Hamster Corporation announced a new Console Archives line of emulated classic games for direct individual purchase on the Switch 2, challenging Nintendo's previous Virtual Console offerings, according to Ars Technica. The new line of games is available for download starting today on the Switch 2 and next week on the PlayStation 5.
In 2018, Nintendo replaced its Virtual Console, a long-running line of downloadable classic games on the Wii and Wii U, with time-limited access to a set of games through a paid Nintendo Switch Online subscription, Ars Technica reported. Hamster Corporation is now offering downloadable versions of retro console games for direct individual purchase.
In other tech news, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its coding model, which will be available via the command line, IDE extension, web interface, and a new macOS desktop app, according to Ars Technica. The company's testing shows that GPT-5.3-Codex outperforms GPT-5.2-Codex and GPT-5.2 in SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench 2.0, and other benchmarks.
Meanwhile, researchers from Stanford, Nvidia, and Together AI developed a new technique called Test-Time Training to Discover (TTT-Discover), which can optimize a critical GPU kernel to run twice as fast as the previous state-of-the-art written by human experts, VentureBeat reported. TTT-Discover allows the model to continue training during the inference process and update its weights for the problem at hand.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, a major upgrade to its flagship artificial intelligence model, which the company says plans more carefully, sustains longer autonomous workflows, and outperforms competitors including OpenAI's GPT-5.2 on key enterprise benchmarks, according to VentureBeat. The launch comes just three days after OpenAI released its own Codex desktop application.
Finally, enterprises are consolidating systems for AI with iPaaS, according to MIT Technology Review. As more and more solutions stacked up, IT teams had to string together a tangled web to connect them.
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