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Minos review: Greek mythology becomes tower defense gold in this roguelike

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The AI industry’s race for profits is now existential

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RISC-V chip designer SiFive raised a $400M Series G led by Atreides at a $3.65B valuation; CEO Patrick Little says it is the final funding round before an IPO (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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Elorian, which builds visual AI models with better reasoning capabilities for industries like robotics, emerges from stealth with $55M at a $300M valuation (Bloomberg)

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Google and Intel expand their partnership to deploy Xeon chips, including Xeon 6, and co-develop custom Infrastructure Processing Units to improve efficiency (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

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Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS' AI revenue has hit a $15B annual run rate as of Q1 and that Amazon's internal chips business is generating $20B+ per year (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

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Frieren's strongest villain explained: Who is Macht and what are his powers

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Docs: OpenAI expects ads to generate ~$2.4B in 2026 revenue, to quadruple to nearly $11B in 2027, and to hit ~$102B in 2030, or 36% of its total revenue then (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

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In his annual letter, Andy Jassy says Amazon's space-internet service Leo will "launch in mid-2026", after delays; Amazon has FCC approval for 3,236 satellites (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)

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Meta begins removing dozens of Facebook and Instagram ads from lawyers seeking clients who claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18 (Dan Primack/Axios)

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Superman's first DCU video game will actually be a theme park ride

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Junji Ito talks Lovecraft, Osamu Dazai, and his latest vinyl-exclusive audio drama

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Waymo is offering to help cities fix their potholes

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The Exit 8 movie is even better if you play the game first

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Amazon’s Starlink competitor Leo gets a new date

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Researchers: attackers have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader since at least December 2025, and some docs contain Russian-language lures (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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Samsung plans to invest $4B to build a chip packaging plant in Vietnam's Thai Nguyen province to meet rising AI demand; sources say the first phase costs $2B (Bloomberg)

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10 of the most broken Magic: The Gathering cards of all time

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Spotify is adding toggles to stop video from playing inside the app for both music and podcasts, rolling out worldwide on all platforms and devices (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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Sources: Alibaba anonymously released AI video model HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks at the top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)

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