According to Ubisoft, the original Rayman Legends is staying put – it will not be delisted from digital storefronts.

Some fans may have been concerned that the game would be removed later this year. That’s because Ubisoft will be launching Rayman Legends Retold towards the end of 2026. This is a full remake of the original game with updated graphics, new content, and more.

Sometimes when a remaster or remake arrives, publishers will remove the original title. Thankfully though, we won’t have to worry about something similar here. Ubisoft confirmed on social media that the original Rayman Legends will still be available to purchase once we see Retold out there.

Right now you can grab Rayman Legends: Definitive Edition on the Nintendo eShop. A physical version is available as well.

For those wondering about Rayman Legends Retold, we have the following information:

Embark on a bold reimagining of the acclaimed platformer, filled with new content and narrative twists. When a shadowy villain spreads corruption across the Glade of Dreams, journey through its charming worlds solo or in up to 4‑player couch co‑op in a fast‑paced, side‑scrolling adventure where every stumble and surprise adds to the delightful chaos.

Leap, glide, and punch your way through worlds bursting with charm and delightful surprises. Craving a change of pace? Dive into unforgettable musical stages, where every move must sync with the beat for a rhythm‑powered thrill.

Immerse yourself in a world brimming with life, reimagined with stunning visuals. A rich selection of iconic levels returns alongside a mysterious sixth realm and 4 new musical stages. Saddle up for epic dragon rides and test your skills in the Cave of Trials.

Join Rayman and his friends on their most ambitious adventure yet, facing a new foe stirring trouble from the underworld. Voiced cinematics and an expanded soundtrack by Christophe Héral and Grant Kirkhope bring the journey to life, blending original themes with new compositions.

Play the entire adventure in up to 4-player couch co-op, racing for Lums or knocking each other off to claim every last Teensy. Kung Foot also returns with improved controls, power-ups, and customizable rules for hours of frantic competition.

Rayman Legends Retold comes to Nintendo Switch 2 on October 1, 2026. In case you missed it, we have hands-on impressions here and plenty of gameplay here.

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The UK government will offer to buy AI chips directly from British technology companies in a bid to keep them in the country. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall will outline plans for “strategic purchases” of semiconductor equipment from UK-based firms at London Tech Week this week, the Telegraph reported. The initiative includes access to taxpayer-backed funding and investment in skills to retain workforces in Britain.

The announcement is part of a broader AI hardware plan that targets 5% of the global chip market, which would translate to roughly £37 billion in revenue and tens of thousands of jobs. The government has already committed £100 million through ARIA’s scaling compute programme, including £50 million for a scaling inference lab where British startups can test and demonstrate that their hardware works.

The urgency is clear. Britain keeps losing its best chip companies to foreign buyers. SoftBank acquired Graphcore in 2024. Qualcomm bought Alphawave IP for $2.4 billion last year. Arm, the UK’s most valuable chip designer, chose New York for its main listing in 2023. Each departure weakened the case that Britain can retain a semiconductor industry of its own.

“This is far too important a technology to depend entirely on other countries, especially in areas like defence, financial services and health care,” Kendall said in a speech at Bloomberg in January, when she announced £1 billion in funding to expand the UK’s AI research compute capacity by 20-fold.

The chip purchases would make the government a customer, not just a regulator, giving British firms guaranteed demand. Six UK companies have already gained access to government-funded supercomputers to advance their AI models, with the government retaining a right of first refusal for future investments. Fractile, a British inference chip startup that recently raised $220 million and is reportedly in talks with Anthropic, is among the firms the strategy aims to support.

The plans also respond to concerns about foreign dependency in government procurement. A recent parliamentary report warned that US firm Palantir should not play such a significant role in the UK public sector, and flagged a growing reliance on Microsoft and AWS. The HMRC’s £175 million AI contract with London-based Quantexa was an early signal of the government’s preference for domestic providers.

Whether strategic purchases alone can prevent the next Graphcore from being sold abroad remains an open question. Britain has the engineering talent and the research base. What it has lacked is the domestic demand and patient capital to keep companies scaling at home instead of selling to SoftBank or Qualcomm at the first serious offer.

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Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans to invest $30 billion in India by 2030, building 5GW of data centre capacity across multiple states. The announcement comes six weeks after AirTrunk entered India through its acquisition of Lumina CloudInfra.

Six weeks ago, AirTrunk did not operate in India. Now it wants to spend $30 billion there.

