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$META LAUNCHES AI GAME-BUILDING TOOLS Meta is launching Horizon Create and Horizon Studio, letting users build complete 2D or 3D games from AI prompts on mobile or in a browser. Games can then be published across Facebook and Instagram, where users can jump from a clip directly into a multiplayer session without downloading a separate app. Meta says the tools can generate gameplay systems, difficulty, art direction and multiplayer features, while still letting creators manually refine the experience. The rollout is part of Meta’s broader shift to make Horizon a mobile-first platform rather than primarily a VR product.

Jason Chen, chairman of Taiwanese PC and IT hardware maker Acer, dismissed the memory Big 3's claim that memory prices will keep rising through 202X, saying it simply isn't true. Specifically, he said the reason memory makers keep coming out and saying "the price uptrend will continue into 2027" is that antitrust rules prevent them from coordinating prices directly, so they use public statements to send a kind of "signal" to one another. He said a veteran like him can tell just by looking. He also pushed back on the market narrative of a memory supply shortage: "No. How could it stay short forever? Chinese capacity keeps coming onto the market. The supply shortage problem has already completely disappeared." Chen also expects the cost of the SSDs and memory Acer holds in 2027 to be lower than this year. If that gets reflected in end product prices, he sees a possibility that prices at least stop rising and stabilize in the second half of next year. Chen said prices could be raised further in 1Q27 as well. But since this is a period of pricing chaos, he expects the size of the increases to gradually shrink. He estimates component prices could peak around the middle of 2027, when the capacity that chipmakers have added is expected to start running in earnest. After that, prices would enter a stable phase, and whether they can actually come down in the second half remains to be seen. He admitted, though, that nobody can know the exact timing of the reversal. Chen said PC selling prices coming back down is strictly "a hope." He criticized component suppliers for treating price hikes like a fad. Countless suppliers are showing up to notify him of price increases, he said, and a whole series of components, from PCBs to glass fiber cloth to memory, are going up one after another. He wrapped up by saying this chain of price hikes ultimately creates inflation, which in turn pushes central banks to raise rates, and that "this is not a normal phenomenon." *This quote does not reflect my views and is shared solely for informational purposes.

The PC is about to become a lot more personal. Today, I’m excited to announce a partnership between @AMD and @perplexity_ai to bring Perplexity Portable Computer to AMD Ryzen AI Halo. This is more than running AI locally. We’re creating a new kind of agentic PC that can understand your work, reason through problems, and take action on your behalf, right on the device where your work happens. With one click, users can bring powerful AI models and agents to their PC, work with local files and applications, and run recurring workflows on device. When a task needs more advanced research or reasoning, Portable can tap into the cloud with permission. Your models. Your agents. Your data. Your stack. For decades, the PC has been a tool for getting things done. Personal AI changes that. The PC can now become a true partner in the work, helping turn information into insight and ideas into action. Big thank you to @AravSrinivas and the entire Perplexity team for making this possible. The PC transformed how we work and create. Now we’re creating the platform for the era of Personal AI. And this is just the beginning.

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