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Grand Theft Auto six is already rewriting the record books before a single copy ships. Both Sony and Microsoft have confirmed it is the most pre-ordered game in the history of their respective platforms. Take-Two's CEO calls the numbers unprecedented, though he's holding back specifics, saying raw figures could be misleading. Make of that what you will.
Shifting to the creative industry, Adobe is opening Creative Cloud to third-party AI agents, letting outside tools plug directly into Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, and InDesign. The pitch is that AI handles the repetitive administrative work so creators can focus on the actual craft. Whether that frees artists or quietly erodes the skills that made them valuable in the first place is a question worth sitting with.
And Anthropic is no longer just a tool for engineers and enterprise clients. The company behind Claude is now rolling out an AI-powered office suite aimed squarely at everyday knowledge workers. It's a direct move into territory long owned by Microsoft and Google, and it signals that the frontier AI labs are done waiting for others to build the products around their models.
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