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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
GPT-6.1 Terra is very good at computer use, OpenAI says.

The new AI model, available today for Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex, is “a fast, efficient model that combines detailed visual reasoning and precise computer use alongside clearer, more natural writing,” and it “excels at the communication and computer-based tasks that fill the workday,” OpenAI says.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Skydance is giving voluntary buyouts and bringing staff back into the office five days per week.

Variety published a memo from CEO David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz about the changes. The leaders have already indicated there will be layoffs. The Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merger was completed earlier this month.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Sucker Punch is reportedly cutting staff.

The Ghost of Yōtei developer is laying off 24 people, Aftermath reports.

Update: Aftermath now says 24 staffers, not 26, were let go.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Total War studio says they are “investigating” the AI-botched Shogun 2 remaster.

Sega recently pulled the recently-launched Complete Edition of the game, which was made in part by an external developer, after users found bugs and upscaling seemingly done by AI.

“At Creative Assembly we do not use generative AI to create game assets, including AI-generated art,” Creative Assembly’s VP of Total War Roger Collum, said in a big post on Reddit. “We demand the same of any external developers we work with.”

Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employeesMicrosoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees
Emma Roth and Tom Warren
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
This custom foldable PlayStation 2 handheld is slick but still far from pocketable.

Using a flexible OLED display salvaged from a Royole FlexPai phone, a talented modder has created a folding PS2 handheld (they’ve called the PlayStation 2 Duo) by miniaturing the motherboard inside the original console, adding their own controller hardware, and wrapping it all in an custom enclosure you can 3D print yourself.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Apple’s Greg Joswiak teases an ‘exciting week.’

Ahead of the company’s “Pro and tell” event scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles, Apple’s SVP of Marketing, Greg Joswiak, teased an “exciting week” ahead on X which started with the debut of the new iPad Mini today featuring an OLED display and a thinner design. Rumors suggest Apple could also announce its first touchscreen MacBook Pro this week.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Enjoy the chaos of a New York City CompUSA store with this video tour from the year 2000.

For those of us who can still remember heading to a brick and mortar store when it was time to buy a computer or peripherals, this video is a good reminder of what an absolute assault on the senses crowded PC shops were decades ago. And the floor to ceiling stacks of iMacs and Compaq desktops plus walls of CRT displays only add to that overwhelming feeling.