Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, NYU, and Stanford built an AI called Ataraxos that beat four-time Stratego world champion Pim Niemeijer 15 games to one with four draws, using a second neural ne…
Nearly 1,900 Blizzard Entertainment workers voted to ratify their first union contract with parent company Microsoft after more than two years of bargaining, consolidating Blizzard's smaller unions in…
A software engineer at Coinbase, Alex Wormuth, is training a digital reconstruction of an adult male fruit fly's brain to play the original Doom, with the fly reaching round 6385 as of the time of wri…
Chess.com has launched Gambit, a free educational poker site with an Elo-like rating system, and plans to expand into go, backgammon, and mahjong, using AI to speed up development. The site has 75,000…
Microsoft is laying off approximately 4,800 employees, including 1,600 from Xbox, as part of a restructuring to focus on AI investments and address challenges in its gaming business. The company plans…
Meta is quietly launching Pocket, an AI-focused app that lets users generate small interactive apps and games called 'gizmos' via prompts and scroll through a feed of creations. The app follows Meta's…
The Godot Foundation will no longer accept AI-authored code or agent-submitted pull requests after maintainers were overwhelmed by low-effort submissions. The new policy requires all contributions to …