The creator of decomp.dev, known as @encounter, has disabled the site's public index and leaderboard that tracked game decompilation progress. The maintainer cited AI tools being used to rapidly 'finish' forks of others' projects with little regard for quality, turning the leaderboard into what they called 'a hollow numbers game.' Decomp.dev, launched in 2024, had centralized progress tracking for matching decompilation efforts across many game projects.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-17
Arena, the crowdsourced AI model ranking platform that began as a UC Berkeley research project in 2023, announced a $200 million Series B funding round at a $3.1 billion valuation. The raise follows a $150 million Series A in January at a $1.7 billion valuation, when annualized revenue stood at $30 million; the company says that figure has since hit $100 million. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, a16z and others, and Arena also introduced a new alignment category to its leaderboard.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-08
Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash-tier model release in six weeks, which it says leads on the DeepSWE coding benchmark. A specialized version, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, is tuned for vulnerability detection but is currently restricted to trusted testers and government users. The standard model rolls out across Google's ecosystem today at discounted API pricing through year-end.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-03
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