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September 7, 2026

Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9bn

Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the hub most open AI models and datasets are downloaded from, for $12.9 billion.

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Apple faces a £2bn UK claim over App Tracking Transparency

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September 6, 2026

Apple faces a £2bn UK claim over App Tracking Transparency

A £2 billion UK class action accuses Apple of applying its App Tracking Transparency rules to every developer but itself — and UK studios that ran iOS ad campaigns are in the class automatically.

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DLSS 5 ships on RTX 50 cards with one supported game

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September 6, 2026

DLSS 5 ships on RTX 50 cards with one supported game

Nvidia's DLSS 5 arrived on 3 September in NBA 2K27 alone, running as a neural pass after the engine has finished the frame — with masking controls that exist mainly to keep it off your characters.

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Xbox caps cloud gaming hours for Game Pass subscribers

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September 5, 2026

Xbox caps cloud gaming hours for Game Pass subscribers

From November, Game Pass Ultimate includes 15 hours of cloud streaming a month, Premium 10 and Essential 5, with extra hours sold through the Xbox Store.

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ArmorPaint reaches 1.0 after eight years in early access

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September 5, 2026

ArmorPaint reaches 1.0 after eight years in early access

ArmorPaint, the open-source PBR texture painter, has tagged 1.0 after a rewrite in C, adding sculpting, a UV editor, timeline playback and AI-driven material nodes.

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ArtStation turns on AI-training protection by default

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September 4, 2026

ArtStation turns on AI-training protection by default

ArtStation has made its NoAI tag the default and applied it retroactively to every existing upload.

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Shape Cage crushes Unreal static meshes in the vertex shader

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September 4, 2026

Shape Cage crushes Unreal static meshes in the vertex shader

A new Fab plugin bends and crushes Unreal static meshes at runtime using nothing but the material's World Position Offset.

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Tim Sweeney says RAM and storage prices are quadrupling as AI outbids games

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September 3, 2026

Tim Sweeney says RAM and storage prices are quadrupling as AI outbids games

Epic's chief executive told Edge magazine that AI data-centre buildout is outbidding the games industry for memory and storage, and expects the supply crisis to last three years.

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FluidNinja Live 2 ships for Unreal Engine, Windows only for now

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September 3, 2026

FluidNinja Live 2 ships for Unreal Engine, Windows only for now

Andras Ketzer has rewritten his Unreal Engine fluid system from scratch, moving simulation into Niagara Simulation Stages — but Live 2 deploys to Windows only, where Live 1 covered consoles and mobile.

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Steam passes 700 releases in a single week for the first time

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September 2, 2026

Steam passes 700 releases in a single week for the first time

720 games launched on Steam in the last week of August — the first 700-plus week ever recorded — and 74% of them have fewer than ten reviews.

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Unity 6.6 ships with domain reload off by default

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September 2, 2026

Unity 6.6 ships with domain reload off by default

Unity 6.6 landed on 1 September with domain reload disabled by default in Play mode, Animation Rigging and Timeline promoted to core packages, and Content Directories replacing AssetBundles.

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Epic publishes its walkthrough for Unreal MCP in UEFN

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September 2, 2026

Epic publishes its walkthrough for Unreal MCP in UEFN

Epic has published the full replay of its Creating in Fortnite livestream on Unreal MCP, two weeks after the UE 5.8 plugin that lets agentic coding tools drive the editor reached UEFN.

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