Headquartered in Poland, Elsewhere Entertainment — an all-new internal studio at Activision — is working on a new “narrative-based and genre-defining AAA franchise.” Elsewhere includes developers credited on The Last of Us, Uncharted, Destiny, Cyberpunk, and more. Activision’s new studio announcement comes just a week after its parent company, Microsoft, closed three Bethesda studios. It also follows job postings about a new Activision IP.

Ultraman: Rising’s first teaser gave us a glimpse of the big man’s adoptive kaiju daughter, and framed their relationship as somewhat uneasy. But the movie’s latest trailer makes Ken Sato (Christopher Sean) seem like one hell of a dad who’s going to fight the world for his kid this June.

After the official reveal of Assassin’s Creed Shadows yesterday, some players noticed on the game’s PSN page that an internet connection would be required to play this single player game. In response, Ubisoft has put out a new statement clarifying that you’ll only need an internet connection to download the game and that the rest of it can be played wholly offline.

On today’s episode of Decoder, Verge editors Alex Heath and Sarah Jeong join me to discuss the lawsuit TikTok filed last week against the US government in response to the divest-or-ban bill.

One reason I wanted to have both Alex and Sarah on here is that there’s a lot of back and forth between the facts and the law; some of TikTok’s arguments are contradicted by the simple facts of what the company has already promised to do around the world, and some of the legal claims are complex and sit in tension with a long history of attempts to regulate speech and the internet.

TikTok averted a ban once before under the Trump administration. But this time around, the bill is on far more solid footing, and TikTok is arguing that divesting its US business is not possible “commercially, technologically, or legally.” So we walked through each of those arguments one by one.

Arriving ahead of products powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips, Opera says the new browser build can deliver over double the speeds achieved by emulated versions.

It’s initially launching for early adopters via Opera’s developer stream, with the company noting it’ll need to be downloaded onto a Snapdragon-powered Windows device.

Facing a cash crunch, The Information reports that the British startup had talks with at least one potential buyer in recent weeks.

It’s a sign of a pending AI consolidation surely to come given the high cost of talent, compute power, and meager revenue opportunities currently available.

The European consumer organization BEUC and 17 of its member groups, has accused the e-commerce platform of violating Digital Services Act (DSA) rules, urging the EU to designate Temu as a “very large online platform” (VLOP) to make it comply, as it did with Shein last month.

The complaint says:

“Temu does not guarantee its users a safe, predictable, and trustworthy online environment as the law requires.”

Concerns include Temu’s gamification features, misleading products, and overall lack of transparency regarding its business operations.

I don’t know if the arrival of an AI with “swagger” is good or bad news, I only know it isn’t funny and will surely lie to you like all other LLM-based forms of artificial intelligence.

We’ve been waiting for the Quesst X-59 and the return of supersonic air travel for years now, and NASA’s latest update says things are moving along:

A Flight Readiness Review board composed of independent experts from across NASA has completed a study of the X-59 project team’s approach to safety for the public and staff during ground and flight testing.

Based on so many reviews (including ours), Humane’s AI Pin did not live up to the AI gadget hype at launch. Now, the company says things are getting better with the addition of OpenAI’s just-launched GPT-4o AI model, with product design lead George Kedenburg claiming it’s faster now, with better answers.

If you have one, let us know how things are going.

Mozilla Firefox now supports Nvidia’s AI upscaling, and, in joining Chrome and Edge, it’s become the first non-Chromium browser on the list. Nvidia’s tech taps into your Windows PC’s RTX GPU to enhance low resolution video and add HDR.

Syed, the former CEO of the publication The Markup, will lead the foundation’s $30 million portfolio of programs beginning July 1.

She will focus on partnering with organizations “to shift the narrative on AI,” create and fund open source datasets, tools and research, and build a community of responsible tech talent

So says federal Judge Rita Lin, in her ruling on a lawsuit brought against Tesla alleging the automaker misled consumers by overstating the capabilities of its driver assist products. She dismissed several other claims brought by the plaintiff asking for injuctive relief and monetary damages. But fraud? Fraud’ll do.

“If Tesla meant to convey that its hardware was sufficient to reach high or full automation, the [second amended complain] plainly alleges sufficient falsity,” Lin writes.  

An Apple “wearable computer” made by the Vision Pro’s manufacturer received the necessary quality and safety accreditation for it go on sale, according to the website of the Chinese product standards body that granted its approval.

The report aligns with recent rumors suggesting the Pro will roll out internationally after WWDC on June 10th, though an exact date is still unknown.

The Aurora supercomputer, which Intel built in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprises and the Argonne National Laboratory, is now the fastest computer in the world for AI, reaching 1.012 exaflops. An exaflop is equal to one quintillion floating point calculations per second.

Intel says Aurora is designed specifically for generative AI use cases “to accelerate scientific discovery.”

People are unhappy with the state of dating apps for so many reasons. Now Hinge says it’s ready to test messaging limits as a fix for “dating burnout.”

Hinge users with eight or more people waiting for their response will have a decision to make: reply, or end the chat in order to continue sending and receiving additional likes.

The Your Turn Limits test will kick off in select global markets this May

In response to malware and social engineering attacks that work by snooping notifications or activating screen sharing, Google says Android 15 will hide notifications with one-time passwords (with some exceptions, like wearable companion apps).

They’re also automatically hidden during screen sharing, and developers can enable their apps to check if Google Play Protect is active, or if another app might be capturing the screen during use.