CD Projekt RED will be leveraging the mod.io platform for this task, letting console players jump into community-created content for no extra cost. The news comes just a year after the company released official modding tools for the RPG, letting PC players create new quests, worlds, cutscenes, monsters, dialog, and much more to edit and expand on the game.

The cross-platform modding support will arrive via this final major update to The Witcher 3, though a release date has not been attached to it just yet. CD Projekt says the update will land sometime later this year across PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5. Following that, players will be able to use the mod.io platform to browse and install mods they want, all built by PC players, in their game.

"However, due to specific content guidelines and selection criteria for each platform, it may not be possible to bring every mod uploaded on PC to console," adds the studio. "Mods available on mod.io must also adhere to our Fan Content Guidelines and CD PROJEKT RED User Agreement."

Over on PC, players will still be able to use platforms like Nexus or Steam Workshop for their almost unrestricted modding needs. Find a handy FAQ from the developer regarding this update and modding over here.

Don't forget that CD Projekt and Xbox collaborated recently to release special edition controllers themed after The Witcher 3. Find more details about that venture here.

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Well, over 10 days late to this review because that is how long it took for us to actually get our hands on a 5060 to review! NVIDIA didn't want the Tech Media talking about this card... and now I understand why!

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These patents cover key functions like how you unlock your device, how digital data is managed, and the way images and videos are reproduced. Samsung has not officially commented on whether an appeal is forthcoming, but initial verdicts in these patent disputes are frequently challenged.

Now, you might remember Maxell from its iconic "Blown Away Guy" audio cassette ads or its dominance in the recording media scene back in the day. Originally a battery maker (the name stands for "Maximum capacity dry cell"), Maxell became a household name for its tapes and floppy disks before shifting more towards industrial components, although it still makes some consumer electronics like batteries and projectors.

This particular legal fight officially kicked off back in September 2023 when Maxell sued Samsung. Maxell alleged that the Korean giant was violating seven patents by making and selling a whole range of products, including the SmartThings station, various smartphones, laptops, and even home appliances.

The relationship between these two companies was not always so sour; back in 2011, Samsung actually signed a licensing agreement with Hitachi Consumer Electronics, which was Maxell's predecessor. That deal covered ten patents and ran for ten years, expiring in 2021. Maxell asserts Samsung continued using the patented technology post-expiry and ignored attempts to negotiate a new agreement, leaving Maxell, in its view, with no option but to pursue legal remedies.

Maxell is also pursuing Samsung in Germany, Japan, and before the US International Trade Commission, and even filed another patent lawsuit against Samsung in Texas this past April.

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NVIDIA didn't unveil a new processor built for consumer laptops at Computex 2025 as many surmised, but that doesn't mean the project isn't underway.

A new leak from YouTube's Moore's Law is Dead channel shows off a rough image of a purported NVIDIA APU designed for use in gaming laptops.

The limited information now available suggests it will run between 80W and 120W. MLID's source expects NVIDIA to target a Q4 2025 or Q1 2026 release.

The leak is said to come from an NVIDIA insider who tests APUs, so there's certainly some credibility to the information.

This time, aside from the revenue, the big headline grabber is a $4.5 billion hit NVIDIA took. This charge is tied to its H20 products for the Chinese market, thanks to the U.S. government deciding on April 9, 2025, that new licenses are needed for export. Before these new rules, H20 products actually sold $4.6 billion in this same quarter, and NVIDIA was unable to ship an additional $2.5 billion worth. This charge dragged GAAP earnings per diluted share down to $0.76 and non-GAAP to $0.81; without it, NVIDIA notes, non-GAAP earnings per share would have been a healthier $0.96.

Despite these challenges, CEO Jensen Huang remains bullish, stating, "Global demand for NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure is incredibly strong." Huang pointed to the Blackwell NVL72 AI supercomputer, now in full-scale production, and a tenfold surge in AI inference token generation in just one year. Data Center revenue certainly reflects this, hitting $39.1 billion, up 73% year-over-year. Gaming also had a record quarter with $3.8 billion in revenue, boosted by new cards like the GeForce RTX 5070 and the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2, which will feature an NVIDIA processor and AI-powered DLSS.

Looking ahead to the second quarter of fiscal 2026, NVIDIA expects revenue around $45.0 billion. Crucially, this forecast already accounts for an estimated $8.0 billion loss in H20 revenue due to those export controls. The company is also working to get its gross margins back into the mid-70% range later in the year, after the H20 charge pushed the Q1 non-GAAP gross margin to 61.0% (it would have been 71.3% without the charge). NVIDIA also announced its next quarterly cash dividend of $0.01 per share, payable on July 3, 2025.

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On May 22, 2025, IGN showed off a teaser trailer for a new upcoming Xbox title with a similarly upcoming PC port named Alkahest. This game, developed by Push On and published by HypeTrain Digital, is a first-person RPG set in a medieval, dark fantasy world where the player must wield an arsenal of weapons and dangerous alchemical potions to defeat hordes of vicious monsters.

The teaser trailer released by IGN gives us a glimpse of what Aklahest's combat will look like, and so far, it looks insane.

The teaser trailer (as well as its reveal trailer shown in June 2024) showcases the player character utilizing the environment, performing acrobatic swordplay, and conducting deadly potions in the middle of combat to slay their foes.

As for what the story is about, Alkahest takes place in Kadanor, a kingdom embroiled in civil war between three powerful noble houses. You play as the youngest son of a petty lord destined to rot in obscurity.

To defy your fate, you embark on a quest across the kingdom to make a name for yourself by exploring the land for long-lost treasure, taking on jobs for locals, and quelling an unusual rise of goblin raids on the county border.

The developers state on the game's Steam page that Alkahest's combat system will feature advanced melee combos and a large focus on interacting with the environment, like cutting down trees or using nearby siege equipment to slay enemies.

Additionally, another huge component of Alkahest's gameplay will be Alchemy. By locating various recipes on their travels, players will be able to create all kinds of alchemical items like flammable grenades, healing potions, and weapon oils. You can even sneak in some poison in an NPC's pocket to take out stealthily.

CD Projekt RED's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt crossed 60 million copies sold since it launched back in 2015.

