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Apple Seeds First Public Betas of iOS 26.6, macOS Tahoe 26.6 and More

Apple today provided public beta testers with the first betas of iOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6, macOS Tahoe 26.6, watchOS 26.6, and tvOS 26.6, with the software coming two days after Apple seeded the betas to developers. After signing up to beta test the software updates on Apple's beta site, public beta testers can download the new software using the Software Update section in the Settings app on each device.

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May 28 • 1:46 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Apple releases first iOS 26.6 public beta, here's what to expect

Apple has released the first iOS 26.6 public beta. The update follows the first developer beta release on Tuesday. iOS...

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May 28 • 1:38 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
CD Projekt Teases Size and Story of New The Witcher 3 Expansion Songs of the Past

The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt has dropped its first story hints for the game's upcoming third expansion, Songs of the Past.

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May 28 • 12:32 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era reveals early access roadmap as publisher Hooded Horse celebrates 1m copies sold during its first month

Hooded Horse and developer Unfrozen have announced Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era has sold 1m copies so far and revealed a notable roadmap.

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May 28 • 10:33 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
IOI is 'keeping the British end up' in 007 First Light by switching out Americanisms to "reinforce the immersion"

Following earlier gameplay teaser trailers, developer IO Interactive has made some changes to the dialogue in 007 First Light.

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May 28 • 10:17 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
BeamNG.drive coming to PS5 in 2026; Early Access version 0.39 update detailed

BeamNG will release physics-based driving game BeamNG.drive for PlayStation 5 in 2026, the developer announced.

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May 28 • 9:53 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton now forced to pay $250m earnout to Unknown Worlds developers after more than 4m units sold

After a stellar early access launch, Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton will have to pay $250m to Unknown Worlds' leadership as ordered by law.

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May 28 • 8:16 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Fort Dodge City Council issues notice of forfeiture for Sports Pavilion project

The Fort Dodge City Council has authorized a notice of forfeiture to the developer of the Sports Pavilion project due to missed deadlines.

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May 27 • 9:24 PM EDT • Sports • kcci.com
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Business leader sounds alarm over Mamdani’s NYC housing proposal

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $22 billion housing proposal is drawing criticism from a business leader and a Republican lawmaker who warn parts of the plan could discourage developers and investors from building in the city.

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May 27 • 1:42 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
IO Interactive has a plan to keep you playing 007: First Light long after the credits roll

James Bond game 007: First Light isn't naturally replayable like Hitman World of Assassination, but developer IOI has something to help with that.

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May 27 • 12:05 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Paralives Q&A With Developers: Full Summary Of New Information

The indie team at Paralives hosted their very first Paralives Q&A, or more specifically a Reddit AMA thread. The team answered some hot burning questions

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May 27 • 11:39 AM EDT • Technology • simscommunity.info
Hideo Kojima and Nicolas Winding Refn have teamed up for a Prada mode event teaser exploring "new creative possibilities through AI technology"

The latest collaboration between game developer Hideo Kojima and film director Nicolas Winding Refn is an AI short for a Prada mode event.

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May 27 • 10:11 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
No Man's Sky Launches The Swarm Update, Adds Mysterious Death Star Like Construct to the Game

No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has announced The Swarm update, which adds a “mysterious Death Star like construct” to the sci-fi adventure.

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May 27 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition coming to Switch 2 on September 24

Square Enix will release Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition for Switch 2 on September 24, the developer announced. The physical edition will be released on a gam…

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May 27 • 8:26 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Marathon Developer Bungie Drops Season 2 Cinematic With Big Horror Vibes

Marathon developer Bungie has dropped a sneak peek at what's to come when Marathon's second season launches next month.

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May 27 • 6:49 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Apple Seeds First iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 Betas to Developers

Apple today seeded the first betas of upcoming iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two weeks after Apple released iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5. Registered developers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update. With the debut of iOS 27 approaching in early June, Apple is wrapping up work on iOS 26.

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May 26 • 1:07 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Apple releases first iOS 26.6 beta for iPhone

Apple has released the first iOS 26.6 beta for developers. iOS 26.6 beta 1 arrives shortly after the official release...

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May 26 • 1:06 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Watch Lilly Gets Back Into the Vaccine Business With New Deals

Eli Lilly & Co. is buying three clinical-stage vaccine developers for as much as $3.8 billion as it looks to become a leader in infectious diseases. The drugmaker has been using cash from its obesity drugs to expand into other disease areas. Bloomberg's Gerry Smith reports.

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May 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • bloomberg.com
Marathon Voice Actor Hits Back at Online Trolls and Says 'People Just Want to Hate'

Veteran video game voice actor Elias Toufexis has spoken out about the online "hate" directed at Marathon, following developer Bungie's decision to prioritize the game over Destiny 2.

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May 26 • 7:29 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Iowa City nixes $40M S. Linn Street residential, entertainment space

Iowa City’s 21 S. Linn project stalls after developer drops out. City leaders pledge to serve long-term community needs. with new project.

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May 26 • 7:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • press-citizen.com
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TEVI DLC ‘Fauna Arcana’ announced

Publisher and developer CreSpirit, and developer GemaYue have announced TEVI downloadable content “Fauna Arcana.” It will launch for PC via Steam on June 25. It is currently unclear whe…

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May 25 • 11:00 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Loyola’s Data Science in Everyday Life

Loyola University Maryland will hold “Data Science in Everyday Life: Applicability, AI, and Other Trends,” a networking and panel event exploring data science from a range of perspectives across industry and government.A keynote address delivered by data science industry expert David Norton, MBA ’95, will begin the event. Norton is the chairman and chief marketing officer of GALE Partners, a digital and analytics-based branding agency. He was named Chief Marketing Officer of the Year in 2010 and wrote “The High Roller Experience,” a book about data-driven marketing.Norton will moderate the panel discussion, which includes:• Elise Beisecker, senior data scientist in the U.S. Government Accountability Office• Amanda Muller, Ph.D., chief of responsible technology at Northrop Grumman• Franklin Hernandez, MBA ’13, M.S. ’20, senior lead machine learning engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton• Joseph Girsch, M.S. ’21, machine learning analyst at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory• Mark Wicks, retired vice president of data science, data scientist, machine learning engineer and software developerHernandez and Girsch each earned an M.S. in Data Science from Loyola.The event is free and open to the public. Networking and appetizers will begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by the keynote address and panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. and audience questions and closing remarks at 7:30 p.m. To learn more and register to attend or stream the event online, visit the event webpage.

