Sony Begins Age Verification for PlayStation Users in the UK and Ireland

Those who don't verify their age will lose access to voice chat, messaging and other social features. [...]

AI synthetic audiences are already here and poised to upend the consulting industry

There is a war brewing between AI and consulting. Akin to an armies slow march towards the castle, a new technology is coming to dethrone the expert guessers of Mckinsey, Nielsen, Gartner, Publicis an [...]

New AI framework autonomously optimizes training data, architectures and algorithms — outperforming human baselines

AI R&D runs on a cycle of hypothesis, experiment, and analysis — each step demanding substantial manual engineering effort. A new framework from researchers at SII-GAIR aims to close that bottle [...]

You're Using Your Exercise Bike Wrong if You Do These 9 Things

We asked the cycling experts to weigh in on how you could unknowingly be sabotaging your own exercise bike workouts. [...]

Would You Trust This Companion Robot With Your Grandma? CNET Families Gave It a Try

We had our parents and grandparents live with and review ElliQ, a multipurpose robot that serves as a digital assistant, social companion and health advocate. [...]

The UAE’s AI champion just leased a converted Minneapolis office. The irony writes itself.

The building at 1001 Third Avenue South in downtown Minneapolis used to be an office. Now it is a data centre, and its anchor tenant is not a Silicon Valley hyperscaler but Core42, the cloud and AI in [...]

Google is not building a consultancy. It is writing a licensing agreement. That may be the smarter play.

OpenAI built a ten billion dollar consulting company. Anthropic built a 1.5 billion dollar consulting company. Google is writing a licensing agreement. The difference in approach may determine which A [...]

Snap lost a 400 million dollar AI deal, 20 million dollars a month to the Iran war, and 24 per cent of its stock price. The AR glasses had better work.

Snap reported first-quarter earnings on Tuesday that should have been unremarkable: revenue up 12 per cent to 1.53 billion dollars, adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to 233 million dollars, free cash [...]

Skyroot becomes India’s first space-tech unicorn ahead of June Vikram-1 launch

GIC and BlackRock-managed funds anchor a fresh round that more than doubles the company’s 2023 valuation. The round is timed to the planned orbital launch of Vikram-1 from Sriharikota, the first pri [...]