Fri. 05/02 – GTA 6 Delayed To 2026
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Summary
The big cultural event of maybe the decade is going to take a little while longer to get here. Earnings from Apple and Amazon. More signs of the impending death of the password. More signs of self-driving rapidly becoming reality. And in the longreads, what happens when AI completely changes your field? The AI researchers were the first to experience it.
Links:
- Grand Theft Auto VI release delayed to May 2026 (The Verge)
- Amazon Says Operating Profits May Decline Amid Economic Uncertainty (NYTimes)
- Microsoft goes passwordless by default on new accounts (The Verge)
- Temu Blocks US Shoppers From Seeing Products Shipped From China (Wired)
- Aurora’s driverless trucks are making deliveries in Texas (The Verge)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, May 2nd, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough. |
| 0:08.0 | Today, the big cultural event of maybe the decade is going to take a little while longer to get here. |
| 0:13.0 | Earnings from Apple and Amazon, more signs of the impending death of the password, more signs of self-driving, rapidly becoming reality, and in the long |
| 0:22.0 | reads, what happens when AI completely changes your field? |
| 0:25.1 | AI researchers were the first to experience that. |
| 0:27.6 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:33.1 | Rockstar Games has delayed the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 from what was expected to be this fall |
| 0:38.5 | to May 26, 2026, saying it needs extra time to deliver the expected quality. I said all year that this |
| 0:45.9 | launch would be the cultural event of the year by far, and now, quoting the verge. In a message posted |
| 0:52.2 | on the Rockstar Games website, the development team |
| 0:54.5 | apologized for the delay. We are very sorry that this is later than you expected. The interest |
| 1:00.0 | and excitement surrounding a new Grand Theft Auto has been truly humbling for our entire team. |
| 1:04.3 | We want to thank you for your support and your patience as we work to finish the game. |
| 1:08.0 | With every game we have released, the goal has always been to try and exceed |
| 1:11.3 | your expectations, and Grand Theft Auto 6 is no exception. We hope you understand that we need this |
| 1:16.3 | extra time to deliver at the level of quality you expect and deserve. We look forward to sharing |
| 1:20.5 | more information with you soon, end quote. And quoting Bloomberg. Rockstar Games, the studio behind |
| 1:26.5 | the hit has revealed little about GTA6 aside from a teaser trailer for the game in late 2023. |
| 1:32.9 | The trailer, which has topped 200 million views on YouTube, shows the game is set in a fictional version of Miami. |
| 1:39.5 | The game, which has already missed multiple deadlines, was expected to be the biggest release of 2025 and one of the most lucrative games ever, end quote. |
| 1:48.5 | And quoting Reuters. |
| 1:49.9 | The previous entry, Grand Theft Auto 5, released in 2013, has sold more than 200 million copies, making it one of the best-selling video games of all time. |
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