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🚨 do you understand what happened at the Xbox Showcase.. The show ended and most people thought that was it. Then Sharma and Booty walked back on stage and told every fan in the room they were going home with the new Xbox Series X25 - free. The catch: it only applied to badges marked FAN, not press. - the console was revealed minutes earlier and still has no announced public price - the room erupted so loud the clip is already going viral - Sharma dropped it with one line - "how about those exclusives?" - the same night Xbox confirmed Gears of War E-Day is a true console exclusive, no PlayStation port New leadership, new rules. Xbox is done pretending the console war is over.

Marathon players thought they bought the full game for $14 but will lose access to the base game after the free week. During Marathon’s free-play week, some PlayStation players noticed they could purchase the Deluxe Edition for $14 after claiming the free trial, so they bought it thinking it was the full price. However, the $14 purchase only included the Deluxe Edition extras, such as the Premium Rewards Pass, tokens, cosmetics, and other bonus content. Because the free trial was active, the PS Store treated those accounts as if they already owned the base game and charged only for the upgrade. When the free-play week ends on June 9, anyone who only claimed the trial will lose access to Marathon unless they purchase the base game separately. Sony has since corrected the pricing issue, removed the $14 offer from the PlayStation Store, and some people are getting refunds.

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor. It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention.

Super excited to announce seven new world-class MAI models today. They represent what we consider a new era in AI designed to keep you in control and on the frontier. First is our text foundation model, MAI-Thinking-1, exceptionally strong on reasoning and SWE tasks. - It’s a 35B active parameter MoE with a 256K context window. Independent human raters on Surge prefer it for overall quality in blind side-by-sides versus Sonnet 4.6, and it’s achieved 97% on AIME 2025, the key measure of its general-purpose reasoning abilities. - It's at 53% on SWE Bench Pro, placing it right alongside Opus 4.6 on one of the toughest coding benchmarks. - And since we co-designed our models with our own silicon, MAI-Thinking-1 is optimized on our MAIA 200 chip. Benchmarking head-to-head against the GB200, we see 30% better performance per dollar as well as a 1.4x performance-per-watt gain when running our MAI models on the MAIA 200 end-to-end. Next is MAI-Image-2.5 and its Flash variant. Two super strong models now at #2# on the leaderboards, surpassing the score of Nano Banana 2 on image editing. Last for now is MAI-Code-1-Flash, our new inference efficient coding model, especially tuned for VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI. - Code-1-Flash achieves 51% on SWE Bench Pro, despite having just 5B parameters, putting it closer to Haiku in size but cheaper in cost. All of this is the foundation for Microsoft Frontier Tuning. It lets you customize our models to create custom, company-specific agents that only you control. You can make our model, your model. Your data. Your agents. Your moat. Early adopters are already seeing a difference. When we tuned our models for McKinsey’s tasks, MAI delivered the highest win rate, outperforming GPT-5.5 on quality, while being 10x lower on cost. Also really excited to be collaborating with the amazing team at Mayo Clinic to jointly train a new frontier AI model for healthcare. Our announcements today mark another milestone on the road to humanist superintelligence. You can learn more and about our other new models in our latest blog:

The AI era needs a new CPU. Meet NVIDIA Vera, 80% faster agentic task completion than x86. Built for AI factories. Built for what's next. The CPU for agents has arrived. 🔗

We’ve added a CLI for Claude Platform to make every API endpoint runnable from your terminal. Call the Messages API, stand up Claude Managed Agents, pipe results straight into your shell. The ant CLI is well understood by coding agents (Claude Code) using the claude-api skill.

We've reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users on Pro and Max plans. We fixed an issue that caused some Claude Code sessions to spawn excessive parallel subagents, burning through usage faster than expected.

NVIDIA has officially retired the GeForce Control Panel after 20 years, ending one of the longest-running software tools in PC gaming. The company is moving users to the newer NVIDIA App, which combines driver updates, game optimization, DLSS and RTX settings, performance tools, overlays, and display settings into one application. The old Control Panel will still work for now but is now considered a legacy app and will no longer receive major updates for GeForce users. For many gamers it has been a familiar part of the Windows experience since the early 2000s.