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Fable PS5 Main Story Is 15-20 Hours, Playground Confirms

Playground Games' Fable reboot will feature a 15-20 hour main questline plus another 15-20 hours of side content, matching the length of the original trilogy rather than modern bloated RPGs.

Big Tech reported Q2 "other income" rose significantly to $160B+, driven by investments in AI companies, raising concerns of paper gains overstating the AI boom (Financial Times)

Big Tech's Q2 'other income' surged past $160 billion, driven largely by paper gains on AI investments in OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX—prompting analyst concerns that the AI boom may be overstated.

12TB Steam teraleak spills decade of lost gaming history

A 12TB archive dubbed a "teraleak" has surfaced, spilling more than a decade of previously lost PC gaming history tied to Steam.

Fable Gets Forgiving PC Minimum Hardware Requirements and Potential 60 FPS Cap - TechPowerUp

Fable will run roughly 20 hours long with forgiving PC minimum hardware requirements and a potential 60 FPS cap, per TechPowerUp, Polygon, and developer Playground.

Sources: OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Macs for RL, Anthropic rents them, Nvidia sees Apple as its main local AI rival as Macs gain traction with AI devs (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

Apple Macs are emerging as a surprise AI infrastructure platform: OpenAI purchased tens of thousands for reinforcement learning, Anthropic rents them, and Nvidia reportedly views Apple as its main loc

Apple Stumbles Into Mac AI Hardware Boom

Apple was caught off guard by surging AI demand for the Mac Mini and Mac Studio, and is responding with new M5 Ultra and M6 chips aimed at AI workloads.

GeForce RTX 3080 Drops From 138 FPS to 4 FPS When DLSS 5 Neural Rendering is Enabled; Reports Confirm Similar Performance Drop With RTX 30 Series - Wccftech

A leaked build of Nvidia's DLSS 5 neural rendering technology reportedly cripples RTX 30 series performance, with one GeForce RTX 3080 falling from 138 FPS to 4 FPS when the feature is enabled.

Claude Code Quietly Adds Session URLs to Every Commit

A developer filed a feature request asking Anthropic's Claude Code to stop automatically appending session URLs to commit messages and PR descriptions without user consent, noting the behavior clutter

China Dominates Beijing Humanoid Robot Games

At Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games, Chinese teams swept the medal table as humanoids set stunning sprint and high-jump records while also spectacularly failing — a spectacle showcasing Chi

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Industry insiders say Chinese robot makers currently rely on Nvidia silicon and software; Nvidia's physical AI business generates ~$10B in annual revenue (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Nvidia's physical AI business generates roughly $10 billion in annual revenue, with Chinese robot makers remaining dependent on the company's chips and software for their products.

Faro, which develops data models and AI tools to speed up clinical trials, raised a $37.3M Series B co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and S32 (Dealroom.co)

Faro raised a $37.3M Series B round co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and S32 to further develop its AI tools and data models aimed at speeding up clinical trials.

My fat loss experiments with ChatGPT and water fasting

A FOSS developer documented losing 14kg and 4.5 inches off his waist over four months by using ChatGPT to guide sixteen weekly 40-hour water fasts, framing the AI as a real-time fasting monitor.

California Exempts Linux from Age Verification Law

California lawmakers unanimously passed AB 1856, exempting open-source operating systems distributed under GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses from the state's Digital Age Assurance Act before its Janu