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Capcom Is Rebuilding the RE Engine as an “AI-Generation Engine” — and the Jobs It Names Are QA, Debugging and Data Processing
According to the two trade reports, Capcom’s AI initiative for the RE Engine is called project REX (single-sourced trade reporting; the project name is not corroborated against a Capcom primary source here).
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Vera Rubin Arrives in the Second Half of 2026 — and the 816-Billion-Parameter Coding Model Scaling Today Runs on a Blackwell Rack
NVIDIA has published five Vera Rubin performance multipliers and one ship window. The only named large-scale coding workload on record runs on Blackwell GB300.
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Two of This Cycle’s Three New Open Models Run on Your Own Hardware — the Third Answers From Ollama Cloud
Three model announcements landed on Ollama’s blog in close succession, and read together they do not form a single category.
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Anthropic Joined the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Patron: What the Record Supports, and What It Does Not
The Blender Foundation announced that Anthropic has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Patron (announcement on blender.org).
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Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Overview at gamescom 2026 — Capcom’s Frigid New Region Norgan
Coverage emerging from gamescom 2026 points to Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen as a headline showing for fans of the action-RPG.
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Two Independent Utilities Now Build on Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, and the One Calling Google’s Live Variant Is Named After Whisper
The starting point is a single page on Google’s own blog, presenting a speech-to-text model under the name Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (announcement page).
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Roblox Creator Updates, Week of August 17-21, 2026: New Algorithm, Marketplace Protections, and Studio Mesh Segmentation
Roblox’s weekly recap for August 17–21, 2026 bundles several changes that touch discovery, Marketplace safety, program eligibility, and the Studio toolchain.
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GitHub Copilot App for Beginners: A Free Course on Directing and Reviewing AI Agents
GitHub’s free Copilot app beginner course introduces its desktop experience and teaches learners to direct AI coding agents and review their work.
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The Right Amount of Spec for Agentic Development: What the O’Reilly Dispatch Argues, With Numbers From playagit’s Own Pipeline
A post titled “Dispatches from O’Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development” is listed on the Stack Overflow blog under a 2026-08-21 date.