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May 25 • 10:51 PM EDT • Science • wypr.org
Sports Illustrated resort project to break ground in Tuscaloosa

Developers will begin construction Wednesday on the Sports Illustrated resort near Rice Mine Road in Tuscaloosa, featuring a hotel, vacation club, and residential condos.

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May 25 • 8:20 PM EDT • Sports • wvtm13.com
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Report: LittleBigPlanet and Dreams Developer Media Molecule Working on New IP With 'Open-World Content'

The people behind PlayStation's LittleBigPlanet and Dreams are working on their next project, which appears to be an open-world title.

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May 25 • 2:06 PM EDT • Technology • mp1st.com
3 big takeaways from Pope Leo's letter on AI

In "Magnifica humanitas," Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, he warned about job losses, Big Tech's grip on AI, and had a message for developers.

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May 25 • 8:55 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Brigandine: Abyss demo now available for PC

A demo for fantasy war strategy RPG Brigandine: Abyss is now available for PC Steam, developer Happinet Corporation announced. PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2 versions will follow at a lat…

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May 24 • 8:24 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Apple Preparing New 'Gen AI' Website Ahead of WWDC

Apple is readying the subdomain genai.apple.com, according to MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris, but it does not yet lead to a live web page. This comes a few weeks ahead of Apple's annual developers conference WWDC, where the company has promised to announce "AI advancements" across its software platforms. Apple's website already has an Apple Intelligence page, so it is unclear what the company's plans are for genai.apple.com at this time.

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May 23 • 5:41 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Developers break ground on Morganton's new small business park

Developers Matt Schulte and Mike Folz broke ground on the Romarco Road Business Park in Morganton, a new development designed to provide affordable, flexible commercial space for small businesses and

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May 23 • 12:15 AM EDT • Business • thepaper.media
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‘Deserted parking lot’: Business owner criticizes Beachwalk developer over lack of progress; developer responds

A St. Johns County restaurant owner is voicing frustration over what he calls stalled progress at Beachwalk, the high-profile development known for its artificial lagoon, saying unfinished construction and empty lots have left his business struggling for customers.

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May 22 • 3:36 PM EDT • Business • news4jax.com
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Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google

On Tuesday, Google held its I/O developer event, and introduced an AI-forward version of Google Search that the company described as an "intelligent search box" powered by the newest version of Gemini. It turns out Google's all-new version of search semi-breaks when you search for the word "disregard". Typing "disregard" into Google Search results in Google's AI interpreting it as a system-style instruction instead of a search query. "Understood.

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May 22 • 1:46 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Kidbash: Super Legend launches in early 2027 for consoles, PC

Roguelike action platformer Kidbash: Super Legend will launch for consoles and PC via Steam in early 2027, publisher Acclaim and Indonesian developers Authentic Remixes and Fat Raccoon announced. W…

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May 22 • 10:37 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Former Destiny 2 Dev Says Xivu Arath Campaign And Raid Were Pitched Multiple Times As Destiny 3 Report Frustrates Fans

Former Destiny 2 developer says a Xivu Arath campaign and raid were pitched multiple times, as fans react to reports that Destiny 3 is not in development.

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May 22 • 7:47 AM EDT • Technology • thegamepost.com
Destiny developer Bungie will reportedly lay off a 'significant number' of people

Bungie is reportedly laying off a significant number of people and has not started work on Destiny 3.

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May 22 • 4:41 AM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
Developers break ground on Waianiani at The Cove, new West Oahu entertainment venue

The ground breaking and blessing for Waianiani at The Cove was held on Thursday, a new oceanfront entertainment and cultural destination coming to West Oahu.

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May 22 • 2:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • kitv.com
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Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 4 gets a release date, as devs suggest we could get even more factions after launch

The highly-anticipated RTS sequel is set to launch September this year, while lead developers Elliott Verbiest and Jan Theysen have teased a little more too.

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May 21 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
FuRyu announces survival third-person shooter ANOMALITH for PS5, Switch 2, and PC

Publisher FuRyu and developer Winning Entertainment Group (formerly Natsume Atari) have announced survival third-person shooter ANOMALITH for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, and PC (Steam). It will launch…

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May 21 • 1:24 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
The Big Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV Interview: Year 1 Roadmap, New Playable Factions, and More

IGN interviews the developer of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV to find out more about its post-launch plans and DLC.

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May 21 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Introducing the PlayStation Studios Accessibility Community Council

Learn how PlayStation is helping developers build more accessible and inclusive games through direct collaboration with accessibility experts and players.

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May 21 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • sonyinteractive.com
Leaked ‘Virtua Fighter Crossroads’ developer diary appears online

A video of what seems to be a behind the scenes developer diary of the next Virtua Fighter game, titled Virtua Fighter Crossroads, was posted on a Bilibili user’s account today.

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May 21 • 10:59 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Developers outline huge Water Street Tampa expansion, new entertainment district

Strategic Property Partners, the team behind Water Street Tampa, has outlined a significant expansion for the downtown district. Featuring a new music venue,

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May 21 • 10:21 AM EDT • Entertainment • thatssotampa.com
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Echoes of Aincrad: Sword Art Online ‘System’ trailer

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Game Studio have released a seven-minute trailer for action RPG Echoes of Aincrad: Sword Art Online introducing the gameplay systems.

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May 21 • 10:09 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Subnautica 2 dev apologises for telling combat-seeking players to "go play Sons of the Forest or something"

A desire for self-defence in the underwater survival game comes from some mechanics not working well enough yet, Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds explains.

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May 21 • 5:36 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Vivaldi 8.0 arrives as "the most significant design overhaul" in the browser's history

Vivaldi 8.0 is here, and developers say it is "the most significant design overhaul" in the browser's history.

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May 21 • 3:00 AM EDT • Technology • neowin.net
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Is Recasting its Protagonist After Negative Fan Feedback

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn will be recasting its male protagonist and his twin brother, according to developer Owlcat Games.

