Month: May 2021
Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5th
Andy Jassy will officially become the CEO of Amazon on July 5th, the company announced at a shareholder meeting on Wednesday. The company picked that date because it marks 27 years to the day that Amazon was incorporated, according to reporters who transcribed remarks from outgoing CEO Jeff Bezos. Amazon…
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OpenAI’s $100M startup fund will make ‘big early bets’ with Microsoft as partner
OpenAI is launching a $100 million startup fund, which it calls the OpenAI Startup Fund, though which it and its partners will invest in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems (and productivity). Among those partners and investors in the fund is Microsoft, at whose Build conference OpenAI founder Sam Altman…
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Google isn’t ready to turn search into a conversation
The future of search is a conversation — at least, according to Google. It’s a pitch the company has been making for years, and it was the centerpiece of last week’s I/O developer conference. There, the company demoed two “groundbreaking” AI systems — LaMDA and MUM — that it hopes,…
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Far Cry 6 gameplay reveal coming later this week Far Cry 6
Ubisoft has confirmed that we will get our first look Far Cry 6 gameplay later this week. In a short teaser trailer (only 35 seconds long), Ubisoft announced that the worldwide gameplay reveal for Far Cry 6 – which is now a “Ubisoft Original”, something that all future Ubisoft exclusives…
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Watch two whole seconds of the increasingly real Uncharted movie
After more than a decade in development and several directors, release dates, and scripts, the Uncharted movie increasingly seems like it may actually, really, for real become a movie we can watch, thanks in part to our first actual footage (via Twitter user @Nibellion). The sneak peek is in this…
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Merlin Labs emerges from stealth to bring autonomy to 55-King Air fleet
When Merlin Labs founder Matt George was learning to fly in Vermont, he had a close call with a Jet Blue aircraft that was coming into Burlington airport. It was “an unsettling experience,” he told TechCrunch, but one that stuck with him. A few years later, after the transportation company…
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