CD Projekt shared the news on Wednesday as part of an investor update detailing its business operations, revealing a new sales milestone for the team's arguable magnum opus. That number is up 10 million from the last milestone, which was shared back in 2023.

As part of the same investor update, CD Projekt also revealed that Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion has crossed 10 million copies sold, while the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel is now in the pre-production stage of development.

Right now, the bulk of the development teams at CD Projekt RED are working on The Witcher 4, a game that entered full production late in 2024.

The Witcher 4 stars Ciri as the protagonist and is being developed using Unreal Engine 5, but otherwise, there's a lot we still don't know. The Witcher 4 (previously codenamed "Polaris") is meant to be the start of a new trilogy of games.

According to CD Projekt's staff breakdown, the team working on The Witcher 4 now numbers 422 staff, up slightly from 407 in 2024.

Outside of The Witcher 4, CD Projekt RED is also overseeing a remake of the first Witcher game. This remake is being developed by Fool's Theory, a studio that was founded by former CD Projekt RED staff. A team at CD Projekt RED's Boston office is also working on a spinoff title for The Witcher franchise.

The sequel, which until recently was known as Project Orion, is being headed by CD Projekt Red’s new North American arm, which has studios in Boston and Vancouver.

According to a statement accompanying its Q1 2025 financial report, the publisher stated that the sequel, which it now refers to as simply Cyberpunk 2, has entered the next stage of the development process.

“Several weeks ago the CD Projekt Red team responsible for the next big game set in the Cyberpunk universe completed the project’s conceptual phase,” the statement reads. “As a result, Cyberpunk 2 – previously known under the codename Project Orion – has progressed to preproduction.”

CD Projekt also announced that Cyberpunk 2077‘s expansion Phantom Liberty has now sold more than 10 million copies, ahead of the release of Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition on Switch 2 (which also contains Phantom Liberty).

“This result fills us with great satisfaction, especially given that a new addition is about to join our Cyberpunk portfolio [when] on 5 June the game’s Ultimate Edition will be coming to the new Nintendo Switch 2 console,” CD

Projekt co-CEO Michał Nowakowski said.

“Positive reactions from gamers and media representatives who have had the opportunity to play the game at a series of global Nintendo events fill us with optimism. It’s worth noting that for the first time ever one of our games will become a launch title for a brand new platform.”

Last week Mike Pondsmith, who created the Cyberpunk IP, said the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel features a new city that feels like “Chicago gone wrong”.

Pondsmith revealed that he’s not as involved with the second game as he was with 2077, but said he’s keeping track of its progress. The game designer went on to claim that the sequel will feature Night City, as well as a second, unspecified location.

“I’m not as involved directly, but I see the scripts,” Pondsmith said. “Last week I was wandering around talking to different departments and seeing what they had like, ‘this is the new Cyberware, what do you think?’

“I spent a lot of time talking to one of the environment guys, and he was explaining how the new place… because there’s another city that we visit, and I’m not telling you anymore than that, but there’s another city that we visit. Night City is still there.

“I remember looking at it and going, ‘I understand the feel that you’re going for, and this really does work, it doesn’t feel like Blade Runner, it feels more like Chicago gone wrong’. And I said, ‘yeah, I can see this working’.”

Also in its financial results, CD Projekt confirmed that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has now sold over 60 million copies since its release 10 years ago.

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After weeks of arguments in the Federal Trade Commission's monopoly trial, Meta is done defending its decade-plus-old acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp—at least for now.

The seven-week trial ended Tuesday, with the FTC urging Judge James Boasberg to rule that a breakup is necessary to end Meta's alleged monopoly in the "personal social networking services" market, where Meta currently faces sparse competition among other apps connecting friends and family. As alleged by the FTC, Meta's internal emails laid bare that Meta's motive in acquiring both Instagram and WhatsApp was to pay whatever it took to snuff out dominant rivals threatening to lure users away from Facebook—Mark Zuckerberg's jewel.

Talking to Bloomberg, Meta has maintained that the FTC's case is weak, seeking to undo deals that the FTC approved long ago while ignoring the competition Meta faces from rivals in the broader social media market, like TikTok. But Meta's attempt to shut down the case mid-trial was rebuffed by Boasberg, who has signaled he will take months to weigh his decision.

In a statement, Meta's spokesperson told Ars that Meta spent six weeks defending its deals while the FTC showed "that no deal is ever truly final." Meta appears "confident" that the case will end in a win, Sruthi Thatchenkery, an assistant professor of strategy at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, told Bloomberg, noting that it's "very hard to unwind a merger."

"The only thing the FTC showed was the dynamic, hyper-competitive nature of the past, present, and future of the technology industry," Meta's spokesperson said.

Boasberg is not expected to hold closing arguments, The New York Times reported. Instead, Meta and the FTC will file follow-up briefings over the summer, after which Boasberg has said he will work "expeditiously" to arrive at a ruling on whether Meta's purchases violated antitrust law. His ruling could come before the end of the year, Bloomberg reported.

It's unclear which way Boasberg is leaning or if he would even require a breakup in the event of an FTC win. Bloomberg noted that the judge "will have some latitude to come up with his own solution," perhaps finding "that only one of the deals was illegal" and requiring "only a sale of that service." The FTC has also recommended requiring Meta to make its platforms interoperable with other platforms, which experts told Ars would spur competition by giving users an easy way to port their entire social network to a rival app if Meta's apps become too degraded.

Experts note that there's also a chance the FTC and Meta reach a settlement before the verdict comes, although the FTC supposedly previously rejected Meta's $1 billion settlement bid, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The FTC has said a breakup spinning off both apps is necessary, with a senior official last week telling press that the Meta case seemingly hits at the very heart of antitrust law, the NYT reported.

"This case presents a very important legal principle, which is that a firm that is a monopolist cannot acquire its most threatening competitors," the FTC official said. "Antitrust law requires competition on the merits, even in digital markets, and it’s competition on the merits that drives innovation and ultimately helps consumers."

Although the FTC has not commented on the trial ending, a spokesperson previously alleged that Meta's entire defense came from "primarily its own self-interested executives and paid experts."