The Blackstone-backed hyperscale data centre operator announced on Thursday that it plans to invest more than INR 3,000 billion ($30 billion) in India by 2030, building over 5 gigawatts of digital infrastructure capacity across multiple states and union territories. The figure represents planned spending, not committed capital, and the four-year timeline leaves considerable room for adjustment. Still, if executed, the programme would rank among the largest digital infrastructure commitments in the country’s history.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly welcomed the commitment, saying it would strengthen India’s position as a global hub for cloud computing and AI. The endorsement followed meetings between AirTrunk founder and CEO Robin Khuda and federal and state government officials in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.

From zero to $30 billion in six weeks

AirTrunk entered India in April through the acquisition of Lumina CloudInfra, which gave it a 600-megawatt development pipeline across Mumbai, Chennai, and Hyderabad. The new $30 billion plan represents a dramatic escalation of that position.

The centrepiece is a 3GW campus at the Raigad Penn Growth Centre on the outskirts of Mumbai, for which AirTrunk has signed a letter of intent for land allotment with the Maharashtra government. According to a single industry report, that project alone carries an estimated price tag of $21 billion, though the figure has not been confirmed by AirTrunk or the Maharashtra government.

“Capital is mobile, and India is creating the conditions for it to thrive,” Khuda said. “India is taking a top-down approach to AI with clear government-led initiatives, a world-class talent pool, and massive availability of renewable energy.”

Why India, why now

India’s data centre market has been accelerating since 2024, but the pace of new commitments in 2026 has been extraordinary. Google has pledged $15 billion for a southern Indian data centre hub. Microsoft has committed $17.5 billion. Amazon is targeting up to $35 billion by 2030. The Adani Group has reportedly outlined a $100 billion programme through 2035, including a 5GW renewable-powered hyperscale platform, though those figures come from industry reports rather than a formal company commitment.

The government has matched the private capital with policy. India’s February budget introduced a 20-year tax holiday through 2047 for foreign technology firms using Indian data centres for global cloud services. The IndiaAI Mission has received approximately £1 billion ($1.2 billion) in funding, and the India Semiconductor Mission has been backed with approximately £7.5 billion ($9 billion).

AI-related colocation leasing more than doubled to 348MW in the past year, now accounting for nearly 20% of total demand. Between March 2025 and April 2026, operators announced roughly 30 large projects adding about 3.5GW of planned capacity across the country. Schneider Electric expects its India data centre business to become its single largest unit within three to five years.

Blackstone’s hyperscale bet

AirTrunk is the vehicle through which Blackstone is making its largest infrastructure play in the Asia-Pacific region. The private equity giant acquired AirTrunk in December 2024 for an implied enterprise value of over A$24 billion ($16 billion), alongside Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which took a 12% stake. It was the largest data centre transaction in history at the time.

Blackstone has since been expanding AirTrunk’s footprint aggressively. The platform now spans more than 3GW of operating and planned capacity across 20 campuses in six regions: Australia, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and India. Separately, Blackstone is seeking up to $1.75 billion in a NYSE IPO for its Digital Infrastructure Trust, packaging hyperscaler-leased AI data centres as a public REIT.

The India push fits a clear pattern. Blackstone had already committed approximately $11 billion to Indian data centres through Lumina before the AirTrunk acquisition. The new $30 billion figure nearly triples that exposure.

The execution question

The numbers are staggering, but so is the gap between announcements and operational capacity. India’s total live IT capacity exceeded 1.6GW by the end of 2025, the product of years of cumulative buildout. Just 371MW was added in 2025 alone. AirTrunk’s proposed 5GW, combined with the commitments from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Adani, would require India to build more capacity in the next four years than it has built in its entire history, several times over.

The discussions between Khuda and government officials reportedly focused on precisely the bottlenecks that could slow that buildout: access to reliable and cost-effective power, renewable energy, sustainable water supply, talent development, streamlined approvals, and coordination between state and federal governments on strategic infrastructure.

India is not the only country chasing hyperscale AI infrastructure investment. Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and several European nations are offering competing incentive packages. AirTrunk itself recently expanded its Malaysian platform to over 700MW. The $30 billion figure signals intent, but the timeline to 2030 leaves room for the kind of recalibration that large infrastructure programmes routinely undergo.

What is not in question is the direction of travel. Whether the final number is $30 billion or something smaller, India is rapidly becoming one of the world’s primary construction sites for the physical infrastructure that AI requires. The question is whether the country’s grid, water supply, and planning systems can keep pace with the capital flooding in.

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky plans to back a new AI lab focused on user interaction and design, while remaining at Airbnb. The move puts him in competition with Sam Altman, whom he helped reinstate at OpenAI in 2023.

Brian Chesky has spent years as an AI kingmaker. He met Sam Altman through Y Combinator in 2006, advised him on managing OpenAI’s hypergrowth, and helped broker Altman’s return to power after the board fired him in November 2023. He was reportedly considered for a seat on OpenAI’s board.

