Top physicist deems chatbots as mere media sensationalism, overshadowing quantum computing; tech giants offer six-figure salaries to snag top generative AI talent and the...
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Microsoft having confirmed a $2.5 billion acquisition of the company behind the hit game Minecraft, LinkedIn for $26 billion, Nuance for $20 billion, as well as a proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, is also eyeing Netflix according to certain reports.
The U.K. government makes password sharing of streaming services illegal, a fan reverse-engineered the 1995 Star Wars games, and artists are revolting against AI...
Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings stated that the company should have entered the advertising market sooner after resisting the idea for years. He also stated that he was slow to embrace advertising on the streaming platform because he was preoccupied with digital competition from Facebook and Google. According to Hastings, Hulu demonstrated that streaming services could […]
As part of its ongoing cost-cutting efforts, Netflix is reportedly pushing to better control rising cloud computing spending with longtime cloud partner Amazon Web Services (AWS).