Whichever side wins, the other side is expected to quickly appeal, and if the FTC wins, the trial will continue as Boasberg evaluates potential remedies. Meta—which the NYT described as putting its future in Boasberg's hands—will likely defend its deals to the end, as "Instagram is now Meta's biggest money maker in the US," accounting for more than 50 percent of its ad revenue in 2025, The Guardian reported.

"Meta is a proud American success story, and we look forward to continuing to innovate and serve the people and businesses who love our services," Meta's spokesperson said.

Experts aren’t so sure Meta has clinched it

Boasberg has said that the key question he must answer is whether the FTC's market definition is too narrow.

Arguing against the market definition, Meta has said that connecting friends and family isn't even Meta apps' "core use" anymore, as an evolving competitive social media landscape has forced Meta to turn its newsfeeds into discovery engines to rival TikTok. Justin Teresi, an antitrust analyst, told Bloomberg that because the FTC failed to show that users primarily come to Meta apps to connect with friends and family, it may have strengthened Meta's case.

Rebecca Allensworth, a Vanderbilt law professor and antitrust expert, told Bloomberg that the "FTC’s narrowly defined market was always the weakest part of its case," but the government "has done a nice job of minimizing that weakness" by showing that apps that don't connect friends and family aren't adequate substitutes for Meta's apps.

"This was evident when Meta saw spikes in usage on holidays," Allensworth suggested, which is perhaps "a sign people were turning to its products to connect with loved ones."

Teresi thinks Meta has a 60 percent shot at winning the trial, although he criticized Meta's seeming defense that any company competing for online ad dollars competes with Meta. That argument may have broadened the market definition too much, he suggested.

"If you’re saying that the relevant market here is competing for advertising dollars, then you could throw anything in there," Teresi said. "You could throw TV in there, you could throw print in there if you wanted to, and there’s really no end to that concept."

Allensworth was less confident in Meta's chances, telling Bloomberg, "I really actually think this could go either way."

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YouTube channel Tech Yes City claims that ASRock's investigation discovered that the issue is related to AMD's Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO). This feature is an automatic overclocking feature for Ryzen CPUs, which uses an algorithm to dynamically adjust the power limits, voltages, clock speeds.

Specifically, it appears to be an amperage problem that affects the Electric Design Current (EDC) and Thermal Design Current (TDC) on ASRock motherboards. ASRock representatives stated that the motherboards were configured too aggressively to handle the PBO for Ryzen 9000 CPUs. It would result in EDC and TDC being set at a higher range for early CPU samples, which ended up in the processors dying prematurely, especially on mid-range and high-end motherboards.

ASRock says that the PBO issues have been fixed in the latest BIOS update that it has released. The company has also clarified that its budget motherboards should not be affected by the issue. But ASRock users were not impressed by this announcement, and have called out the company for trying to shift the blame. Questions are also being raised about the fix, and whether it actually solves the problem. AMD has not released a statement about this.

Meanwhile, More than Moore's Dr. Ian Cutress says that an engineer told him that certain versions of Ryzen Master will put the CPU in PBO mode automatically when the app is installed. But, it won't tell you that the mode is enabled. This cannot be blocked via the BIOS, and the only workaround is to open the app, enable the feature and disable it manually.

Tom's Hardware reports that ASRock had initially dismissed the motherboard failure reports as misinformation, and even denied that the problems were due to memory incompatibilities, and that it should release a public advisory to alert users about the BIOS update and protect potential failures.

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Computex 2025 wrapped up on May 23 after a week of countless new product announcements from major tech players. However, one exception stands out: Qualcomm.

Qualcomm's AI-heavy Computex 2025 presentation notably avoided discussing the next generation of Snapdragon X chips. Instead, it went heavy on AI capabilities with its available hardware. AI performance numbers, AI integration plans, AI and Snapdragon on ARM ... you get the point.

It's no secret that Qualcomm didn't create its Snapdragon X platform as a one-and-done offering, so the lack of news regarding a new generation of hardware was particularly noticeable.

Qualcomm's side doesn't seem concerned with the delayed announcement scheduling. It has its annual Snapdragon Summit planned for September 2025, and it's now clear that Qualcomm is saving its next-gen chips for the occasion.

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Yuya Tokuda, the director for Monster Hunter Wilds, has uploaded a Director's Letter recapping all the new content that will be added to the game in its next update, launching on May 28, 2025.

The May Update will include all kinds of new activities for players to indulge in, like a Street Fighter 6 Collaboration quest, new Tempered Monsters to slay, balance adjustments to weapons, and more.

Here are the biggest highlights for Monster Hunter Wilds' May Update (as taken from Monster Hunter Wilds' official website).

Monster Hunter Wilds May Update - Street Fighter 6 Collab

The first major content highlight (and undoubtedly the star of the update), is a collaboration with Street Fighter 6, the latest entry in Capcom's flagship fighting game series.

In this collab, players will embark on several new quests where they will get to interact with Akuma, one of the deadliest fighters in the entire Street Fighter universe. Upon completing these quests, you will get to unlock a special armor set and cosmetic layered armor that transform you into Akuma himself.

Unlike the Akuma armor set previously featured in Monster Hunter Rise, Monster Hunter Wilds' version will grant you special items that grant you the ability to perform Akuma's moves and combos lifted directly from Street Fighter 6.

If you wear the regular armor set and layered set together, it will power up these moves to the point where they could deal significant damage to even the toughest monsters in the game.

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1. Windows 10 and 11
2. Windows Insider Program
3. Updates are available
4. Reviews are in
5. Gaming news

Windows 11 and Windows 10

Here, we talk about everything happening around Microsoft's latest operating system in the Stable channel and preview builds: new features, removed features, controversies, bugs, interesting findings, and more. And, of course, you may find a word or two about older versions.

Build 2025, Microsoft's annual developer conference, took place this week. There, the company announced some interesting stuff for Windows 11. While it was primarily aimed at developers, regular users will also find some of the upcoming changes useful and interesting. The Settings app, for one, is getting the new Advanced page for the Settings app (now available in the latest preview build). There is also a new command-like editor called Edit, WinGet Configuration for quick dev environment deployments, and more.

Developers and users will also be glad to learn about the Microsoft Store improvements, which include the "last updated" date for apps, free registration for individual developers, better Health Reports in the Partner Center, direct Win32 updates, and more.

