NetEase’s Games Business Keeps Delivering
The number that stood out in NetEase’s first-quarter report wasn’t the headline revenue. It was where the money came from. The Chinese internet company said Thursday that net revenue rose…
Bilibili Posts Quarterly Profit as Advertising Powers Growth
Bilibili closed its Hong Kong shares up more than 3.6% on Tuesday at HK$156, giving the company a market value of HK$66.35 billion, before the Chinese video platform published first-quarter…
Unity Pitches Offerwall as Game Publishers’ Next Growth Tool
The math of mobile gaming has never been comfortable for the companies that make games. Even the best-performing titles convert only a sliver of their players into paying customers. New…
Alibaba Ships Qwen 3.7 Preview as Researchers Allege Censorship in Earlier Model
The same morning Alibaba began previewing its newest flagship model, researchers said they had extracted evidence of political censorship from the weights of the one before it. The coincidence has…
Anthropic to Brief Global Regulators on Vulnerabilities Its AI Found in Financial System
An unreleased Anthropic model has found thousands of security holes across the global financial system, and the world’s top financial regulators now want to hear about them directly. Anthropic has…
California Bill Would Keep Shut-Down Games Playable
The game was paid for, downloaded, and played for years. Then the publisher switched off the servers, and the copy on the hard drive became a paperweight. A California bill…
AI Systems Outrun Humans at Hacking Contests
A team running an early frontier model walked away from DEF CON’s flagship Capture The Flag contest in 2024 with a silver medal. Organizers and competitors were shocked. Two years…
The AI News Network Pretending to Be Local
The website looked like any small-town newspaper: a name that suggested a century of community coverage, a masthead, stories about city council meetings and high school sports. There was no…
OpenClaw’s OpenAI Embrace Stirs an Old Question About Open Source
Peter Steinberger has a foot in two worlds. The developer is the founder of OpenClaw, an open-source project that has become popular among engineers who want to control their AI…
