Microsoft pushes ahead with AI in gaming

Microsoft pushes ahead with AI in gaming

Source: The Verge Microsoft might say its top priority right now is security, but it’s been clear for months that AI is just as important. The odd division out has been Xbox, which hasn’t discussed its use of AI much in public. But that changed last week when Microsoft ripped the band-aid off and waded,…

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The next Xbox is going to be very different

The next Xbox is going to be very different

Source: The Verge I’ve been thinking a lot about the next Xbox lately. While Microsoft publicly lines up a busy year of game releases and ports for the PS5 and Switch 2, the company has also been secretly building its future Xbox hardware and platform. There haven’t been any giant leaks about next-gen hardware yet,…

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Inside Microsoft’s quick embrace of DeepSeek

Inside Microsoft’s quick embrace of DeepSeek

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…

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