Microsoft is also improving Administrator protection in Windows 11, adding quantum encryption to Windows builds, and bringing Model Context Protocol support to its operating system.

Moving from announcements to releases, Microsoft pushed KB5061768 to Windows 10 users to address BitLocker recovery loops on certain Intel-based systems. The update is available in the Microsoft Update Catalog only (not obtainable via Windows Update).

Now, here is some interesting Windows trivia. A Microsoft engineer published a blog post explaining how Windows cleverly guesses it despitenot knowing how fast your processor actually is. Another engineer showed how bad code in apps can lead to Windows system slowdown.

Also, here is a remastered version of the original Windows 95 wallpaper, in case you want some high-resolution nostalgia on your 4K monitor, and an interesting discussion about which Windows version is the best for old PCs (not Windows 11).

Windows Insider Program

Here is what Microsoft released for Windows Insiders this week:

Plenty of new features in this week's builds are rolling out gradually, including AI Actions for File Explorer. However, as usual, you can enable them with a simple third-party tool. Check out this article to learn how to force-enable AI Actions in File Explorer.

Some hidden stuff for Windows 11 was also discovered this week. For one, it looks like Windows 11 will soon have its own variant of Handoff from macOS. During a Build session, Microsoft showcased how users can transfer their workflow from a mobile device and continue where they left off on Windows 11. Nothing has been publicly announced, though. Second, Microsoft is working on the ability to save screen recordings as GIFs in Snipping Tool.

What is not hidden are the new features for Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad, which Microsoft announced earlier this month at its Surface event. Those features are now rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Canary Channels.

Updates are available

This section covers software, firmware, and other notable updates (released and coming soon) delivering new features, security fixes, improvements, patches, and more from Microsoft and third parties.

At Build 2025, Microsoft announced many updates. Starting with open-source, GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code and Windows Subsystem for Linux are now open-source, which means everyone can build their own projects based on them and contribute to the development.

Recently, Microsoft sent an email asking for feedback on a new set of Office icons. While a public announcement has not been made yet, someone on Reddit took the matter into their own hands and made the icon pack themselves. Behold, a pack of high-quality Office icons that you can download right now.

Speaking of Office, Microsoft introduced its presentation customization tool for PowerPoint to Mac users. This accessibility feature helps create a logical reading flow for elements in your slide and improves other aspects that make it easier for viewers to make sense when viewing and reading your slides.

This week brought plenty of browser updates. Microsoft, for one, is making Google Chrome a bit safer by bringing Edge's automatic privilege de-elevation mechanism to the most popular browser in the world. Microsoft Edge received this feature six years ago, and now, it is finally making it to Chrome. Microsoft also released two updates: one for Edge Stable and one for Edge Beta. These updates introduced more Copilot for the new tab page and fixed a bunch of bugs.

At Build 2025, Microsoft announced several updates to its browser, including free content filtering on Edge for Business, PDF translation, summaries, and take automation. The company also proposed a new AI API web standard to help developers integrate AI functionality into their web apps.

Vivaldi received a new feature update under version 7.4. While it is not the biggest release, it introduced some neat improvements, such as better keyboard shortcut controls and enhancements to the address bar.

Here are other updates and releases you may find interesting:

• PowerToys received a small update with fixes for Command Palette, Workspaces, and Quick Accent.
• Microsoft shared details about Lumma malware, which infected nearly 400,000 computers.
• Signal received a new privacy feature that blocks Windows Recall and other screenshot-taking apps.

• Microsoft Planner is getting a new feature to save hours of your time.

• Microsoft announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025.
• Microsoft announced Copilot Tuning for model training with organizational data.
• Windows AI Foundry has been unveiled as a unified platform for local AI development.
• Microsoft revealed GitHub Copilot, a coding agent competitor to OpenAI Codex.
• ExplorerPatcher for Windows 11 received a fix for version 24H2 and a few important changes.

Here are the latest drivers and firmware updates released this week:

• Nvidia 576.52 WHQL with the RTX 5060 support and bug fixes. Also, Nvidia released a firmware update for the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti to fix black screens during reboots on systems with old motherboards.

Reviews are in

Here is the hardware and software we reviewed this week

This week, Robbie Khan reviewed the Sharge ICEMAG 2, an interesting Qi2 wireless power bank with active cooling to keep temperatures low when charging your device wirelessly. It has a unique design and solid build quality, but some of its quirks lowered the final score.

On the gaming side

Learn about upcoming game releases, Xbox rumors, new hardware, software updates, freebies, deals, discounts, and more.

PlayStation is getting another slice of the Xbox pie. Ninja Theory announced that Senua's Saga: Hellblade II is coming to PlayStation 5 later this year. No exact dates have been shared yet, though.

Valve released an update for SteamOS. Version 3.7.8 arrived in the Stable Channel with a few important changes, such as support for other AMD-based handhelds, a battery limiter for the Steam Deck, and multiple bug fixes.

Nvidia is running a Summer Sale, during which you can purchase six months of the GeForce NOW Performance plan with a 40% discount for just $29.99. In addition, the company added support for more games, including the enhanced edition of the STALKER trilogy, Survive the Fall, Blades of Fire, Monster Train 2, and more.

Speaking of GeForce NOW, it is now available in the updated Xbox app on PC. The app can now prompt you to select the preferred streaming service: Xbox Cloud Gaming or GeForce NOW. Other changes in the May 2025 update include improved widgets for the GameBar and more.

Xbox Game Pass now has more games. Microsoft announced the latest additions to the catalog, which include Moster Train 2, Creatures of Ava, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Symphonia, Spray Paint Simulator, and more.

Deals and freebies

This week's Weekend PC Game Deals is full of Warhammer specials, Witcher anniversary discounts, and three freebies from the Epic Games Store, which include the just-released Deliver At All Costs.

Other gaming news includes the following:

• Ubisoft released the Siege X year 10 roadmap and new system requirements on PCs and consoles.

• Microsoft brought over 50 classic Activision games to Game Pass in the new Retro Classics app.

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The main reason for the lower score on the non-XT was the relatively high price and thus the poorer value it offered compared to the XT. We thought the price was much closer to the XT than it needed to be.

While the RX 9070 proved to be more power efficient than the XT, for a desktop gaming graphics card, value and performance typically take the front seat compared to something like power efficiency.

