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Google Google I/O is just a couple weeks away, but in keeping with a semi-recent tradition, the folks over in Mountain View are kicking things off early by live streaming the Android Show: I/O Edition on May 12 at 1PM ET/10 AM PT. While Google hasn’t released many details about what it’s planning to show off, the company says 2026 “is going to be one of the biggest years for Android yet.” Currently, we’re expecting to hear more about the next big update to Android (version 17) along with some…

The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S console generation has catapulted the AAA blockbuster game budget from north of $100 million to north of $300 million in some cases. While many are worried about these dynamics hollowing out gaming’s AA middle tier, IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak recently suggested there are ways to keep costs more under control for studios with the discipline to do so. “This is the most ambitious project for IO Interactive, and also budget-wise,” Abrak said of 007 First Light in a new interview with The Game Business. “But there is a thing in the industry…

Astronomers have detected an atmosphere that shouldn’t exist on an icy object beyond the orbit of Pluto — sparking calls for follow-up observations.Japanese astronomers found evidence for a thin atmosphere surrounding the body, which is located within the Kuiper Belt in the cold outer reaches of the solar system, according to a new study published May 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy.The object, known as (612533) 2002 XV93, is supposed to be too small and too cold to sustain an atmosphere. At about 311 miles (500 kilometers) across — a little wider than the Grand Canyon is long — the…

Vivid Seats has been part of some of the highest of highs and lowest of lows of my concert-going experience. Because of Vivid Seats, I was able to get a last-minute ticket to Chance the Rapper’s sold-out Coloring Book show at the Oracle Arena in Oakland in 2017 (before he fell off; IYKYK). Vivid Seats helped me (and my sister) see our idol, Bad Bunny for the third time last year amidst the terror of trying to secure limited tickets to see a future Super Bowl performer and heartthrob.While many concerts, sports events, and theater ticket resellers are shady—double-posting limited…

Wally Skalij/Getty Images Meta’s AI endeavors have drawn another legal challenge. The social media company and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are facing a class action lawsuit from five book publishers and one author on claims that it illegally used copyrighted works to train its Llama generative AI platform. The plaintiffs in the case are Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage; they’re joined by best-selling author Scott Turow. “Defendants reproduced and distributed millions of copyrighted works without permission, without providing any compensation to authors or publishers, and with full knowledge…

GameStop’s meme stock status has allowed it nine lives to try to reinvent itself as something other than a brick-and-mortar retailer for physical games. Its latest quixotic bet is a $56 billion leveraged buyout of eBay, which CEO Ryan Cohen could barely explain on live TV earlier this week. GameStop’s stock price has taken a hit as a result, and even some of its biggest backers are spooked. One of them, Michael Burry of The Big Short fame, has even pulled the ripcord and entirely liquidated his position. “I sold my entire GME position,” Burry wrote in a Substack post…

Shivelyuch (also called Shiveluch), the most northerly active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. On a near-daily basis, satellites detect new signs of activity within its horseshoe-shaped caldera, including thermal anomalies, hot avalanches and debris flows, and ash deposits that darken the surrounding landscape. The Landsat 9 satellite captured this image of the towering volcano—one of the largest and tallest on the peninsula—on April 23, 2026, a day when fresh activity left its mark on the snowy, late-spring landscape. A multi-lobed plug of viscous lava called a lava dome—appearing as a…

Under a proposed order filed by the SEC yesterday, the Elon Musk Revocable Trust would be “permanently restrained and enjoined from violating” Section 13(d), and the trust would be ordered to pay the fine to the SEC. The trust did not admit or deny the SEC’s allegations, court filings said. Musk lawyer Alex Spiro “said in a written statement that regulators had only fined the trust while dismissing the claims against Musk personally,” according to The Wall Street Journal. “Mr. Musk has now been cleared of all issues related to the late filing of forms in the Twitter acquisition, as…

Hot on the heels of its recent GPT-5.5 release, OpenAI is updating ChatGPT’s default model to GPT-5.5 Instant. OpenAI touts GPT-5.5 as producing 52.5 percent fewer hallucinated claims in internal testing, and 37.3 percent fewer inaccurate claims when taking on conversations ChatGPT users had flagged for factual errors. At the same time, OpenAI says it designed the new model to generate more direct responses, “while keeping the warmth and personality that makes ChatGPT enjoyable to use.” GPT-5.5 Instant is also allegedly better at asking fewer unnecessary followup questions and should generate less cluttered outputs,…

“The characters are powerful—the stories are powerful—because of the emotional connection that comes with those stories and with the character…The iconography that comes with it—the bat, the cowl, the bat signal—really hits home.” This is what Jonathan Smith, Strategic Director & Head of Development Team at TT Games, tells me when I ask about the emotional element of Batman stories. I had just finished an hours-long preview of the new Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and while I had a great time, I came away unsure of how this quality might come through. Smith tells me it’s there,…