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Hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI will cost more than other AAA games

24 June 2026 at 22:47

It seems to some of us like just yesterday—even though the transition began more than half a decade ago—that gamers were getting adjusted to spending $70 on AAA game releases at launch instead of $60, but as preorders begin this week for the wildly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI, they're finding that at least that title will sell for $80.

Additionally, disclaimers make it clear that the physical release of GTA6 will not include a physical disc. Instead, it will be a box with a download code inside it.

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OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale

24 June 2026 at 22:28

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and Codex and the models those tools use, and Broadcom, an established silicon supplier, have announced a new chip, called Jalapeño, designed specifically for large language model inference in data centers.

The companies intend to deploy the chip at large data centers and claim this is just the first generation in a long-term project that will see chips refined over time.

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