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GTA 6, DeepMind Meets Hollywood, and a Galaxy That Breaks Physics: Your Wednesday Tech Digest
Justin Nam
June 24, 2026
Happy Wednesday — grab your coffee, because today's news has a clear pulse: AI is moving so fast that it's now writing its own code, running autonomously in your workplace tools, and quietly reshaping everything from Hollywood studios to global chip power rankings. And yes, GTA 6 pre-orders open tonight. 🎮 Let's get into it.
🌟 Top Story
GTA 6 Pre-Orders Open Tonight at $79.99 — and Scammers Are Already Ready for You
Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 6 is finally up for pre-order tonight at $79.99, and it's already one of the most anticipated game launches in history — but Tech Times is flagging something important: a wave of crypto scams is actively targeting buyers right now, with fake storefronts and phishing deals circulating across social media. Pre-order only through official channels (PlayStation Store, Xbox, Steam, or Rockstar's own site), and if a deal looks too good at this price point, trust that instinct.
🤖 AI
ChatGPT Can Now Join Your Slack Channels, Upload Files, and Take Action — Not Just Chat
OpenAI rolled out a major upgrade to ChatGPT Enterprise today: the AI agent can now join Slack channels with write access, upload files, and take autonomous actions inside your workspace — a leap from answering questions to actually doing the work. If you use Slack at the office, this changes the day-to-day in ways that are still hard to fully size up.
Grok Build Now Plans, Executes, and Verifies Its Own Work — Without You in the Loop
xAI shipped Grok Build today with fully autonomous execution: the agent doesn't just suggest what to do next, it plans a task, runs it, then checks its own output — a genuinely different mode of working that puts Grok squarely in competition with Cursor and Claude's coding agents.
Cursor Just Trained a 1.5-Trillion-Parameter Model From Scratch — on Elon's Own Supercomputer
The coding tool Cursor trained its first frontier AI model entirely from scratch on the Colossus supercomputer cluster, weighing in at 1.5 trillion parameters — a signal that Cursor is no longer just a wrapper on other people's models, but a serious player building its own AI foundation.
⚡ Quick Hits
China Just Took the #1 Spot on the World's Most Powerful Computer List — With Entirely Domestic Chips
China's LineShine supercomputer topped the TOP500 list today using no US-made chips at all — a direct result of years of US export controls forcing domestic development — though it still trails American systems on AI-specific workloads. This is a geopolitical story as much as a tech one, and the gap is narrowing faster than most expected.
Google Just Bought a Piece of A24 — and Sent DeepMind In With It
Google made its first-ever film studio investment yesterday, putting $75 million into beloved indie studio A24 and embedding DeepMind into its production workflow — a quiet but fascinating bet that AI and prestige cinema are about to become much closer neighbors than anyone expected.
The James Webb Telescope Just Found a Galaxy That Shouldn't Exist According to the Physics We Know
JWST confirmed the most distant gravitational lens ever observed yesterday — a galaxy cluster so massive and so early in cosmic history that it defies current models of how the universe is supposed to form structure. Scientists are genuinely puzzled, which is exactly the kind of news that makes science worth following. ✨