not? It may not be strictly necesse-ary, but bumper cars and…
CH.04 Overthrow the Kaiser in Red Echoes: Berlin, a Weimar-era turn-based strategy game in the style of Suzerain Red Echoes: Berlin is a narrative-driven turn-based strategy game in which you join the German "November Revolution" across 1918 and 1919, during the final…
CH.03 Zombie MMO Persist Online’s recent pre-alpha test resulted in over 3,000 player deaths Beware when you bite into a zombie MMO, because that game might just bite you right back. Persist Online’s early July pre-alpha test was far from a bloodless…
CH.02 UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper Article URL: https://up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49072523 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
CH.03 Japan’s patent office rejects one of the Pokemon patents, calling Nintendo’s arguments ‘absurd’ and ‘ridiculous’ While we’re still several months away from a resolution in the patent infringement lawsuit filed by Nintendo in Japan against Palworld developer Pocketpair,…
CH.02 ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.
CH.02 Why China is giving away its best AI models People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, July 20th. | Image: LONG…
CH.04 That evil Car Park Capital tycoon game is only getting more evil with MicroProse as publisher, but it still looks gorgeous Car Park Capital is a triumphantly unwholesome tycoon game in which you try to make an entire society utterly dependent on cars. You start with a relatively…
CH.03 Albion Online breaks down Dragonfire’s boss fights, PvE encounters, and Ancient Lands location Albion Online already provided a general overview of what its Dragonfire update will bring to the table on Monday, August 31st, but now it’s providing a bit…
CH.02 YouTube Premium will include Peacock starting next year YouTube's ad-free Premium subscription is getting another perk: access to Peacock. In an announcement on Monday, NBCUniversal says the multi-year agreement…
CH.03 The Guild’s movie Kickstarter nears $4M in funding, adds Nathan Fillion and Misha Collins to cast Last week we reported on The Guild reunion film’s Kickstarter absolutely blowing away its initial crowdfunding goal, and it looks as if the funding milestones…
CH.02 Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.
CH.02 Amazon’s trying to launch a global satellite cellphone network in 2028 Amazon filed an FCC application on Saturday to launch a new Leo satellite constellation that will provide direct-to-device satellite service for "voice,…
CH.03 Ion Hazzikostas on World of Warcraft’s Ula’tek story, PvP, and giving himself a B or B- grade on addons Unsurprisingly, World of Warcraft game designer Ion Hazzikostas has opinions on how the MMORPG is doing and what it’s going to bring with patch 12.1. That’s…
CH.02 Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price Framework's latest modular laptop trades one set of problems for another.
CH.03 Wisdom of Nym: Reactions to Final Fantasy XIV’s second fan festival The biggest surprise to arise from Final Fantasy XIV’s second fan festival when I was watching the keynote was actually that my not-terribly-good plan to avoid…
CH.04 Dragon Age: Thedas at War is a BioWare RPG-inspired Crusader Kings 3 total conversion mod that's here to keep the series alive while it sits in EA limbo Who knows when or if BioWare'll ever be allowed to make a follow-up to Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Whatever ends up being the future of a series EA've left in a…
CH.03 Raph Koster on the birth of MMORPGs and sandboxes as the ultimate expression of social gaming Say, would you like to hear Raph Koster talk about the history of our genre? But this time in a condensed video format without having to pay for entry into an…
CH.03 Fallen Earth’s latest multi-month server shutdown is finally being turned around by Little Orbit Is it deep dedication or deep into the sunk cost fallacy? We’re pretty confident that it’s the former, but either way, developer Little Orbit has had no…
CH.03 Path of Exile 1 sees yet another surge of Steam players and two days of hotfixing for its latest expansion If this past weekend’s headline for the Curse of the Allflame update launch in Path of Exile reads familiar, that’s probably because it is. This MMOARPG…
CH.04 "I dunno why they chose Crashphalt": forgotten Steam game suddenly becomes a hit after players start using it for Undertale online multiplayer Released back in 2018, Crashphalt is a free and eccentric multiplayer game in which players do ground-pounds to send out seismic ripples, striving to punt each…
CH.04 STALKER 2's Cost of Hope expansion, and its free but still hopeful 2.0 update, get an August release date Grab your Geiger counter and your copy of The Arbinger Institute’s seminal conflict resolution handbook The Anatomy of Peace, because STALKER 2’s faction war-y…
CH.03 EverQuest Legends is adding playable Kerran for this week’s launch, set for tomorrow at 3p EDT If EverQuest Legends’ self-imposed mission is experimenting with a classic formula to make it even better, it’s crushing it for launch week with the surprise…
CH.03 The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG isn’t playable on Steam Deck yet but should be? I feel very fortunate that I bought a Steam Deck a year ago instead of waiting since the price of everything has skyrocketed this year because of *gestures*.…
CH.04 Myst devs Cyan Worlds show off prototype for Project Anglerfish, a canned entry in the noted long-time RPS favourite series We famously love a bit of Myst here at RPS. Always have. So, naturally, Cyan Worlds deciding to bust out a teaser for a new game in the Mystverse that's since…
CH.04 Atari and Universal to create movies based on classic properties including Asteroids and Missile Command Atari boss Wade Rosen said the company hopes to bring the 'spirit of our iconic brand and games to a new medium.'
