Sony has announced that from January 2028 onward, new PlayStation games will no longer come on physical discs. Instead, every new title will be sold as a digital download through the PlayStation Store and other online retailers. This follows years of players buying most games online already — Sony says about 85% of full-game sales on PS4 […]
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Companies that rushed to replace people with artificial intelligence are now hiring some of them back. Big names — Ford, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and IBM among them — found that automated systems missed important problems or broke under real-world pressure. Instead of saving money straight away, those firms discovered gaps that only experienced humans could fill, and
June’s showdown between Washington and big AI labs — capped by Sam Altman’s FT appeal — marks a turning point. After the Mythos and Fable episodes, regulators moved from cautionary whispers to visible pressure, forcing labs to pause or retract advanced releases. Altman’s proposal for a U.S. led forum to set safety standards reflects industry recognition that self-regulation
The U.S. government briefly pulled Anthropic’s Fable 5 from public access in mid-June after researchers found ways to bypass its safety checks. Nearly three weeks later, Anthropic reopened Fable 5 after the Commerce Department lifted export controls; the model now runs with tighter filters and limits on use while the company and regulators review risks. Anthropic
Sonnet 5 delivers clear, measurable improvements in agentic coding and multi-step reasoning versus Sonnet 4.6, adding browser and terminal capabilities and longer-context operation that make it a more practical, lower-cost tool for knowledge-work automation. However, Sonnet 5 shows weaker cybersecurity benchmark results than 4.6, which Anthropic says reflects a lack of deliberate security training. That shortfall matters for
Meta’s Brain2Qwerty is a new AI system that tries to turn brain activity into typed text by looking at signals linked to language and movement, rather than reading “thoughts” in a magical way. It is still a research system, but it shows that non-invasive brain scanning may one day help people communicate again without surgery. In Version
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OpenAI’s limited preview of GPT-5.6, with the Sol flagship locked to about 20 vetted partners at the U.S. government’s request, marks a turning point: the most powerful AI is being handed first to governments and a few firms, while researchers, startups and the public are left waiting. The safety argument for gating has weight — powerful
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IBM this week unveiled a “nanostack” design that stacks transistors in 3D to pack far more components into the same footprint. The company says the approach reaches sub‑nanometer scales (around 0.7 nm), approaching atomic dimensions and promising bigger performance gains as 2D scaling slows. IBM plans to combine vertical (3D sequential) transistor architectures with new materials and
Apple has raised prices on many Macs and iPads by $100–$200 or more, blaming a dramatic rise in memory and storage chip costs driven by the booming AI infrastructure market. CEO Tim Cook says he has never seen anything like it in over 40 years. The move sent Apple shares lower and signals that the chip crunch
The White House has asked OpenAI to limit access to GPT‑5.6, asking that the model be rolled out first to a small set of government‑approved partners while safety checks are completed. The request follows similar interventions around Anthropic’s Mythos and other top‑tier models, signaling that Washington now wants a formal say when frontier AI reaches the
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OpenAI’s new custom chip, Jalapeño, marks a major shift from being a model maker to becoming a full-stack AI company. Built with Broadcom in just nine months, it is designed to run finished AI models more efficiently and reduce OpenAI’s dependence on Nvidia for every layer of compute. What makes this notable is not just the chip
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