Forward-looking: Since Microsoft began expanding some Xbox console features to Windows 11, many users have wondered whether the company would eventually include compatibility with older Xbox games. Microsoft has now confirmed this to be the case with a small pilot program set to expand in the coming months.

Four games from the original Xbox are now available on PC for the first time via the Xbox app on Windows 11. More titles

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Facepalm: It's another day, another reminder why so many people hate AI. Thanks to hyperscalers' insatiable demand for memory pushing up prices, Framework has nearly doubled the cost of the 32GB and 64GB LPCAMM2 options for its upcoming Laptop 13 Pro overnight. The decision was made after it received a supplier quote that was more than twice the price of its previous

Connecting the dots: The AI boom has intensified old fears about the dangers of increasingly autonomous software, but those debates have mostly stayed theoretical, confined to research papers and thought experiments rather than real incidents. A newly disclosed episode involving an OpenAI test model may have added some real-world weight to those fears, even if the full scope of the damage is still being sorted out.

OpenAI has confirmed that a combination of

What just happened? In a perfect illustration of how much money companies are pouring into their AI investments, Google has just recorded its first negative free cash flow since it went public more than two decades ago. It comes as the tech giant said its capital expenditure is expected to reach $205 billion this year, up from previous guidance of $180 billion to $190 billion.

Google said

What just happened? Nvidia has released more information about its upcoming Vera data center CPU this week, including key details about the custom Olympus cores that are purpose-built for agentic AI workloads. The company also claimed that the new core architecture offers faster single-core performance than competing products.

Part of Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform, the Arm-based Vera CPU is designed to perform complex reasoning, facilitate tool execution

In a nutshell: Working at Amazon or being part of the gig economy certainly isn't fun. According to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), it's these jobs that have seen the number of people relying on food stamps and Medicaid explode over the last five years.

The GAO report , which was commissioned by Senator Bernie Sanders, shows that the number of Amazon workers relying on food stamps and Medicaid

Big quote: Jensen Huang just spent a week watching his company's valuation get hit by the threat of a Chinese open-weight model. His response was to go on the record defending it. Speaking to Axios in Fort Worth, Texas, at the opening of a new phase of the Wistron plant that builds Nvidia's AI infrastructure, the Nvidia CEO said American companies should "absolutely" be free to run

Ripple effect: Amid growing talk of an AI bubble, a study by Japanese market analysts has found that five of the largest American technology companies are carrying a collective "hidden" debt of over $1.65 trillion, driven largely by massive spending on AI infrastructure. That undisclosed sum exceeds the $1.35 trillion the same companies have officially reported on their balance sheets, and it has grown eightfold over

In brief: Amazon has greenlit a new series based on the Robocop franchise. The Prime Video series has reportedly been in development since 2022 when Amazon acquired MGM for $8.45 billion. Amazon hasn't announced a cast, nor do we have a scheduled release date meaning its debut is likely years away. Still, for fans of the franchise, it is an exciting development that could continue