Epic Games Goes AI-First on Its Delayed Disney Shooter
Bloomberg reports Epic Games will let AI write the code and guide the art for a delayed Marvel and Star Wars shooter, raising labour and quality questions.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
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Q3 2026 Venture Funding Fell to $159B as Billion-Dollar Rounds Set a Record
Crunchbase reports global venture funding of $159 billion in Q3 2026, down 25% from Q2 but up 53% year on year, with a record 27 billion-dollar rounds.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
AI-Found Rejetto HFS Authentication Bypass Draws Exploitation Attempts
VulnCheck logged reconnaissance-grade exploitation attempts against CVE-2026-61500, a 9.3-rated Rejetto HFS authentication bypass that an AI model helped find.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
OpenAI Revenue Below Expectations Sends AI-Linked Stocks Lower
OpenAI told investors annualized revenue neared $50 billion, below the roughly $68 billion figure reporters had used, and AI stocks fell on October 8, 2026.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
Google Launches Playground, an AI Platform That Builds Playable Games From Prompts
Google launched Playground on October 7, 2026, a browser-based platform where prompts build playable games, with Unity Spark set to follow later this year.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
Minecraft in Elden Ring and a PS5 Jailbreak: AI Reshapes the Modding Gray Zone
Modders used AI tools to run Minecraft inside Elden Ring, as PS5 emulators hit milestones and the Relapse jailbreak spread. Many viral clips remain unverified.
By TPW Editorial9 min read
Schneider Electric to Buy PTC for $22.6 Billion in Its Biggest Deal Yet
Schneider Electric agreed to acquire PTC for about $22.6 billion in cash, its largest deal, betting on industrial AI. The closing is expected in Q3 2027.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
Abbott Halts Texas Data Center Environmental Permits Pending an ERCOT Audit
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered regulators to halt all data center environmental permits until ERCOT finishes auditing the state's grid connection waitlist.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
Meta One Puts AI and Creator Tools Behind a Monthly Subscription
Meta launched Meta One, a subscription service spanning Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Meta AI, with plans from $2.99 to $499 a month.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
IBM and NASA Open-Source a Foundation Model for the Moon
The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model turns decades of lunar observations into an open model and dataset, beating prior methods on key surface features by up to 23%.
By TPW Editorial3 min read
Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO Would Be the Largest Ever: If the Market Agrees
Anthropic's backers expect an October listing above $2 trillion, which would eclipse SpaceX. The bet rests on a run rate, not booked revenue, and the skeptics know it.
By TPW Editorial4 min read
GPT-6 Astra Is OpenAI's Most Capable Model, and Its Hardest to Inspect
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops coding, agent, and security benchmarks, and it's the first model the company rates 'Critical' for cyber capability. The catch: it's also harder to monitor from the inside.
By TPW Editorial4 min read
The Week in AI: 5 Things You Missed
Open-weight models closed the gap, on-device agents got real, and the platform war turned into a land grab. The AI news that actually mattered this week.
By TPW Editorial18 min read
New York City Bans Student-Facing AI Through Eighth Grade
New York City will bar generative AI for roughly 600,000 students in pre-K through eighth grade for a year, pairing the ban with screen-time caps and high-school AI literacy classes.
By TPW Editorial9 min read
Small Language Models Are Having a Moment
Bigger isn't always better. Small language models are getting shockingly capable, and they run on the hardware you already own.
By TPW Editorial2 min read
The Week in Tech: YouTube Rewrites the View, Europe's Chips Get Closer
YouTube redefined the view, a $700 million settlement closed the Google Play case, TSMC readied its first angstrom node, and Stripe bought the AI meter.
By TPW Editorial18 min read
The Week in Tech: AI Agents Learn to Browse, Foldables Grow Up
Cloudflare and Hark gave agents a browser, MetaMask gave them a wallet, ByteDance gave them eyes and ears, and Samsung's foldables finally grew up. Issue #01.
By TPW Editorial20 min read
Mixture of Experts, Explained: Why the Biggest AI Models Activate Only Part of Themselves
Sparse mixture-of-experts models activate a small fraction of their parameters per token. How routing, capacity and serving shape the largest AI models.
By TPW Editorial10 min read
The Indie AI Startup Playbook
Small teams are beating well-funded incumbents by building vertical AI products. Here's the playbook we keep seeing work.
By TPW Editorial3 min read
Desktop GPUs Are Back in a Big Way
After a decade of stagnation, discrete desktop GPUs are booming again, and the reason is AI running at home, not gaming.
By TPW Editorial3 min read