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May 20 • 9:22 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Xbox expands leadership team with major hires

Xbox has added two big names to its leadership team: Matthew Ball and Scott Van Vliet. The new recruits are part of an on-going drive from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to move faster, build better products, and make more focused business decisions. The Game Business can reveal that Ball is joining as Chief Strategy Officer. He is a popular industry analyst who is responsible for the annual The State of Video Gaming report, which is widely read across the business. His first job will be to strengthen the console side of Xbox, which is facing significant pressures, not least from the rising costs of memory and storage. In an interview with The Game Business earlier in the year, he admitted he was “pretty frightened” by the situation for the console sector. Ball had previously worked as head of strategy and planning for Amazon Studios, and wrote the 2022 international best-seller The Metaverse. He is currently CEO of Epyllion, a venture partner at investment group Makers Fund and senior advisor at KKR & Co. Meanwhile, Scott Van Vliet joins as Chief Technology Officer. He was previously in charge of Azure OpenAI and AI Core infrastructure at Microsoft, and he also led engineering for Microsoft Teams during the COVID 19 pandemic. But he has a games background. He previously worked across games for Amazon, including Alexa, Amazon Game Studios and the Amazon App Store. He directly worked on the Minecraft: Fire TV Edition. Prior to that, he was VP of Digital Play at Mattel, and worked across brands such as Batman, Barbie, Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja and Cut The Rope. His job will be to improve how Xbox builds products so teams can move faster and deliver stronger results. For more breaking stories, sign-up to The Game Business today Subscribe In addition to these new hires, Xbox has promoted Chris Schnakenberg to Corporate Vice President, Partnerships & Business Development. He was previously VP of partnerships and business development, and joined from Activision Blizzard, where he spent 12 years in various strategy, business development and partner relations role. His focus is on third-party games, publishers and developers working with Xbox. The news follows a number of new hires and promotions earlier in the month, including Jason Ronald taking leadership over Xbox’s upcoming Project Helix console. “These changes are about strengthening our foundation by creating more clarity and improving execution,” Sharma said in an email to staff. “As we head toward Showcase and beyond, we’ll continue making the changes needed to position XBOX for the future.” Matthew Ball is speaking with Christopher Dring at The Game Business Live on Monday, June 8. More details on the event can be found here.

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May 20 • 11:47 AM EDT • Technology • thegamebusiness.com
Xbox expands leadership team with major hires

Xbox has added two big names to its leadership team: Matthew Ball and Scott Van Vliet. The new recruits are part of an on-going drive from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to move faster, build better products, and make more focused business decisions. The Game Business can reveal that Ball is joining as Chief Strategy Officer. He is a popular industry analyst who is responsible for the annual The State of Video Gaming report, which is widely read across the business. His first job will be to strengthen the console side of Xbox, which is facing significant pressures, not least from the rising costs of memory and storage. In an interview with The Game Business earlier in the year, he admitted he was “pretty frightened” by the situation for the console sector. Ball had previously worked as head of strategy and planning for Amazon Studios, and wrote the 2022 international best-seller The Metaverse. He is currently CEO of Epyllion, a venture partner at investment group Makers Fund and senior advisor at KKR & Co. Meanwhile, Scott Van Vliet joins as Chief Technology Officer. He was previously in charge of Azure OpenAI and AI Core infrastructure at Microsoft, and he also led engineering for Microsoft Teams during the COVID 19 pandemic. But he has a games background. He previously worked across games for Amazon, including Alexa, Amazon Game Studios and the Amazon App Store. He directly worked on the Minecraft: Fire TV Edition. Prior to that, he was VP of Digital Play at Mattel, and worked across brands such as Batman, Barbie, Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja and Cut The Rope. His job will be to improve how Xbox builds products so teams can move faster and deliver stronger results. For more breaking stories, sign-up to The Game Business today Subscribe In addition to these new hires, Xbox has promoted Chris Schnakenberg to Corporate Vice President, Partnerships & Business Development. He was previously VP of partnerships and business development, and joined from Activision Blizzard, where he spent 12 years in various strategy, business development and partner relations role. His focus is on third-party games, publishers and developers working with Xbox. The news follows a number of new hires and promotions earlier in the month, including Jason Ronald taking leadership over Xbox’s upcoming Project Helix console. “These changes are about strengthening our foundation by creating more clarity and improving execution,” Sharma said in an email to staff. “As we head toward Showcase and beyond, we’ll continue making the changes needed to position XBOX for the future.” Matthew Ball is speaking with Christopher Dring at The Game Business Live on Monday, June 8. More details on the event can be found here.

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May 20 • 11:47 AM EDT • Business • thegamebusiness.com
Google Launches $100 Monthly AI Ultra Plan

New subscription targets developers and creators using Gemini

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May 20 • 10:05 AM EDT • Technology • finance.yahoo.com
A new Middle-earth open world game is coming from Kingdom Come developers

Warhorse is heading into Tolkien territory for a new Lord Of The Rings-adjacent game. Read more at Empire.

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May 20 • 7:10 AM EDT • Technology • empireonline.com
Google expands AI push at I/O with enterprise-focused Gemini upgrades and smarter search tools

Alphabet Inc. ’s Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) on Tuesday introduced a range of new artificial intelligence tools at its annual I/O developer conference, including AI agents integrated directly into Search and a faster, lower-cost Gemini model aimed at enterprise customers.

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May 20 • 6:35 AM EDT • Technology • finance.yahoo.com
S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, 1966-2026: Microsoft and Madrona leader was a champion of developers and startups

Friends and colleagues remembered S. "Soma" Somasegar, the longtime Microsoft developer leader and Madrona managing director, as a generous mentor to developers and founders, and a fixture of Seattle's tech community.

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May 19 • 8:05 PM EDT • Technology • geekwire.com
Google unveils new $100 per month AI Ultra plan; cuts price of top-tier plan

Google unveils $100/mo AI Ultra plan at I/O for developers: higher Gemini limits, Antigravity access, 20TB storage, YouTube Premium.

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May 19 • 2:31 PM EDT • Technology • seekingalpha.com
Google AI Studio can now build Android apps, Android Studio adds iOS app porting

Google made several developer announcements at I/O 2026, led by AI Studio's new capability to build native Android apps.

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May 19 • 1:55 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.

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May 19 • 1:51 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool at IO 2026

Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside the Antigravity 2.0 launch.

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May 19 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Google Unveils New Gemini AI Agent for Personal Tasks

The tech firm highlights both Spark and Omni, a video-creation tool, at its annual developer conference.

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May 19 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • wsj.com
Everything Google announced at I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Android XR, & more

We've collected all the consumer-facing announcements and notable developer developments made at Google I/O 2026 below.

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May 19 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book developer finally revealed

Nintendo has been keeping quiet about the developer behind Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, but that information is now confirmed.