However, that may not be the case in terms of productivity which also takes into account things like power savings. Thus, similar to the one we did for the XT model, we are doing a dedicated productivity review for the RX 9070 as well where we compare to against the 9070 XT, 7800 XT, as well as Nvidia's 5070 and 4070.

AI performance is a very important metric in today's world and AMD also promised big improvements thanks to its underlying architectural improvements. We already had a taste of that with the XT model so now it's time to see how good the non-XT does here.

Before we get underway, this is a collaboration between Sayan Sen (author), and Steven Parker who lent us their test PC for this review. Speaking of which, here are the specs of the test PC:

• Cooler Master MasterBox NR200P MAX
• ASRock Z790 PG-ITX/TB4
• Intel Core i7-14700K with Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut Pad
• T-FORCE Delta RGB DDR5 (2x16GB) 7600MT/s CL36 (XMP Profile)
• 2TB Kingston Fury Renegade SSD
• Windows 11 24H2 (Build 26100.3194)

Drivers used for the 7800 XT, 9070 XT and 9070 were Adrenaline v24.30.31.03 / 25.3.1 RC (press driver provided by AMD), and for the Nvidia RTX 5070 and 4070, GeForce v572.47 was used.

First up, we have Geekbench AI running on ONNX.

The RTX 5070 gets beaten by both the 9070 XT and 9070 in quantized and single precision (FP32) performance. Similarly, the 4070 gets close to the 9070 in half-precision (FP16) performance, but the latter is an enormous 30% faster in quantized score and nearly 12.2% better in single precision (FP32).

The reason for this beatdown is the amount of memory available to each card. The Nvidia GPUs have 12GB each and thus only do better in the FP16 precision tests since the other ones are more VRAM-intensive.

Next up, we move to UL Procyon suite starting with the Image generation benchmark.

We chose the Stable Diffusion XL FP16 test since this is the most intense workload available on Procyon suite. Similar to what we saw on Geekbench AI, the Nvidia GPUs to relatively better here as it is FP16 or half precision which means the used VRAM is lower.

So this is something to keep in mind again, if you wish to float32 AI workloads, it is likely that graphics cards with greater than 12 GB buffers would emerge as victors.

There is still a big improvement on the RX 9070 compared to the 7800 XT as we see a ~54% gain. This boost is due to improvements to the core architecture itself as VRAM capacities of both cards are the same at 16 Gigs.

Following image generation, we move to the text generation benchmark.

In this workload, we see the least impressive performance of the 9070 in terms of how much it improves over the 7800 XT. The former is up to ~7.25% faster here. The 9070 is also not as well-performing as the Nvidia 4070 in Phi and Mistral models, although it does do better in both the Llama tests.

Another odd result stood out here where the 5070 underperformed all the cards including the 7800 XT in Llama 2. We ran each test three times and considered the best score and so we are not exactly sure what happened here.

Wrapping up AI testing, we measured OpenCL throughput in Geekbench compute benchmark.

The RX 9070 did not fare well here at all even falling behind the 7800 XT and it is significantly slower than the three other cards. Interestingly, even the RTX 5070 could not beat the 4070 on OpenCL so perhaps this suggests that OpenCL optimization has not been a priority for either AMD or Nvidia this time. It could also be an issue with Geekbench itself.

Conclusion

We reach the end of our productivity performance review of the 9070 and we have to say we are fairly impressed but there is also a slight bit of disappointment. It is clear that the 9070 as well as the 9070 XT really shine when inferencing precision is higher, and that is due to the higher memory buffers they possess compared to the Nvidia 5070. But on FP16, the Nvidia cards pull ahead.

Still RNDA 4, including the RX 9070, see big boost over RDNA 3 (7800 XT). As we noted in the image generation benchmark, which is an intense load, there is over a 50% gain.

So what do we make of the RX 9070 as a productivity hardware? We think it's a good card. If someone was looking for a GPU around $550 that can do both gaming and crunch through some AI tasks this is a good card to pick up especially if you are dealing with single precision situations or some other VRAM-intense tasks. And we already know it is efficient so there's that too.

For those however looking for a GPU that can deal with more, AMD recently unveiled the Radeon AI PRO R9700 which is essentially a 32 GB refresh of the 9070 XT with some additional workstation-based optimizations.

Considering everything, we rate AMD's RX 9070 a 9 out of 10 for its AI performance. Price is less of a factor for those looking at productivity cases compared to ones considering the GPU for gaming, and as such, we felt it did quite decent overall and can be especially handy if you need more than 12 GB.

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DOOM: The Dark Ages, the latest entry in the DOOM franchise, has recently received a new patch that has made big balance adjustments to the game's difficulty to make it harder.

According to DOOM's official website Slayer's Club, these balance adjustments are focused on making the game harder, as players have been leaving feedback saying it felt too easy even on Nightmare Mode.

As a result, enemies now hit harder, health and armor item pick-ups drop less often, and certain enemies punish you more severely for mistiming the parry mechanic.

The full notes for these balance adjustments (as taken from the Slayer's Club) are as follows:

Update from 5/23/25

• Adjustments to make the Hell Knight's arms tougher to sever when using the Pulverizer.
• Lowered Skullcrusher Ravager damage against Bosses and Komodo.
• Reduced how long certain health and armor drops linger in the world in the [spoiler] boss fight.
• Reduced how long health drops linger in the world when in the Atlan
• Rebalanced the Atlan final [spoiler] boss fight.

Update from 5/22/25

"After a week of observing you play and hearing your feedback, we felt the game needed to be a bit harder overall, especially on Nightmare difficulty, so a Tunable pass was made live yesterday More specifically, we:"

Now, we have yet another issue with the RTX 5060 graphics card. This time, Nvidia confirmed compatibility issues with certain motherboards, which cause black screens on reboot. The company says this happens with "legacy motherboards," and a firmware update is required to resolve the problem. Nvidia published a support page on its official website with detailed steps to perform if your system experiences black screens during reboots.

Nvidia suggests doing one of the following steps to mitigate the issue:

• Shut down your computer before turning it on.
• Update your motherboard's BIOS to the latest version.
• Make sure the motherboard runs in UEFI mode, not Legacy / CSM. If your motherboard does not support UEFI, Nvidia recommends contacting your GPU's customer support, and it will provide the necessary VBIOS update for legacy motherboards.
• Boot using integrated graphics or another GPU.

