Inside Ring-1T: Ant engineers solve reinforcement learning bottlenecks at trillion scale

China’s Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, detailed technical information around its new model, Ring-1T, which the company said is “the first open-source reasoning model with one trillion total p [...]

Resident Evil Requiem gives series fans the best of both action and survival horror

The ninth mainline Resident Evil is trying to split the difference between the series’ action-heavy entries and the stress-inducing hide-and-seek episodes. During a four-hour playthrough of some ear [...]

Ant International raises $1.2bn to fund its payments push beyond China

Ant International, the overseas affiliate of Chinese fintech group Ant Group, has raised about $1.2 billion in a fresh equity round to fund its expansion into markets beyond its home turf. The company [...]

Hypershell takes $50M more on $120M Series B series as consumer exoskeletons step out of niche

Ant Group and Meituan Dragonball co-led the $50m Series B+; Sofina and Granite Asia joined. Total Series B funding now stands at $120m at a near-$400m post-money valuation, ahead of Wednesday’s glob [...]

Engadget's favorite games of 2025

From indies like Silksong, to AAAs like Ghost of Yotei, and everything in between, 2025 truly had it all, and is likely to go down in the history books as one of the best years in gaming. But these ar [...]

Mycopunk is an upbeat love letter to extraction shooters

The extraction-shooter genre is getting a little more crowded and a lot more stylish with the announcement of Mycopunk, a four-player, first-person romp from indie studio Pigeons at Play and publisher [...]

Fungus could be the insecticide of the future

Plant chemicals made more potent by insect pests are detoxified by the fungus. [...]

Alipay’s owner just open-sourced an entire robot brain in a single week

The company behind China’s Alipay just gave away an AI that builds a playable video game world and keeps it running for a full hour. Robbyant, the robotics arm of fintech giant Ant Group, open-sourc [...]

This is what it looks like when parasitic worms directly invade your brain

Doctors unknowingly took time-series images of the worms invading patient's brain. [...]