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Tuesday’s tech feed has a little of everything: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery finally became one giant company called Skydance, Mistral shipped a trillion-parameter open model actually named “Le Chonk,” Google is squeezing Gemini’s free tier, and OpenAI’s rogue agents turned up poking at Wikipedia. Add Google’s huge nuclear power deal, Nvidia closing in on $6 trillion, and a pair of nasty breaches — here’s the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 6, 2026 . Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery officially become “Skydance” It’s done. Paramount closed its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, and the combined company is now just called Skydance — meaning HBO, CNN, CBS News, and both film studios all live under one roof. The last big hurdle was a settlement with 12 states that sued over antitrust concerns: Skydance has to release at least 30 theatrical films in each of the first two years and spend at least $300 million more on US production than the two companies did las...

Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] (image via TheGamer / Square Enix) Reviews are in for Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] , which lands Thursday, October 8 on Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S ($74.99). It bundles Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX, HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, and Kingdom Hearts III + Re Mind: basically the whole saga before Kingdom Hearts IV, minus Melody of Memory. Critics are split on one thing. On Switch 2 it’s a big deal, with native versions finally replacing the old cloud releases. On PS5 it’s mostly the PS4 collections again with a smoother KH3. OpenCritic has it at an 85 Top Critic Average (90% recommend, 20 reviews), and Metacritic’s Switch 2 page is at 89 from 13 reviews (Generally Favorable). The PS5 Metacritic number is lower so far, around 79 from just 6 reviews. NintendoWorldReport — 9.5/10 (Switch 2) — A great time for Nintendo fans to jump in; the series grows more confident as its own thing over time. Read on N...

Tuesday’s feed is a weird mix of Hollywood money, hardware leaks, and another rough day for UK studios. Embark’s two shooters are headed for film and TV, the Xbox Elite Series 3 basically leaked itself out of Microsoft’s own Design Lab, Supermassive and Ninja Theory both started saying goodbye to staff, and Modern Warfare 4’s DMZ finally got a real deep dive. Here’s the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 6, 2026. Arc Raiders (image via Eurogamer / Embark Studios) Arc Raiders and The Finals are getting film and TV adaptations Embark is teaming with Chernin Entertainment, the company behind this year’s Backrooms box-office hit, to adapt both shooters for film and TV. Variety reports several production companies fought for the rights. Embark CEO Patrick Söderlund calls it the next step toward “deeply integrated transmedia experiences,” and Arc Raiders has now sold over 16 million copies. No directors, writers, or cast yet, but gian...

Monday’s tech feed is basically AI on trial: Sam Altman telling the world to accept some “bad things,” AI lab execs testifying under oath in front of all 51 NYC Council members, Australia lining up its own grilling, and Trump handing his spy chief a brand-new “Super Intelligence Force.” Meanwhile ChatGPT is getting picture ads, Meta’s Muse had a scary-close brush with a VM escape, hackers walked off with 8.8 million records from Denmark’s national registry, and Schneider Electric dropped $22.6B on PTC — here’s the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 5, 2026 . ChatGPT is getting picture ads OpenAI’s next ad format puts actual images of sponsored products on your screen, starting with a US test later this month — and “initially” only when you’re generating images. Until now ChatGPT ads (which arrived in February) were just a name, logo, and link in a “sponsored” box under your chat. OpenAI says the new ads stay separate from your generated image, won’t influence answers, and skip Plus,...

Monday’s feed is RuneFest fallout, Rockstar soft-launching character lore in a fashion mag, and a stack of games that actually ship this week. Jagex yanked a Dragon Slayer 2 trailer after the sixth finger showed up, GTA 6’s LOVE Magazine issue landed, Aion 2 went live, and Arc Raiders is about to throw the doors open for free. Here’s the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 5, 2026. Jagex pulls Dragon Slayer 2 trailer after AI artifacts RuneFest’s goodwill took a hit: the sketched cinematic for RuneScape 3’s Dragon Slayer 2 quest got yanked after players spotted a six-fingered hand and footwear that looked suspiciously like Air Jordans. Timing was brutal — days earlier a Jagex community manager had sworn off generative AI in games, marketing, and partner merch. Jagex says a trusted external partner promised no GenAI, admits the sixth finger is “pretty hard to explain away,” is overhauling review processes, and plans to commission community creators to tell the quest properly. Material...

Sunday’s tech feed is safety walkouts, surveillance fights, and hardware that still wants a camera on your face: an OpenAI safety lead saying the culture is broken, courts and senators swinging at Flock’s license-plate dragnet, and Meta’s Gen 3 glasses that are… mostly the same as Gen 2. Mix in rural data-center tax breaks nobody wants to admit using, Amazon’s $1B charm offensive, Korea’s finance-sector breach scramble, compostable coffee pods that cost a small fortune, and physicists hunting Earth-heat neutrinos — here’s the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 4, 2026 . OpenAI safety leader quits: culture is “broken” David Robinson, who led the safety write-ups that rode along with OpenAI’s big launches, resigned and published an Atlantic essay arguing Silicon Valley still treats frontier AI like a move-fast product cycle. He wants labs to run more like nuclear plants or busy airports — layers of redundancy, slow planning — and says “trial and error” is done. OpenAI says it’s pausing ...