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Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/tencent-timi-montreal-closed

Tencent closes TiMi Montreal game studio
The game industry's contraction is unrelenting.

Functional programming isn't just for Haskell developers. It's for #PHP developers, too. "Thinking Functionally in PHP" is available from LeanPub.
https://leanpub.com/thinking-functiona

Thinking Functionally in PHP
Functional programming in PHP 7.4, with a side of category theory and monads accessible to everyone.

Calvin Tomkins, who, over six decades at the New Yorker, wrote dozens of profiles of artists like Marcel Duchamp and Jean Tinguely, has died at 100 (Michael S. Rosenwald/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/03/20/c…

Calvin Tomkins, who narrated the rise of contemporary art, dies at 100
During a six-decade career at the New Yorker, Mr. Tomkins profiled scores of artists, including Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Georgia O’Keeffe.

POL-GÖ: (113/2026) Informationen zum Saisonauftakt - Autobahnpolizei und Netzwerkpartner laden am 25. April zum 2. "Caravaning-Day" in Göttingen ein Göttingen (ots) - Göttingen, Samstag, 25. April 2026, 12.00 bis 16.00 Uhr GÖTTINGEN (ab) - Pünktlich zum Beginn der Campingsaison veranstalten die Autobahnpolizei Göttingen und mehrere Netzwerkpartner am Samstag, 25. April 2026, den 2. ...

Tencent launches an international beta for QClaw, its OpenClaw-based AI agent, and says the Chinese version, launched in March, reached over 1M users in 10 days (T. K. Lin/KrASIA)
https://kr-asia.com/tencent-opens-international-beta-for-ai-agent-product-qclaw

Tencent opens international beta for AI agent product QClaw
OpenClaw’s founder publicly endorsed the product’s rollout.

TN bill would allow death penalty for women who have an abortion (Vivian Jones/The Tennessean)
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/20/tennessee-bill-death-penalty-women-abortion/88777975007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p56#a260221p56

Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an $18B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tencent-alibaba…

Tencent, Alibaba in Talks to Invest in DeepSeek at $20 Billion-Plus Valuation
Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, the AI upstart that recently started fundraising for the first time, according to four people with knowledge of the conversations. DeepSeek, owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management, is ...

POL-GÖ: (112/2026) Schneller Fahndungserfolg nach Einbruch in Appartement am Maschmühlenweg - 23-jähriger Tatverdächtiger in Untersuchungshaft Göttingen (ots) - Göttingen, Maschmühlenweg Ende März 2026 GÖTTINGEN (ab) - Ein schneller Fahndungserfolg, zügig geführte Ermittlungen und die enge Abstimmung zwischen Polizei, Staatsanwaltschaft und Amtsgericht haben nach einem Einbruch in ...

Source: Mira Murati's TML signed a deal with Google Cloud, valued in single-digit billions, to access Google's latest AI systems built on Nvidia's GB300 chips (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/excl

Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multibillion-dollar deal | TechCrunch
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia's latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated into WeChat, letting its 1B MAUs send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencent-integrat…