Apple TV's $2 price rise is really about Services
The streaming increase arrives as Apple prepares a hardware engineer to inherit a company increasingly dependent on high-margin subscriptions.
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The Witcher 3 Remastered launches free on 29 September
Existing owners get the remaster and both previous expansions free, while the paid Songs of the Past expansion follows in 2027.
GTA VI Extended Look shows 26 minutes of PS5 gameplay
Rockstar’s first long gameplay presentation shows Jason and Lucia across Leonida on PlayStation 5, with the 19 November launch still in place.
Steam2 leak exposes 12 TB of pre-2013 game builds
Researchers are cataloguing early Valve builds and third-party depots reportedly obtained from a public legacy endpoint. Valve has not commented.
NBA 2K27 leak gives modders an early look at Nvidia’s DLSS 5
A 158 MB neural-rendering library found in the game’s PC build has already been transplanted into Control and other titles, but the results are unofficial and costly.
Google researchers’ WikiSkill helps a 9B model beat a 27B rival
The smaller Qwen model scored 47.4% across five agent benchmarks after evolving reusable skills, compared with 39.4% for the larger model without them.
Broadcom earnings lead a crowded week of AI events
LEAP, Fal.Con and VMware Explore open on Monday, Broadcom reports on Wednesday and IFA Berlin begins Friday, with Apple’s September event moving into view.
Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold remains sold out after its limited run
The $2,899 dual-hinged phone unfolded into a 10-inch tablet, but Samsung stopped regular sales after three months and cleared the final US stock in April.
Federal judge rules Pentagon’s Anthropic designation unlawful
The court found First Amendment retaliation, denied due process and a supply-chain finding unsupported by the law, while leaving the Pentagon free to choose another AI supplier.
Tencent releases open-source Hy4 preview with 770 billion parameters
The Apache-licensed mixture-of-experts model activates 49 billion parameters per token, supports a one-million-token context window and launches with API pricing below $1 per million input tokens.
Andreessen Horowitz raises $1.1 billion fund for AI hardware
The Machine Age Fund will back chips, memory, networking, data centres, robotics and home AI appliances as the firm makes hardware an official investment strategy.
Nvidia’s $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal is not yet confirmed
The Information says Nvidia agreed to buy the open-model hub, while Business Insider says no deal has been signed. Neither company has confirmed a transaction.
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OpenAI plans to cut Cursor’s model access after SpaceX acquisition
OpenAI has proposed ending direct model access on 12 November, while Cursor says the lab accounts for about 5% of its traffic and Anthropic is expanding Claude capacity.
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The iPhone Ultra’s real test is not the fold
Apple’s first foldable could become the screen that AI has been waiting for—or an exquisitely engineered answer to a question most people stopped asking.
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Slow 5G upgrades in UK a warning to other countries' AI ambitions
UK telecom executives say slow 5G upgrades and planning delays could leave networks unable to absorb mass AI traffic.
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Meta patches recording-light loophole in its AI glasses
Meta has closed a loophole in its AI glasses. It has not answered the harder question of what bystanders agree to.
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Reported AI loss-of-control incidents nearly doubled in July
Reports of AI systems lying, ignoring instructions and pursuing harmful goals are rising. The more serious failure may be how little we know about them.
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Lambda secures $1 billion in debt to buy Nvidia chips
Lambda’s $1 billion chip-financing deal reveals the leverage beneath the race for compute.
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Google Search begins auto-expanding AI answers above web links
Auto-expanded AI answers move links farther down the page—and quietly redefine what search is for.
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Welcome to Learning the World
AI is making all of us relearn a world we thought we understood. This is a field journal from inside the change.