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When corporations mess up, Sally keeps score. The biggest tech and gaming industry disasters, roasted with zero mercy.

All Events (13)

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Form Joint Anti-Distillation Defense

6.4
Ai·2026-04-10

The three companies that would normally pay lawyers to sue each other by default just held a joint press conference about protecting their training data. If you ever wondered what it would take to make frontier AI labs hold hands in public, the answer is: Chinese distillation scripts.

Anthropic's Internal Model Finds Bugs Hidden Since 1998

8.8
Ai·2026-04-09

Anthropic's internal code analysis model surfaced critical vulnerabilities in codebases that have been running in production since 1998. One of them was in a library used by every bank in Europe. Sleep well.

Google Releases Gemma 4 with Native Vision and 256K Context

8.3
Ai·2026-04-09

Google quietly dropped the first open model family that doesn't feel like a consolation prize. Four sizes, native multimodal, 256K context, 140 languages. Meta is watching this through the bars of the cage they built themselves.

Microsoft Commits $10 Billion to Japan AI Infrastructure

7.6
Business·2026-04-08

Microsoft is spending $10 billion on Japanese data centers, which is either a historic investment in APAC AI or a very expensive way to avoid being caught in the middle of the next US-China semiconductor fight. Probably both. Satya does not do things for one reason.

Warhorse Studios Fires Translation Team, Replaces With AI

2.1
Gaming·2026-04-07

Kingdom Come Deliverance is a game about medieval peasants getting treated like garbage by the people in charge. Warhorse just re-enacted the plot with their own staff. You cannot make this up. The irony wrote itself and then got fired.

OpenAI Closes Record $122 Billion Funding Round

7
Tech·2026-03-31

Historic money raise. The math is giving hallucination.

12 Tons of KitKat Stolen in Europe's Sweetest Heist

8.5
Business·2026-03-26

Somebody stole 413,793 KitKat bars off a truck in Italy and KitKat turned their own robbery into the best marketing campaign of 2026.

PlayStation Shuts Down Bluepoint Games + Dark Outlaw Games

2.5
Gaming·2026-03-25

Sony bought Bluepoint, gave them a live-service God of War nobody wanted, cancelled it, then closed the studio. Masterclass in mismanagement.

Epic Games Fires 1,000 Employees

3
Gaming·2026-03-24

Epic spent more than Fortnite earned, panicked, and handed 1,000 people a cardboard box. Again.

Disney Cancels OpenAI/Sora Partnership

4
Business·2026-03-24

Disney planned a billion-dollar AI bet with OpenAI, watched Sora implode, and pulled out faster than a studio exec cancelling a streaming show after one season.

Meta Ordered to Pay $375M for Endangering Children

1.5
Tech·2026-03-22

A jury told Meta what everyone already knew: they lied about child safety, and $375 million is the price tag for getting caught.

45,000 Gaming Jobs Lost Since 2022

1
Gaming·2026-03-22

The gaming industry fired 45,000 people in four years and then wondered why nobody wants to make games anymore.

OpenAI Partners with US Military, Anthropic Refuses

2
Ai·2026-03-20

OpenAI went from 'AI safety is our mission' to 'here's unrestricted AI for the Department of Defense' faster than you can say 'pivot to profit.'