PlayStation Can Delete Your Digital Games If You Don’t Log In for 3 Years
A long-buried Sony clause is back in the spotlight: don’t log in for three years and your digital games can vanish. The catch that comes with an all-digital future.
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The Quantum Land-Grab: IonQ’s $1.08B Buy and Washington’s Supply-Chain Play
IonQ is spending $1.08B on a UK rival, PsiQuantum is getting $100M in federal money, and Washington is taking equity stakes. The quantum supply chain is being bought up.
The AI Video Model Showdown: Veo 3.1 vs Kling 3.0 Turbo vs Seedance 2.5 (and Sora’s Quiet Exit)
Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 Turbo, Seedance 2.5, Runway Gen-4.5 — the AI video field got crowded and cheap fast. Here’s which one to use for what, minus the marketing.
Jodie Foster Looked at Brad Pitt’s “F1” and Asked If a Computer Made It
“Wasn’t it?” Jodie Foster’s jab at Brad Pitt’s F1 is the perfect distillation of Hollywood’s new anxiety — that the polished blockbuster now feels machine-made.
SpaceX Bought Cursor for $60 Billion — the Biggest Startup Acquisition Ever
Days after the biggest IPO in history, SpaceX is spending $60B in stock to buy Cursor. It’s the largest startup acquisition ever — and a very Musk kind of vertical integration.
GPT-5.6 Is Here: Sol, Terra and Luna — and Terra Is Aimed Straight at Claude Sonnet 5
GPT-5.6 went public in three tiers. Sol is the coding flagship with a subagent “ultra” mode; Terra is priced to punch Claude Sonnet 5 in the mouth. What to actually use.
The AI Boom Has a Crime Subplot: Thieves Are Now Robbing Data-Center Sites for Copper
The AI boom is so big it has organized crime rings now. Thieves are hitting data-center supply chains for copper and gear — and shipping it to exactly where you’d guess.
Quantinuum’s $1.68B Nasdaq IPO Tested the Quantum Rally — and Closed Flat
The biggest pure-play quantum IPO yet raised $1.68B — and closed flat on day one. A market watcher’s read on what Quantinuum’s debut says about quantum stocks.
Anthropic Is Talking to Samsung About Building Its Own AI Chip
Anthropic is reportedly in early talks with Samsung to build a custom AI chip on a 2nm process. Everyone’s trying to escape the Nvidia tax — few will pull it off.
Microsoft’s $2.5B “Frontier Company”: the Pivot From Selling Models to Deploying Them
Microsoft is putting $2.5B and 6,000 people into embedding with customers to actually deploy AI. It’s the clearest sign yet that the money is moving from models to implementation.