After booting to the desktop, you can download the Nvidia GPU UEFI Firmware Update Tool and get your RTX 5060 to the latest firmware with the necessary fixes. This applies to the RTX 5060 and the RTX 5060 Ti. Nvidia adds that the firmware update is only required on systems that exhibit black screen issues on reboots. There is no need to update GPU firmware if your system restarts without issues.

You can find all the details and links to the firmware update tool in a post on the official Nvidia support website.

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X is back up for most users after what appeared to be a significant outage that spiked early this morning around 9AM ET.

Global internet monitor NetBlocks posted this morning that X “has been experiencing international outages for some users for a second time in a week,” adding that the issue isn’t “related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.” Downdetector showed complaints of an outage rose sharply after 8AM ET before beginning to fall about 45 minutes later. As of this writing, those reports have dropped from tens of thousands of reports to only hundreds.

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Elsewhere on social media, people had been complaining about issues with the network for a couple of days — one of the top posts on the r/Twitter Reddit community is a screenshot of an error message on the X login screen, with many replies complaining about login issues. The X developer platform site’s incident history log shows that a sitewide outage started Thursday and lasted roughly a day. At the moment, there’s still an error message on the platform status page that reads, “Login with X (OAuth) and other X platform login flows are experiencing degraded performance.”

The issue comes after a fire reportedly broke out in an Oregon data center owned by X on Thursday morning. Wired writes that multiple unnamed sources told it that the fire, which forced “an extended response from emergency crews,” involved batteries in one of the data center’s rooms. Following reports of the fire, there were complaints that X was down, but the outage then seemed comparatively small.

X did not immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment.

Update May 24th: Outage reports have mostly subsided.

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Many users online however are not happy about the 8GB variant and the backlash is similar to what Nvidia has been facing for its GPUs for the lack of VRAM on them, though rumor has it that the alleged upcoming SUPER series from GeForce would raise the memory capacities.

Unlike Nvidia, though, which only offers its RTX 5060 in a single 8GB variant, AMD is offering two forms of it so that users can choose what they want.

AMD's Frank Azor who is the Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions and Gaming Marketing at the company defended Radeon's decision to build two separate variants of the 9060 XT. He explained how 8 Gig GPUs still have a big market appeal, pointing out that many users worldwide are into 1080p eSports competitive gaming that does not require a lot of VRAM.

This is probably true considering plenty of gamers play such esports titles on reduced graphics settings to achieve higher framerates and lower latencies.

Others also pointed out the price point of the 8GB card suggesting that $299 was too expensive for an 8GB GPU. We have to say we are on the fence on this one since at face value, such a comment indeed makes sense. However, we don't have review numbers for the 9060 XT yet.

According to AMD's own slides, the company expects the 9060 XT 16 GB to be a bit faster than the 8GB 5060 Ti variant. The latter has an MSRP of $379.

The 9070 and 9070 XT, as examples, each with 16 GB VRAM, did very well in our 1440p tests at their respective official SEPs (suggested etail price). We did however feel like the non-XT was too closely priced to the XT model.

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The May Update for Starfield — first revealed earlier this month with a Steam Beta release for preliminary testing — has now been fully released for Bethesda's 2023 space exploration RPG, and is available to download now across the game's Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC (Steam, Xbox app) platforms. And while it's a small patch overall, it has added one huge piece of content that's making me reinstall the title.

That addition is Watchtower, a massive DLC-sized mod release from Kinggath Creations — a group of modders (led by community member kinggath himself) that's known for making some of the best Fallout 4 mods like Sim Settlements, and also came out with the ambitious East Empire Expansion project for Skyrim as well. The mod is one of Bethesda's developer-curated "Creations" mods, and costs 1,000 Starfield Creation credits ($10 worth). You'll find it in the in-game Creations Store menu.

Paid mods have been a contentious topic ever since Bethesda first brought them to Skyrim and Fallout 4 nearly a decade ago, but at a glance, Watchtower looks like it's absolutely worth its price of admission. If you're a Starfield player looking for another adventure to have in the Settled Systems, it's definitely worth a look.

Watchtower is centered around a militant faction of the same name that aggressively attacks anything and anyone they deem a threat to humanity — and for an unknown reason, you're now in their crosshairs. Fittingly for their namesake, Watchtower forces maintain a large fleet of starships that they use to overwhelm opposition encountered in planetary orbit while simultaneously raining down orbital strikes to support their troops on the ground.

In its fully voice-acted story, you'll meet a fellow adventurer also being hunted by Watchtower, and together with them and their allies, you'll begin to develop a resistance to the growing threat. As the questline progresses, you'll build up a space station and a fleet of your own to take the fight to the extremists, going through the process of crewing and commanding it as you target Watchtower outposts across the stars. While planetside, you'll even be able to call in orbital support Helldivers 2-style as the enemy does.

The Kinggath Creations team notes in Watchtower's overview page on its website that it's "designed to work seamlessly with the base game, DLCs, and many other community mods," so there's no need to worry about compatibility with most other Creations and the Shattered Space DLC. It's also available on both Xbox and PC, so all Starfield players can jump in.

In a surprise announcement, Microsoft today revealed the Retro Classics app, a brand-new resource for Game Pass members that features dozens of classic titles. As is evident by its name, the app specializes in retro classics, and the focus is on Activision-published games that landed back in the 80s and 90s.

Arriving as a partnership between Xbox and Antstream Arcade, the app is available to all Game Pass subscribers. Considering the age of the games, a wide variety of consoles are listed when sorting, including the original PlayStation. It seems more games are planned for the app too.

The games have gamepad and keyboard controls, instructions on how to play through them, in-game daily challenges, and even achievements.

Here's everything included in the launch version of Retro Classics:

"This initiative is a step in our commitment to game preservation and backwards compatibility, allowing players to experience many timeless games on modern devices," added the company.

The new Retro Classics app is available on PC, Xbox consoles, as well as all cloud-supported platforms, including Smart TVs, VR headsets, and more as a part of Game Pass.

