AI & RoboticsNews

Reimagining the data center for the age of generative AI

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The future of the data center: Handling greater and greater demands. Today, any conversation about artificial intelligence is bound to include the rise of ChatGPT, the ubiquitous chatbot built on OpenAI’s GPT series of large language models (LLMs). But how can you feed the demands of this kind of generative AI technology in…
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ComputersNews

Apple's MacBook Air M1 is back on sale for $750

This is a great moment to get a Mac laptop on a budget, particularly if you’re heading back to school. Amazon has the MacBook Air M1 with 256GB of storage on sale for a record low of $750, or $249 off. That’s the same price we saw on Prime Day, and applies regardless of color. Apple MacBook Air M1 (256GB) $750 $999 Save $249 Apple’s entry-level laptop is back down to…
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GamingNews

Xbox Game Pass adds Celeste, Venba in late July wave

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Xbox announced today which games are coming to Game Pass in the second wave of July. The new games only include one launch day release, but otherwise…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI21 Labs debuts Contextual Answers, a plug-and-play AI engine for enterprise data

AI21 Labs, the Tel Aviv-based NLP major behind the Wordtune editor, has announced the launch of a plug-and-play generative AI engine to help enterprises drive value from their data assets. Dubbed Contextual Answers, the offering comes as a dedicated API that can be directly embedded into digital assets to implement large language model (LLM) technology on select organizational data. It can enable…
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MobileNews

'Babylon 5' is finally coming to Blu-ray

The good news keeps coming for all Babylon 5 fans: The entire series is coming to Blu-ray just a few months after sharing that an animated feature-length film is in the works. The 30th-anniversary release will include all 110 episodes of its five-season run and its pilot TV…
DefenseNews

French Navy receives first new supply ship under program with Italy

STUTTGART, Germany — The French Navy has taken delivery of the LSS Jacques Chevallier, the first of a new class of supply ships meant to replace the service’s aging fleet tankers. The Chevallier – named for the French engineer who pioneered the nation’s naval nuclear propulsion development and served as chief of the French military procurement office Délégation Générale de l’Armement…
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