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Riding a valuation pumped up by generative AI and its chips that power many of the tools, Nvidia’s market cap has passed not only Apple but now Microsoft, too, at more than $3.3 trillion, as reported by Bloomberg.
The markets are still open, but the rise has been fast — Nvidia shares are up 160 percent in 2024, passing $2 trillion in February.
What will we find there? NBC Sports writer Denny Carter might have the best guess, from this 2017 tweet:
Typical QB tweet: love my teammates god is good!
RB tweet: keep grindin
TE tweet: derp
WR tweet: the enemy speaks kindly & holds a knife
Following last year’s Quarterback series, Receiver premieres on Netflix on July 10th.
About three years after becoming VP of Netflix Games, Mike Verdu gave this statement to GamesIndustry.biz:
I am so proud of what we’ve accomplished, and excited to start a new team at Netflix on the cutting edge of game innovation.
He will apparently stay on as VP until a replacement is found and then work on “new technologies” (maybe something in the cloud?) in game development.
[GamesIndustry.biz]
Research published in Nature today used machine learning to try to find “a name-like component” in the rumbles of elephants. The AI model identified which elephant was being addressed 27.5 percent of the time, and they could use those calls to get a reaction from that elephant.
“Our finding that elephants are not simply mimicking the sound associated with the individual they are calling was the most intriguing,” Fristrup said. “The capacity to utilize arbitrary sonic labels for other individuals suggests that other kinds of labels or descriptors may exist in elephant calls.”
Siri meets generative AI, genmoji, image generation, and some big upgrades for Apple Photos. If you just want the Cliff’s Notes on Apple’s artificial intelligence plans, we’ve got you covered.
With the countdown to the WWDC 2024 keynote now sliding through its last hour, you can prepare with The Vergecast crew for all of the questions we’re expecting to have answered in just a few minutes.
We will be in place for Apple’s WWDC 2024 keynote at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. We’ll find out exactly how much AI Tim Cook & Co. can stuff into iOS 18, along with anything else new that they have to show us.
