Yahoo sold tech news site Engadget to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later in March
Yahoo sold tech news site Engadget to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later in March
The consolidation of iconic internet publishing brands continues, as Static Media takes over another site. … Engadget, the long-running tech news website, has a new owner.
Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for “friendliness”
Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for “friendliness”
AI chatbot ‘Patty’ is going to live inside employees' headsets. … Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees.
Sources: some Xbox staffers say they are relieved that Sarah Bond is leaving, after she led a pivot away from the console with the “Xbox everywhere” strategy
Sources: some Xbox staffers say they are relieved that Sarah Bond is leaving, after she led a pivot away from the console with the “Xbox everywhere” strategy
Microsoft has a new gaming CEO who wants to bring Xbox back from the brink. … Xbox fans had been anticipating the retirement …
Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny but “dishonest”, and Anthropic serves a “product to rich people” while OpenAI is “committed to free access”
First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for a...
Anthropic says “Claude will remain ad-free”, its users “won't see ‘sponsored’ links adjacent to” conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers
There are many good places for advertising. A conversation with Claude is not one of them.
Microsoft raises its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription price from $19.99/month to $29.99/month, rebrands Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard plans, and more
so GameStop claps back with this price-freezing deal Moz Farooque / TheStreet : Microsoft's harsh decision frustrates gamers Pure Xbox : ‘Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody’...
Microsoft raises its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription price from $19.99/month to $29.99/month, rebrands Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard plans, and more
Microsoft is also adding PC games and cloud access to its new Xbox Game Pass Essential and Premium plans.
Q&A with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Notion becoming the “AI workspace that works for you”, being profitable, B2B vs. B2C, usage-based pricing for AI, and more
Casey Newton / The Verge : Bluesky: @caseynewton , @nickstatt , and @reckless . X: @notionhq Bluesky: Casey Newton / @caseynewton : For Decoder this week, I talked with Notion CEO...
Google says total organic click volume from Search to websites is “relatively stable year-over-year” and it's sending “slightly more quality clicks” vs. in 2024
We continue to send billions of clicks to the web every day and are committed to prioritizing the web in our AI experiences in Search.
Reddit wants to become “a go-to search engine” for users; its core search has 70M+ weekly active unique users and its AI tool Reddit Answers has 6M weekly users
CEO Steve Huffman says the company is focused on making the platform a ‘go-to search engine.’
A survey of 900 US Google users: of ~69K searches, 18% gave AI Overviews; of those, users clicked a link 8% of the time, compared to 15% with no AI summary
Last year, Google introduced “AI Overviews,” a feature that displays an artificial intelligence-generated result summary at the top of many Google search pages.
Sony and Microsoft sign a 10-year Call of Duty on PlayStation deal; in 2022, Microsoft offered to keep “existing Activision console titles on Sony” through 2027
Sony and Microsoft sign a 10-year Call of Duty on PlayStation deal; in 2022, Microsoft offered to keep “existing Activision console titles on Sony” through 2027
Sony has agreed to a 10-year deal for Call of Duty with Microsoft to keep the franchise on PlayStation after the proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition.
Tim Cook unveils Apple Vision Pro, a “spatial computing” headset controlled with the user's eyes, hands, and voice, coming to the US for $3,499+ in early 2024
Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that “seamlessly” blends the real and digital world.
Tim Cook unveils Apple Vision Pro, a “spatial computing” headset controlled with the user's eyes, hands, and voice, coming to the US for $3,499+ in early 2024
Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that “seamlessly” blends the real and digital world.
Bluesky is seeing an influx of users, including @dril and AOC, with some referring to posting on the Jack Dorsey-backed social network as “skeeting”
Instead of “tweeting,” the influx of new Bluesky users has coined a new term for sharing their thoughts on the decentralized social media app.
The UK CMA blocks Microsoft's $68.7B Activision acquisition, citing concerns about competition and innovation in the UK gaming market; Microsoft plans to appeal
The CMA has prevented Microsoft's proposed purchase of Activision over concerns the deal would alter the future …