It's Friday, so we have another episode of the pre-alpha GamesIndustry.biz Podcast. Once again I'm joined by Lewis Packwood to discuss the main issues of the week, which is to say Xbox: specifically, the decision to pull Call of Duty out of Game Pass and cut its price. It's a big decision, and we have some data to suggest the thinking behind it.
Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg said at WIRED Health in London that the startup has built a “broad and exciting pipeline of new medicines.”
Bootstrap Bio and Manhattan Genomics, which were pursuing human embryo editing to prevent serious disease, have shut down.
Matthew Tighe's company Do Games has spent the best part of the last decade porting games to consoles, including titles like Cult of the Lamb and Art of Rally. His new venture, Gameworks, aims to take all of the knowledge gleaned from that effort and apply it to making developers' lives a little easier.
Apple’s sold-out Mac mini is spawning marked-up eBay listings as demand surges for the compact desktop, now favored for running local AI models and tools.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has described Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as having a ten-year vision that sees Xbox as critical audience for the company, as part of a wide-ranging interview with Game File that emphasised the firm's commitment to driving Game Pass subscription revenues and investing in features for the firm's next console, known as Project Helix.
A US surveillance program that lets the FBI view Americans’ communications without a warrant is up for renewal. A new bill aims to address mounting lawmaker concerns—with smoke and mirrors.
Amazon-backed X-energy was able to raise around 20% more money in its IPO as demand for nuclear power surges.
Tim Cook was a great CEO, but he didn’t crack AI. It’s job number 1 for John Ternus.
Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone. The company that allegedly developed the spyware was not previously known to sell this type of software.
Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus. Ternus may be inheriting one of the most durable businesses in tech, but he’s also stepping into a very different ecosystemthan the one Cook spent decades shaping. The App Store’s 30% cut is under pressure, the behind-the-scenes power Apple once […]
Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stacked lineup of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join the rest of the lineup to discuss operating at scale in the age of AI.
Nothing's new on-device dictation tool supports over 100 languages.
Microsoft is reportedly introducing a one-time voluntary retirement program for US employees, potentially impacting up to 7% of its workforce.
DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.
This week, Xbox announced that Call of Duty will no longer be added to Game Pass Ultimate at launch, instead being added around a year later. This was paired with a reduction in the cost of the service, from $29.99 down to $22.99 on Xbox and from $16.49 to $13.99 a month for PC Game Pass.
Dyson’s newest stick vacuum has a fresh, streamlined look and some limitations. But I still keep reaching for it.
Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon's homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race has begun.
Clean your house without the constraint of a power cord with these cordless stick vacuums.
