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OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati announced a new model, GPT-4o, available to all free users, and a ChatGPT desktop app.Read More

Activity by OpenAI employees on X has hinted at a conversational audio/voice assistant reminiscent of 2006 sci-fi movie Her.Read More

Braid is still one of the best puzzle platformers you can ever play.Read More

The CPO from DataStax joins the AI Impact tour to dive into the challenges of going beyond ideation and putting gen AI into production.Read More

Subscrible announced the launch of its game catalog app that offers an ad-free, uninterrupted gaming experience.Read More

In his office, Lee Guinchard has a bunch of paraphernalia honoring J.R.R. Tolkien and his works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He proudly points out books that have sold more than 265 million copies, LOTR card games from Magic: The Gathering that have generated more than $200 million for licensee Hasbro and the original LOTR postcards from t...

The rights to The Lord of the Rings and all things Middle-earth are complicated. This primer brings us up to date.Read More

Haliens NFT owners receive a cut of profits from in-game purchases, and a share of profits made from the sale of Haliens data is also planned.Read More

We're excited to welcome Warren Spector to our GamesBeat Summit 2024 event at the Marina del Rey Marriott in Los Angeles later this month.Read More

Microsoft is bringing a new AI feature to Edge. NurPhoto Microsoft is adding an AI feature to its Edge web browser in an apparent bid to win more users.Rival web browsers Chrome and Safari are far more popular than Edge, StatCounter data shows. Google added AI features for its browser in January, and Apple is rumored to roll some out too.  Microsof...

Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr is gearing up to compete at the 2024 CrossFit Games with daughter Willow watching on. Nobull/Goruck, Michael Steele/Staff/Getty Images, Abanti Chowdhury/BI Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr, six-time Fittest Woman on Earth, is returning to the CrossFit Games this year.She knows all eyes are on her as a new mom as she juggles motherhood and ...

A Delta Air Lines plane. Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images A passenger is suing Delta Air Lines for $1 million saying he broke a rib while buckling his seatbelt.The lawsuit says the armest collapsed when he leaned on it, and he fell into the aisle.The plaintiff cites the Montreal Convention, which protects airline passengers onboard.  A Delta...

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The persistence of inflation caught economists, analysts, and, most importantly, members of the Federal Reserve by surprise. Tyler Le/BI What a difference three months makes. At the end of 2023 and the start of 2024, it appeared that the US was on a glide path to what I termed "economic nirvana": Growth would stay steady, if not spectacular, as inf...

Blend Images - Tanya Constantine/Getty Images Arizona established a universal school voucher system to allow kids to switch from public to private school.An expert told BI that vouchers tend to go to wealthy families.It's "a cautionary tale" for all the other states expanding voucher systems, he said. The prominence of school vouchers continues to ...

Chef Andres Mendez is a chef for Cook Unity. Cook Unity Chef Andres Mendez moved to NYC and went from fast-food delivery driver to earning over $3M a year.Mendez's income skyrocketed when he became a contract chef for Cook Unity, a meal subscription service.Cook Unity's expansion and increased demand during the pandemic boosted Mendez's earnings fr...

Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi (left) spent weeks testing OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT (right), per The New York Times. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images; Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images Apple executives knew they needed to upgrade Siri after they started using ChatGPT. The company's software chiefs spent...

The couple has been together for 37 years and go on dates regularly. They also talk about death to make sure they spend their time doing what matters. Thanasis Zovoilis/Getty Images My wife Pam and I have been married for 37 years. For us, the best gift we can give each other is attention, so we go on dates every week. We also talk about death so w...

McDonald's double cheeseburger with fries and drink. Aleksandr Zubkov/Getty Images McDonald's reportedly plans to launch a limited-time $5 meal.In first-quarter earnings, the company's leadership highlighted how inflation has affected customers.Other fast food chains are also worried about affordability. McDonald's is looking to launch a $5 meal in...

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin. Apu Gomes via Getty Images Anti-Israel protesters are just engaging in a form of performance art, says Citadel CEO Ken Griffin."Freedom of speech does not give you the right to storm a building or vandalise it," Griffin said.Griffin said he was pausing his donations to Harvard over its approach to on campus antisemitism. Ci...