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Saturday, October 24, 2026
Video Games
Sega has temporarily pulled Total War: Shogun 2 – Complete Edition from sale after players criticized its quality and the generative AI artwork made by Mataboo, the outside studio that produced it. Total War VP Roger Collum said Creative Assembly does not use generative AI to make game assets, expects its partners to meet the same standard, and is investigating. The original Shogun 2 is still on sale.
Stock Market
The Dow fell 1.23% to 52,215.16 on Friday, and the S&P 500 lost 0.52% to 7,623.68, as Thursday's tech selloff spread to consumer and healthcare stocks. The Nasdaq slipped only 0.21% to 25,955.34 as some chipmakers bounced back. US crude climbed above $100 a barrel on fears of renewed US-Iran fighting, and CrowdStrike jumped 8% as this week's PHP security flaw drew attention to cybersecurity spending.
Technology
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in a Collin County court, accusing the company of deceiving and harming Texans in its race to win the AI arms race. The suit blames ChatGPT for harms including encouraging suicide and minors becoming addicted without parental oversight. It asks for an injunction that would block minors from ChatGPT and require a court-appointed evaluator to approve new models. OpenAI did not immediately comment.
World News
Foreign ministers from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt met in Istanbul on Friday and urged Washington and Tehran to return to talks, warning that further escalation "would create nothing but losers." They also called for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz to fully resume. The US ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack, said the US could "absolutely" strike Iran this weekend, while adding that President Trump is open to a deal and is not seeking regime change.
Movies
Tom Skerritt died on Wednesday of natural causes at 93, his family announced. Over a six-decade career he appeared in M*A*S*H, Alien, Top Gun, Steel Magnolias, A River Runs Through It and Contact, and he won an Emmy in 1993 for the TV drama Picket Fences.