Now he is entering competition with his protégé’s company. Chesky plans to back a new AI lab of his own, Bloomberg first reported on Wednesday, with a focus on user interaction and design. He will remain as Airbnb’s CEO and will not lead the lab himself. The details are early-stage and could change.

Why Chesky is unsatisfied

The move reflects a frustration Chesky has voiced publicly for more than a year. He said last year that Airbnb had not struck an LLM partnership because existing products were not quite ready for what he wanted to build. His argument is that travel and commerce require a rich visual interface, not the text-based chatbots that OpenAI and Anthropic have popularised.

Airbnb has not been idle on AI. The company hired Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led generative AI work at Meta including the Llama model family, as chief technology officer in January 2026. It has rebuilt its app around a large language model for conversational search, automated 40% of customer support queries with an AI bot, and rolled out AI-generated listing details and review summaries. A voice-based assistant is planned for later this year.

But Chesky appears to have concluded that buying AI from frontier labs is not enough. He wants to build at the model layer, not just the application layer.

A growing pattern

Chesky is not alone. Brett Adcock launched Hark late last year with $100 million of his own money to build a universal AI interface, then raised a $700 million Series A at a $6 billion valuation. Hark is also emphasising user interaction and hardware, with the lead iPhone designer from Apple now heading its design effort.

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is pursuing “interaction models” that process continuous streams of audio, text, and video in real time. The common thread is a belief that the frontier labs have focused on intelligence at the expense of interface, and that the next defensible layer sits between the model and the user.

The trend carries a broader implication. When founders of Chesky’s stature stop waiting for OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google to deliver what they need and start building their own research capacity, it signals that the application layer has run into the limits of what commodity models can provide.

The Altman dynamic

The personal dimension is hard to ignore. Chesky and Altman’s relationship spans nearly two decades. Chesky met Altman through Y Combinator, which incubated Airbnb. When OpenAI took off, Chesky began meeting regularly with Altman to advise on scaling a technology company. During the November 2023 board crisis, Chesky advised Altman on public relations and rallied support among Silicon Valley executives.

Now Chesky is building an operation that will compete, at least in part, with OpenAI’s own ambitions in user-facing AI. It is unclear whether the new lab will train its own models or build specialised systems on top of existing ones. But the direction is clear: Chesky wants proprietary AI research, not an API subscription.

What we do not know

Nearly everything about the lab remains unspecified. There is no name, no announced team, no disclosed funding amount, and no timeline. Chesky’s commitment to remaining at Airbnb raises questions about how much of his attention the new venture will receive, and whoever leads it will inherit a founding chair whom TechCrunch described as “known as a micromanager.”

What is clear is the thesis. Chesky has watched the AI lab landscape from closer than almost anyone outside it, and he has decided that the interface problem, making AI useful in rich, visual, consumer-facing contexts, is important enough to warrant its own research operation. Whether a part-time founder can build one that matters is the open question.

Blue Origin is planning to fly its New Glenn rocket again in 2026 despite last week’s massive explosion, according to CEO Dave Limp.

Limp said Monday that more of the launchpad’s infrastructure was in “good shape” than expected following the explosion, which happened during testing at the company’s site in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Limp also said that another previously flown New Glenn rocket booster that was at the launch complex, along with three of the rocket’s upper stages, “also look good.”

“We will fly again before the end of this year,” he said.

It’s an aggressive timeline for returning to flight after what was the largest and most visible failure of the company’s history. Many people in the space industry assumed it would take Blue Origin at least until 2027 before New Glenn would launch again, especially because it seemed like there was a lot of damage to the launchpad — the only one Blue Origin has at the moment that can support New Glenn.

Blue Origin has also not yet said what caused the explosion.

The company now finds itself in a unique strategic position. While SpaceX recovered in a matter of months after one of its Falcon 9 rockets blew up on a launchpad in 2016, that quick turnaround was due to the fact that it had a second pad nearly ready at the time of the mishap. Blue Origin is building a second launchpad at Cape Canaveral, but that project is in very early stages.

NASA is relying on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket for its planned series of Artemis missions to the moon. Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company had completely shifted focus to this program in order to support those missions, announcing in January that it was pausing space tourism flights on the much smaller New Shepard rocket for at least two years.

New Glenn’s first launch took place in January 2025, after spending many years in development — and suffering a number of delays. That inaugural launch was largely successful, with the upper stage reaching orbit on its first attempt, but the booster stage exploded on its way back to Earth. The second New Glenn launch, in November, saw Blue Origin put a pair of Mars-bound spacecraft into space and land its first booster stage on a drone ship. The company flew that booster stage again in April on New Glenn’s third mission, but the upper stage suffered a failure and the customer payload — an AST SpaceMobile satellite — was lost.

