Xbox unveils Copilot of Gaming as an AI sidekick for gamers
Source: Venture Beat Microsoft unveiled its Copilot for Gaming initiative, an AI gaming sidekick that will enhance player experiences on Xbox. Read Full Article
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The Olympics will stay on NBC for at least another decade
Source: The Verge NBC will continue airing the Olympics in the US for the foreseeable future. Its parent company, Comcast, just announced a deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that will keep the games on NBC’s platforms, including Peacock, through 2036. As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, NBC’s previous agreement with the IOC gave…
Cohere targets global enterprises with new highly multilingual Command A model requiring only 2 GPUs
Source: Venture Beat Command A from Cohere offers faster speeds, a larger context window, improved multilingual handling, and lower deployment costs. Read Full Article
WinRing0: Why Windows is flagging your PC monitoring and fan control apps as a threat
Source: The Verge On Tuesday morning, some PC gamers woke up to discover their computers were seemingly under threat. A “HackTool” called WinRing0 had suddenly started triggering a Windows Defender alert, as if their PCs were under attack. Some of those computers even began behaving oddly — like blasting their fans at high speed —…
Supercade heads toward a reissue to recapture the golden age of video games
Source: Venture Beat Supercade was Van Burnham’s ode to the golden age of video games — a big coffee table book that captured the visual history of games from 1971 to 1984. Read Full Article
Flatiron Books says it will keep publishing book from ex-Meta employee
Source: The Verge Flatiron Books, the publisher of a new book by an ex-Meta staffer alleging misconduct and harassment at the company, says in a statement that a recent arbitration order demanding that the book no longer be published has “no impact” on Macmillan. The ruling instructs Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People: A…
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking now has memory and Google apps integration
Source: Venture Beat Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A few months ago, Google added access to reasoning modes to its Gemini AI chatbot. Now, it’s expanded the reach of Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental to other features of the chat experience…
Android 16 is getting a major hearing accessibility feature
Source: The Verge Android phones will soon support Auracast with Bluetooth LE hearing aids, letting people tune in to audio broadcasts in places where it’s otherwise hard to hear. Auracast is a Bluetooth Audio LE feature, and it allows one broadcaster to connect to a virtually unlimited number of Bluetooth LE devices. Among other things,…
Patronus AI’s Judge-Image wants to keep AI honest — and Etsy is already using it
Source: Venture Beat Patronus AI launches the first multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge for evaluating AI systems that process images, with Etsy already implementing the technology to validate product image captions across its marketplace. Read Full Article
Black Mirror dreams a little dream in season 7 trailer
Source: The Verge The first trailer for the next season of Black Mirror is full of the kinds of topics you’d expect from the anthology: AI, virtual worlds, video games, and lots of futuristic gadgets. All with a dark twist, of course. Season 7 will feature six episodes — series creator Charlie Brooker says that…