Call of Duty never made much sense for Xbox Game Pass
…But the Call of Duty news and Game Pass price cut hints at what that might mean, and it looks a lot like correcting poor decisions from the past.
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Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says there are three labs that matter — and he wants Microsoft to be the fourth.
…development of one that will tie together ChatGPT, the Codex coding platform, and the Atlas web browser. Microsoft’s strategy is similar, bringing together a variety of existing Copilot AI assistants. Its…
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
…OpenAI and Anthropic shifted their pricing plans for enterprise. OpenAI introduced in-platform advertisements. Anthropic, of course, restricted third-party tools. In some ways, this is a tale as old as…
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
…Microsoft has raised the prices of its 13-inch Surface Pro 11 and 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 by $500 more than their original starting price. Microsoft stopped selling the $999…
The Rivian R2 is too much fun to let drive itself
…But that racy Rover guzzles premium gasoline, starts from $152,000 — 2.5 times the R2 Performance’s price — and its onboard tech is relatively primitive. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp…
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
…Dan Stein, former head of software and digital platforms for Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS), was appointed as new chief revenue officer for GitHub. With GitHub’s revenue now reporting into…
If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can
…A new standalone Antigravity desktop app will serve as a central hub for agent interaction, and the whole system is now designed as a platform to build and manage autonomous agents, Google…
Final Fantasy meets Zelda? Yes, please
…But Square Enix has also grown the HD-2D style to encompass more genres, like Triangle Strategy’s, well, strategy, and now an action-adventure game. As you can probably guess, Elliot…
Can Patreon fight fire with social media fire?
…media on the platform. That was an emergent piece of the strategy that came from the organization. It wasn’t just like, “Ah, let’s turn on discovery, and put different creator…
Energy
…As energy prices soar, Trump’s systematic pivot away from solar and wind in favor of big-beautiful fossil fuels is looking dumber than Brendan Carr . Spain invested heavily in renewables and…