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Microsoft has agreed to extend the deadline for its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard by three months to October 18, 2023.
The deal has been pending for 18 months and the closing was expected to happen by July 18, but regulatory delays have held up the…
Netflix’s AI legacy lives on: Outerbounds applies streaming giant’s lessons to enterprise AI
July 19, 2023
Outerbounds, a machine learning infrastructure startup, today announced new product capabilities to help enterprises prepare for and adopt generative AI models like ChatGPT.
The company’s cofounders, CEO Ville Tuulos and CTO Savin Goyal, both former Netflix data…
Yesterday’s release of Meta’s LLaMA 2, under a commercial license, was undoubtedly an open-source AI mic drop. But startup Together, known for creating the RedPajama dataset in April, which replicated the LLaMA dataset, had its own big news over the past couple of days…
Nvidia became a $1 trillion company thanks to AI. Look inside their lavish Star Trek-inspired HQ | The AI Beat
July 19, 2023
Over a million square feet across two massive steel and glass structures. Hundreds of conference rooms named after Star Trek places, alien races and starships, as well as astronomical objects — planets, constellations and galaxies. Acres of greenery and elevated “birds’ nests” where people can work and meet. A bar called “Shannon’s” with a panoramic view and plenty of table space for…
GGWP has announced that it has raised $10 million in funding for its AI-based platform for moderating community behavior in multiplayer games.
GGWP also said it will be providing free access to its moderation tools for all developers, with different tiers of payment for more…
WASHINGTON — GM Defense is working with the Defense Innovation Unit on two projects aimed at bringing electric power to the battlefield — and potentially paving the way for the U.S. Marine Corps to feel comfortable fielding an all-electric vehicle down the road.
The…
Meta has delivered the first significant update to Threads since the social network launched earlier this month, and you might appreciate it if you’re still building your contact list. The company’s Cameron Roth has detailed an upgrade to the iOS app that adds a Follows tab to the activity feed, making it easier to see who just followed you. You’ll have an easier time following…
With less than 100 days to go before its Oct. 5 launch, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is undergoing final preparations at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Teams of engineers and technicians are working almost around the clock to ensure the orbiter is ready to journey 2.5 billion miles…
Goodbye, Xbox Live Gold — Hello, Game Pass Core
July 19, 2023
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Xbox announced yesterday that it is phasing out Xbox Live Gold, its long-running subscription service for online multiplayer, later this year. It’s…
In a blockbuster announcement today designed to coincide with the Microsoft Inspire conference, Meta announced its new AI model, LLaMA 2 (Large Language Model Meta AI). Not only is this new large language model (LLM) now available, it’s also open-source and freely available for commercial use — unlike the first LLaMA, which was licensed only for research purposes.
The news, coupled with…
