Tencent's Apache-licensed Hy3 takes on GLM-5.2 at half the size — and wins everywhere except coding

For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases were off-limits to a large slice of the enterprises most interested in them. Li [...]

Hybrid cloud security must be rebuilt for an AI war it was never designed to fight

Hybrid cloud security was built before the current era of automated, machine-based cyberattacks that take just milliseconds to execute and minutes to deliver devastating impacts to infrastructure. The [...]

Sony sues Tencent over its Horizon Zero Dawn clone

Sony is suing Tencent for copying nearly every aspect of its Horizon games for the upcoming Light of Motiram, an open-world hunting game with some obvious similarities to Sony's franchise, as fir [...]

Here are all the games Microsoft added to Game Pass today, including a whole lot of Assassin's Creed

Xbox owners got a bit of a nasty surprise thanks to Microsoft’s sudden announcement today that the monthly cost of a Game Pass Ultimate subscription is getting a 50 percent increase. The new $30 mon [...]

Tencent agrees to stop promoting its Horizon ripoff during Sony lawsuit

Tencent has agreed to stop promoting and publicly testing Light of Motiram as a lawsuit with Sony works its way through the courts, according to a report by TheGamePost. This is Tencent's game th [...]

Sony settles with Tencent over 'slavish' Horizon clone

Earlier this year Sony sued Tencent for copyright infringement over its Light of Motiram game, calling it a "slavish clone" of Horizon Zero Dawn. Then, earlier this month, Tencent agreed to [...]

Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong

A VB Pulse survey this June found that 57% of enterprises had traced a confidently wrong agent answer back to missing or inconsistent context — the latest sign of how central context has become to w [...]

The Morning After: You need to take an age verification selfie to watch adult content online in the UK

Anyone trying to watch porn online in the UK will need to take a selfie first – or share a photo ID. (Yes, both of those might ruin the ‘mood.’) The UK government began checking compliance with [...]

Ubisoft launches its new Tencent-backed subsidiary

Ubisoft has launched — and named — its Tencent-backed subsidiary. Vantage Studios is the first of the company's "creative houses" under a previously-announced reorganization. The ne [...]