The Super Bowl’s best and wackiest AI commercials
Enlarge / A still image from BodyArmor’s 2024 “Field of Fake” Super Bowl commercial. (credit: BodyArmor) Heavily hyped tech products have a history of appearing in Super Bowl commercials during…
Ongoing campaign compromises senior execs’ Azure accounts, locks them using MFA
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hundreds of Microsoft Azure accounts, some belonging to senior executives, are being targeted by unknown attackers in an ongoing campaign that’s aiming to steal sensitive data…
Runescape maker Jagex sold to investors for estimated $1.1B
Global investment firm Carlyle and CVC have agreed to sell Runescape maker Jagex to CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII and Haveli Investments.Read More
Chris Heatherly’s Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow casual party games studio lands $3M
Gaming veteran Chris Heatherly has raised $3 million for his new casual game studio Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow.Read More
The metaverse is back. But let’s not call it the metaverse | The DeanBeat
When Disney shut down its metaverse division on March 28, 2023, the end of the 50-person division was interpreted as doom for the metaverse, the over-hyped universe of virtual worlds…
Skybound hires ex-EA biz dev exec as it ponders acquisitions
Skybound, the multi-platform entertainment company behind mega hit franchises like The Walking Dead, has hired an acquisitions specialist.Read More
Sam Altman wants up to $7 trillion for AI chips. The natural resources required would be ‘mind boggling’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s efforts to boost AI chip capacity would require an ‘astronomical’ quantity of water and rare earth minerals.Read More
Jury awards Skillz $42.9M in patent infringement trial
A jury has awarded Skillz a $42.9 million judgment in its patent infringement lawsuit against rival AviaGames. The jury found that Skillz provided a preponderance of evidence that AviaGames willfully…
SpongeBob gets ready for Super Bowl LVIII with Roblox and Gamefam
Gamefam announced its Super Bowl LVIII event it built in partnership with the NFL last week. Here’s how the game works within Roblox.Read More
Stability, Midjourney, Runway hit back in AI art lawsuit
The class-action copyright case filed by artists against companies providing AI art generators and their underlying models takes a new turn.Read More