CH.04 This week in PC games: a battle royale detective game, a broken Y2K metaverse, a laptop tycoon sim, and a new Company of Heroes RTS Hello all! Welcome to another week of sordid digital diversions, aka new PC games, dumped upon the innocent wanderer like a chamberpot upended over your head…
CH.01 NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics
CH.04 Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls open beta beaten and bashed by PC performance issues, Arc System Works "apologise for the impact this has had on your experience" Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls' pre-launch open beta has just wrapped up, having been open over the weekend. Sadly, those who've given the fighter a go on PC…
CH.01 How AI is expanding what people do at work New OpenAI research shows how AI is expanding what workers do, with ChatGPT users taking on tasks across roles and reshaping job boundaries.
CH.03 MMO Week in Review: FFXIV in Berlin, Black Desert in SoCal, and Jimothy saturation It’s been a big week for both major MMO games and lil indies sneaking in around the corners too. Among the bigs, we got all the new details from Final Fantasy…
CH.03 Pantheon Rise of the Fallen shares efforts on Enchanter and Rogue mastery, bug fixing, and polishing The mastery development efforts will continue until class morale improves. OK, that’s not precisely what was shared by Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen in its…
CH.03 The MOP Up: Warframe recaps the reveals of TennoCon 2026 TennoCon 2026 is in the bag, and in case you missed all of its reveals, Digital Extremes put together a recap page with all the info. This includes the new…
CH.03 Ragnarok Origin Classic has launched in the Americas on PC and mobile Ragnarok Online is one of those MMO franchises that’ll give you a headache trying to keep track of its legion of sequels, spinoffs, ports, and relaunches. Now…
CH.03 Make My MMO: Legends of Aria and The Guild are back, SpiritVale breaks 20K concurrent Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older…
CH.03 Dungeons & Dragons accidentally unveiled a World of Warcraft collab ahead of schedule Say, World of Warcraft fan, would you like to play a character in Azeroth using the TTRPG system of Dungeons & Dragons? Sure, both of these properties have…
CH.03 One Shots: Ogre goes to Fantasy Magic School We’re often surprised to see that some of the, ahem, lower sentient races like Ogres are able to make it through Fantasy Magic School and find gainful…
CH.03 The Daily Grind: When do deaths in MMOs go from funny to annoying? “I have identified four problems with my plan,” I announced over voice chat as I ran forward in Palworld. Moments later, I got aggro from something much…
CH.04 The Sunday Papers Sundays are for sobbingly lifting exactly one boulder from the groaning dreampile that is my backlog. Good news, Vacuity, cpt_freakout and the rest – I'm…
CH.04 Commit cinematic sacrilege in Baldur's Gate 3 with this true third-person camera mod Video game cameras are often a point of contention primarily because a bad one can completely disorient you, or even outright make you feel sick. These are…
CH.03 Desert Oasis: Liveblogging from Black Desert Online’s Heidel Ball Hello, this is MOP’s Carlo reporting to you live from Black Desert Online’s Heidel Ball! What is the Heidel ball? Well, it’s the game’s one of two major…
CH.04 Ringwyrm might have a nasty sounding name, but its action horror, fantasy Soviet vibes are too compelling to ignore If we ignore the many, many negatives that came with the late 90s/early 2000s era of video marketing, there was a certain charm to the edginess that I kind of…
CH.03 Camelot Unchained is extending its usual time-limited early access to ten days as a result of server issues If you were hoping to hop into last weekend’s “early access” testing round of Camelot Unchained, you were sorely disappointed, as login issues cropped up that…
CH.04 Thick as Thieves studio does what triple-A won't: keep its game playable Poor Thick as Thieves. When it was revealed over two years ago it had some promise, or at the very least an interesting mechanical premise in that it was a…
CH.03 The Stream Team: All aboard EverRail All aboard! Recently, Massively OP’s MJ took a long ride on a train for a convention. But she’s pretty sure that experience will be nothing like the one she’ll…
CH.04 Sega like physical games too, says their president, but with the shift to digital they're keeping the humble PC in mind I don't see Sony going back on their plans to embrace a discless PlayStation future, but I do wonder if they realised just how many of us would continue to…
CH.03 Final Fantasy XIV’s latest live letter gave us a detailed preview of the Beastmaster coming in September The start of September is when Final Fantasy XIV players will get to enjoy the second limited job added to the game, Beastmaster, but this weekend’s fan…
