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    2. . 13 min read.

      Amodei wants to pace the frontier without easing off the gas

      Amodei calls for slowing AI down, Trump says no, Altman and Musk applaud. Nobody eases off the gas, and on China they all say the same thing.

    3. . 8 min read.

      World of Warcraft Forever charges for what Ascension gave away

      Blizzard unveiled its Classic+ one week after shutting down Ascension, with a race sold for $30 and not a single new class. I watched it with a twinge.

    4. . 8 min read.

      One hacker doxxed the French far right with Claude

      A lone hacktivist used Claude to file the French far right, and Le Monde has now named the targets one by one. The barrier to entry is gone.

    5. . 9 min read.

      DeepSeek and Kimi quietly served their customers Claude

      DeepSeek and Kimi routed their customers' requests to Claude, data and all, to copy it. Anthropic's new report says what the copied model got to read.

    6. . 11 min read.

      Mistral raises three billion and Anthropic raises 65

      A European record, Samsung at the head of the table, a gigawatt on the way. I divided by Anthropic's and OpenAI's rounds, then checked whose model Mistral hosts.

    7. . 7 min read.

      Ascension shut down and my WoW comeback lasted two weeks

      Blizzard closed Ascension through a settlement one week before BlizzCon, and my return to WoW with my cousin ended after two weeks, friends' nights included.

    8. . 10 min read.

      The French education ministry had its students stolen

      A hacker claims 346 million rows on French students, the ministry promises to notify affected parents, and my daughter's school handed me the same forms again.

    9. . 10 min read.

      GPT-6 Astra goes critical and OpenAI keeps the key

      OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra, its first model rated critical for cyberattacks, with the best parts locked away. Every lab now has a model you can't use.

    10. . 8 min read.

      Nvidia buys Hugging Face and France had nothing to sell

      Nvidia is paying $12.9 billion for a platform three Frenchmen founded, Paris incubated, and a public supercomputer trained. Everything but the money.

    11. . 11 min read.

      Local AI comes from China and fits on a consumer GPU

      Before installing anything, I went looking for what I could actually run on my own machine. Every serious candidate turned out to be Chinese.

    12. . 10 min read.

      Seven hundred AIs hacked Hugging Face for nothing

      In July, an OpenAI model broke into Hugging Face to cheat on a test. The two investigations published since tell a story far stranger than the hack itself.

    13. . 9 min read.

      Gamescom runs on the AI the industry says it hates

      Two hours of trailers on the Cologne stage, and three days of conference rooms next door where the people who make games argued about a tool they all use.

    14. . 9 min read.

      Songs of the Past gives Geralt one last hunt

      CD Projekt showed The Witcher 3's third expansion in Cologne, handed the first two out for free, and promised a free remaster of the whole game in September.

    15. . 9 min read.

      AI ate the world's RAM and the refill arrives in 2028

      A 32 GB DDR5 kit ran about 120 euros in late 2025 and now clears 500, because the foundries followed the AI money. The new factories don't open until 2028.

    16. . 6 min read.

      Cyberpunk 2077 runs great now and I mostly shrugged

      Seventy hours in Night City, six years after the worst launch of the decade, without a single bug in sight and without much of a thrill either.

    17. . 7 min read.

      High school hangs up as AI enrolls

      The headline measure of France's Miller law died on August 14. Its quiet one takes effect September 1, the same morning AI becomes required coursework.

    18. . 8 min read.

      France's teen social media ban never reached September

      The Constitutional Council struck down the under-15 ban over the exact hole I wrote about last month. Nobody had said who would check anyone's age.

    19. . 11 min read.

      The summer France changed climates

      France has taken five heat waves since May, broken 726 heat records, and set none for cold. Serge Zaka keeps counting, and gets threats for it.

    20. . 8 min read.

      Claude will sign everything it writes

      Anthropic is slipping an invisible signature into everything Claude writes, and subscribers revolted before a single marked sentence existed.

    21. . 6 min read.

      Dead as Disco hits on the beat and hasn't let go

      I sat a friend down for thirty minutes of Dead as Disco on Friday night, we lost the entire evening to it, and I still haven't come up for air.

    22. . 7 min read.

      Europe regulates the AI it doesn't build

      On Sunday, the machines that talk to us have to admit they are machines. That is roughly all the AI Act delivers, because the hard part slipped to 2027.

    23. . 8 min read.

