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[ad_1] Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Facebook parent company Meta made waves in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry this week with the launch of LLaMA 2, an open-source large language model (LLM) meant to challenge the restrictive practices by big tech competitors. Unlike AI systems …

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[ad_1] Tesla remains the top US EV producer with a new internal record internal record with 479,700 vehicles built and 466,140 of them delivered in Q2, up ~87 percent YoY. The company made headlines in Q2 after opening its previously-proprietary charging port design to the rest of the industry. Mercedes, Volvo, Rivian, and GM vehicles …

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[ad_1] Netflix’s attempts to crack down on password sharing is starting to pay off. The company reported substantial growth in subscribers in the months following to stop users from sharing accounts with people outside of their household. The streaming company nearly 6 million paying subscribers, an increase of 8 percent, during the second quarter of …

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[ad_1] The deadline for Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of game publisher Activision Blizzard is moving to October, giving the tech company more time to get approval from regulators.  Microsoft and Activision Blizzard’s merger agreement date will move from July 18 to Oct. 18, according to SEC filings posted on Wednesday. This comes a week after the US …

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[ad_1] When student loan payments resume in October, half of borrowers will have to start making payments of at least $200, according to a new study from TransUnion, a leading credit bureau. One in five are looking at a monthly payment of $500 or more, the agency said.  Slightly more than 40 million Americans are …

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[ad_1] Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Xbox announced today which games are coming to Game Pass in the second wave of July. The new games only include one launch day release, but otherwise it’s a decent collection of games for …

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[ad_1] Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Researchers at Stanford University and University of California-Berkeley have published an unreviewed paper on the open access journal arXiv.org, which found that the “performance and behavior” of OpenAI’s ChatGPT large language models (LLMs) have changed between March and June …

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[ad_1] Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Data streaming major Confluent has launched a ‘Connect with Confluent’ partner program to help technology providers like Google BigQuery and MongoDB enable faster access to real-time data streams through their products. The initiative will enable vendors to bring fully …

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[ad_1] Blizzard is bringing some of its PC games to Steam for the first time. The company announced today that the transition will start with Overwatch 2 on August 10th, but did not go into detail as to what other titles may be coming to the platform. President of Blizzard Mike Ybarra said in a …

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[ad_1] Nissan is the latest car manufacturer to ensure its electric vehicles can use Tesla chargers. Nissan announced an agreement with Tesla on Wednesday to adopt the North American Charging Standard, or NACS, beginning in 2025. Nissan’s first battery-powered SUV, the Nissan Ariya, will come with a NACS charging adapter from 2024. And in 2025, …

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