Epic’s alternative payment options for the iOS version of Fortnite sparked a multi-year antitrust dispute that ultimately resulted in a 2021 injunction at the heart of Apple’s sudden changes. While Epic ultimately lost on most of its arguments, the District Court for Northern California demanded that Apple loosen its restrictions on outside payment options and price…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Nova Premier, its most advanced AI model to date, via Amazon Bedrock. Designed for enterprise use, the model targets complex, multi-step workflows and supports model distillation, enabling smaller models to inherit its capabilities with improved efficiency and reduced cost. Nova Premier can handle text, image, and long-form video inputs…
Broadly, UESPWiki is an impressive information repository of The Elder Scrolls franchise. It also documents the dense, often convoluted lore of the franchise, as well as books and merchandise sold alongside the games, and the multiple tabletop games. The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages as they appear today. Credit: Samuel Axon For all its uniqueness—the sort…
A few years ago, Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap promised a future of groundbreaking visual experiences that blend digital and real worlds. While the headsets were bulky, expensive, and proprietary — and, in fact, both products are dying slow deaths — the demos got the public used to the idea that the future of augmented…
A handful of dominant AI companies have been quietly manipulating one of the most influential public leaderboards for chatbot models, potentially distorting perceptions of model performance and undermining open competition, according to a new study. The research, titled “The Leaderboard Illusion,” was published by a team of experts from Cohere Labs, Stanford University, Princeton University,…
As it stands to potentially lose ad revenue after being ruled a monopoly, and also to maintain an edge in the digital ad space as generative AI use soars, Google is purportedly now injecting ads into third party chatbot conversations. It’s not a surprising move, particularly given Google’s antitrust loss that could eventually lead to…
A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative AI models like ChatGPT have had almost no significant impact on overall wages or employment yet, despite rapid adoption in some workplaces. The findings, detailed in a working paper by economists from the University of Chicago and the University of…
An entire cottage industry has formed around phishing attacks that bypass some of the most common forms of multifactor authentication (MFA) and allow even non-technical users to quickly create sites that defeat the protections against account takeovers. MFA works by requiring an additional factor of authentication besides a password, for instance, a fingerprint, face scan,…
Google is making changes to its venerable search interface so users can more naturally interact with its AI features. “AI Mode,” a project brewing in Google’s Search Labs, will slowly roll out to general users within the company’s current search interface. A new “AI Mode” tab will appear alongside its search box. “With AI Mode,…
What is an AI PC? Unlike traditional computers, an artificial intelligence PC, or AI PC, comes with AI capabilities built in by design. AI runs locally, right on the machine, allowing it to essentially learn, adapt, reason and problem-solve without having to connect to the cloud. This greatly increases the performance, efficiency and security of…