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The next-gen Xbox won’t cost you $1,800. It can’t. Can it?

Fortune dropped a bombshell report on the future of gaming this week. According to the publication’s Microsoft insiders, the next Xbox is projected to cost between $1,200 and $1,800 when it arrives in 2028. My first reaction: The next Xbox is dead on arrival. It’s DOA. My second thought: Microsoft knows people won’t pay that […]

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Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions

For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now “it is finally here,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge. The company claims to have developed an AI-powered tool it says can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human […]

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Microsoft shuts down its beloved maker space

Microsoft is closing down The Garage, a set of popular maker spaces where employees worked on experimental projects and collaborated on surprising new apps and hardware during the company’s annual hackathon events. “We’re winding down The Garage program as a centralized function,” says Microsoft in an internal FAQ to employees, seen by Notepad. “We will […]

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Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption

Today, I’m talking to Bill Gates, cofounder and former CEO of Microsoft and chairman of the Gates Foundation. You may have noticed Bill in the news more lately — he’s been on something of a tour for the past few months, ever since publishing an essay in late August titled “The turbulent AI era is […]

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Microsoft says China-aligned hackers used AI agents in ConnectWise attack

Microsoft says a China-aligned hacking group used AI agents to breach ConnectWise’s Cloud Backup service, opening a route into customers’ Microsoft 365 accounts. Microsoft Threat Intelligence published its findings on Storm-0940 on October 21. ConnectWise disclosed the breach in a security advisory on October 16, the same day security firm Huntress published its initial account […]

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Xbox mandates a four-day return to office

Microsoft asked its employees to return to the office three days per week last year, and it’s now upping this requirement to four days a week for most Xbox employees. An internal memo, seen by The Verge, describes the change as a “need to create more opportunities for people to work together” after feedback from […]

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Xbox Cloud Gaming’s pay-as-you-go option starts at $3.99 for 10 hours

Microsoft announced last month that it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The new pay-as-you-go model will require players to purchase bundles of cloud hours, and now Microsoft is revealing today that bundles will start at $3.99 for 10 hours of cloud playtime. […]

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Anthropic could spend $750bn on compute, The Wall Street Journal reports

A new draft of Anthropic’s S-1, the prospectus for its IPO, puts its possible computing spend at $750bn over the coming years. That includes deals it is still negotiating. Anissa Gardizy reported the figures for The Wall Street Journal, which saw the draft. Echo Wang of Reuters also reviewed it and reported the loss and […]

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OpenAI brings GPT-6 Astra and Codex to Google Cloud, a rival’s platform

OpenAI is bringing its frontier models and its Codex coding agent to Google Cloud, the two companies said on Wednesday. GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out now in private preview in Google Cloud’s Model Garden, Google wrote. Select enterprise customers get them first. OpenAI plans general availability in the coming weeks, […]

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Nvidia’s latest GPU driver brings a new way to speed up PC games

Nvidia is rolling out a new GPU driver today (621.01) that enables Microsoft’s new Advanced Shader Delivery technology to speed up game launches. The technology also removes mid-game “just-in-time” shader compilation, reducing stuttering and CPU spikes. Microsoft’s Advanced Shader Delivery works by offloading shader compilation for different hardware combinations to the cloud. “Using DirectX 12, […]

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