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The new Copilot AI experience makes it difficult for Microsoft to state its case against OpenAI's offering: "Until they bring back the old version I will be going back to ChatGPT"

Microsoft's latest update for Copilot AI has been received with a cocktail of emotions. Most users cite a degraded user experience, low-quality responses

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Ubisoft may be circling the drain, a Chinese mega-publisher is reportedly considering purchasing the Assassin's Creed makers

The Guillemot family and Chinese conglomerate Tencent may be teaming up to take over Ubisoft, as the company's value has fallen significantly throughout 2024.

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Sam Altman admits ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode tricked him into thinking AI was a real person: "I kind of still say 'please' to ChatGPT, but in Voice Mode, I couldn't use the normal niceties. I was so convinced, like, Argh, it might be a real person"

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that ChatGPT's Voice Mode was the first time he was tricked into thinking AI was a real person.

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Microsoft 365 will lose this feature in less than 30 days

Microsoft will remove the Feed section from Microsoft 365 next month. The essential features of Feeds now live in the Recommended section of Microsoft 365, though some workflows will still be affected by the change.

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Black Ops 6 to launch into NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud gaming service on release day

Nvidia announced 22 new games hitting GeForce Now in October, including the latest Call of Duty by Treyarch Studios.

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Despite new Shattered Space DLC, Starfield's player count is neck and neck with Fallout 4 — a 9-year-old game

Starfield's concurrent player count is just barely ahead of Fallout 4's despite the recent launch of the Shattered Space DLC, suggesting it's struggling to generate player interest.

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"The Tyranid invasion of Kadaku is ending." The first Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 post-launch Operations mission is coming in October.

The first new Operations mission is coming to Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 later in October, and it'll feature the ever-hungry Tyranids.

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The best Amazon October Prime Day 2024 deals still available

Amazon's Prime Day in October, otherwise known as Big Deals Day, returns for 2024. Here are some of the best deals including ones from Newegg, Best Buy, and more!

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iPad mini 7 tipped for imminent launch, as the iPad mini 6 heads for the clearance aisle

Best Buy has discounted the iPad mini 6, suggesting a new iPad mini model could be on the horizon.

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OpenAI ‘pleads’ for exclusive funding, raises $6.6 billion, leaving Elon Musk’s xAI and other AI firms to fend for themselves

OpenAI received $6.6 billion in investment recently and is now valued at $157 billion. Interestingly, OpenAI does not want it its investors to fund competition and has reportedly shared a list of companies to stay away from.

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"We're working to prove that we cannot be broken." STALKER 2 devs tell their story of resilience creating the Xbox, PC sequel amid Russia's Ukraine invasion in new 'War Game' documentary film.

Ahead of STALKER 2's launch next month, a new 90-minute documentary has been released that chronicles GSC Game World's journey to develop the game amid Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine.

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"We had a great discussion with the Xbox team at Square Enix." Xbox leads Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond share pics from their Japanese game dev charm offensive at the Tokyo Game Show

Microsoft's consistency when delivering for Japanese and other Asian gaming markets has been middling at best. However, the firm has maintained a presence at the big Tokyo Game Show for several years now. Is progress finally being made?

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NVIDIA just debuted its new open-source advanced AI model with state-of-the-art capabilities to take on OpenAI's 'magical' GPT-4o

NVIDIA recently unveiled powerful open-source multimodal large language models (LLMs) dubbed NVLM 1.0 with the flagship model, NVLM-D-72B featuring up to 72 billion parameters.

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OpenAI's "collapse" fears reportedly date back to Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever's abrupt departure — beyond recent bankruptcy reports with projections of $5 billion in losses within the next 12 months

The departure of OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever raised concern among top officials in the firm behind the curtains. They reportedly tried to get the Chief Scientist back on the team by extending him a new and possibly lucrative deal, but their efforts were turned down.

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OpenAI raises $6.6 billion from Microsoft and NVIDIA, pushing its market cap to $157 billion — with "the world's dominant AI company worth trillions of dollars" and $11.6 billion in sales vision on the horizon

OpenAI has officially closed its funding round with a $157 billion market capitalization after raising $6.6 billion from many big tech corporations, including Microsoft, NVIDIA, SoftBank, and more.

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The Fallout TV series has crossed an incredible milestone

Amazon MGM Studios, Kilter Films, and Bethesda Game Studios' Fallout TV series has over 100 million viewers, and a second season is still on the way.

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"We have squeezed literally every ounce of everything we could get out of UE4"; Anna Donlon announces that Valorant will move to Unreal Engine 5

Anna Donlon, SVP and head of Valorant studios for Riot Games, has announced that the popular and highly competitive first-person shooter will be ported from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.

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Palworld is headed to mobile, and its devs have teamed up with PUBG's Krafton to make it so as a Nintendo lawsuit brews: "It plans to ... implement the original’s main fun elements to fit the mobile environment"

Palworld developer Pocketpair and PUBG publisher Krafton are teaming up to bring the game to mobile, even as a legal battle with Nintendo looms on the horizon.

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"Art is dead, dude. It’s over. AI won. Humans lost": A controversial artist is reportedly losing millions of dollars because the US Copyright Office refused to register his AI-generated collection — it lacks 'human authorship'

AI artist Jason M. Allen expressed his frustrations over losing millions of dollars to people who stole his AI-generated work. He is seeking the US Copyright Office to reconsider its ruling and copyright his AI-generated collection.

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A future Minecraft update will let you get killed by creepy trees, and you can play it early starting today

Mojang Studios recently hosted a new Minecraft Live and showed off a future update with The Pale Garden biome and The Creaking mob, and you can play it early today.

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Microsoft Office 2024 gets you new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more, no subscription required

Microsoft Office provides access to the core Office apps without requiring a subscription. Microsoft just released Office 2024, which has a new look and several new features compared to Office 2021.

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OpenAI's "temporary prototype" search tool could be a Google killer as user experience reportedly worsens on mobile devices with "just way too many ads on the page"

Former Google Engineer Arvind Jain says Google is seemingly focused on generating profit, which has significantly impacted its search user experience with ads. New players like OpenAI's SearchGPT could leverage this avenue to give it a run for its money in search.

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World of Warcraft's 'immortality' levelling experience is a bug, with a fix coming soon

Blizzard confirmed to us today that the inability to die in World of Warcraft's new levelling experience is a bug, with a fix rolling out soon to patch their "cheat death" mechanic for new players.

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"It’s been amazing seeing everyone’s excitement," we spoke to World of Warcraft's Morgan Day to talk solo dungeon Delves, upcoming talent changes, and more

World of Warcraft: The War Within is one of the best starts to an expansion in recent memory, with some of the best story delivery the game has seen in years. There are some pain points, though, particularly with Hero Talent balance, Delves, and other aspects of the game. We…

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Easy Anti Cheat isn't playing nice with Windows 11 24H2, but happily you SHOULDN'T be affected by it — here's why

Windows 11 24H2 has an issue on some PCs with Easy Anti Cheat causing BSOD errors, but most gamers shouldn't be affected as Microsoft has implemented mitigation measures for now.

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