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A road cuts through Mount Kalaga in an official Grand Theft Auto VI screenshot

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GTA VI20.07.20265 MIN

Rockstar still has not shown GTA VI gameplay, but its patents offer clues about NPCs, traffic and interiors

Four months before launch, we still have not seen a full mission with the interface on screen. Three Take-Two patents offer clues about how traffic, animation and interiors could work.

The European Union's official AI Generated label for identifying artificial intelligence content

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IA20.07.20263 MIN

Europe is putting labels on AI: what changes for chatbots, deepfakes and publishers on August 2

From August 2, chatbots must identify themselves at the start and deepfakes need a visible label. Publishers keep an exemption when a person reviews the text and takes responsibility for it.

A panoramic view of Bootleg Bazaar, a city built among ruins in Zero Parades: For Dead Spies

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Gaming20.07.20264 MIN

ZA/UM considers up to 32 layoffs just two months after launching Zero Parades

The Disco Elysium studio says its new RPG reviewed well but did not sell enough to support its current size. Notices span every department, with the union involved in the consultation.

Lucia Caminos en una escena nocturna de Grand Theft Auto VI

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GTA VI is not even out and we're already obsessed.

Rockstar says little, the internet imagines plenty and we want to follow both. News, trailers, rumours, theories and everything turning this game into a phenomenon.

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20.07.2026Rockstar still has not shown GTA VI gameplay, but its patents offer clues about NPCs, traffic and interiors

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AI is moving too fast. Let's make sense of it together.

What just launched, what you can already use and what might cause trouble. Come in, test it, ask questions and make up your own mind.

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01 / 20.07.2026Europe is putting labels on AI: what changes for chatbots, deepfakes and publishers on August 2 02 / 20.07.2026AI won't kill music. It may bury us in songs nobody cares about 03 / 20.07.2026New York puts giant data centers on hold—and asks who should pay for the grid 04 / 19.07.2026Current AI wants a public ChatGPT—and its first demo already works 05 / 19.07.2026San Francisco tells Apple and Google to remove 13 fake-nude apps as an EU ban approaches 06 / 19.07.2026Alibaba built an AI that 'imagines' what a computer will do next—and uses it to train better agents 07 / 19.07.2026Moonshot's Kimi K3 rattled Silicon Valley—but its open-weight promise is still due July 27 08 / 18.07.2026Anthropic gives US teachers Claude for free—and turns lesson planning into AI's next battleground 09 / 18.07.2026GPT-5.6 is here, and it wants to do the whole job—not just answer questions 10 / 17.07.2026DeepMind wants AI to spot the next pandemic early. The problem is what the same technology enables 11 / 16.07.2026AI giants are asking Washington to regulate them. They also stand to gain from it

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