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Google launches Playground to turn prompts into games, with Unity on board

Google has launched Playground, an experimental platform that turns text prompts into playable games. It is teaming up with Unity to add more advanced tools, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Google Playground opens today to users in the US aged 18 and over. People describe a game, test it right away […]

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Atomic Machines emerges with $250M to build micro-machines from code

Atomic Machines has come out of six years in stealth with $250M raised. It says its system builds working micro-machines straight from code. The Bay Area start-up announced the launch on Wednesday. Its first product is a power switch for AI data centres. Founder and chief executive Jeff Holden joined Amazon as its tenth engineer […]

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Anduril to build $3.7bn Baltimore shipyard for US Navy submarine parts

Anduril will invest $3.7bn in a new shipyard near Baltimore to build parts for the US Navy’s Virginia-class submarines, the defence company said on Tuesday. The Navy has also awarded Anduril a contract worth up to $2.9bn, with payments tied to demonstrated production outcomes. Together, that is $6.6bn for the submarine industrial base. President Donald […]

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Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad, who helped build Amazon’s Alexa, as CEO

Boston Dynamics has named Rohit Prasad chief executive from 7 October, the robot maker said in a statement on Tuesday. The company said he will speed up its Physical AI strategy. That plan combines its robots with advanced AI to sell intelligent machines at scale. Prasad was senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa […]

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Intel will stay on Musk’s Terafab chip project, CEO tells Bloomberg

Intel will keep working with Elon Musk on Terafab, his project to make advanced chips in Texas, chief executive Lip-Bu Tan told Bloomberg. Tan made the comments before a Tokyo event on Wednesday celebrating 50 years of Intel’s operations in Japan. His comments come after a week of reports that Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s largest contract […]

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Uber to buy ezCater for $2.3bn to bring workplace catering to Uber Eats

Uber has agreed to buy ezCater, a US platform for workplace catering, for $2.3bn in cash. Uber and ezCater announced the deal in a joint statement on Tuesday. The purchase brings ezCater’s catering orders to Uber Eats and to Uber for Business, Uber’s service for company accounts. Boston-based ezCater lets businesses order food for meetings, […]

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Zoom CTO XD Huang on bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting

Zoom has opened the speech recognition behind its My Notes tool to other companies, and is in conversation with some AI note-taking firms that are considering switching to it, chief technology officer XD Huang told TNW. He said Zoom wants AI that finishes the work discussed in a meeting before the meeting ends. Huang leads […]

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Accenture contractor removed from FBI after unpatched system led to breach

An Accenture contractor has been removed from FBI work following a breach that exposed the personal data of thousands of bureau staff. The FBI acted on Monday, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. A senior FBI official told Reuters that an unnamed contractor had not applied a security fix, known as a […]

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Florida woman arrested after Anthropic reported her Claude chat to police

Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a woman in Florida after Anthropic reported her Claude conversation to law enforcement. In the chat she allegedly said she would “shoot up” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. WINK News first reported the arrest on 30 September. According to the arrest report, she wrote the statement on 26 September. In a […]

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San Diego sues AppLovin over explicit ads on kids’ devices, Bloomberg reports

San Diego County has sued AppLovin, a mobile advertising technology company. The county alleges that AppLovin bypassed parental controls to serve ads for adult dating services, alcohol, vaping and graphic sexual content in games played by children. The complaint was filed with San Diego Superior Court on Monday, Bloomberg reported. According to the complaint, AppLovin […]

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