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Meta Platforms named Joel Kaplan chief global affairs officer, elevating the company’s most prominent Republican ahead of Donald Trump’s presidency and Republican control of both houses of Congress. Kaplan replaces Nick Clegg. Kevin Martin, Meta’s vice president of U.S. public policy and another ...
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LA wildfires, including massive Palisades and Eaton fires, continue to devastate the region with zero containment, as officials warn of looting risks. Read more ›
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Game of Thrones star Rory McCann may be stepping into the saber of the late Ray Stevenson. Read more ›
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Microsoft is one of the world's largest tech companies, and has many lucrative career paths. Read about its various jobs, skills needed, and salaries. Read more ›
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We attended a small roundtable session with AMD executives at CES 2025 in Las Vegas and asked the company for details about its continuing shortages of its flagship gaming-optimized CPU, the Ryzen 9 9800X3D, currently the uncontested best CPU for gaming, and when we can expect demand to improve. Read more ›
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On 26th July 2024, performers from the US actors union SAG-AFTRA began a strike after failing to reach a deal with major video game companies over the use of AI. Negotiations had been ongoing for more than a year and a half; now, six months later, the strike continues, delaying game production and leaving actors out of work. Read more Read more ›
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The Getty Villa remained standing as fires razed homes around it. Getty staff have been doing simple yard work all year that homeowners should follow. Read more ›
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In November last year, Amazon officially announced a Mass Effect TV show is in development. Now, voice actor Jennifer Hale told Eurogamer she'd love to be part of it and believes the original cast should be involved too. Read more Read more ›
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Wildfires and brush fires can quickly spread into neighborhoods in large part because flying embers start little fires that then set homes ablaze. Read more ›
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It's probably not a huge surprise to hear at this point, but Sony has confirmed The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered will - like numerous other single-player PlayStation games before it - require a PSN account in order to play when it launches for PC this April. Read more Read more ›
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Satellite images from January 6th to 8th show just how quickly the California wildfires spread and the sheer scale of the devastation. Read more ›
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By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court handed a largely symbolic, but still politically significant, loss to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, both Republicans, voted with all three of the Court’s Democrats. The case, known as Trump v. New York, involves Trump’s felony convictions for […] Read more ›
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BioShock creator Ken Levine wanted developer Irrational Games to continue, and didn't expect publisher Take-Two to shut it down. Read more Read more ›
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Six minutes of developer Splash Damage's unreleased Transformers: Reactivate have leaked online following the studio's announcement earlier this week it was ending development. Read more Read more ›
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If you thought 2025 might finally be the year you get through that pesky games backlog, signs aren't looking good. You can now chuck more onto the pile, with Amazon having announced it's bringing 16 more titles to Prime Gaming in January. Read more Read more ›
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OCBC has become the first bank in Singapore offering tokenised bonds. APAC leads in digital asset adoption, with 29% of 2024’s cryptocurrency trades. OCBC has appeared as the first bank in Singapore to offer bespoke tokenised bonds to corporate accredited investors (corporate AIs) – businesses with net assets exceeding SG$ 10 million. The tokenised bonds... Read more » Read more ›
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Nintendo's determined streak of announcing absolutely anything but Switch 2 continues today with the news its beloved Game Boy handheld is getting the Lego treatment later this year. Read more Read more ›
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The US Supreme Court rejected Trump's request to delay sentencing in his New York hush-money case. He'll face zero penalties and can attend virtually. Read more ›
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Ubisoft has said it is delaying Assassin's Creed Shadows again, as the company explores sale options. Read more Read more ›
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There are bad guys and then there are Bad Guys that you just can't wait to punch in the face. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's Emmerich Voss falls easily into that second category. He's a Nazi, and an especially vile one at that. Voss is so snide and so sure of himself in that greasy, smart arse kind of way. He plays on people's weaknesses and exploits them, allowing... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is drastically relaxing its stance on content moderation, moving in the direction of Elon Musk’s X, a move that responds to pressure from the incoming Trump administration that will shake up the social media sector. In a post written by Meta’s newly promoted Chief Global Affairs ... Read more ›
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Within hours of OpenAI’s demonstration of its latest advanced reasoning model, o3, social media platforms and online forums were filled with posts from software engineers questioning their future: What happens to their jobs when artificial intelligence can write code better than they can? But Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth, whose firm helps OpenAI, Google and others to develop code-writing AI, thinks doomsayers about the future of software engineers have it all... Read more ›
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Well that didn’t take long! We’re barely a week into the new year and already we’ve reported that Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new funding at a $60 billion post-investment valuation. Lightspeed Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that’s also backed rival AI developers including Mistral, Stability AI and Cartesia, is set to lead the deal.That valuation is not cheap, even by AI standards. Anthropic recently... Read more ›
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Databricks and Snowflake, already embroiled in a fierce rivalry over software that manages companies’ data, are now jockeying for position in generative artificial intelligence—particularly AI that helps businesses search their own data. Those goals have led both companies to consider buying the same startups. In recent weeks, representatives from Databricks and Snowflake have talked to the leaders of Voyage AI, a year-old startup both companies backed, about a potential acquisition,... Read more ›
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Welcome to Applied AI, The Information’s twice-weekly newsletter that will take you inside how businesses are using artificial intelligence.I’m Jon Victor, the lead writer for Applied AI. For seven years I have been reporting on technology and most recently on how businesses are using AI. I recently interviewed Marc Benioff for a profile of Salesforce’s big push into AI agents and Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi about how AI is helping workers... Read more ›
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U.K. lawmakers grilled bargain sellers Shein and Temu in a hearing Tuesday, pressing for answers about the potential use of forced labor in their supply chains as part of a broader government inquiry into labor rights. Liam Byrne, the lawmaker who chairs the committee, said the committee was ... Read more ›
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The year is just a week old and already things are getting shaken up. Meta Platforms’ announcement on Tuesday that it was eliminating its fact-checking program in favor of an X-like community notes feature is a seismic event for social media. No longer will Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, try to pretend it has a monopoly on truth. Instead, Meta will leave it to members of the public... Read more ›
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Specialized chip designers Broadcom and Marvell Technology have been getting a lot of investor love lately. Both companies’ shares have surged more than 30% over the past three months as their revenues have soared, thanks to their efforts helping tech giants including Google and Amazon build their own artificial intelligence chips. Meanwhile, shares of the biggest AI chip designer, Nvidia, have stalled as its super-hot revenue growth has slowed. Right... Read more ›
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Employees of Meta Platforms and European regulators criticized changes to the company’s content policies announced Tuesday. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta would end its third-party fact-checking program in the U.S., take less action on content that might violate its policies and recommend more ... Read more ›
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Bluesky, an alternative to Elon Musk’s X, is in talks to raise money at a $700 million valuation in a round led by Bain Capital Ventures, Business Insider reported. The new funding, if completed, would follow a jump in users after Musk successfully campaigned for Donald Trump in last year’s ... Read more ›
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