A new John Wick game is officially in development for PlayStation 5, with developer Saber Interactive confirming the project.

In the announcement, the studio said: “We can finally share our next big project with you. And ‘yeah’, it’s a John Wick AAA game!”

The team adds that fans will need to wait for the official title and release date, promising more details about the story and setting in the future.

According to Saber, the project is being developed in collaboration with franchise director Chad Stahelski, actor Keanu Reeves and Lionsgate.

The studio adds the game will take place within an established period of the John Wick timeline and will expand the wider story universe.

“We are working closely with Chad Stahelski (John Wick director and franchise visionary), Keanu Reeves, and Lionsgate to produce a highly anticipated, adrenaline-fueled experience that fits into the world of John Wick,” the press release says.

The studio also confirms the game will feature cinematic environments, signature camerawork and the series’ well known gun fu combat style. 

“Like many of you, we are huge John Wick fans,” Saber says, adding that the project includes both familiar characters and new additions created for the game.

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Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab said on Wednesday that capital expenditure could as much as double this year, in yet another aggressive spending ramp-up by the Google parent as it deepens investments to allay constraints on compute capacity and push ahead in the AI race.

Alphabet and its Big Tech rivals are expected to collectively shell out more than $500 billion on AI this year. Meta (META.O), opens new tab last week hiked capital investment for AI development this year by 73%, while Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab also reported record quarterly capital expenditure.

The aggressive expansion in outlay comes at a time when investors have increasingly grown concerned about payoffs from AI investments. Google, however, has been able to show strong progress in its AI efforts, and its stock has surged 76% since the beginning of 2025.

“We are seeing our AI investments and infrastructure drive revenue and growth across the board,” CEO Sundar Pichai told analysts on a conference call on Wednesday.

Gemini 3 success, AI benefits in ad business drive investor confidence in Google parent

Alphabet executives said that investments in AI computing power capacity – servers, data centers and networking equipment – were central to the company’s plans to target capital expenditure of $175 billion to $185 billion this year, up from $91.45 billion in 2025. Analysts had expected on average that it would spend about $115.26 billion this year, according to data compiled by LSEG.

Alphabet shares were volatile in after-hours trading – falling 6% before recouping most losses to trade down just about 1%, as investors weighed the swell in spending against surging revenue and profit, both of which beat expectations in the December quarter.

The company’s cloud business in particular reported stellar growth in the fourth quarter ended December, surging 48% to $17.7 billion, beating analyst expectations. That represented the quickest pace of growth in more than four years.

“We’ve been supply-constrained, even as we’ve been ramping up our capacity,” Pichai said. “Obviously, our capex spend this year is an eye towards the future.”

Pichai said he expected Alphabet to face continued capacity constraints through the year.

Google plans a whopping $175 billion – $185 billion in capex this year

GOOGLE NOW A LEGITIMATE HYPERSCALER ALONGSIDE AMAZON AND MICROSOFT

The launch of Google’s Gemini 3 AI model in November reshaped the narrative around Google as an AI laggard. The strong reception propelled the company in the AI arms race and prompted rival OpenAI to issue an internal “code red” to push teams to accelerate development.

Google’s enterprise-grade Gemini model has sold 8 million paying seats across 2,800 companies, Pichai said. Last month, Google scored one of its biggest deals yet, a cloud partnership with Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab to power the iPhone maker’s AI offerings with its Gemini models.

The cloud division’s growth was “importantly higher growth than Microsoft Azure for the first time in several years,” helping the parent company to justify the capex hike, said Gil Luria, a D.A. Davidson analyst.

Cloud companies see revenue boost as AI splurge holds up

“Cloud at 48% growth with rapidly expanding margins is no longer a ‘show me’ story: they showed us,” said Ethan Feller, stock strategist at Zacks Investment Research. “Google has established itself as a legitimate hyperscaler alongside Amazon and Microsoft, with AI workloads driving real enterprise demand.”

