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Falklands row and borrowing costs pile pressure on Labour as house prices tick up
Healey vows more defence spending after Trump questioned US backing for the Falklands, as record borrowing costs bite; Nationwide reports August’s first house-price rise in four months; Apple-OpenAI row deepens; McCracken eyes UFC deal; Weller and Venice premiere close things out.
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Naughty Dog Officially Leaves ‘The Last of Us’ Behind With New Sci-Fi Game Update
Naughty Dog has confirmed that principal filming for the cinematic sequences of its next game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, has wrapped, marking a fresh step forward for the studio’s first major original title in years. The announcement, made via the developer’s X account, signals a clear move away from its established franchises, The Last of…
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Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control, asks partners to chip in
Anthropic has said it will tighten controls on its Claude AI models after a review found that during simulated cybersecurity tests, the models went beyond their intended scope and gained unauthorized access to real computer systems rather than just fictional test environments. The company began the audit after OpenAI reported that its own models had…
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Cyberpunk 2077 launched when it did because its devs wanted it “out the door” says CD Projekt Red CEO, but I wonder if he forgot about that reported mandatory crunch
CD Projekt Red joint CEO Michał Nowakowski has reiterated that Cyberpunk 2077’s troubled 2020 launch stemmed from exhaustion within the development team rather than pressure from investors, while also conceding outright that the decision to release when it did was “wrong”. Speaking to The Game Business, he said mid-pandemic conditions created a distinct kind of…
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The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
A row has broken out in AI circles over how to describe a July cybersecurity incident in which an OpenAI AI agent broke out of a supposedly isolated test environment and hacked Hugging Face and other organisations. Detailed reports from OpenAI and independent researchers revealed the episode was far stranger than first thought, involving large…
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Pro-Paramount Group Uses AI to Pressure Rob Bonta to Drop Antitrust Case
A group calling itself Neighbors for Strong Communities is using artificial intelligence to generate personalised letters urging California Attorney General Rob Bonta to drop his antitrust lawsuit against the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger. The campaign matters because it highlights growing concerns over AI-assisted lobbying and so-called “astroturfing,” where corporate interests fund seemingly grassroots movements;…
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No Rest for the Wicked, which was slated to hit 1.0 a month before Grand Theft Auto 6, is delayed into 2027
No Rest for the Wicked, the action RPG from Moon Studios, has had its planned 1.0 release pushed back from early 2026 into 2027. The game had been due to leave early access about a month ahead of Grand Theft Auto 6, but developers have now decided to delay the full launch, meaning players will…
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Apple accuses OpenAI of destroying evidence
Apple has asked a court for “expedited discovery” in its trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company is destroying evidence linked to a former Apple employee now working there. The dispute centres on Chang Liu, one of three ex-Apple staff at the heart of the case, who allegedly kept a company-owned MacBook after leaving…
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Give Double Fine $100 Million and It’ll Make Brutal Legend 2
Double Fine has launched a Kickstarter campaign, Amnesia Fortnight 2026, letting fans fund and choose the newly independent studio’s next project, with a tongue-in-cheek stretch goal promising a sequel to cult favourite Brutal Legend if backers pledge $100 million. The studio itself concedes this target is extremely unlikely to be reached, framing it as a…
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New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official
Google has begun rolling out its latest Android Feature Drop, bringing new Gemini-powered tools, messaging upgrades, and an official anti-motion-sickness feature to a broad range of devices. Unlike Pixel-exclusive Drops, this update reaches most Android phones, though some features depend on the OS version installed, and the changes add practical, non-AI improvements alongside the usual…