With ‘Metroid Ravenous’ now announced, I thought it worth looking at the two 2D ‘Metroid’ games on the Game Boy Advance, ‘Metroid Fusion’ and ‘Zero Mission’.

Shares in Shanghai Enflame Technology closed 179% above their offer price on their first day of trading on Shanghai’s Star Market on Friday. The Tencent-backed AI chipmaker had raised about 6.12bn yuan ($911m) in its initial public offering, Bloomberg …

The United Arab Emirates has gone back to the drawing board on the biggest AI construction project in the Gulf, according to an exclusive report by Reuters. The original idea was a single campus covering ten square miles of desert outside Abu Dhabi, ro…
Market euphoria has vaulted Shanghai Enflame’s cofounders into the world’s billionaire ranks, raising questions about how long the rally can last.

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have begun working together on a shared Know-Your-Agent framework. It covers AI agents that make purchases on behalf of users. The three companies announced the collaboration on Thursday, Singapore time. Reuters a…

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on Thursday. It is a smaller model that the company says beats its own flagship on coding and agent tasks, at a lower price. The Hangzhou lab announced it in a thread on X and published the weights on Hugging Face under the…
Following the excellent ‘Metroid Dread’, we now have a new 2D ‘Metroid’ game on the way for the Switch 2, and it already looks very impressive indeed.

Alibaba put its Qoder coding agent into smart glasses on 3 September, and Tencent put its WorkBuddy office agent into co-branded Rokid frames the day before. China’s smart glasses code of conduct, a voluntary convention issued in June, asks manufacture…

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has signed an agreement to put a startup’s AI chips into Japanese aerial defence platforms. The chip company is the interesting part. EdgeCortix, a fabless semiconductor firm based in Kanagawa, announced the deal last week, a …

Zankore has secured a senior term loan facility of up to $3.1bn to buy and deploy Nvidia GPUs across Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Nvidia is one of the company’s backers and also the supplier of the hardware the financing will pay for. Citi acted as ex…