Alphabet executives have touted the cloud as a proof point of AI-driven revenue on past earnings calls, but the most recent quarter suggested newfound confidence in messaging around growth from other parts of the business, like the search engine, that have been bolstered by AI integrations.

Google’s Gemini AI assistant app now has more than 750 million users per month, Pichai said, up by 100 million compared with November. Daily queries in AI Mode, a chatbot-like feature in its native search engine, have also doubled since launch.

Gemini has helped the advertising unit to deliver ads on long, complex search queries that were previously difficult to monetize, Google’s chief business officer, Philipp Schindler, told analysts.

The company reported total revenue of $113.83 billion for the quarter, beating analyst estimates of $111.43 billion, per LSEG data. Adjusted profit per share of $2.82 also beat estimates of $2.63.

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Artificial intelligence has moved decisively beyond pilots and proofs of concept, with governments now deploying it at scale as a core public service tool, senior leaders from Microsoft and Abu Dhabi-based AI firm G42 said at the World Government Summit 2026 in Dubai.

Speaking on the theme “Empowering Governments, Enriching Societies: Can AI lead?”, Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud + AI Group, and Peng Xiao, Group CEO of G42, highlighted how sovereign controls, secure infrastructure and responsible deployment are becoming central as AI shifts from experimentation to daily use in government operations.

From pilots to production

Guthrie said the past year marked a clear turning point.
“This is no longer a nice-to-have or a demo, but rather something that people are going to leverage and use every day from a government perspective,” he said.
As AI enters production environments, he stressed the importance of sovereign AI models, particularly for the public sector, where data security, national control and in-country deployment are critical.

“When people start to use this to run their governments, you really need to understand the operational requirements – security, reliability,” Guthrie said, pointing to the UAE as a leading example. “The use cases that are now in production are phenomenal.”

AI a daily government tool

Peng Xiao echoed that sentiment, noting that while many governments are still debating AI at a conceptual level, the UAE has been operationalising it for years. He highlighted G42’s deep partnership with Microsoft, describing it as foundational to the country’s AI ambitions.

“In the UAE, we are actively constructing a five-gigawatt AI campus,” Xiao said. “We are connecting the national power grid to this new intelligence grid because we believe AI will become a more important utility than even electricity.”

He cited TAMM, Abu Dhabi’s all-in-one government services app, as a live example of AI at a societal scale. “Whatever you need as a citizen, consider it done,” Xiao said, noting that the AI-powered platform was developed jointly with Microsoft.

Five-gigawatt AI push

Looking ahead, Xiao said the five-gigawatt AI capacity under development in the UAE could generate up to 100 trillion tokens per day, enabling intelligence services not just for the country but for the wider region and beyond. Thanks to the UAE’s undersea fibre connectivity, he noted, AI services can reach nearly four billion people globally with sub-100 millisecond latency.

Rise of autonomous ‘agentic’ AI

Guthrie said another major shift expected over the next year is the rise of autonomous, or ‘agentic’ AI. Unlike traditional chat-based systems, autonomous agents can be assigned tasks and carry them out independently, sometimes without step-by-step human oversight.

“That’s incredibly powerful,” he said, “but it also means you need the right governance, security and safety controls.” Microsoft, he added, is developing frameworks such as Agent 365 to ensure visibility, control and rapid intervention if systems behave unpredictably.

From token to agent factories

Xiao said G42 is mirroring that approach at a national level, alongside what he described as a “token factory,” by building an “agent factory” in collaboration with Microsoft. “As we empower our agents to do more for us – even while we sleep – ensuring responsible authentication, authorisation and interaction become a national priority,” he said.

AI enters frontline healthcare

Xiao revealed that agentic AI is already being deployed in Abu Dhabi’s healthcare sector, with AI agents supporting primary care doctors to improve quality while reducing costs.

Both leaders rejected the idea of a winner-takes-all future for AI.

Guthrie compared the moment to the early days of smartphones, arguing that the biggest gains will go to organisations and governments that move early and responsibly. “There’s incredible work happening here in the UAE,” he said. “AI is now integrated into how governments deliver real impact to people – and that’s where its true value lies.”

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