Daily Tech News 3 November 2025

• Is OpenAI becoming too big to fail? (MSN)
  
  It sure is. Just like Lehman Brothers. And Worldcom. And Enron.
  
  
  
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explained how the company is planning to pay for $1 trillion worth of hardware and services deals with an annual revenue of $13 billion. (Tech Crunch)

  "We are taking a forward bet that it will continue to grow, and that not only will ChatGPT keep growing, but we will be able to become one of the important AI clouds, that our consumer device business will be a significant and important thing, that AI that can automate science will create huge value," he added.

  Well, I know I feel comforted.
  
  
  

• The best things to watch over and over and over. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  I recall my nephew could watch My Neighbour Totoro on loop and never tire of it, but in his defense he was three years old at the time.
  
  Which tells you a lot about the mental ages of tech journalists.
  
  
  
• Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 is here, the sequel to their 2019 game The Outer Worlds which I was looking forward to at the time before they signed an exclusivity agreement with Epic Games for a ton of money and by the time it was available on my preferred stores I had lost all time and interest and even though I own it now I have never gotten around to playing it where was I oh - don't even think of playing it with ray tracing enabled. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It runs... Adequately... With ray tracing off.
  
  With ray tracing on it can't hit 60 fps (average, never mind the 1% lows which are abysmal) on an RTX 5090 at 1080p even using "performance" upscaling - so it's only actually rendering at 540p.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile the Anbernic RG DS is here and under $100. Along with specs which we didn't have until today. (Liliputing)
  
  This is a dual-screen handheld gaming thingy that looks uncannily like the Nintendo DS only better.
  
  The two 4" screens are "only" 640x480, but then the original DS had 3" screens with a 256x192 resolution. The CPU is "only" a quad core Arm A55 running at 2GHz, but the original had a single Arm9 core running at 67MHz. Oh, and 3GB of RAM compared to the original's 4MB.
  
  Also, the DS sold for $150 in 2004.
  
  It looks pretty cool but back when I was playing Final Fantasy III on my DS I did not yet need reading glasses. On the other hand, I now have reading glasses so maybe that's not such an issue.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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