Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Sony revealed its upcoming offerings for PlayStation Plus users in flashier way than usual: By putting them in its big State of Play event. While the bulk of the show was devoted... Read more

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica On Friday, Meta announced a new AI-powered large language model (LLM) called LLaMA-13B that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s GPT-3 model despite being “10x smaller.” Smaller-sized AI models could lead to running ChatGPT-style language assistants locally on devices such as PCs and smartphones. It’s... Read more

Brooksella is the name of a group of mysterious fossils dating back to around 514 million years ago. They were found in Alabama. The star-shaped fossils resemble flowers or starfish or even butter cookies. Scientists have interpreted Brooksella as various kinds of sea animals, but a new study suggests... Read more

In 1987, then-CEO of Apple Computer, John Sculley, unveiled a vision that he hoped would cement his legacy as more than just a former purveyor of soft drinks. Keynoting at the EDUCOM conference, he presented a 5-minute, 45-second video of a product that built upon some ideas he had presented... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. The onslaught of ChatGPT and generative AI news is not necessarily helpful to today’s enterprise decision-makers. Early indications are that conversations with OpenAI’s trained language model can take some strange paths. Still, innovators need to take care,... Read more

Tablets are super useful devices for having around the home, whether you need to check in on your emails, follow along with a recipe or scroll through social media. But if you already have a decent phone and laptop, you might not want to spend too much on an... Read more

Despite being human-made, human-taught, and human-promoted, it’s easy to criticize AI for being fundamentally inhuman. To claim that AI models like ChatGPT and DALL-E will replace art created by people is to ignore both the ineffable qualities of the human touch and the critical flaws of these models—or so... Read more

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Investment data and research firm PitchBook has released its first market report on the gaming industry. The report focuses on Q4 2022 and provides an overview of the games market, venture capital... Read more

Like Game of Thrones and The Mandalorian before it, The Last of Us is keeping up a high-profile TV series tradition: things are appearing in shots that shouldn’t be there. It’s not as unforgivable as plasticware and modern drinks in the battered final season of Game of Thrones. In... Read more

Last Thursday, the US State Department outlined a new vision for developing, testing, and verifying military systems—including weapons—that make use of AI.  The Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy represents an attempt by the US to guide the development of military AI at a crucial... Read more