Author: Zach_Wilson
Video Games Weekly: It’s weird that esports is segregated by gender
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (Or, I dunno, Thursday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry…
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Microsoft is making ‘significant investments’ in training its own AI models
Microsoft AI launched its first in-house models last month, adding to the already complicated relationship with its OpenAI partner. Now, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company is making “significant investments” in the compute capacity required to Microsoft’s own future frontier models. “We should have the capacity to build…
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Republicans pledge censorship crackdown to avenge Charlie Kirk’s death
In the wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting, some political figures are threatening a crackdown on free speech — a cause Kirk claimed to fight for. Members of Congress, the State Department, and President Donald Trump have all attacked people who celebrated Kirk’s death online or criticized him…
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watchOS 26 finally has a release date – here are the 5 best new features
This week, Apple announced the new iPhone 17 lineup at its ‘Awe Dropping’ event, but its new range of Apple Watches – which includes the new Apple Watch Series 11 – got a lot of attention too. Since the event, Apple has revealed that watchOS 26 will be coming September…
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Anthropic’s Claude AI can now automatically ‘remember’ past chats
Anthropic will now let its Claude AI chatbot “remember” the details of previous conversations without prompting. The feature is only rolling out for Team and Enterprise users for now, allowing Claude to automatically incorporate someone’s preferences, the context of the project they’re working on, and their main priorities into each…
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Which iPhone 17 Model Should You Buy?
The iPhone 17 Air complicates Apple’s smartphone lineup. Our primer on the differences and similarities can help you shop. Source
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