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VC firms DST Global and Iconiq are piling into e-commerce startup Swap Commerce, which is going up against Shopify.

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence.

A group of former Boss Fight Entertainment developers have banded together to form Sunwise Games.

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Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI.  Larco, who’s been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks we’re about to see a shift in how consumers spend time online, with AI powering “concierge-like” services. The question is, will legacy consumer products […]

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $10 billion at a $350 billion valuation, marking its third mega-round in a year.

Skylight, known for its digital picture frame, has a new digital product that puts software and AI at the center.

Google Classroom now offers a Gemini-powered tool that generates podcast-style audio lessons for teachers to deepen engagement with students.

At DevGAMM Lisbon in November, Alexandre Amancio gave a presentation entitled 'From AAA to Ashes: Why the Future Belongs to the Bold'. He didn't mince his words in the talk's description: "After a decade of over-expansion, studio bloat, and risk-averse thinking, we’re now living through the fallout: mass layoffs, creative stagnation, and a growing disconnect between developers and the games they make. Somewhere along the way, we stopped chasing greatness and started chasing metrics. We prioritized politics over craft, comfort over challenge, and content pipelines over originality. In sum: the Western games industry is in crisis."

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Caterpillar is piloting Cat AI, a system of AI agents in one of its excavators built on Nvidia's physical AI platform.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he left a bear cub’s corpse in Central Park in 2014 to “be fun.” Records newly obtained by WIRED show what he left New York civil servants to clean up.

New research has given credence to a 5,000-year-old practice.

Mainstream reporters are out at the Pentagon, and right-wing influencers are in. The results are predictable, and oddly reminiscent of Iraq War–era warblogging.

Quilt's heat pumps are built containing a suite of sensors, which have delivered mountains of data that allow its engineers to wring added performance out of its systems.

Like a lot of Breville's best devices, the Luxe Brewer combines technical sophistication with easy single-button operation.

You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.

You can tap a friend’s listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.

The studio's board unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance's revised $108.4 billion bid, calling the proposal a "leveraged buyout" that would saddle the company with $87 billion in debt.

Ubisoft has announced the closure of Ubisoft Halifax, the Canadian studio which was working on mobile titles for Rainbow Six and Assassin's Creed, affecting 71 staff members.

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The Top Five most played games on PlayStation 5 in the US for 2025 were the same as in 2024, with Fortnite in the top spot.

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Spotify is dropping the minimum episode requirement to three, minimum consumption hours to 2,000, and engaged audience member threshold to 1,000 over the last 30 days.