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Source: The Verge Max is putting you in the driver’s seat for NASCAR’s upcoming races. The streamer will now let you watch up to four in-car driver cams at once, starting with the Cook Out Clash on Sunday, February 2nd. You can switch between up to 40 different driver cams, with each 1080p feed offering…
Source: Venture Beat Y Combinator-backed startup Martin AI secures $2M seed funding to challenge Siri and Google with its innovative personal AI assistant, built by 19-year-old founders to revolutionize how consumers interact with AI through custom memory architecture and multi-channel accessibility. Read Full Article
Source: The Verge The Chinese startup DeepSeek shook up the world of AI last week after showing its supercheap R1 model could compete directly with OpenAI’s o1. While it wiped nearly $600 billion off Nvidia’s market value, Microsoft engineers were quietly working at pace to embrace the partially open- source R1 model and get it…
Source: Venture Beat Moonray Studios said its blockchain game Moonray will debut on both Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 launch later this year. Read Full Article
Source: The Verge The rumors are true. Microsoft is launching Intel-powered versions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7. Available on February 18th, both of these new Surface devices are Copilot Plus PCs, but instead of using Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon X series of chips, they’ll use Intel’s Lunar Lake processors. Microsoft is targeting…
Source: Venture Beat Riffusion launches a free AI music generation platform that creates original songs from text and audio prompts, challenging tech giants with personalized learning features and backing from The Chainsmokers. Read Full Article
Source: The Verge The Federal Aviation Administration is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out. Michael Whitaker stepped down as FAA administrator on January 20th, the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, after clashing with Elon Musk, who’s company SpaceX is regulated by the…
Source: Venture Beat Gaming mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and financings in 2024 grew 39% to $27.3 billion in disclosed deal value across over 967 transactions, according to a report by Drake Star Partners. That’s a glimmer of bright news at a time when revenues appeared stagnant and game companies laid off more than 15,000 people….
Source: The Verge Generative artificial intelligence output based purely on text prompts — even detailed ones — isn’t protected by current copyright law, according to the US Copyright Office. The department issued this guidance in a broad report on policy issues regarding AI, focused on the copyrightability of various AI outputs. The document concludes that…
Source: Venture Beat The Video Game History Foundation has officially launched the VGHF Digital Library to help game history fans with research. Read Full Article
