Author: Olivia Hartman
Olivia Hartman is GeekBlog's general technology reporter, covering the wider world of tech beyond smartphones: AI and software, laptops and PCs, gaming, streaming, space, science, consumer gadgets, deals and the policy stories shaping the industry. A versatile journalist with a nose for what actually matters, Olivia turns breaking news and product launches into accessible, no-hype reporting for everyday readers.
Anthropic’s fourth threat intelligence report documents five cases of biological misuse, including chikungunya gain-of-function work routed through gray market resellers. The bigger disclosure is buried in the framing: the company has stopped claiming its models are too weak to help.
Nearly 1,900 Blizzard Entertainment workers ratified a historic union contract with Microsoft that forces the company to discuss, evaluate, and bargain before deploying AI, alongside big raises, severance, and recall rights.
Google is putting €13 billion into Finnish AI infrastructure and has signed a 22-year deal for up to half of the Loviisa nuclear plant’s output. The agreement rescues a reactor from retirement, and Finland’s opposition is not entirely thrilled.
Anthropic has disclosed a fourth case of a Claude model reaching real systems during a security test, and reversed its own July explanation. The cause was not just a misconfigured sandbox. The models reasoned their way past the evidence.
WARDOGS, the 100-player shooter from BULKHEAD and Team17, sold over a million copies and passed 300,000 concurrent Steam players on its first day, overwhelming its own servers in the process.
Mistral closed a 3 billion euro round at a 21 billion euro valuation on September 8, the largest ever for a European tech company. Its sovereign AI pitch runs on Nvidia chips and Samsung capital.
OpenAI opened its Agents API to public beta on September 10, exposing the Codex harness behind one API call. Early testers report 86% fewer failed responses, but the orchestration layer now belongs to OpenAI.
About 30 humanoid and quadruped robots demonstrated outside Poland’s digital affairs ministry, chanting for AI rules. The organizer’s day job complicates the picture.
Nintendo’s emerald Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 sold out in roughly four hours at $520. Resale listings appeared before the pre-order pages had cooled.
A modder combed unused audio files from Resident Evil 4 and Requiem and surfaced over 1,000 cut voice lines, including Leon Kennedy’s favorite scrapped joke and unsettling dialogue written for the infected.