IXI raises $36.5M for world’s first autofocus glasses
Source: Venture Beat IXI has raised $36.5 million in funding to launch the world’s first autofocus glasses which can correct vision dynamically. Read Full Article
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Nvidia issues yet another GPU hotfix driver to address crashes and bugs
Source: The Verge Nvidia has released another hotfix driver that primarily addresses bugs and crashes with its RTX 50-series GPUs. The 576.26 hotfix driver is based on the 576.02 driver release earlier this month, which itself included a large amount of fixes for bugs and crashes. This latest hotfix driver includes all the fixes in…
New Starlink subscription drops hardware price to $0
Source: The Verge SpaceX is now offering 12-month residential service plans that bring the price of the dish and router — normally $349 in the US — down to $0 in select markets, without increasing the monthly fee. You have 30 days to test or return the kit for a full refund, but after that…
ONE Fight Arena is a free-to-play combat sports mobile game from Notre Dame
Source: Venture Beat ONE Championship (ONE) and Notre Game, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, today launched the mobile game ONE Fight Arena. Read Full Article
Take It Down Act heads to Trump’s desk
Source: The Verge The Take It Down Act is heading to President Donald Trump’s desk after the House voted 409-2 to pass the bill, which will require social media companies to take down content flagged as nonconsensual (including AI-generated) sexual images. Trump has pledged to sign it. The bill is among the only pieces of…
Alibaba launches open source Qwen3 model that surpasses OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1
Source: Venture Beat Qwen3’s open-weight release under an accessible license marks an important milestone, lowering barriers for developers and organizations. Read Full Article
Iwot Studios launches game team for Wheel of Time RPG
Source: Venture Beat Iwot Studios announced that it’s creating an in-house game development team to work on an RPG based on The Wheel of Time. Read Full Article
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Source: The Verge Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that Al can handle,” according to an all-hands email sent by co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be “AI-first.” The email was posted on Duolingo’s LinkedIn account. According to van Ahn, being “Al-first” means the company will “need…
Ex-OpenAI CEO and power users sound alarm over AI sycophancy and flattery of users
Source: Venture Beat Crucially, the turbulence also nudges many organizations to explore open-source models they can host, monitor, and fine-tune themselves. Read Full Article
‘Video games are not manufactured in China,’ Playasia reassures tariff-wary customers
Source: The Verge Playasia, a popular retailer for buying video games, toys, and more from Asia, says that it “does not expect” the Trump administration’s planned import rule changes on Chinese-made goods to apply to “game-related orders” because “those orders will not include Chinese-manufactured goods.” On May 2nd, the Trump administration is planning to end…