Valor Equity Partners is handing out stock to its LPs instead of cash returns.

Valve highlights the importance of NVIDIA GPU support for SteamOS as certain GPU generations now become compatible, but performance optimizations are still going on. Valve Enables NVIDIA's Driver in the Main SteamOS Tree, but Performance Remains Behind the Current Linux Driver Stack Valve is making some significant progress in bringing NVIDIA GPU support to SteamOS, which has been one of the biggest hardware compatibility barriers. Speaking to IGN ahead of the Steam Frame launch, Valve software developer Pierre-Loup Griffais said that the company is working heavily on NVIDIA support and described it as a top priority. Yeah, we're working on […]

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The report shows the negligence on NVIDIA and FedEx' part, resulting in the theft of an RTX 5070 GPU. User Claims Both NVIDIA and FedEX Didn't Inform Him About the GPU Replacement Being Delivered Until the User Found Someone Stole His GPU Welcome to another RMA horror story, where the user neither got his GPU repaired or replaced, nor did he get his original GPU back. The Redditor u/Ill_Worker3155 says he was having an issue with his GeForce RTX 5070 and decided to send the card to NVIDIA for an RMA. NVIDIA accepted the RMA request and also agreed to […]

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Elon Musk's company will also attempt to deploy the first V3 Starlink satellites into its orbital internet constellation.

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the largest-ever Series C by a European space company.”

Stoke has "completed the initial closing" of a $1B Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new, larger rocket for operations.

In a development that now has the potential of taking a wrecking ball to any illusions of privacy around OpenAI's products, a mathematician who has come very close to solving the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem is now openly wondering if the AI lab stole his drafts stored in Codex to accelerate its own work on the problem in what can only be interpreted as an effort to win additional bragging rights ahead of its planned IPO. Two mathematicians and OpenAI are now feuding over the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, with huge bragging rights and credibility at stake For the benefit […]

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The animosity between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is as convoluted as sordid, replete with a veritable smorgasbord of moves and countermoves that frequently spill out from the personal sphere and into the commercial one. Now, just a few hours after Altman's OpenAI announced the termination of its partnership with SpaceX's Cursor, while citing fears around the security of its proprietary technology, SpaceX has hit back with a diminutive take on the importance of OpenAI's models within the platform's ecosystem. SpaceX's Cursor remains unfazed by the termination of its partnership with OpenAI, with Elon Musk's behemoth enterprise taking pains to […]

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The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

Contrary to Elon Musk's maximalist ambitions, the Bank of America believes that SpaceX's ongoing attempts to establish a viable pathway for offering direct-to-device (D2D) wireless services present a daunting challenge, marked by massive investments and years of infrastructure development, which paradoxically opens up a partnership avenue with T-Mobile and major cell tower operators. The Bank of America (BofA): SpaceX’s wireless ambitions could benefit T-Mobile, cell tower operators, and spectrum values BofA has just published a new note on SpaceX's D2D ambitions, noting the massive CapEx, vast spectrum requirements, and years of infrastructure development needed to realize those plans. As such, […]

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The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029.

The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.

The immersive sim genre is one of the more underrepresented in the industry, owing to its complex and multi-layered nature alongside the fact that past successes have failed to hit the heights which shareholders demand. One team which was dedicated to the genre however was Arkane. In the wake of the closure of its Austin branch, a new studio has risen, with veterans Harvey Smith and Ricardo Bare announcing ‘Black Pony Immersive’.

In an interview with the publication TheGameBusiness, ex-Arkane co-studio head and immersive sim icon Harvey Smith announced that he has opened up a brand new studio alongside Ricardo Bare.

Named Black Pony Immersive, it is quite clear what the newly established studio will be focused on, with the team stating: “We want to make immersive sims. We want to make single player, narrative driven, first person games where you explore and solve problems creatively. Think Deus Ex, think Dishonored, that's what we're doing.”

While things remain in its early stages for now (having officially formed just a year ago and currently comprising of 26 developers), Black Pony Immersive includes plenty of talent.

For the uninitiated, not only is Harvey Smith known for his extensive work on the Dishonored series, but the creative has had a hand in many of the biggest games in the immersive sim genre going as far back as the original 1994 System Shock. Smith was also the lead game designer for the 2000 classic Deus Ex and even served as a game designer for 2004’s Thief Deadly Shadows.

The full interview with Smith and co. can be found HERE, and includes their thoughts on the immersive sim genre, the current state of the industry and much more.

KitGuru says: What do you think of this announcement? Is the immersive sim genre saved? What’s your favourite series worked on by Harvey Smith? Let us know down below.

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SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.

In what is a seminal step for China's fast-evolving space industry, LandSpace has just managed to successfully recover the booster of its Zhuque-3 (ZQ-3) rocket, becoming a viable counterpart to the state-backed CALT and its CZ-10B rocket. LandSpace's ZQ-3 rocket just became a viable counterpart to the state-backed CALT and its CZ-10B rocket China's space-related ambitions are growing by leaps and bounds. We reported recently that the Asian giant has now reserved over 200,000 orbital slots with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), with some estimates pegging the total number at 244,000. Well, now China is apparently becoming serious about filling […]

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Warren Spector, the veteran game designer best known for creating Deus Ex, has announced his retirement following more than four decades in the games industry. Spector shared the news on LinkedIn, describing a decision that comes after flirting with retirement and choosing to stay in the industry longer: The reasons for my retirement are straightforward: I'm nearing 44 years as a developer. Throughout my career, I've had the privilege of working on tabletop role-playing games and board games, and I've contributed to a multitude of digital games—17 complete titles, if I recall correctly, along with about nine expansion packs. A […]

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Warren Spector, the man behind Deus Ex, says he’s done with game development. Or at least he thinks he is.

In a LinkedIn post, Spector said he’s a month away from his 44th year as a developer and it’s simply time to stop. He’s worked on 17 full games and around 9 add-on packs across a career that’s seen him lead teams as small as a dozen people and as large as 800. His reasoning isn’t dramatic. He just doesn’t find the games business as fun as he used to.

Why is Warren Spector stepping away

Warren Spector pointed to age and health catching up with him, alongside a games industry that’s changed shape under his feet. He’s planning to write books, read more, maybe lecture or consult, and finally get back to playing piano. Still, he admits there are three games he’d love to make, one big, one small, and one he says scares him because he doesn’t know how to build it.

He also had a message for the next generation of developers: your job is to make people forget people like me ever existed. Fair play, that’s a proper mic drop line to retire on.

Will he actually stay retired? He’s not ruling out a comeback, and honestly, with three unfinished ideas still nagging at him, don’t be shocked if funding and a team pull him back in eventually.

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With nearly every facet of legacy coding tools under a concerted siege from AI agents, it was only a matter of time until AI labs turned their roving eyes towards Microsoft's GitHub and its fertile pickings. Well, SpaceX's Cursor has just launched the Origin, an AI-native repository for coding agents, taking a stab at Microsoft's GitHub-related moat. SpaceX's Cursor has designed Origin for agentic throughput, and equipped it with automated conflict resolution, stacked pull requests, and comprehensive metadata for agent-written code, overcoming many of GitHub's shortcomings Last week, SpaceX completed its $60 billion all-stock deal to acquire the AI startup […]

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