Rich Uncle Pennybags is getting a lot richer thanks to Monopoly Go! Forget collecting $200, the mobile sensation is pocketing a lot more than that these days.
On Hasbro’s second-quarter earnings call Thursday, the toymaker revealed that the mobile video game has grossed more than $3 billion in revenue since its launch on April 11, 2023. That makes Hasbro the top licenser of video games in the past year, the company says.
OpenAI’s long-rumored internet search tool is finally official.
The company said Thursday it’s alpha testing a prototype AI search tool, which will let users ask direct questions (including follow ups) and get direct answers based on web sources.
OpenAI says it’s partnered with publishers including News Corp. and The Atlantic for some of
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Meta’s AI mixed reality vision is coming together
Meta says it will put its Meta AI assistant in its
You’d be forgiven for assuming, based on business press coverage (cough), that, at any given point in time, there is a single, mega-disruptive technology that exerts a gravitational pull on any and all venture capital dollars. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, this would have been the internet and its nascent economy. In the late 2000s to 2010s, it was smartphone and SaaS apps. A few years ago, it was crypto, which, if the prognostications were correct, we would all currently be us
Meta’s Oversight Board says the social media company fell short in its response to a pair of high-profile explicit, AI-generated images of female public figures on its sites and is calling for the company to update its policies and make the language of those policies even more clear to users.
The decision, announced Thursday, comes after a three-mo
In 1994, Peter Shor, an American mathematician working at Bell Labs, published a paper with a wonky title and earth-shaking implications. In “Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer,” Shor showed how, using a hypothetical quantum computer, you could efficiently solve certain types of mathematical problems that overwhelmed even the most powerful classical computer systems—eliminating many, many steps, and cutting the calculation time ex
What if a company could analyze all your personal information, setting its price based on the data available? The Federal Trade Commission worries this might already be a reality.
The FTC has ordered eight companies—Mastercard, Revionics, Bloomreach, Chase, Task, Pros, Accenture, and McKinsey & Co.—to submit information about the
Walter Driver would like your attention, please. As the cofounder and co-CEO of Scopely, the mobile games company behind such free-to-play hits as Monopoly Go!, Scrabble Go, Marvel Strike Force, and Star Trek Fleet Command, he knows your time is precious. That’s why his games never demand much more than a minute or two to play—unless, of course, you choose to keep going. Better to lure users in with little notifications that inspire a minute of play here,
LinkedIn cofounder, tech investor, and major political donor Reid Hoffman has thrown his support behind Kamala Harris, after staunchly backing Biden. This has plunged him into headlines, in opposition to Elon Musk and other prominent tech leaders. Reid joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to take us inside Silicon Valley’s reaction to Harris’s presidential bid, why some business leaders are em
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind last week’s massive computer crash, offered $10 UberEats gift cards to its affected partners for their troubles, according to a TechCrunch report. And now, some