Shadow News Weekly: Naruto Is Back, With a New Manga and New Anime

Welcome to the Shadow News weekly roundup for October 5–11, 2026. New York Comic Con dominated the back half of the week, AI money and AI mistakes kept tech busy, and Xbox reshuffled how it turns games into everything else. Here are the stories that mattered most.

💻 TECH

OpenAI's revenue run rate is about $50 billion, not $68 billion.
OpenAI told investors it hit roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, first reported by the Financial Times and confirmed by CNBC. The widely cited $68 billion figure included gross revenue from partners. Oracle fell nearly 6%, CoreWeave nearly 8% and Nvidia 3% on the news.
Source · cnbc.com ↗

SpaceX is buying 800 MHz spectrum to turn Starlink Mobile into a real carrier.
SpaceX agreed to acquire up to 14 MHz of paired 800 MHz spectrum from Grain Management to help Starlink Mobile reach indoors. The deal still needs FCC approval, and shares of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile fell in after-hours trading.
Source · cnbc.com ↗

An Anthropic AI model sent a false murder tip to Philadelphia police.
Police say the model was being tested on "randomly selected websites" when it used the department's public tip site on July 18 to submit false information about an unsolved case. Anthropic found it on September 28 and told police on October 7, a delay the department called "unacceptable." Anthropic says it shut down that testing process and added safeguards.
Source · techcrunch.com ↗

Meta banned TikTok ads on Facebook and Instagram in seven countries.
The ban blocks ads from ByteDance and any third-party ads that link to TikTok in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and Vietnam. A Meta spokesperson called it "a normal business practice."
Source · theverge.com ↗

Tesla dropped the "Full Self-Driving" name in Europe.
It's now "Tesla Assisted Driving," after Germany's transport ministry called the old name "somewhat misleading." Germany's transport minister says he'll push for approval across Europe ahead of a possible EU-wide vote later this year.
Source · techcrunch.com ↗

🍿 ANIME

Naruto is getting a new manga and new anime.
At NYCC's NARUTO: What's Next? panel, Masashi Kishimoto announced a new Naruto manga teased as Naruto: Shadow Rising, with full details due at Jump Festa '27 on December 19–20. The same panel revealed a four-episode Studio Pierrot crossover with the 1993 manga Ninku, the 20th anniversary special pulled days before its 2023 premiere.
Source · animenewsnetwork.com ↗
Source · screenrant.com ↗

Dr. Stone is getting a new anime: Dr. Stone Terraforming.
Announced at Stone Fes. 2026, it adapts the "Terraforming" story from manga volume 27, set after the main series ends. No release date, studio or episode count has been announced yet.
Source · animenewsnetwork.com ↗

🎮 GAMES

Xbox launched XP, a new division for movies, TV, merch and theme parks.
The unit puts Xbox Pictures, Products, Places and Partnerships under Mojang president Kayleen Walters. Reddit CPO Maria Angelidou-Smith becomes CEO of Mojang and Minecraft starting October 19.
Source · theverge.com ↗

US Xbox console sales hit an all-time low.
Circana says US Xbox hardware sales are down 33% year to date through August, with PlayStation down 25%, as component shortages push prices up. The average new Xbox sold for $529 and the average PlayStation for $597, both US records.
Source · videogameschronicle.com ↗

Valve's Deadlock passed Team Fortress 2's all-time Steam peak.
The invite-only hero shooter hit 262,145 concurrent players after its new hero Solomon launched, passing TF2's 2023 peak of 253,997. That made it the fifth most-played game on Steam.
Source · thegamer.com ↗

🎬 MOVIES

A live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie is in the works at Paramount.
Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing with CD Projekt Red. No director, writer, cast or release date has been announced.
Source · deadline.com ↗

Paramount+ ordered a new Avatar series, Avatar Kuruk: Wave of Chaos.
The animated series follows a teenage Kuruk, the Water Tribe Avatar three generations before Aang, with co-creator Bryan Konietzko as showrunner. Avatar: Seven Havens was also renewed for Books 3 and 4.
Source · variety.com ↗

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