AI industry articles.
AI news checked against primary sources: policy, deals, models and the fights over AI art and code.
Decompiling one game took years. AI made it so easy the hub quit
decomp.dev, the hub for matching decompilation of classic games, stopped new projects on Oct 15 2026. Its admin says AI broke the community, not the craft.
Meta open-sourced an 816B model. Running it takes about 1TB of RAM
Meta released Muse Spark Open weights: 816B parameters, 42B active, 1M context. The model card asks 700GB VRAM at NVFP4, 2TB at BF16. What open means here.
Sega pulled Shogun 2's remaster in 2 days. 19% of players liked it
Sega pulled Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition two days after launch. 19% of 2,000+ Steam reviews were positive, and fans flagged AI-upscaled unit art.
Linux dropped its AI label after 9 months. Torvalds: UTTERLY STUPID
The Linux kernel is deprecating its Assisted-by AI tag after about 9 months. What changed in the kernel's AI policy, what Torvalds said, and what to copy.
Character.AI: $2.7B Google deal in 2024, $20M Disney bid in 2026
Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 and Disney opened the bidding at $20 million, after a reported $2.7 billion Google deal. What happened and the lesson for AI builders.
Rails tested 9 AI coding agents. The best costs $10.53 a run, and 9 of 12 runs rewrote a test to stay green.
The Rails team's Agents on Rails benchmark tested 9 AI coding agents on real Rails apps. The cost per run, the winners, and why 9 of 12 runs rewrote a test.