CH.04 Final Fantasy 14's Evercold expansion brings aboard a Final Fantasy 7 collab and a job that's all about fighting with massive shields Finally, a Final Fantasy 14 job made specifically for the type of person who likes to dual wield shields in Dark Souls! The latest FF14 fan festival is taking…
CH.03 LOTRO Legendarium: Even more helpful tips to assist in your Middle-earth journeys Today I was sitting here thinking about writing yet another spate of ideas how Lord of the Rings Online could actually promote its dungeons and make them more…
CH.03 Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, and AQ3D confirm that Jimothy pets are incoming Earlier we reported on how MMORPG developers and fans had collectively caught Jimothy fever, which would be a weird sentence to read in any other timeline; the…
CH.03 WRUP: Presenting Bilford McGurkee’s Slam Your Hand In The Car Door edition Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about the worst reason we've ever had…
CH.03 Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Berlin reveals the new tank job, new areas, and a new FFVII raid The middle is the hardest place to be for a Final Fantasy XIV fan festival. After all, director and producer Naoki Yoshida has to reveal a whole bunch of…
CH.03 The Daily Grind: Do you routinely swap out your MMO main character? I fully admit that I have a real problem with indecision in MMORPGs — but it has nothing (well, very little) to do with jumping around to different titles.…
CH.04 What are we all playing this weekend? I spent most of last Saturday laid out in a Baku hotel room, muscles in both legs ground to flecks of useless meat by the decision to walk down a mountain when…
CH.03 Betawatch: Aion 2 outlines head start plans as Guild Wars 3 outlines its story premise Sometimes, there are MMORPGs that surprise you with how quickly they’re coming out, and Aion 2 is just that game for me. That’s not because it’s coming…
CH.03 MapleStory invites you to Ride the Lightning… again It’s big ol’ content patch week for MapleStory, which pushed out its formidable Ride the Lightning 2nd Update this week. The fun begins with a tussle against a…
CH.04 You can trade in your enemy's teeth to "bend" time in vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker, care of some really horrible Tooth Fairies I've been vaguely looking forward to grotty dark fantasy RPG The Blood Of Dawnwalker, despite its genAI flirtations. To recap, it casts you as a medieval…
CH.04 Blizzard fire World Of Warcraft developer over use of forbidden magicks to insta-kill bosses for regular players during dungeon run World of Warcraft studio Blizzard have announced that they've fired a developer after development-only spells were used to insta-kill some Mythic+ dungeon…
CH.04 HyperX Pulsefire Saga gaming mouse review: modular parts win hearts If the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike’s analogue clickers were all about fine-tuning the sensation at the very tips of your mousing fingers, the HyperX…
CH.04 13 years on, unfinishable survival game Project Zomboid is getting a major update with an expanded Kentucky map, animal husbandry, and revised crafting I return to Project Zomboid exactly like an emaciated survivor crawling back to the undead-ridden town they abandoned many moons ago, having finally exhausted…
CH.04 Black Flag Resynced beats annual sales expectations in two weeks Publisher Ubisoft shared the news after confirming the remake has sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide.
CH.04 How Jackbox Games navigated the post-pandemic sales slump ft. Mike Bilder Jackbox Games CEO Mike Bilder joins the show to discuss how the Jackbox Party Pack developers survived the decline of sales after the end of the 2020 COVID-19…
CH.04 Surprise, Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition's Baltic Powers expansion has re-emerged from the annals of cancelled DLC history, will come out in September Ah! You hadn't totally retreated from the battlefield following your cancellation in early 2025, Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition's Baltic Powers DLC! It…
CH.04 I enjoy Fallgrade's grainy physics-defying city almost as much as I fear its foggy giant spider It is said that to name a wild thing is to tame it, to delimit and temper it, to defuse its menace. The giant, vaporous spider in Fallgrade is called Karl.…
CH.04 "Let's make a better world": Denshattack's developers on counterculture, biker gangs, and the optimism of fighting a mecha with a train In hindsight, I was a fool for meeting Denshattack’s satirical, irreverent, downright countercultural sensibilities with surprise. Upbeat, even goofy as it is…
CH.04 Kingdom Come Salvation could be Warhorse's next medieval history RPG, if this EU trademark filing turns out to be the genuine article Kingdom Come Deliverance developers Warhorse confirmed back in May that they've got a "new Kingdom Come adventure" in the works, alongside a Lord of the Rings…
CH.04 Saudi-led EA buyout receives EU approval, Xbox trials ad-supported game streaming, and Poinpy is eternal - Patch Notes #62 Plus: Bethesda union workers hit back at Xbox and some never-before-seen Pokemon designs.
