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OpenAI’s third‑quarter revenue reportedly surpassed $10 billion, a near 50% increase over the $6.7 billion recorded in Q2, according to Bloomberg. The jump reflects robust demand for its latest AI models and a narrowing adjusted operating margin from –150% to –109%. The company’s annualized revenue run rate now stands at $50 billion, while its competitor Anthropic reports an $81 billion run rate. Both firms continue to vie for enterprise clients amid growing competition from major tech companies and open‑source models.

Squanch Games’ comedic shooter High On Life is on sale for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, slashed from $39.99 to $9.99—a 75 percent discount that runs until November 20, 2026. The limited‑time offer applies only to the base game; the “High On Life + High On Knife” bundle remains $49.99, while the add‑on level “High On Knife” is reduced from $14.99 to $7.49, a 50 percent cut. The title blends first‑person shooting, action‑adventure and Metroidvania elements, featuring a mature‑rated storyline about a recent graduate who teams up with talking guns to battle an alien [...]

Blizzard removed the long‑standing experience‑to‑gold conversion for max‑level quests in World of Warcraft: Forever, prompting player backlash. Community manager Kaivax announced a hotfix that will add gold to quests level 48 and above, replacing the conversion. The change aims to discourage grinding for XP at level 60 and encourage quest completion. Players initially threatened to quit, but many welcomed the new reward structure. The update reflects Blizzard’s broader shift toward balancing classic mechanics with modern gameplay. [...]

Good Fun Corp, the team behind Hell Let Loose, announced that its new extraction‑shooter‑slasher, Hunger, will enter Steam early access on 3 December. An open beta runs 27‑29 November and is open to anyone who requests a Steam slot. Set in a plague‑ravaged, alternate‑history Europe, the game blends melee‑heavy combat with a handful of deliberately clunky firearms and adds PvPvE elements such as puzzle‑solving, questing and dungeon‑raiding. Hunger also features MMO‑style progression, a hub populated by distinct characters, multiple playable classes, three [...]

Apple will roll out watchOS 27.3 to all compatible devices next month, adding three Siri‑driven capabilities. The update expands Siri AI’s app actions to Calendar, Mail, Maps, Messages, Music, Notes, Photos and Weather, and introduces support for four new languages—Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese. For latest Watch models, a feature called Live Rewind records the last 15 seconds of spoken audio and displays it as a text snippet when the Digital Crown is double‑pressed, allowing users to [...]

Motorola has released its MA2 wireless Android Auto adapter in the United States, listing it on Amazon for $69.99 after months of anticipation. The device follows the earlier MA1 model, which was notable for being the only adapter engineered by Google and had been out of stock for several months. MA2 adds hardware upgrades, includes both USB‑C and USB‑A cables, and retains the Google‑engineered claim. Although the launch price is lower than the MA1’s near‑$100 cost, it [...]

Rocket Lab announced on Nov. 9 that it has raised the price of a Neutron launch from $55 million to $70 million, a 25 percent increase for a vehicle slated to debut in 2027. CEO Peter Beck said the hike reflects a “pent‑up launch market” and a forecasted bottleneck as SpaceX retires Falcon 9 around 2028. Despite delays that pushed Neutron’s first flight from late 2026 to 2027, the company booked eight launches for Q3 2026, worth roughly $515 million, and has sold out its [...]

Researchers from Google DeepMind and Google Quantum AI have unveiled an automated pipeline that uses large‑language‑model agents inside the Lean 4 interactive theorem prover to discover and formally verify quantum algorithms. The system couples multi‑agent collaborative search with quantum Hoare logic, allowing it to synthesize programs and produce machine‑checked proofs of correctness and resource usage that scale beyond classical simulation limits. By expressing specifications as Hoare triples in Lean 4, the team avoids the need for custom axioms and [...]