Uber employees have a Dara AI
…Yeah, and a partnership with Nuro. And a partnership with Nuro, which is the platform there. Yes. Overall, you’re going to commit some $10 billion to autonomous efforts. You launched Uber…
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…Unity already powers the “majority” of the top-selling VR games on Meta’s platform, according to a statement from Unity’s COO. Unity and Meta Extend Multi‑Year Partnership to Power…
Showrunner wants to turn you into a happy little content prompter for the ‘Netflix of AI’
…one of the platform’s preset shows, like Exit Valley, a cartoon that appears to be a cross between Silicon Valley and Family Guy. The characters’ awkward, AI-generated voices are meant…
The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models
…Most AI firms’ video models are still only capable of churning out short bursts of visually inconsistent footage. And some of Hollywood’s biggest AI partnerships have suddenly evaporated in ways that…
Why Jonah Peretti sold BuzzFeed
…lot more about deals, partnerships, business development, and things like that, and that can be really transformative for a company, whereas the organic growth on the big platforms is really quite anemic…
Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures
…and general manager of the Office product group, left Microsoft last month after nearly 16 years to join Google, leading product for Google Chat. Eric Boyd, former president of AI platform at…
‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future
…And core experiences like search, discovery, social, and personalization still feel too fragmented. Developers and publishers are asking for more, too: better tools, better insights, and a platform that…
In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs
…Rajan has faced heavy criticism after eliminating creative programs and pushing AI adoption at the university through corporate partnerships with tech companies. The student anger is coming to a head at…
Microsoft AI chief on why it’s ‘dangerous’ to call AI ‘alive’
…AI is a platform shift that might totally displace the phone. I think the history of technology teaches us that basically as things get more useful, they get cheaper, they proliferate, and…
AI won’t save advertising, says Digitas’ Amy Lanzi
…After all, Meta and the rest of the big platforms were all at Cannes talking about generating more and more ads with AI — something that threatens almost every other company in the…