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Source: Venture Beat Mattel and Outright Games today launched Barbie Project Friendship, on the PC and consoles. Players can join Barbie “Malibu” Roberts and Barbie “Brooklyn” Roberts as they team up to save the Malibu Waves Community Center with help from their friends and family. It’s a test of the market in some ways, as it’s rele……
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25697672/videoframe_344844.png?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "The Browser Company is building another browser, and it’s not called Arc.")
Source: The Verge Stop me if this sounds familiar: The Browser Company is building a browser that it thinks can make your internet life a little more organized, a little more useful, and maybe even a little more delightful. It has new ideas about tabs, and what your browser can do on your behalf. I’ve…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25431700/STK201_SAM_ALTMAN_CVIRGINIA_A.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by December")
Source: The Verge OpenAI plans to launch Orion, its next frontier model, by December, The Verge has learned. Unlike the release of OpenAI’s last two models, GPT-4o and o1, Orion won’t initially be released widely through ChatGPT. Instead, OpenAI is planning to grant access first to companies it works closely with in order for them…
Source: Venture Beat Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI agents must solve a host of tasks that require different speeds and levels of reasoning and planning capabilities. Ideally, an agent should know when to use its direct memory and when to…
Source: Venture Beat Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios told VGC that it is working on a game that it calls an Afro-Gothic RPG. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25472503/STK271_PERPLEXITY_C.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Perplexity blasts media as ‘adversarial’ in response to copyright lawsuit")
Source: The Verge Perplexity has recently come under significant scrutiny following accusations that it scraped content without permission, and News Corp, which is the parent company of the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal-owner Dow Jones, alleged that Perplexity’s search engine “copies on a massive scale.” Perplexity, in its response today, argues that…
Source: Venture Beat Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It’s been only two days since Anthropic released its new Claude feature “Computer Use,” but already, early adopters of varying technical abilities are finding all kinds of ways to put it to work…
Source: Venture Beat Cohere released two new open weight AI models from its Aya initiative that looks to expand LLM performance for languages other than English. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25694970/Scout_Terra_and_Traveler_Concepts_1.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Scout Motors mounts an electric comeback with new SUV and truck concepts")
Source: The Verge Decades ago, Scout Motors helped introduce America to the “sport utility vehicle,” a quirky new automobile that would eventually come to dominate our roads. The brand went bust in 1980 — but now, it’s back, and it’s all-electric. Scout, which is now an independent company under the Volkswagen Group, introduced its first…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25697390/STK071_APPLE_H.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Apple Intelligence bug bounty invites researchers to test its privacy claims")
Source: The Verge Apple is inviting investigations into the Private Cloud Compute (PCC) system that powers more computationally intensive Apple Intelligence requests. The company is also expanding its bug bounty program to offer payouts of up to $1,000,000 for people who discover PCC vulnerabilities. The company has boasted about how many AI features (branded as…
