Meta and Sierra's Personal Agent Protocol Wants to Be the Handshake Between AI Agents and Every Business
Announced October 6 with Shopify, Stripe, and Walmart as founding partners, the Personal Agent Protocol sets out an OAuth-based open standard for how AI agents authenticate with and act inside third-party businesses — and conspicuously lacks OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, and Google. »
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Lands Today — The Definitive Version Finally Fixes Launch Performance
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen launches today on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Switch 2 with expanded combat, a new region, and the sweeping performance overhaul the original launch never delivered. »
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark Put Local AI at the Center of Windows
At its October 7 Windows and Surface event, Microsoft unveiled the $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra powered by NVIDIA's Arm-based RTX Spark SoC — and bet the future of Windows productivity on AI that runs on the device, not the cloud. »
Mistral's 1-Trillion Parameter "Le Chonk" Is the Open-Weight Model Europe Always Wanted
Mistral AI released a preview of Mistral Large 4 on October 6, 2026 — a 1-trillion parameter multimodal AI model trained entirely in Europe, with open weights planned before month's end. »
Bit Reactor Furloughed 80% of Its Team Before Launch — Now Star Wars Zero Company's Success Is Bringing Them Back
The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company sent most of its staff home without pay weeks before the game launched. With strong sales, furloughed developers are now returning — a snapshot of game development's financial fragility. »