DefenseNews

At Air Force conference, officials call out effect of Tuberville holds

September 14, 2023
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Top Defense Department officials at an Air Force conference this week repeatedly decried — at times in direct and colorful language — a senator’s wide-ranging hold on confirmations of general officers and called on him to lift it. The comments at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference here continued the Pentagon’s recent pattern of…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: September 13, 2023

September 14, 2023
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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GamingNews

EA and Star Wars game director Stig Asmussen part ways

September 14, 2023
Stig Asmussen, who served as game director for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and its sequel Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Electronic Arts. Both titles were critical and commercial successes. Fallen Order shipped over 20 million copies while the sequel was the best selling game…
GamingNews

Monster Hunter Now debuts globally with one of the biggest mobile game launches

September 14, 2023
Monster Hunter Now, a free-to-play mobile game, is debuting in its global launch as the latest location-based game collaboration from the makers of Pokémon Go and Monster Hunter. Capcom‘s Monster Hunter series has sold more than 90 million copies to date, and the Japanese game maker teamed up with Niantic, the creator of Pokémon Go, NBA All-World, Pikmin Bloom and Ingress Prime. All of…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Meet Phi-1.5, the new language model that could make training AI radically cheaper and faster 

September 14, 2023
Training AI large language models (LLMs) like those currently making waves in the enterprise software market — ChatGPT, LLaMA 2, Claude 2, Bard, Falcon 180B, etc. — typically requires extensive and specialized compute power. Little wonder, then, that it has been relegated to larger, well-funded organizations like OpenAI, Meta, Cohere, Google, Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi…
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