AI & RoboticsNews

GGWP raises $10M for AI-based platform to moderate multiplayer games

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 services. The company is introducing a “free to use” model. It focuses on using AI to scan text chat in multiplayer…
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MobileNews

First big Threads update for iOS helps you see new followers

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…
NewsSpace

NASA’s Psyche Mission Enters Home Stretch Before Launch

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 (4 billion kilometers) to a metal-rich asteroid that may tell us more about planetary cores and how planets form. The mission…
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GamingNews

Goodbye, Xbox Live Gold — Hello, Game Pass Core

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Xbox announced yesterday that it is phasing out Xbox Live Gold, its long-running subscription service for online multiplayer, later this year. It’s…
AI & RoboticsNews

SAP invests directly in three AI startups: Cohere, Anthropic and Aleph Alpha

German enterprise software giant SAP is putting skin into the AI game. The company today announced it has directly invested in three AI startups: Cohere, Anthropic (maker of the Claude 2 LLM service) and Aleph Alpha. While the company did not specify a dollar amount of its investments, a spokesperson told VentureBeat that “they are a signal of SAP’s commitment to offering valuable generative…
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MobileNews

Unopened first-gen iPhone sells at auction for $190,000

Someone with deep pockets has snapped up a piece of tech history after forking over $190,000 for a first-generation iPhone from 2007. That’s around 300 times the device’s original price. Don’t expect to fetch anything close to this kind of windfall by…
DefenseNews

Launch of Air Force Research Lab navigation satellite delayed again

WASHINGTON — The Air Force Research Laboratory has pushed the launch of an experimental navigation satellite until next spring due to the delayed debut of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket. Navigation Technology Satellite-3 was slated to fly at the end of this year on Vulcan’s first national security mission, USSF-106. However, Denver-based ULA announced that the milestone will…
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