Looking Back On Both ‘Metroid Fusion’ And ‘Metroid: Zero Mission’

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’.

Tencent-backed chipmaker Enflame nearly triples in its Shanghai debut
Tencent-backed chipmaker Enflame nearly triples in its Shanghai debut

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 UAE is splitting up its $30bn AI data centre after Iran named it as a target
The UAE is splitting up its $30bn AI data centre after Iran named it as a target

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…

Chinese AI Chipmaker Enflame Mints Two Billionaires As Stock Surges 180% In Shanghai Debut

Market euphoria has vaulted Shanghai Enflame’s cofounders into the world’s billionaire ranks, raising questions about how long the rally can last.

Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on ID checks for AI agents
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on ID checks for AI agents

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 launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model
DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model

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…

‘Metroid Ravenous’ Looks Genuinely Spectacular And Somewhat Terrifying

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.

China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.
China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.

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 signed an AI chip deal with a startup the Pentagon backs
Kawasaki signed an AI chip deal with a startup the Pentagon backs

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 …

Nvidia-backed Zankore raises a $3.1bn loan to buy Nvidia GPUs for Indonesia
Nvidia-backed Zankore raises a $3.1bn loan to buy Nvidia GPUs for Indonesia

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…