Marty O’Donnell, the creator of the music for Bungie games like Halo and Destiny, announced he is running for a seat in Congress in Nevada.
O’Donnell lives in Lone Mountain, a neighborhood in Las Vegas, and he will run against incumbent Democrat Susie Lee in November in Nevada’s third congressional district, assuming O’Donnell prevails in the Republican primary in June. O’Donnell has to…
Epic Games ‘hackers’ admit threat of leak was phony
March 5, 2024
An alleged hack of Epic Games was revealed, by the “hackers” in question, to be fake. Last week, a ransomware group claimed to have made off with 200GB of unspecified data from Epic Games, with the presumption being that it planned to extort money from the company.
Yuzu, the popular Nintendo Switch emulator, shut down today, days after Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the developers.
At the same time, Yuzu’s parent company Tropic Haze and Nintendo filed a joint motion to settle the lawsuit, with Yuzu paying Nintendo $2.4 million.
No, it’s not GPT-5, despite rumors to the contrary. Instead, OpenAI answered the arrival of the newly crowned most powerful large language model (LLM) from rival Anthropic today with a minor but potentially useful ChatGPT update for users: voiceover narration for the chatbot’s responses.
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Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence startup, unveiled its Claude 3 series of AI models today, designed to meet the diverse needs of enterprise customers with a balance of intelligence, speed and cost efficiency. The lineup includes three models: Opus, Sonnet and the…
SambaNova debuts 1 trillion parameter Composition of Experts model for enterprise gen AI
March 5, 2024
SambaNova Systems today announced what could well be one of the largest large language models (LLMs) ever released, with the debut of its one trillion parameter Samba-1.
Samba-1 is not a single model, like OpenAI’s GPT-4, rather it is a combination of more than 50…
Renault 5 already has 50K orders on its waitlist
March 5, 2024
French automaker Renault is hoping it has a winner on its hands with the upcoming Renault 5 BEV, which the company says already has 50,000 orders on the waitlist just a few days after its debut at the Geneva Motor Show.
The new compact electric vehicle, which officially goes on sale in May in Europe, starts at €25,000, about $27,130, which is thousands of euros cheaper than most competitors.
After recently reducing prices of its refreshed Han and Tang models, Build Your Dreams (BYD) just launched a new version of its top-selling EV Yuan Plus – known as the Atto 3 in overseas markets – to $16,644 in China, making it one of the lowest priced EVs out there.
BYD…
Hyundai has updated its Korean website with details about the expected refresh of its popular Ioniq 5 EV, with only minor changes from the original design but a lot of new features on the inside.
We’ve been expecting a refresh to the Hyundai Ioniq 5, and an apparent…
Binance Nigeria Standoff: Crypto Exchange's Top Executives Summoned by House of Representatives Committee
March 5, 2024
Top executives from Binance have been summoned to appear before the Nigerian House of Representatives Financial Crimes Committee no later than March 4. Ginger Onwusibe, the committee’s chairperson, has warned of possible repercussions should Binance executives fail to comply with the request.
Latest Escalation in the Standoff Between Binance and Nigerian Authorities
The Nigerian House of…
