Microsoft’s support for Age of Empires II shows how to do right by a long-time dedicated fanbase, and other publishers should take note

What you need to know This week, competitive players from around the world gathered in Berlin for an Age of Empires II tournament known as Nili’s Apartment Cup V.  The tournament prize pool is more than $60,000 and tens of thousands of people have tuned in to watch it live on Twitch. In an interview […]

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Apple Wants to Partner With Major Publishers to Train AI

Apple has approached several major publishers to establish deals that would allow the Cupertino company to train generative artificial intelligence systems on news content, reports The New York Times. Apple is aiming for multiyear deals and has approached Condé Nast, NBC News, and IAC. Condé Nast publications include Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, Ars Technica, Glamour, […]

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Apple Wants to Partner With Major Publishers to Train AI

Apple has approached several major publishers to establish deals that would allow the Cupertino company to train generative artificial intelligence systems on news content, reports The New York Times. Apple is aiming for multiyear deals and has approached Condé Nast, NBC News, and IAC. Condé Nast publications include Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, Ars Technica, Glamour, […]

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Surprisingly, OpenAI is getting ready to pay tens of millions to publishers for using their content to train ChatGPT, amid reports that it’s getting dumber

What you need to know OpenAI is reportedly in the middle of a megadeal with German publisher Axel Springer, which will see it part tens of millions of euros in a span of 3 years. If the deal goes through OpenAI will have access to articles (archived and current) from the publisher, which it’ll use […]

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“Japanese publishers need Xbox to expand,” says ex-PlayStation exec as Microsoft gets serious about Japan

What you need to know Microsoft has a new exec in charge of Japanese gaming partnerships for Xbox.  Mena Kato, former PlayStation exec, described in a new interview how Japanese publishers “need” Xbox to grow their businesses.  Xbox has secured the support of Sega, Capcom, and more recently Square Enix in its battle for relevancy […]

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Google will let publishers hide content from Bard. Should Microsoft do the same with Bing?

What you need to know Google has launched a new opt-out experience dubbed Google-Extended, which will help publishers restrict Bard from using their content to generate responses.  The company indicated that this new feature is designed to help publishers establish more control over their content. The emergence of AI and chatbots has negatively impacted website […]

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Google will let publishers hide content from Bard. Does Microsoft do the same with Bing?

What you need to know Google has launched a new opt-out experience dubbed Google-Extended, which will help publishers restrict Bard from using their content to generate responses.  The company indicated that this new feature is designed to help publishers establish more control over their content. The emergence of AI and chatbots has negatively impacted website […]

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Xbox Chaturdays 80: Xbox targeting more publishers & major Halo Infinite changes with Jez Corden

For episode 80 of Xbox Chaturdays, we’ll be joined by Windows Central’s very own Jez Corden! We’ll be diving into the death of Google Stadia and the future of cloud gaming, Xbox targeting more publishers beyond Activision, monumental, rumored changes surrounding Halo Infinite, the first $70 Xbox Game Studios release, our impressions of The Texas […]

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Hard lessons AAA game publishers need to learn from Elden Ring

Source: Windows Central For what feels like years at this point, many AAA developers and publishers have been tripping over themselves trying to figure out where they want to be in the modern gaming industry. We’ve seen Ubisoft soullessly ship service game after service game, only for them to die quietly in obscurity afterward. We’ve […]

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