Month: March 2025

Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI

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Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own powerful AI models and exploring alternatives to power products like Microsoft’s Copilot bot. Microsoft has developed its own AI “reasoning” models comparable to models like OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, the The Information reports. OpenAI is said to have refused … Read more

Oxalis Games Partners With Open Loot For Moonfrost, The Award-Winning Farm-Life Sim RPG

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LONDON, United Kingdom, March 7th, 2025/Chainwire/–Oxalis Games has announced a strategic partnership with Open Loot, the Web3 gaming platform that is redefining player ownership and blockchain-powered ecosystems. This partnership will further elevate Moonfrost, Oxalis Games’ flagship title that has already captured the industry’s attention, winning “Best Art Direction” in 2024 and being developed by the … Read more

POPG Expands Its Reach: $POPG Now Available On LBank

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POPG, the web3 entertainment ecosystem, has reached a key milestone with the successful listing of $POPG on LBank, marking the utility token’s first exchange listing. This step strengthens POPG’s presence in the web3 space, increasing accessibility for users and reinforcing the project’s long-term vision. LBank, an established exchange, provides a platform for POPG’s expansion. As … Read more

Accelerating insurance policy reviews with generative AI: Verisk’s Mozart companion

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This post is co-authored with Sundeep Sardana, Malolan Raman, Joseph Lam, Maitri Shah and Vaibhav Singh from Verisk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry, empowering clients to strengthen operating efficiency, improve underwriting and claims outcomes, combat fraud, and make informed decisions about global risks. … Read more

Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues

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Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for secure communications, referred to the use of AI agents as “putting your brain in a jar,” and cautioned that this new paradigm of computing — … Read more

Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander is dead

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Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon’s south pole and tipped over. Luckily, the company says it was able to “accelerate several program and payload milestones” and deploy a few of the experiments that were riding shotgun before Athena’s lander ran out of juice. The … Read more

Threads tests adding ‘interests’ on profiles to connect users with topical discussions

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Meta’s Threads has begun testing a new feature that would allow people to add their interests to their profile on the social network. Instead of only advertising to profile visitors the sort of topics you might post about, the new interests feature will also direct users to active conversations about the topic. The company thinks … Read more