Analyst reports 89% of GTA 6 pre-orders are for the $100 Ultimate Edition — 'I have never seen a 90% premium share before

According to digital intelligence firm Sensor Tower, the $100 Grand Theft Auto 6 Ultimate Edition is leading pre-order sales by 89%. [...]

Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says

Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen t [...]

National infrastructure needs a new approach to cyber resilience

Public ownership cannot stop cyber threats; Britain needs shared intelligence, prioritized risks and coordinated resilience. [...]

Google plans to end Pixel production in China by 2027

Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel production out of China from 2027, according to Nikkei Asia. That covers phones, smartwatches and wireless earbuds. Lauly Li reported the plan on 1 [...]

Perplexity’s Free Airtel Year Ends, and Its India Revenue Climbs

Perplexity's year-long bet on free access in India is starting to show its return. The AI search company's in-app revenue in the country rose roughly 60% in the months after its giveaway wit [...]

85% of companies burned by an AI mistake are racing to cut the humans who might catch the next one

Enterprises that already got burned by an AI agent passing its evals and then failing in production are moving faster toward removing humans from deployment decisions, not slower — even as trust in [...]

Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one

Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few days, The Information [...]

Serval’s super agent Catalyst creates roving background agents to identify and fix IT issues before they’re ticketed

Serval is making Catalyst, its AI agent for building enterprise automations, generally available Thursday and enabling it by default for customers — allowing teams of AI agents to decide what should [...]

One in five enterprises can't stop a runaway AI agent's spending in real time

Enterprise AI teams have stopped betting on a single orchestration platform. The median enterprise now runs three at once — not by accident, but because none of them fully trusts a single vendor to [...]