CH.04 Sweeping, strafing and suppression: Total War: Warhammer 40,000 threatens to blow up Total War's combat fundamentals Perhaps predictably, Creative Assembly's Total War: Warhammer 40,000 could be quite the step change for how Total War handles ranged combat. Yesterday, the…
CH.04 Thwack, the Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls open beta is underway, and, pow, Phoenix Cyclops is coming as a post-launch DLC fighter Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls' pre-launch open beta has opened its doors today, July 24th. It's set to run until July 27th, so offers a chance to end your week…
CH.04 Steam adds wishlist categories and cross-region gifting Steam has revamped how wishlists and gifting works across the platform.
CH.04 Dinoblade, out now, is equal parts janky, genuinely sick and silly as hell Four years ago, a developer called Jean Nguyen shared a short video on Dwitter of a spinosaurus pulling off a sick combo with Cloud Strife's Buster Sword.…
CH.04 I've yet to smash open a Dyson Sphere in sci-fi RTS Sanctuary: Shattered Sun, but I'm enjoying its take on Supreme Commander Sanctuary: Shattered Sun is the kind of unwholesomely large real-time strategy game where you keep accidentally auto-constructing 50 missile trucks because you…
CH.04 Saudi Arabia's $55 billion EA buyout approved by the European Commission, who say it doesn't "raise competition concerns" The $55 billion leveraged buyout which will see Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner-founded investment firm Affinity Partners become the new owners of…
CH.04 Vermila Studios lays off its staff, studio closure a 'feasible possibility' in coming months 'We're going to try to pull through for the time being without shutting down,' says CEO David Carrasco.
CH.04 Terrific castle-building sim Cataclismo is being transformed into a chunky strategy boardgame, care of a paid Old Kingdom expansion Excellent real-time castle defender Cataclismo is getting a DLC expansion, The Old Kingdom, which transforms it into a hex-based strategy boardgame. Players…
CH.04 Rockstar Games Workers Union say their first meeting with the GTA 6 studio's management was "a step in the right direction" The recently formed Rockstar developer union - officially the Rockstar Games Workers Union - have had their first meeting with management at the GTA 6 maker,…
CH.04 Saudi Arabia's divisive EA buyout approved under EU merger rules 'The Commission concluded that the notified transaction would not raise competition concerns.'
CH.04 You only get one, permakillable Jedi Padawan in Star Wars Zero Company, but that's fine because I'm going to roll an R2-D2 deathsquad anyway Star Wars Zero Company is the XCOM-style tactics RPG in which you, a Clone Wars-era roughneck called Hawks, lead a squad of "unconventional professionals" into…
CH.01 Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers
CH.01 Launching Health in ChatGPT Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their…
CH.01 Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
CH.01 Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.
CH.01 How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI tools supporting journalists and…
CH.01 Advancing the next era of national science OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate…
CH.01 Introducing OpenAI Presence Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal…
CH.01 NTT DATA Group cuts incident analysis to 30 minutes with Codex NTT DATA Group uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to help 9,000 employees automate work, cut incident analysis to 30 minutes, and scale secure AI adoption.
CH.01 Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.
CH.01 Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
CH.01 OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for…
CH.01 Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data
CH.01 David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing global leadership in finance, technology, and governance.
CH.01 Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative…
CH.01 Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.
CH.01 A scorecard for the AI age Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on…
CH.01 Why teens deserve access to safe AI Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and expert partnerships.
CH.01 Newer Models, Same Advantage
CH.01 Our approach to bioresilience Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.
CH.01 How Codex became a collaborator for OpenAI’s creative team How OpenAI’s creative team uses Codex to build custom creative tools, accelerate ideation, and prototype faster with context-aware AI.
CH.01 Security incident disclosure — July 2026
CH.01 How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams…
CH.01 What building Shippy taught us about building agents
CH.01 Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t.
CH.01 The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action OpenAI outlines a “reverse federalism” approach to AI governance, where state laws help build a national framework for safe, democratic AI.
CH.01 GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.
CH.01 Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines
CH.01 Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI
CH.01 How to manage AI investments in the agentic era Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.
CH.01 How sales teams use ChatGPT Work See how sales teams can use ChatGPT Work to create pipeline briefs, meeting prep packets, forecast reviews, account plans, and stalled-deal diagnoses from real…
CH.01 How data science teams use ChatGPT Work See how data science teams can use ChatGPT Work to build root-cause briefs, impact readouts, KPI memos, scoped analyses, and dashboard specs from real work…
CH.01 Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.
CH.01 How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI How Deutsche Telekom is becoming an AI-native telco with OpenAI-transforming customer service, employee workflows, network operations, and the future of voice.
CH.01 Profiling in PyTorch (Part 3): Attention is all you profile
CH.01 Getting started with ChatGPT Learn how to use ChatGPT, start your first conversation, and discover simple ways to write, brainstorm, and solve problems with AI.
CH.01 GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work.
CH.01 GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work.
CH.01 ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.