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May 19 • 10:16 AM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
How to watch Google I/O 2026 kick off live

Google I/O 2026 starts today, and every bit of developer and Android news that comes with it will be announced...

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May 19 • 9:36 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Shock, The Developer For Yoshi And The Mysterious Book Is Exactly Who You Think

How you feelin'?

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May 19 • 9:05 AM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com
Neogenyx CEO talks plans for new RNG business with $400M investment

The new company spun off from Ameresco, which retains a majority stake. The fresh infusion of capital will allow a biogas developer with a long history in the industry to more aggressively pursue its project pipeline.

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May 19 • 8:17 AM EDT • Business • wastedive.com
Yomiuri: Japan Post to Strengthen Real Estate Business, Aims for Top 10 Rank Among General Developers

Japan Post Holdings Co. announced Friday its policy to strengthen its real estate business in a new medium-term management plan. The company will develop asset-turnover businesses through such initiatives as the sale of condominiums and the establishment of a real estate investment advisory firm.

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May 19 • 1:12 AM EDT • Business • marketwatch.com
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales ‘Prologue Demo’ now available

Publisher and developer Square Enix, and developer Claytechworks have released the “Prologue Demo” for HD-2D action RPG The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales for PlayStation 5,…

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May 18 • 8:10 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Developer proposes indoor sports complex on East Brainerd Road

A developer wants to build a large indoor sports complex on East Brainerd Road.Planning documents filed with Hamilton County show a request to rezone property i

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May 18 • 2:16 PM EDT • Sports • newschannel9.com
Apple Announces WWDC 2026 Schedule, Sends Media Invites

Apple today provided a schedule for its 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference, which starts on June 8 and ends on June 12. Apple also sent out invites to members of the media who have been invited to attend an in-person keynote viewing at Apple Park. Both the invites and schedule confirm that the keynote will begin at the standard time, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time or 1:00 p.m Eastern Time.

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May 18 • 1:23 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
25 high-paying jobs that are projected to grow a lot

Software developers had a median annual pay of $135,980 in 2025, and employment was projected to increase by 267,700 from 2024 to 2034.

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May 18 • 12:15 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
MARVEL Cosmic Invasion DLC characters Cyclops and The Thing now available

Publisher Dotemu and developer Tribute Games have released the arcade-style beat ’em up game MARVEL Cosmic Invasion downloadable content characters Cyclops and The Thing, the companies announ…

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May 18 • 11:06 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
New MatterChat Model Helps AI to ‘See’ the Language of Science

From writing emails to generating computer code, much of the artificial intelligence prevalent in our daily lives has succeeded by mastering one domain: text. However, this leaves a major blind spot in the physical sciences, where models depend on the high-resolution, three-dimensional data of the physical world, like the intricate lattice of atoms in a crystal. Delivering on the promise of using AI for science requires teaching these data-driven text models to seamlessly “talk to” physics-based models. Now, a new AI framework from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), called MatterChat, solves this problem by creating a specialized “bridge.” It connects the conversational power of a Large Language Model (LLM) with a physics-based AI that models “interatomic potentials”: the complex physical forces between atoms. The resulting system already significantly outperforms general-purpose AI tools like GPT-4 at predicting material properties, and the team hopes it can accelerate scientific discovery by serving as a robust research partner that provides grounded insights and generates step-by-step instructions for synthesizing novel materials. A paper describing this work was recently published in Nature Machine Intelligence. “Traditional simulations can provide the physical rigor required for materials science, yet their computational cost remains prohibitive for high-throughput screening. Conversely, while LLMs excel at rapid knowledge synthesis, they inherently lack the ‘structural vision’ to interpret materials directly from their underlying atomic coordinates,” said Yingheng Tang, a postdoctoral researcher in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Math and Computational Research Division (AMCR) and lead author on the paper. “MatterChat was built to solve this dilemma, empowering LLMs with a structural ‘vision’ that allows researchers to leverage their full potential for solving complex, real-world materials challenges.” Empowering language models to solve complex challenges in materials science To build MatterChat, the Berkeley Lab team drew inspiration from technologies like Vision Question Answering (VQA) and Text-to-Image (T2I) generation. In these tasks, AI must translate high-level text concepts into visual images, or vice versa. Doing so requires developers to build tools that “bridge” two fundamentally different forms of data. The researchers adapted this concept to the physical sciences. With MatterChat, they created a “bridge model” that successfully connects an LLM’s general knowledge with the deep understanding of the atomic-scale world encoded in scientific interatomic potentials. Until now, researchers using LLMs to solve materials problems usually had to feed them raw data files as if they were just strings of text. It’s like asking an AI to understand a complex 3D engine based only on a parts list: the LLM can read the names, but it can’t “see” how the atoms fit together in space. MatterChat solves this by training a specialized AI bridge model, pre-trained on millions of crystal structures and an LLM, to align the LLM’s representation of the world with the interatomic potential’s representation of the world. The bridge model can translate physical insights into a format the LLM can actually understand. By giving the LLM these “scientific eyes”— a scientific “inductive bias” in the terminology of AI — the Berkeley Lab team has transformed it into a robust research tool capable of providing grounded scientific insights into complex materials challenges, such as predicting thermal stability or analyzing electronic band gaps. “We think of atoms as living in a physical space, but from a machine learning perspective, they are just vectors living in some very non-trivially structured manifold in a high-dimensional Euclidean space; and, of course, the same is true for the sentences and paragraphs that we use to express our ideas about those atoms,” said co-author Michael Mahoney, Berkeley Lab’s Scientific Data Division (SDD) AI Initiative Research Lead. “The bridge model basically gets those two structures to ‘talk with’ each other.” As a proof-of-concept of this general approach, the team trained their bridge model on a dataset curated by pairing nearly 143,000 stable atomic structures from the Materials Project with their corresponding physical properties. This training data was automatically assembled using the Materials Project’s API and deliberately enriched with properties fundamental to microelectronics design — like formation energy and bandgap — allowing MatterChat to learn the complex patterns connecting a material’s atomic blueprint to its functional performance. To validate their model, the researchers benchmarked MatterChat against a suite of other AI systems, from general-purpose LLMs to other specialized scientific AI methods. The results show that MatterChat consistently outperformed its competitors across a range of tasks. The model was more accurate in classifying material types and demonstrated superior precision in predicting numerical properties. For example, it excelled at predicting a material’s bandgap, a property critical for designing new electronics from high-capacity energy storage to next-generation computer chips. “Our design is significantly more efficient because we don’t have to build a massive AI model from the ground up,” said co-author Zhi (Jackie) Yao, a research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s AMCR. “Instead, we take two powerful, pre-trained models — a structural encoder for materials physics and an open-source LLM — and use them off-the-shelf. The only component we actually train is the lightweight ‘bridge model’ that translates between them. It’s the difference between building an entire car factory and simply designing a smart adapter that connects a world-class engine to a world-class navigation system. This approach is not only computationally efficient, but also makes the system modular, so we can easily upgrade components or adapt the bridge for other scientific domains in the future.” Crucially, this modular design highlights exactly how institutions like Berkeley Lab and the Department of Energy are carving out a highly valuable niche in the booming AI landscape. Rather than competing with Silicon Valley tech giants to build ever-larger language models from scratch, the lab is focusing on the specialized connective tissue that makes commercial AI useful for hardcore science. Because the bridge model approach underlying MatterChat is forward-compatible, it is perfectly positioned to leverage these parallel tracks of innovation. As Mahoney pointed out, “We expect that industry will continue to develop improved LLMs, and we expect domain scientists and facilities will continue to generate new data. An important part of scientific machine learning is not simply to solve problems on today’s data, but instead to develop general methods that will be forward-compatible with orders of magnitude more data, whether from scientific domains or from LLMs.” According to Yao, the MatterChat project, which was initially developed and enhanced with funding from a Berkeley Lab Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) Program, will now expand its capabilities. In a collaboration with Fermilab, MatterChat is already contributing to a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission project — called Accelerating eXtreme Environment Specs-to-Silicon (AXESS) — that aims to speed up the development of next-generation, high-speed, radiation-hardened detectors for challenging particle physics experiments by using advanced 3D integrated circuits (chiplets) and AI-driven data analysis. In addition to the LDRD support, the team also credits supercomputing resources at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), located at Berkeley Lab, with MatterChat’s success. “We are incredibly grateful to NERSC; this research simply would not have happened without access to the Perlmutter supercomputer through their AI for Science program,” said Tang. Wenbin Xu, a NERSC postdoctoral fellow at the time, was also a major co-author of the work, as was Benjamin Erichson, a research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s SDD, highlighting the benefits of AMCR-SDD collaboration on AI for science. ### Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is committed to groundbreaking research focused on discovery science and solutions for abundant and reliable energy supplies. The lab’s expertise spans materials, chemistry, physics, biology, earth and environmental science, mathematics, and computing. Researchers from around the world rely on the lab’s world-class scientific facilities for their own pioneering research. Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest problems are best addressed by teams, Berkeley Lab and its scientists have been recognized with 17 Nobel Prizes. Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.