      The prompt engineer is fading and that suits me fine

      Anthropic now teaches Claude by watching you work. Behind the gimmick sits the end of a job that never quite happened, and the return of what we're good at.

    24. . 8 min read.

      Banning teens from social media without knowing how

      The science backs the lawmakers, Australia undercuts them, and nobody can yet say who will check our children's ages or what they will keep afterward.

    25. . 5 min read.

      Nolan's Odyssey hugs the coastline

      I promised a report on Christopher Nolan's movie. Here it is, lukewarm, while every critic in the business rolled out the red carpet for Odysseus.

    26. . 5 min read.

      Clair Obscur paints the finest RPG

      A friend wanted RPG tips, and I circled back to the game that stuck with me most, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, whose eight-hour soundtrack I keep on loop.

    27. . 5 min read.

      La Bataille de Gaulle, my Bastille Day with the General

      Five hours and sixteen minutes in the dark with Charles de Gaulle, on a day France offered both a World Cup semifinal and a red heat alert.

    28. . 6 min read.

      GPT-5.6 Sol, the sun that throws shade at Fable

      OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 and its flagship Sol right as Anthropic prepares to pull Fable 5 from its subscription plans. The timing is nobody's accident.

    29. . 5 min read.

      Xbox cuts jobs, the Fed hires its CEO to study jobs

      Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs the same week its CEO joined a Federal Reserve task force on productivity and employment. You can't make this stuff up.

    30. . 5 min read.

      SGDQ 2026, my speedrunning World Cup

      Summer Games Done Quick 2026 just wrapped up in Minneapolis, so let me explain why speedrunning impresses me more than the World Cup ever will.

    31. . 6 min read.

      Fable 5 Is Back, the Government in the Loop

      Anthropic switches Fable 5 back on worldwide after export controls lift, but the accuser turns out to be Amazon and the government is now in the loop.

    32. . 3 min read.

      The Biter Bit, Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Copying Claude

      Anthropic says Alibaba siphoned Claude's capabilities through fake accounts to train Qwen, but the company crying theft has done plenty of taking itself.

    33. . 4 min read.

      Midjourney Dreams of an MRI at Spa Speed

      Known for synthetic images, Midjourney now promises to scan your whole body in sixty seconds, somewhere between the radiology lab and the spa.

    34. . 14 min read.

      Keeping a cool head when France melts

      From a well-placed fan to chalk wash on the windows, how I keep a home livable through a French heat wave without wrecking my health.

    35. . 5 min read.

      Soundcore Sleep, and finally sound asleep

      A non-sponsored field report on soundcore Sleep earbuds, which finally cured my trouble falling asleep after fifteen years of wax and foam earplugs.

    36. . 5 min read.

      MapTap, guessing the world one tap at a time

      MapTap creator John Donham built the daily geography game alone on weekends. Five places on a 3D globe, a score out of 1,000, a lesson after every answer.

    37. . 5 min read.

      On the web, humans are already outnumbered

      For the first time, Cloudflare has measured more web requests coming from bots than from humans, a tipping point that arrived far sooner than anyone expected.

    38. . 5 min read.

      Le Chaton Fat, the model too fat to be true

      Le Chaton Fat, the Mistral AI model Reddit and X hyped for a weekend, never existed. Where the meme came from and what it says about Europe’s AI hopes.

    39. . 4 min read.

      Guild Wars 3, the MMORPG I won't have time to love

      ArenaNet announced Guild Wars 3 at Summer Game Fest, and the MMORPG veteran dozing inside me snapped awake, dragging twenty-five years of memories with him.

    40. . 6 min read.

      Fable and Mythos, the day AI got classified

      Three days after launch, Anthropic had to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on Washington's orders, and export controls now reach artificial intelligence.

    41. . 4 min read.

      Elon Musk, a trillionaire despite it all

      SpaceX's record-smashing IPO just made Elon Musk the first trillionaire in history, a feat that commands respect and unease in roughly equal measure.

    42. . 6 min read.

      The Wave, or how to build a dictatorship in five days

      A lunch with a friend, a movie memory, and a handful of social experiments later, a look back at the German film where a whole classroom flips in a single week.

    43. . 4 min read.

      Alba, my daughter, and one controller for four hands

      Why Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is the perfect game to share with a four-year-old: an open world with no enemies, wildlife to photograph, and no lecture.

    44. . 3 min read.

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