AI & RoboticsNews

How to avoid pitfalls and navigate the ethical landscape of generative AI

We still have a lot to figure out. That was my impression of a panel at our Transform 2023 event yesterday that drilled into the ethics of generative AI. The panel was moderated by Philip Lawson, AI policy lead at the Armilla AI | Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. It included Jen Carter, global head of technology at Google.org, and Ravi Jain, chair of the Association for…
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GamingNews

The Xbox Series X is $50 off right now

After a couple years of Xbox and PlayStation stock shortages, it’s now fairly easy to get your hands on a current gaming console. Now might be the ideal time to snap up the Xbox Series X, Microsoft’s most powerful console, as it’s on sale. You can pick up…
ComputersNews

Apple's M1 MacBook Air is on sale for $750 for Prime Day 2023

Were you hoping to score a good deal on a laptop for Prime Day? Apple’s 2020 MacBook Air is currently on sale for $750 — a record low for the computer, which typically goes for $999. It’s powered by the company’s M1 chip with an 8-core CPU, and while Apple has since come out with an M2 MacBook Air, we found the older version’s performance to be impressive when we reviewed…
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MobileNews

Futureverse launches AI League smart soccer game on iOS

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Futureverse is launching its AI League “smart” soccer game on iOS today in partnership with the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New…
DefenseNews

Gen. Randy George, once admonished, is now Army chief in waiting

WASHINGTON — “What the hell are we doing here?” That was the question then-Col. Randy George asked then-Lt. Col. Brad Brown when he first visited Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan in late 2008. Ahead of their official deployment to Afghanistan, the two were attending a memorial service for the most recent commander of the base, who had been killed by a roadside bomb that exploded nearby…
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GamingNews

What happens to Microsoft and Activision Blizzard post-FTC?

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley has issued her ruling in the case of the Federal Trade Commission’s temporary injunction against Microsoft’s…
AI & RoboticsNews

Generative AI is ‘everything, everywhere, all at once’ in the enterprise, says Mastercard CDO

What a difference a year makes: At the Women in AI breakfast that kicked off VentureBeat Transform 2023 in San Francisco this morning, Mastercard chief data officer JoAnn Stonier said that right now generative AI in the enterprise is like the Oscar-winning movie — Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. That’s a big shift from last July, when the same Women in AI discussion at Transform focused…
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