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Microsoft's PlayFab game services division said it is cutting prices for its networked player game services such as game chat and data comms.
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When a president gives a primetime televised speech, it is typically about something of serious import: to make the case for a major new policy or to announce the beginning of a war. President Donald Trump’s speech on Wednesday night had no grave significance. In fact, there didn’t seem to be much of a point […] Read more ›
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NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since it landed there in spectacular fashion nearly five years ago. In that time, NASA’s most advanced rover to date, which is about the size of a small car, has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers) while all the time conducting science research and collecting ... Read more ›
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders wants to delay AI data center projects to slow down progress, to ensure that AI will benefit the largest number of people and not just the richest few. Read more ›
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Micron posted record revenues in its first earnings call since killing the consumer Crucial brand, though it admits that supply shortages will persist. Read more ›
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The Academy has struck a multi-year deal to move the Oscars to YouTube starting in 2029, ending decades on ABC and making the ceremony free to stream worldwide with YouTube holding exclusive global rights. Variety reports: The Oscars, including red carpet coverage, behind-the-scenes content and Governors Ball, will be available live and for free on YouTube to viewers around the world, as well as to YouTube TV subscribers in the... Read more ›
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In July, Sony sued Tencent to prevent the release of Light of Motiram, a game Sony alleged was a "slavish clone" of its popular Horizon series. But the legal battle is already over; the two companies have reached a "confidential settlement" and the case has been dismissed with prejudice, according to a court document filed […] Read more ›
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Texas AG Ken Paxton claims the companies are "illegally recording Americans’ devices inside their own homes." Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle a critically important climate research center in Colorado. What’s happening? US Office of Management and Budget Director Russ […] Read more ›
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"The lead negotiator for Amazon called me on Thursday," Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer told Business Insider. The deal would pay more than $20 billion over the next 20 years, he said. Read more ›
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A report from Reuters claims that scientists in China have created a prototype of a machine that could eventually be used to produce semiconductor chips capable of powering artificial intelligence. Sources told the publication that a team in Shenzhen completed the prototype of an extreme ultraviolet lithography machine earlier this year and it is allegedly now undergoing testing. The EUV machine was reportedly made by former engineers from Dutch semiconductor... Read more ›
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LG's Sound Suite speakers and soundbar will make setting up a Dolby Atmos home theater sound system easier than ever. Read more ›
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The Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman's appointment as the head of NASA on Wednesday, a decision that comes just months after President Donald Trump pulled his nomination before picking him yet again in November, as reported earlier by CNBC. Isaacman, the founder and CEO of a payments platform called Shift4, has flown to space twice through […] Read more ›
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The update aligns with Imagination's August driver release and brings Android 16 and Vulkan 1.4 support. Read more ›
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Nvidia launched the new version of its frontier models, Nemotron 3, by leaning in on a model architecture that the world’s most valuable company said offers more accuracy and reliability for agents. Nemotron 3 will be available in three sizes: Nemotron 3 Nano with 30B parameters, mainly for targeted, highly efficient tasks; Nemotron 3 Super, which is a 100B parameter model for multi-agent applications and with high-accuracy reasoning and Nemotron... Read more ›
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The rumors were true: OpenAI on Thursday announced the release of its new frontier large language model (LLM) family, GPT-5.2.It comes at a pivotal moment for the AI pioneer, which has faced intensifying pressure since rival Google’s Gemini 3 LLM seized the top spot on major third-party performance leaderboards and many key benchmarks last month, though OpenAI leaders stressed in a press briefing that the timing of this release had... Read more ›
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For the last two years, the fundamental unit of generative AI development has been the "completion." You send a text prompt to a model, it sends text back, and the transaction ends. If you want to continue the conversation, you have to send the entire history back to the model again. This "stateless" architecture—embodied by Google's legacy generateContent endpoint—was perfect for simple chatbots. But as developers move toward autonomous agents... Read more ›
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Picture this: You're sitting in a conference room, halfway through a vendor pitch. The demo looks solid, and pricing fits nicely under budget. The timeline seems reasonable too. Everyone’s nodding along.You’re literally minutes away from saying yes.Then someone from your finance team walks in. They see the deck and frown. A few minutes later, they shoot you a message on Slack: “Actually, I threw together a version of this last... Read more ›
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Gen AI in software engineering has moved well beyond autocomplete. The emerging frontier is agentic coding: AI systems capable of planning changes, executing them across multiple steps and iterating based on feedback. Yet despite the excitement around “AI agents that code,” most enterprise deployments underperform. The limiting factor is no longer the model. It’s context: The structure, history and intent surrounding the code being changed. In other words, enterprises are... Read more ›
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Presented by Capital One SoftwareTokenization is emerging as a cornerstone of modern data security, helping businesses separate the value of their data from its risk. During this VB in Conversation, Ravi Raghu, president, Capital One Software, talks about the ways tokenization can help reduce the value of breached data and preserve underlying data format and usability, including Capital One’s own experience leveraging tokenization at scale. Tokenization, Raghu asserts, is a... Read more ›
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The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept iterating on the models, expanding its reinforcement learning (RL) runs, to create Olmo 3.1.The new Olmo 3.1 models focus on efficiency, transparency, and control for enterprises. Ai2 updated two of the three versions of Olmo 2: Olmo 3.1 Think 32B, the flagship model optimized for advanced... Read more ›
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It has become increasingly clear in 2025 that retrieval augmented generation (RAG) isn't enough to meet the growing data requirements for agentic AI.RAG emerged in the last couple of years to become the default approach for connecting LLMs to external knowledge. The pattern is straightforward: chunk documents, embed them into vectors, store them in a database, and retrieve the most similar passages when queries arrive. This works adequately for one-off... Read more ›
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Marble, a startup building artificial intelligence agents for tax professionals, has raised $9 million in seed funding as the accounting industry grapples with a deepening labor shortage and mounting regulatory complexity.The round, led by Susa Ventures with participation from MXV Capital and Konrad Capital, positions Marble to compete in a market where AI adoption has lagged significantly behind other knowledge industries like law and software development."When we looked at the... Read more ›
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Presented by TwilioThe customer data infrastructure powering most enterprises was architected for a world that no longer exists: one where marketing interactions could be captured and processed in batches, where campaign timing was measured in days (not milliseconds), and where "personalization" meant inserting a first name into an email template.Conversational AI has shattered those assumptions.AI agents need to know what a customer just said, the tone they used, their emotional... Read more ›
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