Ubisoft is making some massive changes to its business: As part of a reorganization, the company will focus its efforts on the big open-world games it’s famous for along with live service titles, and it has canceled six in-development games, including Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. It’s all part of a recent … Read more
Two days after settling a lawsuit accusing Snapchat of causing social media addiction and mental health issues, Snap announced that it’s introducing new parental controls. Parents and guardians can now use Snapchat’s “Family Center” tool to see how much time their teen is spending on the platform, along with additional details about the new friends … Read more
Companies and governments are looking for tools to run AI locally in a a bid slash cloud infrastructure costs and build sovereign capability. Quadric, a chip-IP startup founded by veterans of early bitcoin mining firm 21E6, is trying to power that shift, scaling beyond automotive into laptops and industrial devices, with its on-device inference technology. … Read more
Tiger Global and Microsoft are primed to fully exit PhonePe, the Walmart-backed Indian payments startup which has updated its IPO filing, offering investors and market watchers a rare peek at how global investors are cashing out of the venture boom via India’s public markets. On Wednesday, PhonePe updated its IPO prospectus (PDF), detailing how many … Read more
Big tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to text or voice, and kids might not find that captivating. Three former Google employees want to get over that hurdle with their generative AI-powered interactive app, Sparkli. Sparkli was … Read more
Around 800 artists, writers, actors, and musicians signed on to a new campaign against what they call “theft at a grand scale” by AI companies. The signatories of the campaign — called “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” — include authors George Saunders and Jodi Picoult, actors Cate Blanchett and Scarlett Johansson, and musicians like the band R.E.M., … Read more
Apple may be developing its own AI wearable, according to a report published Wednesday by The Information. The device will be a pin that users can wear on their clothing, and that comes equipped with two cameras and three microphones, the report says. Should the rumored device come to market, it would mark another sign … Read more
The Post asked for an expedited briefing and hearing schedule. Porter ordered the government to file a reply by January 28 and scheduled oral arguments for February 6. Post: “Government refused” to stop search FBI agents reportedly seized Natanson’s phone, a 1TB portable hard drive, a device for recording interviews, a Garmin watch, a personal … Read more
“We argue that these attacks are straightforward to test, verify, and execute at scale,” the researchers, from the universities of New Mexico, Arizona, Louisiana, and the firm Circle, wrote. “The threat model can be realized using consumer-grade hardware and only basic to intermediate Web security knowledge.” SMS messages are sent unencrypted. In past years, researchers … Read more
Some of the team responsible for maintaining SGLang, a popular open-source tool used by companies like xAI and Cursor to accelerate AI model training, has transitioned to its recently launched commercial startup. That company, called RadixArk, was announced last August. RadixArk, which originated as SGLang in 2023 inside the UC Berkeley lab of Databricks co-founder … Read more