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Paramount Pictures is adapting CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 video game into a live-action feature film, according to Deadline. Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is attached to the project, though no release date or other details have been announced.
A leading college consulting firm, Ivy Coach, observes an increase in parents asking for guaranteed college placements, despite the unlikelihood of such outcomes. The firm emphasizes that no expert can promise admission results, especially for highly competitive schools like Harvard. This trend highlights a shift in parental expectations that may not align with reality.
IBM and Red Hat announced that their AI-driven Lightwell initiative has discovered and helped fix more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries. The disclosure coincides with the general availability launch of Lightwell Clearinghouse, an enterprise service letting customers submit open-source dependencies for prioritized review and remediation.
Netflix is launching The Conjuring: Unspoken, an interactive paranormal investigation playable through its TV app using a phone as controller. Players take on the role of demonologist Francesca Noakes, exploring England's reportedly haunted Red Lion Inn with tools like an EMF reader, infrared camera and spirit box, making dialogue choices that shape the story.
RemoteThreat, founded in 2025 by Chris Thompson and Shawn Jones, emerged from stealth with $7 million in pre-seed funding. The startup's platform uses AI to support security teams running offensive security exercises for enterprises and government agencies, letting them test their own defenses rather than outsourcing to third-party pen testers.
Reports indicate Red Hat employees' internal badges and identifiers are being switched to IBM branding, with one employee, Thomas Wilson, publicly noting the change. Separately, departures are being reported at Red Hat and IBM subsidiary Nordcloud, some described as voluntary exits with severance, alongside commentary that IBM's quantum computing teams may be restructured similarly to how Kyndryl was spun off.
A developer known as stmonty built a small AI 'world model' that learns to play Pokémon Red by observing screen frames rather than being told game rules or win conditions. The model, with about 12.5 million parameters, was trained entirely on a single consumer RTX 3080 Ti GPU using over 42,000 grayscale frames from more than 1,000 short in-game runs. It draws on JEPA-style world model research co-authored by AI scientist Yann LeCun, who left Meta last year to pursue similar work at his new AMI Labs.
The team behind sheets.works has launched Apple in Colour, an interactive archive listing 341 colors used across Apple products from the original Bondi Blue iMac to a Burgundy iPhone 18 Pro Max. Each entry includes the product's release year and its official Apple color name or number, covering iPads, iPods, HomePods and special editions like the 2013 (PRODUCT)RED Mac Pro.
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, positioning it as a lower-cost, higher-speed option compared to its flagship Opus 5.5 model. The company says Sonnet 5.5 runs at least 30% faster than its predecessor, Sonnet 5, while keeping the same pricing and adding security improvements. Anthropic notes Sonnet 5.5 trails Opus 5.5 only slightly on performance benchmarks, including completing the game Pokémon Red.
Startup Red Queen Bio is applying artificial intelligence to design antibody treatments aimed at novel pathogens. The company frames its work as preparation against future biological threats that could themselves be engineered using AI tools.
Andrew Boyd, founder of Standard Agents Inc., says his Jev decision model beat Pokémon Red's Elite Four and Champion, reaching the Hall of Fame on September 23, 2026, less than a week after the run began. Jev isn't a chatbot or LLM; it picks from lists of weighted options rather than reading the screen, while Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 monitored the game log and adjusted those options to help it when stuck. A harness changelog logged 474 fixes, including repeated failures like walking into a shut door 53 times and looping a ladder 124 times.
An independent AI researcher trained a small JEPA-variant world model called LeWorldModel, running locally on a consumer RTX 3080 Ti GPU, to play the opening sequence of the 1996 Game Boy title Pokémon Red. The model learned to plan a sequence of button presses that navigated Professor Oak's lab and selected Squirtle as the starter Pokémon.