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That entry of default had indicated that Prosser hadn’t responded to Apple’s lawsuit against him. But Prosser’s (recently obtained) counsel and Apple’s counsel asked for the judge in the case to set it aside, which he did.
Prosser now has 10 days to respond to Apple’s complaint.
The open-source AI startup has a deal through 2029, similar to Anthropic and Google, to rent compute capacity from SpaceX’s Colossus 2 data center for $150 million per month (up to $6.3 billion), reports the Wall Street Journal.
[Wall Street Journal]
According to Aftermath’s Chris Person, Valve pointed to the Steam Deck’s recent price increase as an indicator. Following those changes, the PC handheld costs $789 for the 512GB version and $949 for the 1TB version. The Steam Machine, on the other hand, starts at $1,049.
It’s one of a few new tidbits in a splashy Entertainment Weekly profile about Xbox, which comes at a curious time for Microsoft’s gaming division with troubles including looming layoffs and studio closures.
The intelligence-sharing alliance says that Al models are anticipated to fundamentally transform offensive and defensive cyber capabilities in a matter of months, and that “breaches will occur” as previously unknown vulnerabilities emerge. “Adversaries are already using AI to move faster and more effectively,” said Five Eyes. “Defenders must do the same.”
[National Cyber Security Centre]
The app launched late last year on Amazon Fire TV and expanded to Google TV in February. It’s getting some new features, too: you’ll be able to watch Stories, and Instagram is testing a “dedicated home” to watch horizontal videos as well.
As TechCrunch reports, Lucid’s second round of layoffs this year will eliminate a new production shift it had added as part of plans to double its production.
This involves a reduction of the Company’s current U.S. workforce by approximately 18 percent, including full-time employees, contractors and hourly production workers in manufacturing. As part of this reduction, the Company has eliminated the second shift of production at its AMP-1 factory. The Plan is expected to provide the Company with annualized cost savings of approximately $158 million.
Under a multi-year agreement, ChatGPT will surface photos from Getty Images in its responses, as well as within its search results. Getty Images has a similar deal with Perplexity.
It costs $129.95, ships late July, and includes a few goodies beyond the dedicated chassis for Steam’s upcoming console. You can save $30 by buying the “Poverty Cube,” which ditches the extras, but you’ll have to wait until October to get it. Does this mean the Steam Machine itself is imminent?
Chipmaker SK Hynix, which supplies high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips to Nvidia and Google, has overtaken Samsung, with Reuters reporting that its market capitalization has now hit $1.35 trillion. Samsung had held the top spot since 2000, prior to the AI boom.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the Microsoft CEO says that people won’t tolerate a small group of companies “doing all of the learning for the world.” Insert the We’re-All-Trying-To-Find-The-Guy-Who-Did-This meme. According to Nadella:
“You can’t say, hey, all white-collar jobs are gone and this could even be a weapon and we will use all the power to build data centers.”
The number of pedestrians killed each year has increased by about 75 percent since 2009, and large pickups and SUVs — which have taller hoods and bigger blind zones — are contributing to rising fatalities. This interactive deepdive from The New York Times examines the growing risks of having bigger vehicles on US roads.
Days after confirming there won’t be a new budget CMF-branded phone because of RAMageddon, Nothing has started teasing… a new budget Nothing-branded phone. We’re not sure how the economics work there, but it certainly looks like the Phone 4B is on the way, presumably cheaper than the midrange Phone 4A.
“I hope u have the life u deserve,” is just vicious.
According to Variety, she posted a story dismissing AI-supporting musicians after taking to Instagram earlier to claim that 238 of her songs appeared in AI training data, likely referring to the searchable database posted by Atlantic.
The latest installment in the Pixar franchise raked in $160 million over the weekend, besting The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’s $131.7 million. It’s also the second largest opening weekend for an animated film ever, only bested by Incredibles 2 and its $182.7 million.
On June 20th, 2006, the first Blu-ray titles hit the shelves in America, marking the launch of what will likely be the last major physical media format. Many manufacturers have discontinued players, and major retailers are ditching discs. The Digital Bits has a look back at the earliest days.
[The Digital Bits]
Guillemot founded Ubisoft in 1986 with his four brothers, Yves, Michel, Christian, and Gérard. The company has struggled recently, but is behind some of the most popular gaming franchises, including Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry. 69-year-old Claude was one of two reported victims in the crash of a small Cessna.
As spotted earlier by The Register, CrankGPT is a concept project from a two-person team at Squeez Labs that runs private, local AI models without needing a power-hungry data center. Instead, you have to literally crank out your own power for each of the chatbot’s answers.
A proposed class action lawsuit alleges MSG failed to protect the data of over 26 million guests. It comes just days after 404 Media reported that hackers claimed to have published data stolen from MSG, which is known for its extensive surveillance system.
John Jumper, who has worked as a researcher at Google DeepMind since 2017, announced his departure from the company on X. In 2024, Jumper and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an open-source AI model that predicts protein structures.
As Reuters reports, the new restrictions will go into effect in August, limiting how students in different age groups use AI:
Pupils from first through seventh grade, aged 6 to 13, should as a general rule not be using AI, while those in lower secondary school, aged 14 to 16, can cautiously adopt tools under teachers’ supervision, the government said. In upper secondary education, from ages 17 to 19, students should learn to use AI appropriately so that they are prepared for further education and work, it added.
In addition to creating the heavy-metal soundtracks for Doom and Doom II, Prince also worked on the music for Wolfenstein 3D, Rise of the Triad, and Duke Nukem 3D.
You can read his obituary here.
The $799 MPC One G2 has an 8-core processor with 4GB RAM, and 64GB of internal storage. That means you can run 32 plugin instances and 16 audio tracks simultaneously, up from eight of each in the previous model, and polyphony is now 256 notes, up from 64.