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In fact, other companies are aware of this too, as Dell recently debuted its "most powerful laptop" in the form of the Dell Pro Max Plus which will come with a dedicated discrete Qualcomm NPU.

AMD's R9700 is basically identical to the RX 9070 XT in terms of core specs and hence packs 64 CUs (compute units) and 128 AI accelerators (2nd Gen). Where the AI PRO R9700 trumps the 9070 XT is in the available VRAM buffer. AI tasks are known to be highly memory dependent, and hence the increased 32 GB capacity of the R9700 is meant to help with that. AMD is sticking with the same memory interface and thus the bandwidth should be similar to the 9070 XT's.

If you are wondering about how much the VRAM can help, AMD claims that its new AI RPO GPU can obliterate Nvidia's RTX 5080 thanks to its double buffer. Team Red says that when it comes to dealing with larger AI models, the R9700 can be up to nearly 500% better than its Team Green counterpart. Their performance comparisons were done on Windows 11 PRO 24H2.

And when four R9700 PRO GPUs join forces, AMD promises even greater potency thanks to 128 GB of total combined VRAM:

Aside from comparisons with Nvidia's 5080, AMD also compared the R9700 with last gen W7800. In this case, VRAM is not the winning factor for the new card, but the core performance itself. The company promises up to twice the performance in certain situations.

We have already looked at the AI performance of the 9070 XT vs 7800 XT and the Nvidia 4070, so we can attest that in some situations such claims are indeed valid.

As far as pricing is concerned, AMD did not reveal that, but seeing how the card has been put up against the RTX 5080, the new AI PRO R9700 may have a similar SEP (suggested retail price). The availability of the GPU is slated for July this year.

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AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 were fairly well received when they were released in March, ably competing with Nvidia's RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti for the same or a little less money. We were impressed by the cards' performance and power efficiency, even if they still have some of the same caveats as older Radeon cards (lack of DLSS upscaling and lower relative ray-tracing performance being two).

Today AMD is formally expanding its family of RDNA 4 graphics cards with the Radeon RX 9060 XT, a GPU that will go up against Nvidia's RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti GPUs. These GPUs have just half the compute units of the RX 9070 XT, but at $299 and $349 for 8GB and 16GB configurations, they ought to be decent options for 1080p or entry-level 1440p gaming PCs (with the eternal "if you can find them" caveat that comes with buying a GPU in 2025).

AMD says the new GPUs will be available starting on June 5th from the typical range of partners—AMD released renders of a reference GPU design, but sometimes these are starting points that manufacturers can take or leave, rather than products AMD intends to manufacture and sell itself.

Specs and speeds

Per usual, AMD has priced the cards competitively with Nvidia's offerings, but not so aggressively as to totally undercut the GeForce cards. The 8GB variant of the card is priced against Nvidia's $299 RTX 5060, where the 16GB version attempts to undercut the $429 RTX 5060 Ti. Adding more RAM won't improve performance across the board in all games, but it ought to improve things disproportionately at 1440p, and it seems like AAA games are bumping up their RAM requirements all the time.

AMD didn't provide much by way of performance comparisons, but it's promising that the cards have the same number of compute units as AMD's last-generation RX 7600 series. AMD says that RDNA 4 compute units are much faster than those used for RDNA 3, particularly in games with ray-tracing effects enabled. This helped make the Radeon RX 9070 cards generally as fast or faster than the RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT series, despite having around two-thirds as many compute units. Sticking with 32 CUs for the 9060 series isn't exciting on paper, but we should still see a respectable generation-over-generation performance bump. The RX 7600 series, by contrast, provided a pretty modest performance improvement compared to 2022's Radeon RX 6650 XT.

Renders of AMD's reference card for the 9060 XT series.

 

No surprises here: it's a compact dual-fan design with a single 8-pin power connector.

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AMD says that the cards' total board power—the amount of power the entire graphics card, including the GPU itself, RAM, and other components—starts at 150 W for the 8GB card and 160 W for the 16GB card, with a maximum TBP of 182 W. That's a shade higher than but generally comparable to the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti, and (depending on where actual performance ends up) quite a bit more efficient than the RX 7600 series. This partly comes down to a more efficient 4nm TSMC manufacturing process, a substantial upgrade from the 6nm process used for the 7600 series.

It's unusual for a GPU maker to define a TBP range—more commonly we're just given a single default value. But this is in line with new settings we observed in our RX 9070 review; AMD officially supports a range of different user-selectable TBP numbers in its Catalyst driver package, and some GPU makers were shipping cards that used higher TBPs by default.

Higher power limits can increase performance, though usually the performance increase is disproportionately small compared to the increase in power draw. These power limits should also generally mean that most 9060 XTs can be powered with a single 8-pin power connector, rather than using multiple connectors or the 12-pin 12VHPWR/12V-2x6 connector.

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At the top of the lineup, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX offers 96 cores and 192 threads, promising outstanding computing power for demanding workloads in architecture, engineering, media production, and AI applications. AMD highlights its ability to handle large-scale processing tasks with efficiency with the 9000 WX series. The WX series is essentially the best of the best.

Obviously, to feed these many cores you need a lot of memory (including cache), bandwidth and power. The new Ryzen Threadripper 9000WX series comes with up to 384 MB of L3 cache, 409.6 GB/s of bandwidth, and has a TDP of 350 watt. They also feature up to 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes for I/O.

The 350-watt power envelope is uniform across all the WX SKUs starting from the 96 core 9995WX at the top down to the 12 core 9945WX at the bottom. Between these two, we have the 16 core 9955WX, the 24 core 9965WX, 32 core 9975WX, and the 64 core 9985WX.

Using this higher available power headroom, the lower core count Threadripper 9000WX parts boast much higher base clocks. For example, the 96 core 9995WX has a 2.5 GHz base clock while on the 12 core 9945WX sports a 4.7 GHz base clock.

All AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 WX-Series processors include AMD PRO Technologies, which promise to offer security features, remote management capabilities, and platform stability for enterprise use. These technologies promise to help IT teams optimize their infrastructure while maintaining productivity and system security.

Meanwhile, for PC enthusiasts and power users as well as creators, we have the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series. This is headlined by the 9980X that offers 64 cores and 128 threads. Spec-wise, the 9980X is essentially identical to the 9985WX.

