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- Hundreds of AI-decompiled or vibe-coded clones of games appeared in recent weeks, ported to run in browsers; some big titles like GTA: Vice City, Halo play well (Lewis Parker/Kotaku) [40m]
- Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny (Financial Times) [1h]
- IDC: Shenzhen-based DJI and Insta360, accounting for 73% and 20% of global smart camera market in Q2, are vying for the top spot as GoPro's share drops to 3% (William Langley/Financial Times) [1h]
- A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access (CBS News) [3h]
- A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute (Jemima McEvoy/The Information) [5h]
- How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (Wall Street Journal) [6h]
- Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more (Adam Morgan/Wired) [7h]
- A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal) [9h]
- Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/Politico) [11h]
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- Deadlock surpasses Team Fortress 2's all-time concurrent player count peak as it adds a chess wizard [3h]
- The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company is hiring back some of its furloughed staff [3h]
- WoW: Forever, by casting off modern convenience, has horseshoed back around to being casual friendly again [5h]
- Triple-A Minesweeper is a gleeful send-up of blockbuster gaming's worst habits, from yellow paint to characters who talk too much [6h]
- The advent of first-person shooters introduced a wild frontier of unregulated video game level packs, and it ended in a lawsuit that changed copyright forever [6h]
- Be warned: Nivalis Nights may not be the cozy game you expect: 'If you want a cozy existence in this city, you're going to have to earn it' [6h]
- Expect plenty more Silent Hill over the next few years, as Konami has plans for 'second and third waves' of new games in its revived horror series [7h]
- 'If you're skilful enough, you can chop the head off a monster, kick it midair, and then kill another monster with it': Consider me sold on this indie first-person ARPG [9h]
- Mafia 3, which PC Gamer scored 54% but which I say is great, got a nice little 10th-anniversary update [9h]
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