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Microsoft is pulling the plug on Xbox Copilot, with new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announcing the company will wind down the AI assistant on mobile and halt console development entirely. It's a notable retreat, and it comes in the same breath as a restructuring that folded CoreAI executives into the Xbox team — suggesting the strategy is shifting, not the ambition.
Meanwhile, a video circulating online claims GPT-five has derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity. The claim is extraordinary, and the evidence remains thin at this stage — no peer review, no independent replication. But if even a fraction of it holds up under scrutiny, it would represent a genuinely significant moment for AI as a scientific tool, not just a productivity one.
And in the crypto markets, Bitcoin briefly dipped below eighty-one thousand dollars after Strategy's Michael Saylor signaled the company might sell some of its Bitcoin holdings to cover roughly one point five billion dollars in annual dividend obligations. That news sent Strategy's own stock down four percent after hours, a reminder that corporate Bitcoin strategies carry their own distinct layer of financial risk.
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