Month: May 2023
Riot Games appoints Dylan Jadeja as new CEO
Nicolo Laurent is stepping down from his role as CEO of Riot Games and will be succeeded by the company’s current global president, Dylan Jadeja, according to an official statement issued by Riot. Laurent is moving to an advisory role to focus more on his family after six years in…
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Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI with a chatbot that can read a novel in less than a minute
An often overlooked limitation for chatbots is memory. While it’s true that the AI language models that power these systems are trained on terabytes of text, the amount these systems can process when in use — that is, the combination of input text and output, also known as their “context…
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Unreal Engine update could fix PC games – and make gaming MacBooks more likely
Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, has updated its Unreal Engine tool that’s used in many of the best PC games around, and it could help reverse the recent trend of messy PC ports – while also potentially making Apple’s MacBooks and Macs more appealing to gamers. Despite the best…
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WiZ’s motion-sensing smart lights can now monitor your home
WiZ has unveiled a new home monitoring system that uses its existing motion-sensing WiFi smart bulbs in combination with Wiz's new $70 (€90) Indoor Camera. It takes of advantage of WiZ's "SpaceSensing" feature to detect changes in WiFi signals caused by movement, then sends an alert to the app warning…
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Meta is using AI to build the next generation of online ads
Meta has unveiled (opens in new tab) a swathe of AI-powered tools for advertisers to create more effective ads across its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, along with a handful of other features for ad developers. The announcement sees the introduction of its AI Sandbox, which serves as a testing…
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Exclusive: Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft
Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet. We spoke the day after Google I/O, the company’s big developer conference, where Sundar introduced new generative AI features in virtually all of the company’s products. It’s an important moment for Google, which invented a lot of the core technology behind…
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