Sony-owned Sucker Punch Productions, the Ghost of Yotei developer, reportedly laid off 26 people after citing market challenges and staffing needs for its next project.
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Mirendil introduced Fern 0.1 as its first model and says it can handle up to 10 million tokens of context. The company pitches it for auditing training data, debugging runs from logs and reading agent traces, but access is still coming soon.
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The Golden Joystick Awards opened voting for 2026 Ultimate Game of the Year and named 12 nominees, including 007 First Light, Dispatch and Resident Evil Requiem. Voting closes Friday, October 30, with no closing hour given.
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Marvel Cosmic Invasion’s The Siege of Castle Doom DLC launches November 10, with a new roguelike mode that has players choose branching routes, gather batteries and try to stop Doctor Doom’s Cosmic Inductor
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Meta launched about $35 billion in stock offerings to fund its AI expansion, with a separate plan that could bring the total to $95 billion.
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SpaceX’s Super Heavy Booster 22 returned to Mega Bay 1 after a static-fire test on Pad 2, part of preparations for Starship Flight Test 15.
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Phantom Blade Zero’s review embargo has lifted, and the early verdict is strong. Critics praise its fluid kung fu combat and memorable bosses, with some calling it a Game of the Year contender. Out October 29 on PS5 and PC.
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Anthropic filed for a Nasdaq IPO under ANT, saying first-half revenue hit $16.3 billion while net loss reached $80.7 billion
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Andy Jassy says AWS cloud capacity is largely sold out through 2027, with commitments already stretching into 2028 amid AI infrastructure demand.
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SpaceX closed $40 billion in debt financing for GPUs, and Elon Musk says the company’s investment-grade status plus Starlink and launch revenue kept it in debt markets.
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Renate Reinsve reportedly met with Marvel Studios about playing Moira MacTaggert in the upcoming X-Men reboot film.
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Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope found evidence for a Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf, a candidate that could be the first exomoon beyond our Solar System, though it still awaits confirmation.
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Early reviews call Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 a return to form after Black Ops 7, with Game Informer giving it 8.5/10 and praising the new DMZ extraction mode and multiplayer while saying the campaign’s plot is uneven.
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Elon Musk said SpaceX throttled Starlink in Ukraine after saying its civilian service was used for offensive drone strikes, while Zelenskyy said access had been restored to previous speeds.
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Researchers used lasers and a tiny piece of plastic to recreate a solar-like process that heated electrons and may help explain why the sun’s corona is so hot.
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Alexandr Wang called Scale alumni the “first true mafia of the modern tech era,” pointing to former colleagues now at Cognition, Modal, Claude Code, venture firms and the White House.
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Elvis Presley rightsholders sued Anthropic, alleging it trained AI on 274 songs without permission and kept generating infringing output after guardrails were added, Rolling Stone reports.
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Amazon reportedly dropped a single AirTag 2 to $23, down from $29, with 9to5Toys calling it its lowest tracked Amazon price and MacRumors calling it a record low.
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Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary expanded to hundreds of theaters on October 16, then was missing from most major metro showtimes a week later as ticket sales sank to $74,000 in its third week.
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Astronomers found three actively feeding black holes in one galaxy more than 12.5 billion light-years away, with two just 620 light-years apart and expected to merge.
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