GamesBeat Next is connecting the next generation of video game leaders. And you can join us, coming up October 28th and 29th in San Francisco! Take advantage of our buy one, get one free pass offer. Sale ends this Friday, August 16th. Join us by registering here.  Metro Awakening... Read more

Broadcom is accusing AT&T of trying to “rewind the clock and force” Broadcom “to sell support services for perpetual software licenses… that VMware has discontinued from its product line and to which AT&T has no contractual right to purchase.” The statement comes from legal documents Broadcom filed in response... Read more

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The potency of Ellison’s testimony against Bankman-Fried will also have gone a long way to convincing the judge to show leniency, says Paul Tuchmann, a former US prosecutor and partner at the law firm Wiggin and Dana. Testifying at Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial in October 2023, Ellison depicted her former... Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today, Google Cloud announced it is rebranding its six-year-old Contact Center AI offering as a new end-to-end application called Customer Engagement Suite with Google AI. The move, which is another... Read more

Getty Images When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information and malicious instructions in a user’s long-term memory settings, OpenAI summarily closed the inquiry, labeling the flaw a safety issue, not, technically speaking, a security concern. So Rehberger did... Read more

For only announcing the event on Monday, Sony had a State of Play presentation on Tuesday jam-packed with trailers, many of which for games we hadn’t seen before, including a dramatic reveal of the Ghost of Tsushima sequel Ghost of Yotei. The flurry of trailers included reveals of gameplay... Read more

If you break the Google Pixel Watch—whether the first-generation smartwatch from 2022 or the latest model launched earlier this month—there is no way to repair it through official channels. Instead, if you successfully make a warranty claim, Google will send you a replacement unit instead of repairing your model.... Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in solving planning and reasoning tasks by searching through possible solutions. However, existing methods can be slow, computationally expensive and provide unreliable answers. ... Read more

Enlarge / Filmmaker James Cameron. On Tuesday, Stability AI announced that renowned filmmaker James Cameron—of Terminator and Skynet fame—has joined its board of directors. Stability is best known for its pioneering but highly controversial Stable Diffusion series of AI image-synthesis models, first launched in 2022, which can generate images... Read more