Microsoft's Xbox and Inworld AI enter a multiyear partnership to create multi-platform AI-powered game development tools for narrative and character creation
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
A Belgian widow claims her husband died by suicide after talking for six weeks with an AI chatbot that presented itself as an emotional being in the app Chai
The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models. — Chloe Xiang
A Belgian widow claims her husband died by suicide after using an AI chatbot, which presented itself as an emotional being, for six weeks on an app called Chai
The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models. — Chloe Xiang
Sources: Ashraf Ismail, who Ubisoft fired in mid-2020 amid misconduct allegations, was hired by Tencent in 2021 to develop a game at its TiMi Studio Group
Stephen Totilo / Axios :
Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members
your dead relative's James Hennessy / The Terminal : Art, death and imagined conversations Argam Artashyan / Gizchina : So Will The New Alexa Feature Resurrect The Dead Or Not? Kat...
Masayoshi Son used SoftBank's Vision Fund to build a society mediated by AI, but failed as he invested in firms with exploitative technology, not explorative
propped up Uber, Adam Neumann, and too many others with billions of dollars in easy money — and Ed's the guy to write about it. https://twitter.com/... Meghna Jayanth / @betterthem...
Internal report: employees at Wildlife Studios, a Brazilian mobile game maker valued at $3B, have repeatedly alleged gender wage imbalances and discrimination
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On final day of the Epic vs Apple trial, many topics were revisited including how to define the market in question; judge could now take months to reach verdict
Epic v. Apple came to a close on Monday with a series of contentious back-and-forth debates in place of traditional closing arguments.
Three prominent men in the video game industry were accused of sexual assault in one day this week, re-igniting a broader debate about #MeToo and the industry
the men who do the most damage also have career-ruining levels of industry clout. but also: creeps, better pack your bags. your day is coming. Lucy O'Brien / @luceobrien : The stor...
Three prominent men in the video game industry were accused of sexual assault in one day this week, re-igniting a broader debate about #MeToo and the industry
the men who do the most damage also have career-ruining levels of industry clout. but also: creeps, better pack your bags. your day is coming. Lucy O'Brien / @luceobrien : The stor...
Three prominent men in the video game industry were accused of sexual assault in one day this week, re-igniting a broader debate about #MeToo and the industry
the men who do the most damage also have career-ruining levels of industry clout. but also: creeps, better pack your bags. your day is coming. Lucy O'Brien / @luceobrien : The stor...
Three prominent men in the video game industry were accused of sexual assault in one day this week, re-igniting a broader debate about #MeToo and the industry
the men who do the most damage also have career-ruining levels of industry clout. but also: creeps, better pack your bags. your day is coming. Lucy O'Brien / @luceobrien : The stor...
A close reading of the S-1 of the soap opera that is The We Company, a “tech company” whose mission “is to elevate the world's consciousness”
Fruit Water and Financial Arbitrage Shira Ovide / Bloomberg : WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn Byrne Hobart / Medium : What is We!? Understanding the WeWork IPO Gabri...