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Using ‘trillions of anonymised productivity signals’, Microsoft thinks nearly half of people like AI in their work

Recently, Microsoft put out a new blog that attempts to educate/sell the notion of AI in the workplace, and perhaps most strangely, it admits to using huge swathes of anonymised data in the process. The blog, titled “How Frontier firms are rebuilding the operating model for the age of AI”, says that authors, editors, directors,…

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IO boss says surprise! Not only is 007 First Light imminent but that fantasy RPG it announced years ago is ‘Very, very far’ along too

You know, amid the steady stream of murderable celebs in Hitman: World of Assassination and the hoopla around 007 First Light’s imminent release on May 27, I forgot that IO has another iron in the fire—the online fantasy RPG it announced in 2023 (and which I apparently wrote the news article for. The past is…

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Ubisoft says ‘Nice try’ after Assassin’s Creed multiplayer game, Invictus, leaks with a ‘heavily altered’ image

Ubisoft suck at keeping a secret. It’s long had a problem with leaks, and the Assassin’s Creed series has probably suffered more from that than its other series. Even Ubisoft has joked about Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced being “gaming’s worst kept secret” following leak after leak. Much like the Age of Piracy in Black…

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In the dark fantasy world of The Blood of Dawnwalker, even the vampires are morally grey: ‘They are complex, and they are not one dimensional’

Developer Rebel Wolves boasts more than a few veterans of The Witcher 3 on its team, and there’s certainly no hiding that lineage in the studio’s debut title The Blood of Dawnwalker. Like the Witcher series, it’s set in a dark fantasy world grounded in ideas from real history. And it’s just as shot through…

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