Sony to Sell New PlayStation Games Only in Digital Form From 2028
Sony said that starting in January 2028, new games for its PlayStation consoles will be released only in digital form, a decision the company has now posted prominently on its…
Google Overtakes Naver in South Korea Search for the First Time
Google’s share of South Korea’s search market has overtaken local champion Naver for the first time, according to Aju Press, a first in a market long considered the toughest test…
Google Play Adds Venmo, Opening App Store Payments
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–For a decade, buying apps on Google Play meant paying with a Google account: credit cards, carrier billing, and Google Pay were the options, and developers grumbled about…
TSMC Revives Longtan for 1.4nm Fabs and a CoWoS Hub
The land on the outskirts of Longtan, a district in Taoyuan in northern Taiwan, spent three years as a symbol of what happens when a government refuses to accept a…
TSMC Sits on $1 Billion in Finished Apple Chips as DRAM Shortage Bites
Inside TSMC’s fabs, the work is done. The 2-nanometer chips Apple ordered are manufactured, tested and packed, worth roughly $1 billion, or about NT$32 billion. And there they sit, because…
Microsoft’s 200-Euro Bet on Game Hardware
The price of an Xbox Series X rose by as much as 200 euros in Europe and the UK on August 1, according to Video Games Chronicle, as Microsoft stopped…
OpenAI’s Revenue Keeps Climbing as a Key Researcher Returns
In an all-hands meeting this month, OpenAI’s chief financial officer delivered a message the company rarely puts on the record: the growth has not slowed down. Sarah Friar told employees…
Anthropic Says It Never Sought to Ban Open-Weight AI Models
Anthropic moved July 28 to correct what it called a misreading of its position on open-weight AI models, saying it has never advocated for banning them. The clarification, issued by…
Hugging Face Demands $100 Million in Compute From OpenAI After Agent Breach
The chief executive of Hugging Face spent the weekend with engineers pulling logs from an intrusion that most of the AI industry had hoped to treat as an internal testing…
Xbox Live Goes Dark, and Even Single-Player Games Stop Working
The error message appeared on millions of screens on July 27: a failed sign-in, a license check that would not complete, a game that refused to launch. Xbox Live, Microsoft’s…
