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Source: The Verge Netflix’s big bet on live events is paying off. New data published by the analytics firm Antenna indicates that Netflix added 1.43 million subscribers in the days surrounding the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing match, while 656,000 members signed up around its NFL Christmas Day games. Those numbers may seem small…
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Source: The Verge Google worked with the Israeli military in the immediate aftermath of its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, racing to beat out Amazon to provide AI services, according to company documents obtained by the Washington Post. In the weeks after Hamas’s October 7th attack on Israel, employees at Google’s cloud division worked…
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Source: The Verge Samsung and Google are partnering up to build AR glasses, Samsung’s TM Roh told Bloomberg. But there aren’t many other specifics beyond the fact that they’re in development — there’s not even a specific release timeline, with Roh telling the publication that Samsung and Google “will try to reach the quality and…
Source: Venture Beat With “Mind Evolution” LLMs can use search and genetic algorithms to generate and combine different solutions and find the optimal one. Read Full Article
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Source: The Verge If the Galaxy S24 series heralded the triumphant arrival of Galaxy AI, then the S25 and S25 Plus may be a bit of a comedown: they promise more AI that’s smarter and sometimes slightly faster. You’d better like it because that’s pretty much all you’re gonna get. Samsung changed as little as…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25842300/unpacked_20250015_720.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2025: live updates from the event")
Source: The Verge How to watch Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked 2025. Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event kicks off at 1PM ET. We’re expecting the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 Plus, and Galaxy S25 Ultra, but Samsung may have a few surprises. Who knows? We’ll also have a story stream with all the news from San Jose, California, if…
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Source: The Verge The NFL told the New England Patriots to shut down the team’s Bluesky account. Patriots VP of content Fred Kirsch said the team was told that Bluesky is “not an approved social media platform for the NFL yet,” addressing a fan question on a January 16th episode of the Patriots Unfiltered podcast,…
Source: Venture Beat Flow Specialty, a specialty commercial brokerage, is announcing the industry’s first AI insurance broker. The brokerage’s platformless AI model has passed RPLU certification exams for the Cyber, Errors & Omissions, and Executive liability modules. It may be critically important as people struggle to get insurance in the wake of various disaster… Read…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25842185/467522261.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Insomniac Games boss Ted Price is retiring")
Source: The Verge After three decades at the helm, Insomniac Games founder and president Ted Price has announced he’s retiring. Price will officially step away at the end of March, and he’s being replaced by three new studio heads who will take over Insomniac moving forward. According to Price, the succession process has been in…
Source: Venture Beat Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In case you missed it amid the flurry of executive orders coming out of the White House in the days since President Trump returned to office for his second non-consecutive term this week,…
