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Tech News Roundup: Anthropic's $80B Loss, OpenAI Lands on Google Cloud, eBay Cuts 9% of Staff & More (Oct 21, 2026)

Anthropic (image via Reuters / BNN Bloomberg) Wednesday's tech news starts with a peek at Anthropic's books: its draft IPO filing shows an $80.7 billion first-half loss, though most of that is a paper charge tied to convertible bonds. Elsewhere in AI, OpenAI is bringing its models to Google Cloud, eBay is cutting about 9% of its staff, Nvidia unveiled AI data centers that ship on a truck, Super Micro blew past its own sales forecast, Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading their China memory plants, and ChatGPT ads are expanding to 26 more countries. Plus: a nationwide Orange mobile outage in France, a deadly accident at TSMC's 2nm fab site, Microsoft trimming Copilot from File Explorer, AMD and Intel teaming up on PyTorch, Meta's army of spare GPUs, a SafePay ransomware warning, Zeabur shutting down after a second breach, and JustWatch launching its own streaming service. Here's the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 21, 2026 . Anthropic's IPO filing shows an $80....
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Gaming News Roundup: GTA 6's PS5 Jailbreak Race, Xbox's Reported $150B Valuation, Dawn of War 4 Hands-On & More (Oct 21, 2026)

Grand Theft Auto VI (image via IGN / Rockstar Games) GTA 6 is four weeks out, and the race between PS5 hackers and Sony is heating up as the launch gets closer. Today's lead: Sony has pushed a new PS5 firmware update while the homebrew scene shows off another jailbreak. Also on Wednesday: GTA 6's beer brands may be headed for real-world shelves, private equity firms reportedly valued Xbox at up to $150 billion, Modern Warfare 4's DMZ is live in early access, and the first Dawn of War 4 hands-on impressions are in. Plus: Resident Evil Requiem's surprising disc sales, Beyond Good and Evil 2's never-ending pre-production, Nvidia's stutter-cutting driver, Magic: The Gathering's record quarter, Valor Mortis turning a profit, Remedy's Alan Wake easter egg, Hellraiser: Revival's goal to get banned, Kojima on the "walking simulator" label, Deadlock's last voted hero, and hope for an Onimusha 3 remaster. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup f...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Campaign Review: Price's Last Stand Brings CoD Back

Call of Duty campaigns have been on a rough streak. Modern Warfare 3's story fizzled. Black Ops 7 was a mess. Expectations for Modern Warfare 4 were basically on the floor. Good news: MW4 doesn't just step over them, it sprints past. Infinity Ward had real time on this one, and you can feel it. This is a proper, old-school CoD campaign: tight, loud, and built to keep you hitting "one more mission." It's also the finale for the rebooted Modern Warfare saga that started in 2019, and it plays like one. Story and setting Two stories run side by side, and they don't go in order. First up is Captain Price. After the events of MW3, he's gone rogue. He's hunting Makarov's network and a Russian official called the Archer, played by Mads Mikkelsen, who is clearly having a great time being menacing. To get close, Price teams up with cartel boss Valeria Garza. She doesn't care much about collateral damage. He does. Their back-and-forth is some of th...
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Tech News Roundup: Google Cloud Outage Hits UK Banks, OpenAI Races Anthropic for Cash, Salesforce Buys Braze & More (Oct 20, 2026)

A "power event" took down a Google Cloud zone in London (image via The Register) Tuesday's tech news starts with a reminder of how much runs on the cloud: a power failure in one Google Cloud zone in London knocked UK banks, delivery firms and even remote court hearings offline for hours. In AI and chips, ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent reportedly ordered $35 billion worth of Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 cards, OpenAI is racing to raise about $30 billion before Anthropic's IPO, Anthropic is negotiating a second $45 billion compute deal with Nscale, Salesforce is buying Braze for $5.66 billion, and Qualcomm is planning job cuts. Plus: Amazon's €16 billion German investment, a privacy slip in Meta's Muse agent, a run of supply-chain attacks (OVHcloud's CLI, Rank Math PRO and AOMEI Backupper), a UK proposal on iPhone contactless payments, Windows blocking ReFS on USB drives, a Microsoft VPN fix that didn't stick, Lightroom's one-tap eye fix, and an HPE compute...
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