Microsoft's new Xbox chief has had a busy couple of months after promising "the return of Xbox." Asha Sharma met with publishers at the Game Developers Conference in March, and has also been on the road visiting Microsoft's own game studios and product teams in recent weeks. Sharma, who used to work in Microsoft's CoreAI […]

Anthropic has released its most powerful "generally available" model to date: Claude Opus 4.7. The company called it a step up from Opus 4.6 for advanced software engineering tasks, particularly in complex coding areas that in the past required more hand-holding. It's also supposed to be better at analyzing images and following instructions, and it […]

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Sabi, which is developing a brain-computer interface beanie that can decode internal speech into words, emerges from stealth with backing from Khosla and others  —  California-based startup Sabi is developing a thought-to-text wearable that could usher in the cyborg future.

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Anthropic says Opus 4.7 uses “an updated tokenizer that improves how the model processes text”, but “the tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens”  —  Anthropic has announced its latest AI model with Claude Opus 4.7.  The new version arrives two months …

The Epic Games Store has a selection of free PC games that changes every week. The latest free offering will be available until April 23.