2024 was the year the gaming industry bottomed out

Games with black main characters and characters were derided as forced. Female characters considered unattractive or masculine suffered from “DEI chin”. Dragon Age: The Veilguardhas been criticized by far-right trolls for customization options that allow players to create characters with surgical scars or play with a non-binary companion. After the reviews were published, conspirators seized … Read more

Perplexity’s Carbon integration will make it easier for businesses to connect their data with AI search

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on top AI coverage. More information 2024 was a banner year for Perplexity. The AI ​​search startup, founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI researcher Aravind Srinivas, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars — its latest funding round reportedly valued the company … Read more

Pairing live support with accurate AI outputs

“Businesses are trying to quickly figure out how to implement or incorporate generative AI into their business to drive agent efficiency,” says Will Fritcher, Chief Client Officer at TP. “Instead of looking at AI as a way to reduce costs, they should really look at it through the lens of improving the customer experience and … Read more

Enabling human-centric support with generative AI

Today, generative artificial intelligence is becoming a key part of business operations and customer service interactions. According to Salesforce research, three in five workers (61%) either currently use or plan to use generative AI in their roles. A full 68% of these employees believe that this technology – which can spit out text, video, images … Read more

This tropical virus is spreading from the Amazon to the US and Europe

outbreaks of Oropouche viruses have spread in the Amazon for decades, but historically the pathogen hasn’t bothered the rest of the world much. But that seems to be changing. In 2024, the virus showed it could travel. Most of this year’s more than 11,000 cases have occurred in Brazil and Peru, where the virus is … Read more

OpenAI upgrades its smartest AI model with enhanced reasoning capabilities

OpenAI today announced an improved version of its most capable AI model to date — one that takes even more time to consider questions — just a day after Google announced its first model of the type. The new OpenAI model, called o3, replaces o1, which the company introduced in September. Like o1, the new … Read more