Microsoft reveals pricing for Xbox Cloud Gaming without Game Pass, for Xbox Insiders now and others next month: 10 hours for $3.99, 25 for $7.99, 50 for $11.99 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

More in Technology

• AI-Related Job Cuts, Ukraine Military History, Hawaii Climate Rebate Finder, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, October 21, 2026

  ### Briefing AI-Related Job Cuts, Ukraine Military History, Hawaii Climate Rebate Finder, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, October 21, 2026** AI-Related Job Cuts Dashboard**: The Wage Loss Dashboard, updated to include September data, tracks job cuts attributed to AI across the United States. As of October 21, 2026, the dashboard finds just over 117, 000 job cuts with an estimated annual wage loss of $8. - **Ukraine Military History Digitalization**: The National Military History Museum of Ukraine has unveile…

  5 min read
• Mistral Large 4

  The Mistral Large 4 is a groundbreaking model designed for general-purpose tasks, featuring a granular Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 52 billion parameters and a total of 1.05 trillion parameters. It excels in vision tasks with a 1.6 billion vision encoder, and its public preview release on October 6, 2026, comes with a price of $1.36 and a performance speed of 1 million tokens per second. This model is a significant advancement in AI technology.

  1 min read
• Google's Rust Style Guide

  The guide is intended to help developers avoid bikeshedding and make it easier for tooling to work with large codebases. It also distinguishes between library and application code, with library code having binding rules and application code having strong recommendations. The style guide is based on the goals of consistency, readability, and encouraging good API design, with an additional goal of smoothing the way for LSCs.

  31 min read