AI startup General Intuition is raising $300M at a $2B valuation, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, leveraging 2 billion gaming videos annually to train embodied AI agents with unique spatial-temporal reasoning capabilities.
Roblox launches Cube, an open-source AI model family that generates 3D game assets, objects, and scenes directly from text prompts, with model weights publicly available on Hugging Face and trained on 2.8 million synthetic 3D assets.
ChatGPT claims the top spot on the iPhone App Store's free charts, as AI-powered apps including Claude, Google Gemini, and Meta AI flood the top 20 alongside social media giants, while puzzle games like Meowdoku and Magic Sort dominate the free games rankings.
Google launches Street View grounding in Project Genie, letting AI Ultra subscribers transform real-world U.S. locations into fantasy environments like 'Ocean World' or 'Stone Age' for $200 per month.
Google DeepMind takes a minority stake in EVE Online developer CCP Games, now rebranded as Fenris Creations, using the iconic space MMO as a testing ground for advanced AI models focused on long-horizon planning and memory, as the newly independent studio completes a $120 million buyout and reports profitability in …
Roblox supercharges its AI Assistant with agentic Planning Mode, automated playtesting, and new 3D mesh generation tools, creating a self-correcting development loop that helps creators build, test, and debug games faster than ever.
Tencent launches HY-World 2.0, a groundbreaking multi-modal AI model that generates game-ready 3D assets — including meshes and point clouds — directly from text, images, or video, with native support for Unity, Unreal Engine, and Isaac Sim, now available as open-source with 1.2 billion parameters.
NVIDIA launches DLSS 5, a groundbreaking AI-powered neural rendering technology delivering photoreal 4K graphics, with major titles like Starfield, Hogwarts Legacy, and Resident Evil Requiem set to support it this Fall.
Game developer adoption of generative AI tools drops to 29 percent in early 2026, down from 36 percent last year, as nearly half of developers fear the technology will lower game quality and cost-saving optimism continues to fade.
NVIDIA's new Blackwell platform delivers up to 10x cost reductions for AI inference, with companies like Sully.ai slashing costs by 90% and major providers reporting dramatic savings across healthcare, gaming, and customer service applications.