Electronic Arts to cut 400 jobs and shut down Mass Effect studio BioWare
Electronic Arts to cut 400 jobs and shut down Mass Effect studio BioWare

Electronic Arts will close BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, and cut about 400 jobs, roughly 3% of staff, Bloomberg reported. The next Mass Effect game and a planned Sims project are cancelled. EA went private in a $55B buyout in A…

Harvey adds Australian startup Mary’s case-fact tools to its legal AI
Harvey adds Australian startup Mary’s case-fact tools to its legal AI

Sydney-based Mary Technology has connected its litigation tool to Harvey, the $15.6B legal AI company. Lawyers drafting in Harvey can now draw on the facts, evidence and reviews their team has built up in Mary, including conflicting accounts. Workflow …

eBay to cut 9% of its staff, its second round of layoffs this year
eBay to cut 9% of its staff, its second round of layoffs this year

eBay will cut about 9% of its workforce, around 1,000 jobs, according to an internal memo from CEO Jamie Iannone first reported by Reuters. It follows 800 job cuts in February. eBay says it wants to focus on its fastest-growing areas. It reports result…

PHP knew about one of the flaws in 2024 but could not agree a fix
PHP knew about one of the flaws in 2024 but could not agree a fix

The PHP Foundation has given an unusually frank account of the emergency behind this week’s patches. It said it had found one of the two critical flaws two years ago, in 2024. Then it spent months unable to agree on how to repair it. The admission came…

This Startup Is All In on Recursive Self-Improvement. Its Latest Model Is Scary Good

Recursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks.

Intel restarts its stalled US factory push as AI chip demand grows
Intel restarts its stalled US factory push as AI chip demand grows

Intel has started installing equipment at Fab 62, its new chip plant near Phoenix, which is due to open in early 2028. It has also put up the first major roof truss at its long-delayed Ohio site. The progress comes as demand for its data centre process…

Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers

At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled their new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.

Anthropic could spend $750bn on compute, The Wall Street Journal reports
Anthropic could spend $750bn on compute, The Wall Street Journal reports

A new draft of Anthropic’s S-1, the prospectus for its IPO, puts its possible computing spend at $750bn over the coming years. That includes deals it is still negotiating. Anissa Gardizy reported the figures for The Wall Street Journal, which saw the d…

OpenAI brings GPT-6 Astra and Codex to Google Cloud, a rival’s platform
OpenAI brings GPT-6 Astra and Codex to Google Cloud, a rival’s platform

OpenAI is bringing its frontier models and its Codex coding agent to Google Cloud, the two companies said on Wednesday. GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out now in private preview in Google Cloud’s Model Garden, Google wrote. Select …

‘You Can See Everything’ Just Broke A 20-Year Box Office Record

You Can See Everything has just broken a box office record that is 20 yerars old, and held by Borat, of all films.