Ubisoft reportedly testing generative AI in Far Cry 7, insider says it ‘looks like sh*t’ — company recently posted a record €1.3 billion loss

Ubisoft is using an early build of its unannounced Far Cry 7 as a testbed for generative AI tools, according to Tom Henderson of Insider Gaming.

Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street’s wealth managers didn’t have
Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street’s wealth managers didn’t have

Moment, the fintech company founded by a cohort of former Citadel Securities quantitative traders and researchers, has raised $78 million. The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Avra. The …

AI is killing the cheap smartphone. The memory that powers your phone now goes to data centres instead.
AI is killing the cheap smartphone. The memory that powers your phone now goes to data centres instead.

In 1985, the best computer a reasonably affluent American could buy was the IBM PC AT, which cost $19,400 in today’s money. Today, a Tecno Spark Go costs $30 in a Nairobi market stall and runs a processor billions of times faster. No other good in hist…

DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.
DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.

DeepSeek has made permanent the 75% price discount on its flagship V4 Pro model. The promotion was originally scheduled to expire on 31 May. The Chinese AI startup’s pricing now ranges from $0.003625 to $0.87 per million tokens, down from $0.0145 to $3…

SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals Musk’s clean energy contradiction. xAI burns gas while Tesla sells solar.
SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals Musk’s clean energy contradiction. xAI burns gas while Tesla sells solar.

The SpaceX IPO prospectus, filed on Wednesday, contains a vision for terawatt-scale space-based solar power. It also reveals, through what it does not say, that Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is running its data centres on unregulated natural gas turbines,…

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos found 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in one month. The patches can’t keep up.
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos found 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in one month. The patches can’t keep up.

Anthropic disclosed on Friday that Project Glasswing, its restricted cybersecurity initiative, has uncovered more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerability candidates across some of the most systemically important software in the world since…

AI cost crisis hits tech giants as employee ‘tokenmaxxing’ backfires, sparking corporate pullback at Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon — agentic AI eats up to 1000x more tokens than standard AI

Agentic AI is consuming so many tokens that it’s draining AI budgets way faster than expected. Jevons Paradox rings true 161 years after it was coined.

Berlin’s Peec AI more than doubled revenue to $10M ARR in six months. Its product helps brands show up in ChatGPT.
Berlin’s Peec AI more than doubled revenue to $10M ARR in six months. Its product helps brands show up in ChatGPT.

Peec AI, a Berlin-based startup that helps brands track and improve their visibility in AI-generated search results, has crossed $10 million in annualised revenue, according to internal dashboard data seen and verified by TechCrunch. The milestone come…

South Korea’s deputy PM says AI wealth must benefit the public. The Samsung strike showed why.
South Korea’s deputy PM says AI wealth must benefit the public. The Samsung strike showed why.

South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said the wealth created by artificial intelligence must benefit the wider public, warning that the labour tensions that nearly shut down Samsung Electronics this week are not an isolated event but a pr…