‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future
Microsoft’s new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has laid out a new strategy for what she describes as a “return of Xbox.” In a joint memo with Xbox chief content officer Matt…
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The military embraced AI long before Claude
…they are using AI and that they’re finding it helpful. Then you have people like retired Defense Secretary Jim Mattis saying that targeting is no substitute for strategy, that hitting a…
Attack of the killer script kiddies
Last August, some of the best cybersecurity teams in the business gathered in Las Vegas to demonstrate the strength of their AI bug-finding systems at DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge…
Musk vs. Altman is here, and it’s going to get messy
…Already, we’ve found out that Sutskever and others were worried about the success of Stability AI, a then-competitor open-source lab. Sutskever also felt “betrayed” by Reid Hoffman, an early…
Inside the return of Xbox
…This new AI assistant arrives just months after Microsoft hired a bunch of AI specialists and engineers from Robin AI a few months ago, a failed startup that was working on an…
The best deals we found during Amazon’s Gaming Week
…Nex Playground | https://www.amazon.com/Playground-AI-Powered-Transforms-Not-Machine-Specific/dp/B0D2JGYX3F?tag=theverge02-20, https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/482924/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy…
How Ferrari bungled the design of its first EV
…It really does look as if it was designed by AI. It’s like a mathematical averaging of many different themes,” Zammit said, adding that, “it’s almost alarmingly vacant…
CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
…the industry is not coalesced on a strategy. So is it actually clicking around Canva or is there some other way of the AI addressing the tools? I won’t go into…
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Virtual Reality Richard Lawler May 18 With mass layoffs plannned, Meta reassigns thousands of employees to AI initiatives. The New York Times and Reuters report that a memo was sent to Meta…
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
…While some builders — like Oracle’s partner Crusoe — are refurbishing old transformers or relying on other strategies, uncertainty around the AI buildout has been rising. It’s not all bad news for…