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Into The Unwell delayed to 2027, no longer Early Access

Coffee Stain Publishing and developer She Was Such A Good Horse have delayed “whack ‘n’ slash” cooperative roguelite action game Into The Unwell from its previously planned …

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Nintendo denied touchscreen-specific patent as the legal battle against Palworld developer Pocketpair continues

Following months of legal battle over the similarities between Palworld and Pokémon, Nintendo is trying (and failing) to obtain a touchscreen-oriented patent.

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What We're Expecting at Google I/O 2026

It’s gonna be a Gemini-packed developer conference.

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Final Fantasy VI AI Remake Wins Over Series Creator In 600K+ Viewed Video, but SaGa Veteran Begs Him To Stop

Hironobu Sakaguchi praises a Final Fantasy VI AI remake concept, but fans and developers do not agree with him

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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles 2 DLC character Doma launches May 28

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles 2 downloadable content character Doma will launch on May 28, publisher Aniplex and developer CyberConnect2 announced.

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Splitgate Developer Making Titanfall Successor Called 'Empulse'

Titanfall fans may watch another finger curl on the monkey’s paw when 1047 Games’ next project is revealed

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Subnautica 2's Early Access roadmap is here

Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds has outlined what to expect in the early to mid-term of its early access release.

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Now What? With Carbon Pricing Eroded and Pipeline Politics Advancing, Here Are the Pathways for Climate Success

