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Ubisoft may be circling the drain, a Chinese mega-publisher is reportedly considering purchasing the Assassin's Creed makers

The Guillemot family and Chinese conglomerate Tencent may be teaming up to take over Ubisoft, as the company's value has fallen significantly throughout 2024.

Windows Central

League of Legends and Valorant studio shoots down bogus rumor Tencent handed it $200 million to take on Valve's hero shooter: "There's a lot cooking in R&D, but nothing like Deadlock"

Riot Games isn't rivalling Valve's newest effort

GamesRadar

Remedy and Tencent enter into a $17m loan agreement that could lead to it owning a larger chunk of the Alan Wake developer

The studio says the deal will help support its self-publishing endeavours.

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Is life getting better for China’s tech billionaires?

According to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Pony Ma, co-founder of Tencent Holdings, is once again China’s richest person, now with a net worth of more than A$65 billion, placing him 27th globally.

The Conversation

Tencent's GameGen-O looks like the first step towards an AI game engine

And people can't believe how fast it's been made.

Creative Bloq

Ubisoft's Share Prices Plummet as Investor Urges Company To Go Private

Ubisoft's share prices dropped as one investor is urging the company to go private and to have a change in management.

Player One

Apple approves WeChat update ahead of iPhone 16 event, but it still wants to negotiate fees

Apple has approved a version of Tencent's WeChat app, but still wants to get a cut of in-app fees.

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Chinese organizations are being hit by Cobalt Strike malware from within China

Hackers were seen deploying Cobalt Strike beacons via phishing.

TechRadar

Forget Sora — MiniMax is a new realistic AI video generator and it’s seriously impressive

MiniMax is the latest ultra-realistic text-to-video generator trying to take on OpenAI's Sora. I put it to the test and as well as being very realistic, this one can accurately render human hand movements.

Tom’s Guide

Visions of Mana Studio Could be Shut Down by NetEase After Releasing the Game

Ouka Studios, the developer behind Visions of Mana, is reportedly being shut down by parent company NetEase.

Player One

Chinese game Black Myth: Wukong tops Steam charts. What does it signify for the rest of the gaming world?

If asked to name the biggest video game company in the world, you might think of icons such as Nintendo – the famed creator of Mario, Pokémon and the Legend of Zelda – or maybe PlayStation, the brand associated with mega hits such as Final Fantasy and Uncharted.

The Conversation

China wrestles with ‘quantity over quality’ in generative AI patents

China has filed for more patents than any other country, but US export controls are not its only hurdle.

Al Jazeera

Chinese companies are stockpiling HBM2E chips ahead of new U.S. export rules

Baidu, Huawei, and Tencent are stockpiling Samsung's HBM2E memory to use with their own AI processors.

Tom’s Hardware

Apple goes after Chinese giants over App Store fee loopholes

Apple wants China's Tencent and ByteDance to close loopholes in its apps that let it dodge App Store fees.

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Chinese cloud giant releases homegrown operating system for Chinese server CPUs — TencentOS Server V3 supports Huawei Kunpeng, Sugon Hygon, and Phytium FeiTeng chips

Tencent Cloud introduces an operating system that supports CPUs from Huawei, Phytium, and Sugon.

TechRadar

Tencent unveils a stunning upgrade to its computing power in a bid to topple Nvidia — Xingmai 2.0 network supports over 100,000 GPUs in a single computing cluster

Tencent has upgraded Xingmai 2.0, HPC network now supports over 100,000 GPUs in a single computing cluster.

TechRadar

China's cloud push is coming at a big environmental cost — and it's affecting Microsoft and others too

Some Chinese cloud companies are investing heavily in renewables, but the story isn’t the same across the industry.

Tom’s Hardware

Tencent boosts 100,000 GPU-capable AI clusters with network optimization — Xingmai 2.0 increases communication efficiency by 60% and LLM training efficiency by 20%

Tencent strengthens its AI prowess by speeding up network speed.

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Local Chinese firms rush to fill the AI void after OpenAI abandons China market — Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba sweeten LLM offers

OpenAI announced that it China, including Hong Kong, will no longer have access to its API by next week. Home-grown LLMs are now taking steps to woo customers their way.

The Guardian - UK

China’s tech firms vow crackdown on online hate speech after knife attack

Clampdown follows fatal stabbing of Chinese woman who tried to stop attack on Japanese mother and child

Inverse

This Esports Concept Shows What Apple Vision Pro Could Do for Competitive Gaming

Tencent recently showed a demo of what esports might look like on Apple's Vision Pro headset, and it's making a solid case for an immersive competitive gaming experience.

Tom’s Hardware

Amazon Web Services introduces record 896-core instance — prices range from $150 to $400 per hour

AWS ups the ante once more.

PC Gamer

An FPS series that dominated Chinese net cafes in the '90s is being revived: I tried it, and wound up breaking all the bones in my character's body

Delta Force: Hawk Ops is a new entry in a series that last surfaced in 2009.

Caixin Global

Tencent Joins the Chatbot Race with Launch of ‘Yuanbao’

Yuanbao allows users to perform tasks such as AI searches, document summarization and the creation of personalized AI entities

Windows Central

Android apps on Windows 11 aren't dead, at least if you're in China

Microsoft will end support for Windows Subsystem for Android next year, but Tencent has another way to get Android apps to work on Windows... but only in China.

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