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Amazon’s new AI agent is designed do your shopping
Amazon has launched a new AI model, Nova Act, which is designed to perform tasks — like online shopping — in your browser. For now it’s only available to developers in a “research preview,” but Amazon is also expanding access to its other Nova AI models through a web portal, making them easier to find […]
Sources: GlobalFoundries mulls merging with UMC, Taiwan's 2nd-largest chipmaker, to form a bigger, US-based company with production in Asia, the US, and Europe (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: GlobalFoundries mulls merging with UMC, Taiwan's 2nd-largest chipmaker, to form a bigger, US-based company with production in Asia, the US, and Europe — TAIPEI — U.S. contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries and United Microelectronics Corp., Taiwan's No. 2 chipmaker …
RuneScape: Dragonwilds is a new survival game set in the world of the old-school MMO
Jagex, the developer of the long-lived massively multiplayer game RuneScape, has announced a new spinoff: RuneScape: Dragonwilds, an open-world survival and crafting game in the style of Valheim, Ark, and Minecraft. RuneScape: Dragonwilds will launch into early access on Steam in spring 2025. It’s set in the trad-fantasy world of the cult 2001 MMO, but […]
In Kobold’s newest TTRPG, out today, you create your own cozy game
Writer Kij Johnson has always used animals to tell the stories of people. That’s how the writer and designer of Kobold Press’ upcoming tabletop role-playing game RiverBank put it to me in our recent email exchange. Like the novel it’s inspired by — The River Bank, Johnson’s 2017 sequel to Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in […]
Alexa Plus just launched in early access, but it’s missing some features
Amazon has officially launched its AI-powered Alexa Plus – but it’s only available to a “small number” of customers to start, Amazon spokesperson Kristy Schmidt confirmed to The Verge. As shown on its early access page, Alexa Plus also doesn’t come with all the features Amazon showcased during its recent devices event, like the ability […]