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Call of Duty’s story mode may finally be worth playing again. Campaign early access for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 opened on October 16 for digital pre-order customers, and the Steam response is the warmest the series has seen in a decade — outlets checking the store page on October 17-18 reported roughly 82% … Read more
Microsoft has walked away from the site that was supposed to house the United Kingdom’s largest AI supercomputer. The Telegraph reported on October 18 that Microsoft ended its agreement to be the anchor customer at Nscale’s planned AI data center in Loughton, Essex — a £2 billion project meant to host more than 23,000 Nvidia … Read more
Something has shifted in how the world talks about artificial intelligence. Search interest in the “AI bubble” spiked into the UK’s top-10 trending searches this week, the IMF, the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve have all flagged AI valuations, and Gary Marcus is comparing the current moment to 2008. At the same time, … Read more
NVIDIA’s new laptops put up to 128GB of unified memory in a Windows machine built to run AI locally. But the headline number hides the real buying decision: who actually benefits, what Windows on Arm still can’t do, and why the $2,599 entry price buys a very different machine than the $6,999 flagship. In brief … Read more