Blue Origin was preparing to launch a batch of satellites for Bezos’ other company, Amazon, on the fourth launch. The spaceflight company had not put those satellites on board yet, so they weren’t destroyed in the explosion.

While there was some speculation that Blue Origin might proceed directly to the larger and more powerful New Glenn variant when it returned to flight, Limp shot down that idea on Monday. The company will, however, change how it carries its rockets to the launchpad, and how it stands them up. Previously, Blue Origin used what it called a “transporter-erector,” which could handle both tasks. Limp didn’t specify what Blue Origin’s new solution will look like.

Toyota and Lexus may have just shelved one of the most exciting electric vehicle concepts shown in recent years. According to reports from Automotive News and Nikkei Asia, Toyota has halted development of the next-generation Lexus EV that was expected to be based on the futuristic LF-ZC concept.

For EV enthusiasts and Lexus fans, the news is particularly disappointing because the LF-ZC represented one of the clearest signs that Lexus was finally preparing to make a serious leap into the premium electric future.

One of Lexus’ most ambitious EV projects has reportedly been paused

The Lexus LF-ZC concept was first revealed in late 2023 as part of Toyota’s next-generation EV strategy. The sleek fastback sedan featured aggressive aerodynamic styling, an ultra-modern cabin, steer-by-wire technology, and promises of significantly improved battery efficiency and range.

Toyota had originally planned to launch a production version around 2026 as one of the brand’s most advanced EVs yet. The vehicle was also expected to introduce several next-generation manufacturing technologies, including giga-casting and advanced software-driven architecture.

Now, however, reports suggest the automaker has suspended development of the project while reassessing EV demand, production priorities, and broader market conditions. Toyota reportedly told suppliers that the LF-ZC-based EV program was being halted while the company reevaluates future plans. According to Automotive News, Toyota cited fluctuations in EV demand and the workload tied to vehicle planning and manufacturing as key reasons behind the decision.

The move comes during a complicated moment for the global EV industry. While electric vehicle adoption continues growing overall, several automakers have recently slowed or delayed EV expansion plans amid softer-than-expected demand growth in some markets, rising production costs, and uncertainty around charging infrastructure.

Why this matters

The cancellation or delay matters because the LF-ZC was not just another concept car. It represented Lexus’ attempt to redefine itself for the electric era.

Compared to Lexus’ current EV lineup, which has often been criticized for being conservative or late compared to rivals, the LF-ZC looked genuinely futuristic. It promised longer range, lighter construction, more efficient batteries, and software-focused features designed to compete directly against premium EV brands.

The decision also reinforces Toyota’s much more cautious approach toward full electrification compared to companies like Tesla, BYD, and even traditional rivals rapidly expanding EV lineups. Toyota has consistently argued that hybrids, plug-in hybrids, hydrogen, and EVs should coexist rather than pushing aggressively toward fully electric vehicles alone.

What happens next

Toyota has not officially killed the LF-ZC entirely, meaning the project could still return later in revised form. The company is still expected to continue developing next-generation EV technologies, including solid-state batteries and new software platforms for future Lexus vehicles.

But for now, one of the most visually striking and technologically ambitious Lexus EVs appears stuck in limbo. And honestly, that is frustrating. Because in a market increasingly crowded with similar-looking electric crossovers, the LF-ZC actually felt bold, futuristic, and different – exactly the kind of EV many enthusiasts hoped Lexus would finally build.

Google parent company Alphabet said Monday that it plans to raise $80 billion to help pay for the massive AI infrastructure buildout it has planned. Alphabet will sell off that amount in stock and will then use the funds to pay for “general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures to scale AI infrastructure and global compute,” the company said in a statement.

Part of the plan involves selling $10 billion in stock to Berkshire Hathaway, the massive global holding company formerly led by Warren Buffett.

“The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply,” Alphabet said in its statement. “By scaling its investments, the company seeks to expand its foundational infrastructure to support the significant growth opportunity ahead.”

The company added that the stock plan represented a way to “fund its investments in a balanced way while retaining a healthy balance sheet.”

Like other tech giants, Google has announced plans for a massive investment in compute this year, the likes of which will be used to support a flurry of new AI services. At Google I/O last month, CEO Sundar Pichai said that the company expects to spend between $180 billion and $190 billion on capex before the year is out. Google and other tech giants are expected to spend as much as $700 billion this year on AI capex.