NextSlide recently announced that it’s joining OpenAI, with the presentation startup’s team members now working on ChatGPT. The NextSlide website currently displays a note from founder Ahmed Beshry describing the startup’s product as one “that could turn prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable presentation.” The ultimate goal, Beshry said, was “to make […]
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Square Enix announced the news on X/Twitter, confirming we’ll get a “new look” at Geoff Keighley’s annual showcase on Wednesday 25th August at 7pm BST. Director Naoki Hamaguchi will be around to present the segment, hinting that we may be getting something a touch more substantial than a standard trailer drop. Hamaguchi has previously stressed
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X, the social media platform now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is shaking up how it pays influencers and creators. In announcing the change, the company said it will be winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program and replacing it with something called Original Content Rewards. X will stop accepting new Revenue Sharing participants, while
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What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King’s Cross? The area is so hot that a VC firm allegedly recently won a deal by promising a founder office space in the neighborhood. “We stop at nothing to win deals [for] and to support” founders,
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Details about Something We Made’s acclaimed photography puzzler sequel are limited, but it looks like players can expect more quirky characters and chill beats as Toem’s photographer protagonist sets off on a brand-new adventure about “uncovering hidden details, helping friends along the way, and documenting the world’s little wonders”. You can check out the latest
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In a brief update posted with a minute-long teaser, the indie team said: “we’ve been hard at work crafting Peak’s final Major Update, and we’re finally ready to drop it to the shore near you. Ok well, I guess near a peak…near you”. You can find out more (if not much more) in the video
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Bill Swearingen has spent the past year running largely the same test, over and over again. The goal was to produce a computer-generated pattern that could block the surveillance cameras lining America’s streets from detecting it. Some 31 million tests later, Swearingen says he can now produce patterns on-demand that, when applied to clothing and
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Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recently, Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, with testing conducted by several different organizations including a cyber evaluation startup called
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The internal team at Round8, known as Nough, said the name stems from “not enough, but without the e” because “we’re never enough, there’s always room to improve, so when we develop games, we keep refining them because they can always be better”. With defining traits described as “tenacity” and “determination”, the studio says this
In her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are increasingly replacing the functions of democratic government. This shift, she said, marks “a return to tyranny and mystification in the form of rule by algorithms, corporations, machines.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, I
