Hideo Kojima sure has been thinking about death a lot lately. Though he's a pretty spritely 62 years old, the Metal Gear and Death Stranding creator has made our pages recently for things like: talking about deciding to make Physint after a brush with death in 2020, making a game where you get old and die, and how he has a USB stick full of ideas that he will one day leave to his staff that is "'kind of like a will".
The move is bound to raise the Trump administration's ire against the bloc.
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Europe has hit Google with €890 million ($1 billion) fine for illegally abusing its search engine "gatekeeper" dominance against competition, the EU Commission said in a press release. The move is bound to stoke trade tensions between Europe and the United States after the Trump administration threatened tit-for-tat retaliation against what it called the EU's "unfair" trade policies.
A White House official has accused Chinese AI company Moonshotof accessing Nvidia's advanced chips, despite export controls banning them from doing so.
Moonshot unveiled Kimi K3 on Friday. It closes the performance gap with frontier models including Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol, even surpassing them on some benchmarks. It's the largest open source model so far, with 2.8 trillion parameters, referring to the size of its neural network.
Valve in uproar over "untextured polygons depicting ass and boobs"
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Entertaining open world satire Future? No Thanks! has been abruptly delayed by Steam content reviewers, due to the presence of multiple seconds of "untextured polygons depicting ass and boobs". In a statement, developer Paulo "Molleindustria" Pedercini reveals that Valve's moderation teams have had the game under review for "more than three weeks", but have yet to make a call. Steamworks documentation suggests that content review should take no more than seven business days.
Scrunch and Ahrefs Brand Radar both track brand visibility in AI answers, but they solve different problems. Scrunch is purpose-built for AEO: it monitors AI citations, audits AI crawlability, and actively optimizes how AI bots experience your site. Ahrefs Brand Radar is an add-on to the broader Ahrefs SEO platform, built for teams that want AI visibility alongside traditional search data, backlinks, and web mentions in one place.
The UK has a proud history of creating iconic video game franchises and is home to world-renowned developers – now, a new major showcase event, For One Night Only, is shining a light on the world-class games made by British studios.
Chase Williams is cofounder and CEO of Pathify, a leading digital engagement hub for higher education.
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Much of higher education's early experimentation with AI focused on individual applications. Institutions still evaluate and implement student-facing chatbots, test content-generation tools and explore virtual assistants to answer questions or complete routine tasks.