Softbank announces it's buying a $2 billion stake in Intel as the Trump administration reportedly considers a 10% slice of the bright blue chipmaking pie

Softbank announces it’s buying a $2 billion stake in Intel as the Trump administration reportedly considers a 10% slice of the bright blue chipmaking pie

What a difference a few days makes. After reports indicated that the US government was in talks to take a stake in Intel late last week, a new Bloomberg report says the Trump administration is eyeing up a hefty 10% stake in the chipmaker—while Japanese investment giant Softbank has announced it’s buying a $2 billion…

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Metaphor: ReFantazio did surprisingly well on PC, says director, and that the number of desktop-based JRPG enjoyers is on the rise: ‘The trend is evident’

Something I’ve really enjoyed over the last decade of PC gaming has been the shift in genres like JRPGs, going from console homebodies to multiplatform behemoths and even, in some cases, finding an even better home on our desktops. We’ve even seen an increase in Japanese developers gunning for simultaneous console and PC releases—Capcom’s Monster…

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Nvidia allegedly greenlit the use of pirated books from illegal sources to train its AI models, according to an expanded class-action lawsuit

The capabilities of AI models, such as GPT-5, Gemini, Claude, and Grok, lie in the size and scope of the dataset used to train them. This has also been the source of multiple lawsuits, claiming that the companies performing the training had no right to freely use the data. In an expanded class-action case against…

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn’t invent Final Frenchtasy or the J’RPG: the newly dubbed subgenre has a long and complicated history

Sometimes all it takes to make a new subgenre is an apostrophe. With just one hardworking punctuation mark, the newly christened J’RPG describes a refreshingly French spin on Japanese turn-based roleplaying games, and players can’t get enough of its irresistible je ne sais quoi. J’RPG is a particularly brilliant fit for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33….

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