Nintendo’s legal battle against Palworld faces major setbacks as both US and Japanese patent authorities challenge the company’s Pokémon-style gameplay patents. The USPTO director personally ordered re-examination of a September 2024 patent, while Japan rejected similar claims based on prior art. Th
Xbox Game Pass is getting a major November refresh with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 leading the charge. The day-one release comes just months after Microsoft raised the price of Game Pass Ultimate to $30 per month. Subscribers will need that top tier to access new games immediately.
IBM is cutting a “low single-digit percentage” of its global workforce in the fourth quarter. With 270,000 employees, even a 1% reduction would mean about 2,700 job losses. The company says U.S. employment will remain flat despite the cuts.
Getty Images lost its UK copyright battle against Stability AI after failing to prove training occurred in Britain. The ruling leaves fundamental questions about AI training on copyrighted material unresolved, pushing the real fight to US courts.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon isn’t buying the AI jobs apocalypse narrative. He believes the economy is nimble enough to adapt, pointing to historical tech transitions. New data shows only 11% of clients are cutting jobs due to AI, but adoption is accelerating rapidly.
Data and AI consultancies Indicium and Mesh-AI are merging to form Indicium AI, with the deal expected to close in Q1 2026. The combined company will serve clients across North America, Latin America, and Europe, targeting enterprise-wide AI transformations rather than narrow use cases.
A coalition of reporters obtained 278 million location data points from a data broker, including movements of EU officials. The data came from ordinary phone apps that sell location history to brokers, who then sell to governments and militaries.
The Stop Killing Games movement reached the UK Parliament floor with over a million EU signatures. While several MPs passionately defended consumer rights, the government rejected any policy changes. The debate itself marks a significant step forward for digital ownership advocacy.
Microsoft appears to be working on a special Windows 11 update just for ARM-based PCs. Codenamed Bromine, version 26H1 is targeting early 2026 release alongside new Snapdragon hardware while the broader 26H2 update arrives later that year.
Snowflake just unveiled a platform that can analyze and aggregate information across thousands of documents simultaneously. This represents a major shift from traditional RAG systems that were limited to retrieval and summarization. The new approach treats documents as queryable data sources rather