At the end of a whirlwind week of news on carbon pricing and electricity strategy, capping a madcap year of pretty much non-stop, dramatic change, the word across much of Canada’s climate and energy transition community is that climate policy in this country has been shredded. Eviscerated. Hit with a sledgehammer by policy rollbacks that have pushed the country’s 2050 net zero target “well out of reach”. That means it’s never been more important to look for the rays of hope and glimmers of possibility. To glimpse the seeds of the next set of strategies to get Canada’s climate pollution under control and the country into the accelerating global dash away from fossil fuels. And then, once we’ve spotted those possibilities, get on with the hard, day-to-day slog of trying to make them a reality. Nothing takes away from the frustration and the deep disappointment so many climate and energy hawks are expressing, the sense of betrayal by the author of Value(s) and the former UN special envoy for climate action and finance. But we knew two things as the week drew to a close. We’re looking at the world as it most definitely is. And we don’t get to give up finding the pathways to confront climate change and deliver faster, deeper carbon cuts that leave no one else behind. So really, the first question we all have to ask ourselves is: What’s next? Subscribe All the Oxygen in the Room The outpouring of anger and grief over the carbon pricing deal between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been absolutely understandable. So much of the climate community poured years, more than a decade, into dragging the current federal pricing regime across the finish line, then defending it from a deluge of three-syllable rhymes after the Trudeau government proved utterly incapable of delivering its own message. The policy foisted on us by neo-classical economists took up all the oxygen in the room, burned through years of climate response time that we won’t get back, while cornering climate hawks into the position that the best response to the crisis of our lifetimes is a new tax…in an era of historic anti-tax sentiment. I mean, really—what could possibly have gone wrong? Against that history, let’s appreciate columnist Max Fawcett’s point that even a modest carbon pricing agreement with a government as off-the-wall libertarian/conspiracist as Danielle Smith’s—those adjectives are mine, not Max’s—is a win worth savouring (as long as Smith keeps her promises for a change). But part of living in the world as it is (no, I’m not letting that go) is to be clear-headed about what we can and can’t control. And one thing we get to decide, after seeing this week’s carbon price festivities take up all the oxygen yet again, is whether we want to keep letting that happen. Particularly when success down that road depends on a factor that no one with a climate agenda can control or influence—a provincial carbon pricing mechanism that has been manipulated and eroded beyond its lowest possible denominator. Thankfully, that’s not the way it has to go. Not when we have so many other powerful, practical tools at our disposal, including the ones still available to us through this abominable Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Canada and Alberta. Tools In Our Toolbox When I started roughing out this list, I didn’t expect it to grow to nearly a dozen bullet points. It’s probably still incomplete. Some of the greatest hits in today’s climate solutions toolbox include: • No Carbon Capture, No Pipeline: On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney explicitly stated that there’s been no change to the MOU provision that there will be no West Coast pipeline without an industry commitment to build its massive, $16.5-billion carbon capture and storage (CCUS) hub in Northern Alberta, and vice versa. The two megaprojects were joined at the hip when the MOU was signed Nov. 27, and the implementation agreement this week affirmed that they still are. A parade of independent analysts have spent years pointing to the economic and technical flaws in CCUS, while the industry kept postponing its investment decision until it could arm-twist the government for more “clarity” (by which it meant even more lavish taxpayer subsidies) on the project. Now the industry itself is running away from the CCUS hub and insisting the pipeline should proceed without it, but Carney doesn’t seem to be budging from a central tenet of the MOU to which Smith has signed on. • No Subsidies, No Investors: Climate analysts and advocates have quite rightly been hammering away at Carney and his team, insisting that any new capacity the industry wants to build must proceed without new subsidies. The government has responded with a growing collection of funding and financing mechanisms for the very wide menu of industrial development and nation-building projects they say they want to take on, and that menu always includes fossil fuel infrastructure. But it’s hard to see how even the combined fiscal clout of the federal and supportive provincial governments will deliver the financial backing private investors would need when the business case for new fossil fuel development is evaporating before their eyes. Particularly when… • No Market, No Demand, No Investors: As our friend Markham Hislop at Energi Media (our apparently sleepless friend, given the massive volume of great material he’s been churning out) points out this morning, the biggest vulnerability in any pipeline deal is the assumption that Asian buyers will want the oil or liquefied natural ga that our fossil industry is so keen to send them. Hislop writes in part: Ottawa and Alberta are effectively betting that countries like China and India will continue increasing oil imports for decades as their economies grow and energy consumption rises. That assumption underpins the entire economic rationale for expanding oil sands production and building billions of dollars in new export infrastructure. But Asian energy systems are changing rapidly… China, India, South Korea, and other major hydrocarbon importers are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars into electricity systems built around wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, hydro, and expanded transmission infrastructure. Domestic “energy sovereignty” is increasingly replacing the old energy-security model based on stable oil and gas imports. Those investments are expected to sharply slow oil demand growth and eventually reverse it, even as overall energy consumption continues rising. There are also refining constraints. Many Asian refineries and petrochemical complexes are already optimized to process discounted heavy crude from the Middle East and Latin America. That raises serious questions about how much additional Canadian bitumen Asian markets can absorb at profitable prices. Small wonder that there’s still no private sector investor for the project, despite Smith’s government desperately beating the bushes to put together a deal. For now, Alberta is acting as proponent and covering early start-up costs for a pitch to the federal Major Projects Office, which could actually turn into the next tough hurdle for Smith and her pipeline to jump. • Canada Day Looms: How ironic that Canada’s birthday this year could become a major chokepoint for the provincial premier who’s been working so diligently to tear the country apart! The July 1 target date for Alberta’s pipeline proposal is baked into the MOU, was reaffirmed by the implementation plan, but it hadn’t dawned on me that it cuts both ways. As one very smart colleague wrote in an email yesterday, “they’ve thrown the ball into Alberta’s court to get the project proposal on the table really quickly and to have to do a whole pile of work to put together a massive, complicated project that would typically take years to assemble, and they’ve given them weeks to do it.” That makes July 1 a looming deadline that Smith won’t be able to run away from politically, especially with the separatists in her party and her caucus breathing down her neck. (See previous ref to off-the-wall.) But if Alberta comes in with a sloppy, incomplete submission, even after Carney bent over backwards to simplify the application process and the rules that govern it, it may be harder for the province or the industry to blame Ottawa and insist on the faster process they claim their investors are demanding. (Oh, wait—which investors would those be??) • We’ll See You In Court (Then We’ll See You Again): If Carney did cave, that would be just one more reason for Indigenous and other affected communities to take the government and the process to court—Just as Alberta First Nations did, successfully, in response to Smith’s half-baked separation referendum. Veterans of the Harper era have been warning that a shoddy process around fossil fuel infrastructure or other major projects will be a recipe for the very delays that process seeks to avoid. And now more than ever, with renewable energy and energy storage eating fossil fuels’ lunch in import markets around the world, a delayed pipeline or LNG terminal may be as good as a cancelled one. • Charged Up, Ready to Go: With its goal of doubling Canada’s electricity supply to meet a doubling of demand by 2050, the national electricity strategy that Carney unveiled Thursday has a lot to like. With its explicit language about speeding the shift from fuels to more efficient and affordable electricity, global investment and deployment patterns that already favour that shift, an emerging bidirectional power grid, the role of front-line options like rooftop solar and heat pumps, the emergence of electric vehicles as behind-the-meter energy storage, and the domestic jobs and manufacturing to make it all happen, the document doubles down on the essential cornerstone of a faster shift off fossil fuels. The strategy envisions a more prominent role for gas and nuclear power. But some of those provisions were already in the Clean Electricity Regulations that climate hawks