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AI Safety Meets the War Machine

2 months 3 weeks ago

Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.

Steven Levy

"It needs to cooperate fairly, and it's clearly not." Why Valve is facing a £656m day in the UK courts

2 months 3 weeks ago

The economics of platforms and storefronts have become an increasingly significant talking point in the last decade, driven in large part by Epic's Tim Sweeney. His long-standing complaints about revenue share on digital sharefronts resulted first in the launch of the Epic Game Store, which charges developers 12% of sales revenue, and then broadly successful lawsuits against Apple and Google which compelled them to support alternative storefronts for games on their platforms.

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Alex Forbes-Calvin

A decade of gaming hardware stagnation? That might not be a bad thing | Opinion

2 months 3 weeks ago

Five years ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted high-tech supply chains around the globe, gaming hardware was one of the sectors that felt the impact most directly. At exactly the moment when demand for games was soaring – what else are you going to do when your social life and normal activities are disrupted for months on end? – manufacturers found themselves unable to meet their existing production targets, let alone ramp up to meet that enhanced demand. PlayStation 5 was the poster child for these supply chain failures, and was almost universally sold out for the best part of a year after its launch.

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Rob Fahey

The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni

2 months 3 weeks ago

Many employees have come and gone since OpenAI first launched a decade ago, and some have launched startups of their own. Among these, some have become top rivals (like Anthropic), while others, just on investor interest alone, have managed to raise billions without even launching a product.

Charles Rollet, Dominic-Madori Davis