Netflix shut down AAA game studio “Team Blue”, which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up — The SoCal studio boasted senior veterans from Halo, God of War and Overwatch — One of Netflix's most intriguing video game studios is no more.
Jack Sweeney says Meta suspended Instagram and Threads accounts tracking celebrities' private jets, including Zuckerberg's; Meta cites a “risk of physical harm” — Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities - including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk …
Investigation: a Russian espionage and hacking campaign targeted Georgia for years and breached its Foreign Ministry, Finance Ministry, central bank, and more — With an election this week, documents seen by Bloomberg expose the extent of Moscow's infiltration of the former Soviet state.
IBM launches its open source Granite 3.0 models, including 2B and 8B general purpose versions and Mixture-of-Experts models, aimed at enterprise customers — Make no mistake about it, enterprise AI is big business, especially for IBM. — IBM already has a $2 billion book of business related …
After Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter a day who signs his PAC's petition, PA's governor says “law enforcement could take a look at” the plan — Musk announced Saturday that every day until Election Day, he would give $1 million to a randomly selected voter …
About $2B has been bet on predicting the next US president on Polymarket, which has excluded US users since 2022 as part of a settlement with federal regulators — SAN FRANCISCO — Scott Owens, an amateur watchmaker in Madison, Wis., waited years for a chance to legally bet money on U.S. politics.
Sources: some at Apple think it is over two years behind the leaders in generative AI; a closer look at changes in Apple's HR and hardware engineering groups — Apple's new iPad mini highlights the company's secret advantage in artificial intelligence. Also: Sonos weighs a headphone reboot …
After allegations of poor working conditions on MrBeast's Amazon Studios show Beast Games, industry insiders call for more safety oversight on creator-run sets — YouTube channels are gaining more mainstream attention — but some in the digital entertainment industry think growth should require better oversight.
Six months after bitcoin halving, some miners are keeping the Bitcoin they produce while an increasing number of companies are spending more on AI data centers — - Shares of firms keeping tokens they mint are lagging Bitcoin — Best performers are spending on developing AI data centers
How Waymo is converting locals and attracting tourists in San Francisco to pull ahead in the robotaxi race, with ~300 vehicles in the city and global ambitions — Just last year, residents wanted to get rid of robotaxis. Now locals and tourists can't get enough.
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO on how internet traffic surge during the pandemic helped it build an AI-ready “connectivity cloud”, balkanization of the internet, more — I first met Matthew Prince in 2010, the day he l aunched Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition sponsored by AWS and FBRC.ai giving filmmakers AI tools and three weeks to submit a short — Amazon is hosting AI filmmaking competitions. Meta is letting directors test Movie Gen. As tech companies develop new tools …
Perplexity launches Internal Knowledge Search, to search the web or internal files, and Spaces, a way to organize research, for its Pro and Enterprise customers — Enterprises can use their Perplexity dashboards to search for internal information and combine it with knowledge from the internet …
Sources: Samsung has postponed taking deliveries of ASML chipmaking equipment for its upcoming factory in Taylor, Texas as it has yet to win any major customers — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) has postponed taking deliveries of ASML (ASML.AS) chipmaking equipment for its upcoming factory …
Byju's founder Byju Raveendran says his edtech startup, valued at $22B in 2022, is effectively “worth zero”, and that he made mistakes and mistimed the market — Byju Raveendran, the founder of the embattled edtech group Byju's, acknowledged on Thursday afternoon that he made mistakes …
William Langley / Financial Times : Canalys: China smartphone shipments rose 4% YoY to 285M units in 2024, with Vivo up 11% to a 17% mark...