are now fighting so hard to defend, inserted as a compromise in a futile attempt to mollify the industry and its political representatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan. But once again, gas will be a tougher sell when it’s more expensive and now so much more unpredictable than the clean alternatives. The new nuclear technologies are still speculative and deeply vulnerable to cost overruns. Increasingly, utilities, developers, and investors know it. Carney declared Thursday that “it doesn’t do us good to be sitting in court all the time with provinces. It doesn’t do us good to be talking past each other. What does do us good is to come together with specific projects.” There are no guarantees, but so much of the language and narrative-building in the electricity strategy suggests the lion’s share of those projects will be renewable. • The Party Has Already Started: The electricity strategy only rarely digs down to specific projects, but provinces representing three-quarters of Canada’s population are already embracing a faster transition. Hydro-Québec is working on a 10-year, $185-billion renewable energy and grid buildout by 2035. Ontario recently brought 10 provinces and territories together in a National Energy Corridor Agreement to boost interprovincial and -territorial transmission infrastructure. And the MOU implementation agreement commits Alberta to facilitate investment in renewable energy projects, a big step back from its continuing, punitive restrictions on renewables development. The electricity strategy envisions much of the financing and infrastructure that will be needed to pull those advances together into an integrated whole. • Delivering on Affordability: The MOU implementation plan has little or nothing to say about affordability (are you surprised?), but the electricity strategy does, with a top-line pledge to reduce home energy costs for seven out of 10 Canadian households by 2050, a total saving of $15 billion across the board. It’s just a start, but it puts affordability on the government’s narrative map. If they’re serious and deliberate about patching together a least-cost energy strategy, it’ll have little if any room for oil, gas, or nuclear—not with powerful evidence, for example, that electricity prices are higher when those prices are set by gas. • Smith Proves that Canada Works: By signing a deal that makes it harder to claim the federal government is blocking a new pipeline, Smith has helped prove Carney’s constant anti-separatist refrain that “Canada works”—incurring the rage, no doubt, of her own political base. Canada also needs to work for anyone who depends on a clean environment, healthy and thriving ecosystems, and safe, stable climate. But with Smith and her separatist constituents setting up as a fifth column for annexation by Donald Trump’s United States, let’s set aside any notion that 51st state status for Canada is a recipe for anything other than climate disaster (and so much else). Resisting and withstanding Trump (just 170 more sleeps until mid-term elections, which is a damn sight better than the 730 we started with) doesn’t mean a free pass for a pipeline, but we can still appreciate it that keeping Canada whole and sovereign is still Carney’s Job One. • The Words Not Spoken: Apart from a commitment to export a million barrels of “low-emission” Alberta bitumen per day (memo to Smith and Carney: You realize that that’s less than the industry is already exporting??), the MOU implementation plan says nothing about the international trade and economic sovereignty deals that Carney has been travelling the world to negotiate. It didn’t have to. Carney doesn’t need permission from Danielle Smith, her American enablers, or her separatist allies to continue building the alliances that will ratchet down our economic dependency on our unstable, unreliable neighbour to the south. But every connection he builds with countries outside North America helps align our economy and our future with a faster shift off fossil fuels. Little if any of this was on our bingo cards a year or two ago. But it’s the pathway that has opened up to us. And if it gives Canada any climate or energy gains at all in an era still dominated by Trump and his increasingly ridiculous tariffs, his loutish trade negotiations and his continuing annexation threats, we have to take the wins. Not least because they’ll be the point of departure for what we can achieve in 2027, 2029, and beyond, as Trump’s grip and this era begin to loosen and then fade. What is Carney Doing? If this line of thought is right—and it’s a possibility, not a prediction—it means that Carney’s actions and decisions are largely about buying time. Time for Trump’s power to wane. Time for Alberta’s separatist/conspiracist virus to spread, mutate, die out, or at least die back, with help from a vaccine of federal steadiness and calm (appropriate enough, for a movement populated largely by vaccine deniers) that no conspiracy theory can dismiss. And time for the government’s trade and investment agenda to deliver results—even knowing that some of those results will bring impacts that front-line communities will not and should not accept. In the immediate moment, none of this changes the way the wider climate community has to respond, from campaigners to investors to front-line practitioners. All of our voices are still essential. But those voices will be stronger and more confident if we have a clearer sense of the brutal game we’ve been pulled into, and a plausible path (or two it three) for playing it to the win we need. This conversation also underscores our biggest task for the remaining years of what was supposed to be the “decisive” decade for climate response: if we can shift the energy narrative in Canada, make it a mainstream view that the country’s preoccupation with oil and gas has us falling farther behind a changing world, we’ll see far better results in the 2030s and beyond. For many veteran climate advocates, taking on that part of the fight will begin with recognizing that most of our friends and family, neighbours and colleagues already understand that climate change is real and right in front of us: they’re looking away and staying silent because they don’t have what climate communicator Katharine Hayhoe calls “efficacy”. As Hayhoe recently pointed out in a feature interview with The Energy Mix, it amounts to science denial to keep hammering away at the dire news about global warming without also helping audiences understand what they can do about it, with multiple studies telling us why that won’t work. Far better to open those conversations with the dominant crises like energy security, food security, emergency preparedness and business continuity, affordability, and financial security that have knocked climate change far lower on the list of public priorities, and will likely keep it there. We Knew This Would Happen Climate hawks have always known this day would come. For decades, we warned that everyone had to pay attention to climate change right now, because it would be much tougher to respond once the crisis itself started affecting our daily lives. We were right, and here we are. But now, thanks to decades of hard work, communities and countries have an alternative to doubling down on fossil fuels. “In 10 years everyone will have ‘always known’ that solar and batteries were going to win,” Morgan Solar Executive Chair Mike Andrade writes on LinkedIn. With the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz roiling energy priorities around the world, Canada and the United States are among the shrinking number of countries that are still very keen on fossil fuel development. Understanding that gap is a first, essential step in spotting the opportunities ahead, and averting the deep economic as well as environmental and social risk we face if we don’t seize them. Thanks for reading The Energy Mix Weekender! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribe Mitchell Beer traces his background in renewable energy and energy efficiency back to 1977, in climate change to 1997. Now he and the rest of the Energy Mix team scan 1,200 news headlines a week to pull together The Energy Mix and The Energy Mix Weekender. Chart of the Week BYD Eyes 20 Dealership Locations After Canada Greenlights Chinese EV Imports ‘Sledgehammer’ Carbon Price Deal Boosts Emissions by 230Mt, Aims for Fall 2027 Pipeline Approval ‘Worse Than Harper’: Regulatory Rollback Would Stop Canada from Assessing Project Impacts, Critics Warn Electricity Strategy Aims for Doubling by 2050, Allows ‘Flexibility’ for Gas Power Plants Opposition Mounts as O’Leary’s Data Centre Approved in Drought-Stricken Utah Diluted Carbon Price Misses ‘Reality of the World We’re In’, Could Impede Diversified Trade: Climate Institute $200B in Clean Energy Investment Will Need On-Time Delivery, Reliable Policies, Trade Association Says ‘Sovereign Pipeline’: CEO Pitches to Keep Trans Mountain in Government Hands What a Supercharged El Niño Could Mean for Canada Canada’s future is electric, and here’s how a power grid superhighway would get us there (Toronto Star) The Perilous Waters of Hecate Strait (Globe and Mail) Saudi Aramco profits jump despite conflict in Middle East (The Guardian) Farmers confront rising cost of fertilizer and fuel as spring seeding under way (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Clarkson forecasts 24% decline in offshore oil, gas capital expenditures (Oil & Gas Journal) Pipe Dreams: How Oil and Gas Fail to Deliver Economic Development in Africa (Oil Change International) Developing countries must hold the pen to script the fossil fuel transition (Climate Home News) Iran war threatens the dream of a post-oil economy in the Gulf (Washington Post) U.S. Oil, Gas Work Force Hits Lowest Level Since 2022 (Rigzone) Why Polestar Is Doubling Down on Net Zero as Rivals Pull Back on EVs (Bloomberg) Why this Michigan utility plans to sell its hydro dams for $13 (E&E News/Politico) Levees can no longer save New Orleans (Vox)

