Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball acknowledged during a The Game Business Live interview at Summer Game Fest that the wave of cancellations happened over just a few months after the October price hike. Ball also admitted that “the value of the offering has now changed,” since Call of Duty games won’t be available day-one on Game Pass anymore.
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Following capacity shortages at TSMC, Intel will “manufacture more than three million Tensor Processing Units in 2028,” half the estimated 6 million TPUs Google’s expected to make in the next two years, The Information reports. Nvidia and SK Hynix are also reportedly testing Intel’s tech for manufacturing their chips.
[The Information]
That’s according to a “senior OpenAI employee,” speaking to the Financial Times. The FT reports that OpenAI’s frequently-rumored “superapp” overhaul of ChatGPT is rolling out in the “coming weeks,” and “will initially appear as changes to ChatGPT’s website and mobile apps, encouraging customers towards using coding, image-generation and apps from external partners.”
[Financial Times]
As spotted by The Mobile Report for new customers on T-Mobile’s “Rely” 5G home internet plan:
Hidden in the FAQ on the Home Internet plans page, T-Mobile details that the Rely plan will now have a maximum download speed of 354 mbps. All the other plans (and the prior version of Rely) lists no maximum speed, and instead offers a “typical” speed listing of 170 – 498 mbps.
Colorado’s governor signed the SB26-051 age verification bill into law with its exemption for open-source, while Linux usage on Steam is down a little over one percent from April’s peak.
Microsoft launched Coreutils for Windows. Phoronix reports that Linux 7.2 will be able to boot on M3 Macs and will include support for HDMI 2.1 FRL on AMD GPUs. Plus, 2026’s best game (so far) has native Linux support!
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There are over 330 Leo satellites already in orbit, but the 36 planned for the next Arianespace mission is still smaller than the 48 satellites Amazon was planning to launch on a Blue Origin rocket that exploded during testing last week. This batch of satellites will launch from a spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on June 17th.
