Dev used AI agents and more than 500 billion tokens to rebuild Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s source code

Maurice Heumann’s Claude and Codex agents rebuilt Modern Warfare 2’s source; 83% of functions match the original byte for byte.

OpenAI Asked The Chip Industry To Build Faster. Then It Built Its Own Chip Team.

Richard Ho, who helped create Google’s first TPU chip, also built OpenAI’s semiconductor unit from scratch. Now he’s grappling with deploying the first chips, doomerism and “competing among friends” with Nvidia.

IMF says AI investment is keeping global growth near 3%
IMF says AI investment is keeping global growth near 3%

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday that spending on AI infrastructure is helping the world economy grow by about 3% each year, even though energy prices are high. She made these comments in Bangkok at the start of the IMF and World Bank annu…

Nicolas Cage says he refused Amazon’s AI waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’
Nicolas Cage says he refused Amazon’s AI waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’

Nicolas Cage says he refused to sign an AI waiver from Amazon for “Spider-Noir”, the Prime Video series it cancelled last month. He told a New York Comic Con panel on Saturday that he will probably not work with the studio again, Variety reported. “Ama…

TikTok’s Shou Chew expects an AI science breakthrough within three years
TikTok’s Shou Chew expects an AI science breakthrough within three years

TikTok chief executive Shou Chew expects AI to deliver a major scientific breakthrough within two to three years. He named physics, biotech, chemistry and materials science. Chew spoke on Monday at DBS Bank’s Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore…

Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen
Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen

Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a small model that picks between fixed answer options instead of writing text. Microsoft built it on Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.5-9B and then post-trained it, according to the Foundry model card. Achint Sri…

Japan steps up cyber warnings as data leaks hit millions of customers
Japan steps up cyber warnings as data leaks hit millions of customers

Japan’s government has told ministries, local authorities and companies to step up their cyber defences. A wave of attacks has exposed the data of millions of customers. The National Cybersecurity Office sent the instructions on Friday, the Associated …

Nvidia in talks to buy Reflection AI or invest more, FT reports
Nvidia in talks to buy Reflection AI or invest more, FT reports

Nvidia is in talks to buy Reflection AI or invest more in the US open-weight model developer, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. TNW has not independently verified the report. The talks are at a…

Satya Nadella says companies should treat AI models as insider risks
Satya Nadella says companies should treat AI models as insider risks

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella says companies should assume any advanced AI model they deploy could be compromised, and contain it from the start. He set out the case in a long article on X on Saturday. “Think of it like an emergency brake. An…

AI won’t fix America’s debt, Guardian analysis argues
AI won’t fix America’s debt, Guardian analysis argues

The White House hopes AI will help the US grow its way out of debt. That is a new take on the Reagan-era promise that tax cuts pay for themselves, Eduardo Porter argued in an analysis for The Guardian. “Even if AI supercharged the economy, its impact o…