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Console Archives dev talks release plans and goals, wants to release over 800 games

Console Archives developer Hamster has spoken further about what’s planned going forward, including how many games we could ultimately see. Satoshi Hamada, the CEO and founder of Hamster Corporation, was talking about Console Archives in a recent Famitsu interview. He mentioned how during the planning stage, the company’s goal was “to reproduce every home console and every game ever”. Hamster...

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EXCLUSIVE: Splitgate Developer 1047 Games is Working on a Spiritual Successor to Titanfall, Dubbed 'Empulse'

1047 Games' next game, dubbed 'Empulse,' appears to be a spiritual successor to Titanfall, Insider Gaming has learned.

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Dallas weighs City Hall’s future as potential Mavericks sports, entertainment site

There were 418 submissions from residents, developers, architects, business leaders and others who responded to the city’s call for concepts favored repairing or restoring the Dallas City Hall.

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Massive $3B youth sports campus planned next to Detroit Metro Airport

Developers hope to begin construction next year and have the complex open to the public in 2029.

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Sure Seems Like Subnautica 2’s Developers Are Going To Get Their $250 Million Bonus

Perhaps the mostly costly example yet of why you should never take advice from ChatGPT

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Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead

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The third major Linux kernel flaw in two weeks has been found

AI is exposing Linux security holes faster than developers can patch them. Fragnesia is the latest. Here's what we know about it.

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Rock Creek Entertainment District developer sells UNP-located retail center for $82.25M

An Oklahoma City-based investor group purchased University Town Center from its previous owner, The Rainier Companies, for $82.25 million Monday.

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Apple wants apps to integrate with Siri in iOS 27, but one fear holds some back: report

Apple is reportedly working with developers to get apps integrated with the new Siri, but it’s facing concerns over a key point: money.

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Spurs Sports & Entertainment chooses developers for new basketball arena downtown
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BioShock creator says Nintendo Switch 2 proves gaming graphics are hitting "diminishing returns"

Ken Levine, creator of BioShock, recently used the Nintendo Switch 2 as an example while criticizing the gaming industry’s increasing obsession with graphical realism, arguing that the medium has reached a point of “diminishing returns” when it comes to visuals. Speaking with IGN, Levine discussed how modern games continue to chase photorealism, but believes players and developers alike are starting...

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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II launches May 21

Strategy game sequel Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on May 21, publisher Kasedo Games and developer Bulwark Studio…

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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

“It's making me dumber for sure.”

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Norman breaks ground on Rock Creek Entertainment District

Groundbreaking has been held on Rock Creek Entertainment District, a planned $1.1bn (£813.3m/€939.3m), 269-acre mixed-use destination in the city of Norman that will house a new arena for the University of Oklahoma (OU). The groundbreaking ceremony held yesterday (Tuesday) came after Rainier Development Company was appointed by OU Foundation as the District’s master developer on

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See groundbreaking for OU arena at Rock Creek Entertainment District

Developers and Norman leaders break ground on the Rock Creek Entertainment District, a large mixed-use development tied to the new OU basketball and gymnastics arena on Tuesday, May 12, 2026.

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Developer Danny Lovell on Rock Creek Entertainment District

Developer Danny Lovell on Rock Creek Entertainment District

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Norman developers break ground on site of future Rock Creek Entertainment District

Norman leaders say the $1 billion mixed-use development near OU could bring jobs, tourism and new entertainment opportunities to the city.

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Google Prepares "Googlebook" as a Chromebook Successor, Powered By Gemini

Google is preparing to refresh its laptop lineup, replacing the traditional Chromebook branding with the new "Googlebook" name. According to a now-deleted XDA Developers post, archived by some Redditors, Google is collaborating with several PC OEMs to launch what seems to be the successor to its wel...

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VENU Announces Expansion Plans of Its Premium Live Entertainment Portfolio into Tennessee with Landmark $300 Million Amphitheater at the Bend in Chattanooga

Venu Holding Corporation ("VENU" or the “Company”) (NYSE American: VENU), owner, operator, and developer of premium live entertainment destinations, today an...

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VENU Announces Expansion Plans of Its Premium Live Entertainment Portfolio into Tennessee with Landmark $300 Million Amphitheater at the Bend in Chattanooga

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 12, 2026--Venu Holding Corporation ("VENU" or the "Company") (NYSE American: VENU), owner, operator, and developer of premium live entertainment destinations, today announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase a 15 acre parcel of property for planned expansion into Tennessee where VENU® is taking definitive steps towards the development of a landmark, next-generation, world-class amphitheater at the Bend® in Chattanooga, to be named Sunset Amphitheater Chat

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May 12 • 8:04 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Forza Horizon 6 Dev Bans Pirate Who Leaked Gameplay Footage Until the Year 10,000 — but Faces Uphill Battle Plugging the Leak

Forza Horizon 6 developer Playground Games is following through on its threat after the game was leaked online ahead of the official release date, with one pirate reporting a hardware ban until the year 10,000.

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May 12 • 7:39 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
The next Stellar Blade probably won't be PS5 exclusive, as developer Shift Up reveals intention to self-publish and reach a broader audience

Korean publisher and developer Shift Up has revealed that it wants to publish the Stellar Blade sequel itself, leaving PlayStation exclusivity in question.

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May 11 • 11:13 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
‘Stellar Blade 2’ Will Leave Sony Behind To ‘Fully Reflect Its Identity’ In Marketing

Shift Up, developer of Stellar Blade, has just made a big announcement that it will also be the publisher for its sequel, Stellar Blade 2.

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May 11 • 9:19 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
Crimson Desert Adds Surprise Claw Machine Mini-Game and Lets Pet Dogs Attack Enemies as Part of Update 1.06.00

Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has released this week’s update as promised, and it adds what it said it would add. But it also adds a whole lot more, including a surprise claw machine mini-game that gives unique rewards.

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May 11 • 4:19 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com