The major difference between the Threadripper 9000WX series and 9000 series is that the latter does not support AMD PRO technologies. However, software aside, the hardware feature-set of the WX and non-WX lineups is identical.

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SilverStone's first '80s throwback PC case started life as an April Fools' joke, but the success of the FLP01 was apparently serious enough to merit a follow-up. The company brought another beige case to the Computex trade show this week, the vertically oriented FLP02 (via Tom's Hardware).

If the original horizontally oriented FLP01 case called to mind a 386-era Compaq Deskpro, the FLP02 is a dead ringer for the kind of case you might have gotten for a generic 486 or early Pentium-era PC. That extends to having a Turbo button built into the front—on vintage PCs, this button could actually determine how fast the processor was allowed to run, though here, it's actually a fan speed control instead. A lock on the front also locks the power switch in place to keep it from being flipped off accidentally, something else real vintage PCs actually did.

Despite its retro facade, the FLP02 is capable of fitting in even higher-end modern PC parts than the original FLP01. Front USB-A and USB-C ports are hidden behind a magnetic door on the front of the case, and its faux-5.25-inch floppy drives are just covers for drive bays that you could use for an optical drive or extra front I/O.

On the inside, the case can fit full-size ATX motherboards and up to a 360 mm radiator for CPU cooling, and modern high-end GPUs like the GeForce RTX 5090 or 5080 should be able to fit inside.

SilverStone says the FLP02 will ship in Q3 or Q4 of this year and that US buyers should be able to get it for $220. You can, of course, buy a modern high-end PC case for much less money. But if this kind of nostalgia-bait didn't move merchandise, companies wouldn't keep indulging in it.

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Google just wrapped up its big keynote at I/O 2025. As expected, it was full of AI-related announcements, ranging from updates across Google’s image and video generation models to new features in Search and Gmail.

But there were some surprises, too, like a new AI filmmaking app and an update to Project Starline. If you didn’t catch the event live, you can check out everything you missed in the roundup below.

Google has announced that it’s rolling out AI Mode, a new tab that lets you search the web using the company’s Gemini AI chatbot, to all users in the US starting this week.

Google will test new features in AI Mode this summer, such as deep search and a way to generate charts for finance and sports queries. It’s also rolling out the ability to shop in AI Mode in the “coming months.”

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Project Starline, which began as a 3D video chat booth, is taking a big step forward. It’s becoming Google Beam and will soon launch inside an HP-branded device with a light field display and six cameras to create a 3D image of the person you’re chatting with on a video call.

Companies like Deloitte, Duolingo, and Salesforce have already said that they will add HP’s Google Beam devices to their offices.

Google has announced Imagen 4, the latest version of its AI text-to-image generator, which the company says is better at generating text and offers the ability to export images in more formats, like square and landscape. Its next-gen AI video generator, Veo 3, will let you generate video and sound together, while Veo 2 now comes with tools like camera controls and object removal.

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In addition to updating its AI models, Google is launching a new AI filmmaking app called Flow. The tool uses Veo, Imagen, and Gemini to create eight-second AI-generated video clips based on text prompts and / or images. It also comes with scene-builder tools to stitch clips together and create longer AI videos.

The experimental Deep Think mode is meant for complex queries related to math and coding. It’s capable of considering “multiple hypotheses before responding” and will only be available to trusted testers first.

Google has also made its Gemini 2.5 Flash model available to everyone on its Gemini app and is bringing improvements to the cost-efficient model in Google AI Studio ahead of a wider rollout.

 

Xreal and Google are teaming up on Project Aura, a new pair of smart glasses that use the Android XR platform for mixed-reality devices. We don’t know much about the glasses just yet, but they’ll come with Gemini integration and a large field-of-view, along with what appears to be built-in cameras and microphones.

Google is also partnering with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker to create other Android XR smart glasses, as well.

Project Astra could already use your phone’s camera to “see” the objects around you, but the latest prototype will let it complete tasks on your behalf, even if you don’t explicitly ask it to. The model can choose to speak based on what it’s seeing, such as pointing out a mistake on your homework.

Google is building its AI assistant into Chrome. Starting on May 21st, Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers will be able to select the Gemini button in Chrome to clarify or summarize information across webpages and navigate sites on their behalf. Google plans on letting Gemini work across multiple tabs at once later this year.

Google is rolling out a new “AI Ultra” subscription that offers access to the company’s most advanced AI models and higher usage limits across apps like Gemini, NotebookLM, Flow, and more. The subscription also includes early access to Gemini in Chrome and Project Mariner, which can now complete up to 10 tasks at once.

Speaking of Project Astra, Google is launching Search Live, a feature that incorporates capabilities from the AI assistant. By selecting the new “Live” icon in AI Mode or Lens, you can talk back and forth with Search while showing what’s on your camera.

After making Gemini Live’s screensharing feature free for all Android users last month, Google has announced that iOS users will be able to access it for free, as well.

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Google has revealed Stitch, a new AI-powered tool that can generate interfaces using selected themes and a description. You can also incorporate wireframes, rough sketches, and screenshots of other UI designs to guide Stitch’s output. The experiment is currently available on Google Labs.

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Google Meet is launching a new feature that translates your speech into your conversation partner’s preferred language in near real-time. The feature only supports English and Spanish for now. It’s rolling out in beta to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

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Gmail’s smart reply feature, which uses AI to suggest replies to your emails, will now use information from your inbox and Google Drive to prewrite responses that sound more like you. The feature will also take your recipient’s tone into account, allowing it to suggest more formal responses in a conversation with your boss, for example.

Gmail’s upgraded smart replies will be available in English on the web, iOS, and Android when it launches through Google Labs in July.

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Google is testing a new feature that lets you upload a full-length photo of yourself to see how shirts, pants, dresses, or skirts might look on you. It uses an AI model that “understands the human body and nuances of clothing.”

Google will also soon let you shop in AI Mode, as well as use an “agentic checkout” feature that can purchase products on your behalf.

If Chrome detects that your password’s been compromised, Google says the browser will soon be able to “generate a strong replacement” and automatically update it on supported websites. The feature launches later this year, and Google says that it will always ask for consent before changing your passwords.

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