While timelines on Twitter were debating whether Claude, OpenAI and Google's developer teams were in a competition on who would release the most efficient update, the actual AI event was happening in San Francisco at GDC 2026, with many innovative brands showcasing the integration of their AI products in the gaming industry. We've got news for you, and you'd be excited about it.

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The Game Developers Conference ran from March 9 to 13 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and AI was not just a talking point this year. It was the main event. Thousands of developers, studios, and creators showed up, and the central question running through almost every conversation was how rapid AI is chnaging game development

One of the standout presences on the floor was Tripo AI, an AI-powered 3D generation tool that lets developers create game-ready 3D models in a fraction of the usual time. Their booth ran lucky draws with prizes including an RTX 5090, PS5, Steam Deck, and Xbox, scratch card giveaways ran all three days, and their short booth talks covered everything from instant mesh creation to what it means for artists to stay relevant when AI joins a creative team.

The highlight was their official GDC session on March 12, a talk titled Generative 3D for Games: Hype, Reality, and What's Next, which did exactly what it promised and skipped the hype in favour of an honest look at where the technology actually stands today. They also held a private side event that evening for developers to meet the Tripo research team in person.

GDC 2026 was a reminder that AI tools for game development are no longer experimental. They are being adopted, debated, and taken seriously by the people building the games everyone plays.

Lovable just hit $400 million in annual recurring revenue, and it did it with a team of 146 people. To put that in perspective, that works out to roughly $2.77 million in revenue per employee, a number that research firm Gartner only projects the next wave of unicorns will reach by 2030. Lovable is already there, right now.

For anyone not familiar, Lovable is a Stockholm-based tool that lets people build websites and apps using plain, everyday language. No coding experience needed. You describe what you want, and the platform builds it. This approach, often called vibe coding, has taken off fast, and Lovable has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of that wave alongside tools like Cursor.

The revenue growth has been consistent and accelerating. The company reported $100 million ARR last July, $200 million in November, $300 million in January, and now $400 million in February. That is $100 million added in a single month. The platform currently has around 8 million users, and more than half of Fortune 500 companies are reportedly using it in some capacity.

One moment that stood out recently was their SheBuilds initiative on International Women's Day, March 8, when the entire platform was free for one day. Over 500,000 projects were built or updated that day, more than double the typical daily average of around 200,000. That kind of engagement says a lot about how many people are sitting on ideas they just needed a reason to start.

Lovable is now valued at $6.6 billion and is actively hiring across Stockholm, Boston, London, New York, San Francisco, and remotely. The small team era may be coming to an end, but the numbers they built with 146 people will be hard to forget.

OpenAI has added a new feature to ChatGPT that lets users interact with live visual explanations of maths and science concepts. Instead of reading a text answer or staring at a static diagram, you can now manipulate the numbers and variables yourself and watch things change in real time.

Ask ChatGPT something like how to find the area of a circle or what a lens equation is, and alongside the usual explanation, you get an interactive module you can actually play with. If you are working through the Pythagorean theorem, you can drag the sides of a triangle and watch the hypotenuse update instantly as you move them. It turns a passive explanation into something you can poke at and explore.

The feature currently covers more than 70 maths and science topics including compound interest, kinetic energy, Ohm's law, exponential decay, and Charles' law, with more on the way. It is available to all logged-in ChatGPT users right now at no extra cost.

ChatGPT has mostly been a tool that gives you answers. OpenAI says more than 140 million people use ChatGPT weekly for help with maths and science, and for a lot of those users, especially students, being able to interact with concepts rather than just read about them could make a real difference.

Customers have been walking out of Apple Stores this week with the MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e, updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, a refreshed iPad Air, and new Studio Displays, all of which went on sale on March 11. It has been one of the most active product weeks Apple has seen in years.

Apple turns 50 on April 1, 2026. The company was founded in a small garage on April 1, 1976, and this week Tim Cook published an open letter marking the occasion, writing that the company was built on the simple belief that technology should be personal, a belief he called radical at the time. Apple has confirmed that a wider celebration is coming over the next few weeks, though the specific plans have not yet been revealed.

Back to the products people are actually buying. The MacBook Neo has been the most talked about of the bunch. At $599 it is the most affordable laptop Apple has ever made, and early buyers have noted the four color options, the completely silent fanless design, and the 16-hour battery life as standout features. It runs on the A18 Pro chip, the same one inside the iPhone 16 Pro, and handles everyday tasks smoothly without breaking the bank.

The iPhone 17e is also selling at $599 and comes with Apple's latest A19 chip, a 48MP camera, and 256GB of base storage, double what the previous model offered at the same price. It comes in black, white, and a new soft pink. The MacBook Air and MacBook Pro have both been upgraded with M5 chips, delivering up to four times the AI performance of the previous generation. The iPad Air received an M4 upgrade at the same price as before, and both Studio Display models now come with Thunderbolt 5 and Spatial Audio.

Fifty years in and Apple is still managing to put new products in people's hands that get people talking. That is not nothing.

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