5 – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
Skip to main content

Jay Peters

Jay Peters

Senior Reporter

Senior Reporter

    More From Jay Peters

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Meta’s AI is now available in your Threads DMs.

    Previously, you had to chat with Meta AI in the open, but the company heard feedback that “not everyone wants to interact with AI publicly on Threads,” according to Threads boss Connor Hayes. Meta AI’s DM responses will be limited to text “for now.”

    The future of physical games is not looking great

    Players and game preservationists might need to prepare for a world without discs.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Netflix acquired Ben Affleck’s AI startup for nearly $600 million.

    As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix said in an SEC filing that it paid “approximately” $587 million to acquire a company in March — the same month Netflix announced its deal for InterPositive.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    AWS mistakenly charged some users billions more than usual.

    One user even reported an AWS bill of $1.5 trillion, as reported by The Guardian. Scary!

    AWS blames the root cause of the problem as “an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem.” Amazon says that the billing estimates “do not reflect actual usage and charges,” and affected don’t have to take any action right now.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    SpaceX might land another big compute customer: the Department of Defense.

    The Pentagon may make a deal where it would pay for billions of dollars of compute from SpaceX, according to The Wall Street Journal.

    SpaceX already provides compute to Google and Anthropic, and the company wants to do more in cloud computing, the WSJ says.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    ZA/UM is laying off staff.

    “Up to” 32 staffers have been served redundancy or at-risk notices, ZA/UM says. The studio has been the subject of a lot of controversy following the launch of Disco Elysium, and it released a new game this year, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies. However, the Zero Parades’ “commercial performance has not enabled us to sustain a studio of our current size.“

    A message from ZA/UM about layoffs. It reads: Today, we are sharing difficult news. While ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies was released to critical acclaim, its commercial performance has not enabled us to sustain a studio of our current size. We have served redundancy or at-risk notices impacting up to 32 of our colleagues across all departments at ZA/UM Studio. Their work has made a lasting difference and left its mark on ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, and the studio as a whole. Throughout this difficult process, we have continued to consult and work with representatives of the ZA/UM Workers’ Alliance. This changes the shape of ZA/UM, but not its purpose. Our artistic standards remain unchanged: we will persist. To anyone currently hiring, please consider the colleagues leaving ZA/UM.
    Image: ZA/UM
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    To GameStop, discs dying “doesn’t matter,” says CEO.

    Software makes up “less than 12 percent of the business,” while collectibles are “over half,” Ryan Cohen said in a Bloomberg interview. “So it’s totally, totally irrelevant.”

    The numbers differ a bit in GameStop’s latest quarterly report, where collectibles were 41.8 percent of sales in Q1 2026. But they’re a growing part of GameStop’s business — the Q1 collectibles figure was a jump from 28.9 percent in Q1 2025 — which could soften the blow from the dire future for discs.