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Elements of the right and the left are united in the baseless belief that two attempts on Donald Trump's life were staged.

Admit it: It’s inevitable you will forget to charge your Bluetooth pair.

Unity has launched a suite of AI tools in open beta for all developers on Unity 6 or above.

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Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.

The founders of Gearbox Quebec, which contributed to multiple Borderlands titles, have announced a new Canadian studio containing a number of other Canadian AAA developers. Studio Ricochet has a goal of creating "original, premium games on their own terms" while "taking the opposite approach" to other post-AAA teams which have run into problems.

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Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.

The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models. 

To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.

Supercell is set to acquire Metacore, pulling Merge Mansion "into its live games portfolio."

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Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.

Electronic Arts has announced the preliminary results of its fourth fiscal quarter – and the financial results for the full year – reporting a "record" performance underpinned by a successful Battlefield 6 launch, and live services portfolio growth. Net income was down 20.9% across the whole year, but up 81.5% across the latest quarter.

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The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting its key clean power goals at risk.

As chaotic negotiations over the end of the Iran war continue, US negotiators think they have the framework for a deal in place. Now they just have to sell the president on it.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says more than 150,000 retail investors joined the fintech’s new venture fund, which offers exposure to private tech companies like OpenAI, Stripe, Databricks, and Oura before they go public.

In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.

Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.