The Sims is getting a film adaptation, among other additions
Source: Venture Beat Electronic Arts plans several expansions to The Sims franchise, including a movie and a shared social network across many experiences. Read Full Article
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OpenAI’s new model is better at reasoning and, occasionally, deceiving
Source: The Verge In the weeks leading up to the release of OpenAI’s newest “reasoning” model, o1, independent AI safety research firm Apollo found a notable issue. Apollo realized the model produced incorrect outputs in a new way. Or, to put things more colloquially, it lied. Sometimes the deceptions seemed innocuous. In one example, OpenAI…
Electronic Arts goes deep into artificial intelligence for game development
Source: Venture Beat Citing multiple use-cases, Electronic Arts wants to use AI for what it believes will make games more efficient to develop. Read Full Article
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SocialAI answers the question: what if Twitter bots were the point?
Source: The Verge Remember the last time you posted a salient take to social media and got zero engagement, or trolled? Now you can avoid that with a new “social network” full of inane AI chatbots that will — your pick! — debate you, attack you, or even just say nice things if you want….
EA aims to double audience to over 1 billion in 5 years
Source: Venture Beat Electronic Arts unveiled its EA Sports App for connected entertainment beyond gaming will begin testing this fall. Read Full Article
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RCS texts on the iPhone aren’t encrypted now, but that could change
Source: The Verge The GSM Association, the organization that develops the RCS standard, said on Tuesday it’s working to enable end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on messages sent between Android and iPhone. E2EE prevents third parties, like your messaging service or cell carrier, from viewing your texts. In the announcement, GSMA technical director Tom Van Pelt said…
EA will unveil new EA Sports App with La Liga
Source: Venture Beat Electronic Arts unveiled its EA Sports App in a partnership with La Liga, the European soccer league in Spain. Read Full Article
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EA is launching a social app for its sports games
Source: The Verge EA’s sports games are huge franchises, and soon, the company is launching a mobile app to add even more of EA Sports into your life. As part of an investor presentation today, the company officially announced the EA Sports app, which will soft launch for iOS and Android in Spain this fall….
ClickUp takes on Slack and Teams with its own AI-powered ‘everything’ chat
Source: Venture Beat According to Zeb Evans, Founder and CEO of ClickUp, the new tool isn’t just another chat app, but a new way of working. Read Full Article
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The Sonos Arc Ultra and Sub 4 have leaked, and they’re likely coming soon
Source: The Verge The next flagship soundbar from Sonos will be called the Arc Ultra, and marketing images of the product have been posted on X today. They line up with the photos I published back in July and offer yet more confirmation that the Arc Ultra will support Bluetooth audio playback. Since then, the…