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The price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has fluctuated between $20 and $30 per month over the last year, but you can get three months of the top plan for around $19 per month. At Newegg , using the coupon code BNWF2656 at checkout knocks $11 off the usual cost of a three-month subscription.

Meta Superintelligence Lab released a new AI model on Monday called Muse Ember, the lab’s lightest and most cost-efficient AI model yet. In its release, Meta said Ember was “designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day: tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and long document parsing.” Meta particularly emphasized…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has never been quiet about his belief that the U.S. should continue selling AI chips to China, rather than shutting the country off from the technology.

After expanding its Edits app to macOS last week, Instagram’s next move is launching this Effect Builder that generates custom filters for your Stories posts with AI. Available now for US residents who are over 18, it has a prompt box for describing your filter idea to the chatbot, with an option to attach style reference images.

I would prefer that these people’s sex lives were none of my business but I guess we have to talk about Jensen Huang and the National Security Incident. Who could have guessed that the guy who was out here signing titties might not have great judgment about how to behave around women ?

Soon, James Gunn and Peter Safran will no longer head up Skydance’s DC Studios. After taking the helm of DC Studios as co-CEOs in 2022 , Gunn and Safran are being replaced by former Marvel SVP of Production and Development Jeremy Latcham, Deadline reports .

Uber announced the launch of Uber Parking, a native in-app reservation feature that allows drivers to find, book, and pay for garage and lot spaces ahead of time. The new feature is a result of Uber’s recent acquisition of SpotHero , integrating a network of over 13,000 facilities across more than 400 cities into the company’s platform.

AI’s power crunch has become so acute that Anthropic, a company that has generally avoided buying physical infrastructure, is spending $3.4 billion on natural gas turbines. The AI company, which is planning to go public this year, is buying Caterpillar generators that equipment supplier OnePWR had originally ordered, according to a Financial Times report .

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Our first deep dive with an AI data company. In roughly a year, Handshake built an AI training business doing nearly $1 billion in gross annualized revenue.

Online publishing platform Medium on Monday launched a new app, called TK, which aims to bring AI technology deeper into the writing process. The idea behind TK is to make it easier to turn ideas into written words by incorporating an AI assistant into the editor itself, allowing users to ask for help by typing “@TK” followed by their request or prompt.

Sony is launching a new version of its PlayStation Portal exclusively in Japan next month. The updated model will launch in the midnight black color option we’ve seen before , and will include “additional” internal storage for future-looking features.

Today, I’m talking with Mitch Glazier, who is CEO and chairman of the RIAA. This conversation was a real full-circle moment for me: I was in college when Napster hit, and the RIAA became everyone’s villain for suing kids for downloading music.

With Adobe Firefly Foundry, Disney will work directly with Adobe on generative AI models tailored to Disney’s properties that are human-centered and artist-led. Customized on Disney properties, these proprietary models are trained on unique world knowledge (character attributes, environments, visual styles) to generate commercially safe and…

Asked about AI executives’ warnings about their models’ safety on 60 Minutes , Trump said, “I think that the risk is not nearly as real as it– as they talk, and I think the risk can be managed, and it’s managed.” He claimed the DOJ is managing that risk, saying, “We had a situation where somebody was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI. We…

A compound AI approach to Japanese personas grounded in real-world distributions Open Data Breaking Down Privacy Barriers to Pave the Way for AI in Finance In the financial sector, the utilization of real-world data faces significant constraints due to strict privacy regulations, compliance requirements, and the need for advanced domain expertise. In this…

With the holidays quickly approaching, everyone will soon be on the hunt for gifts and the fastest way to get them. Thankfully, many retailers offer generous shipping policies, with some even providing free two-day shipping or same-day delivery if you’re willing to pay a little extra.

Black Friday officially kicks off on November 27th, but if you plan to make that the only day you buy gifts this holiday season, you’re missing out. Several prominent retailers, including Best Buy and Walmart, are preparing to roll out their holiday discounts both in-store and online.

Nothing is more frustrating than buying a new pair of headphones or an OLED TV, only to find out you could have gotten it cheaper somewhere else a few days or weeks later. That’s why, to keep customers happy and prevent them from shopping elsewhere, some retailers offer price-matching policies that promise to match a lower price found elsewhere.

Despite Amazon and other retailers filling the summer and fall months with more sales than ever before, Black Friday and Cyber Monday remain the biggest shopping days of the year. And, in recent years, the sale periods have started earlier, giving you more time to take advantage of the deals.

For the first time ever, Medium is becoming more than just a blogging platform. The company is launching a new app, called TK , that combines note taking and journaling with something resembling a private social network.

When Jonathan Kanter stepped down as head of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division in 2024, he set out to keep fighting to dismantle illegal monopolies. But this time, he’s continuing the fight in the private sector, and with a perhaps unexpected tool: AI.

WordPress has been a crucial technology and content management system for websites like TechCrunch. Now, WordPress.com owner Automattic is responding to the changing state of the web by debuting a new service called Spacefast , which will allow users to deploy vibe-coded websites and apps.

Pomera’s digital typewriters are a cult hit with those craving a distraction-free writing experience. Dedicated word processor devices never caught on in the US the way they did in Japan.