📡 Hourly News Bulletin | 02:00–03:00
1. RecodeX reports that the EU is taking action against Activision Blizzard, Riot Games, and Ubisoft, focusing on one of the video game industry’s longest-standing monetization practices. The investigations concern these companies’ in-game monetization practices.
2. RecodeX reports that Riyadh’s airport in Saudi Arabia was attacked again, a day after suffering a major strike. The Houthis said Saudi warplanes had attacked the airport in Yemen’s capital. Strikes on each other’s capital airports have continued to escalate in the latest round of air raids.
3. RecodeX reports that a procedural vote in the U.S. Senate rejected the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act by 49 votes to 50, blocking its immediate path forward. Meanwhile, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission continues to pursue cryptocurrency policy actions under existing law.
4. RecodeX reports that most people still use the term “AI” after Trump proposed renaming it “superintelligence,” but some influential figures in Silicon Valley are beginning to adopt the new term. Trump announced the proposed name change, but no industry-wide terminology has emerged so far.
5. RecodeX reports that on October 11 local time, a Sudanese civil society organization said in a statement that a large-scale airstrike hit a gold-mining area in the North Wadi region of northern Sudan, near the Egyptian border, on October 10, killing 72 miners.
6. RecodeX reports that at a panel marking the 25th anniversary of “Artemis Fowl” at New York Comic Con, original author Eoin Colfer announced that an animated series based on the books has been commissioned by Disney Channel and Disney+. Colfer will serve as executive producer. More than 25 years have passed since the series was first launched.
7. RecodeX reports that Solana’s annual ecosystem conference, Breakpoint, will be held in London this year. The organizers announced the news on social media alongside a street-interview video asking passersby if they knew where London was.
8. RecodeX reports that the University of Missouri has announced a partnership with Google Public Sector to expand access to AI infrastructure, training, technical expertise, and high-performance computing resources for researchers across the University of Missouri System. The partnership aims to strengthen the system’s researchers’ capacity for AI research.
1. RecodeX reports that the EU is taking action against Activision Blizzard, Riot Games, and Ubisoft, focusing on one of the video game industry’s longest-standing monetization practices. The investigations concern these companies’ in-game monetization practices.
2. RecodeX reports that Riyadh’s airport in Saudi Arabia was attacked again, a day after suffering a major strike. The Houthis said Saudi warplanes had attacked the airport in Yemen’s capital. Strikes on each other’s capital airports have continued to escalate in the latest round of air raids.
3. RecodeX reports that a procedural vote in the U.S. Senate rejected the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act by 49 votes to 50, blocking its immediate path forward. Meanwhile, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission continues to pursue cryptocurrency policy actions under existing law.
4. RecodeX reports that most people still use the term “AI” after Trump proposed renaming it “superintelligence,” but some influential figures in Silicon Valley are beginning to adopt the new term. Trump announced the proposed name change, but no industry-wide terminology has emerged so far.
5. RecodeX reports that on October 11 local time, a Sudanese civil society organization said in a statement that a large-scale airstrike hit a gold-mining area in the North Wadi region of northern Sudan, near the Egyptian border, on October 10, killing 72 miners.
6. RecodeX reports that at a panel marking the 25th anniversary of “Artemis Fowl” at New York Comic Con, original author Eoin Colfer announced that an animated series based on the books has been commissioned by Disney Channel and Disney+. Colfer will serve as executive producer. More than 25 years have passed since the series was first launched.
7. RecodeX reports that Solana’s annual ecosystem conference, Breakpoint, will be held in London this year. The organizers announced the news on social media alongside a street-interview video asking passersby if they knew where London was.
8. RecodeX reports that the University of Missouri has announced a partnership with Google Public Sector to expand access to AI infrastructure, training, technical expertise, and high-performance computing resources for researchers across the University of Missouri System. The partnership aims to strengthen the system’s researchers’ capacity for AI research.