Indian game streaming startup Loco sells majority stake to Redwood

UAE-based Redwood has acquired a majority stake in the game streaming platform Loco as the Indian firm looks to expand focus to international markets, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed.

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OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she’s leaving the company

OpenAI’s CTO Mira Murati posted on X on Wednesday saying she is leaving the company. Murati said she is stepping away to do her own exploration after more than six years at the AI startup.

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Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe

In the decade-long fight to control CRISPR, the super-tool for modifying DNA, it’s been common for lawyers to try to overturn patents held by competitors by pointing out errors or inconsistencies.

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AI models let robots carry out tasks in unfamiliar environments

Robot utility models” sidestep the need to tweak the data used to train robots every time they try to do something in unfamiliar settings

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Why virologists are getting increasingly nervous about bird flu

Bird flu has been spreading in dairy cows in the US—and the scale of the spread is likely to be far worse than it looks. In addition, 14 human cases have been reported in the US since March. Both are worrying developments, say virologists, who fear that the country’s meager response to the virus is putting the entire world at risk of another pandemic.

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PS5 Pro announced and officially revealed by Sony

Sony has officially revealed the PS5 Pro console, confirming its existence, as well as a host of features about the mid-gen refresh such as specs, design, and capabilities.

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After months of silence, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are finally suing Palworld

Nintendo has announced that it will be suing the developer of the hit monster-taming game, Palworld, for infringing on multiple patents.

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Snap Spectacles take the big leap to AR with new glasses, a new OS, and lots of gesture-controlled mixed-reality

Snapchat is taking its Spectacles game to the next level with a complete reimagining that enables augmented reality, gesture control, experience sharing, gaming, and more.

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Neuroscientists and architects are using this enormous laboratory to make buildings better

Creating life-size simulations of the real world can reveal how we, and our minds, respond to the environments around us—and could shape the future of architecture.

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Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body

As the head of Alphabet’s AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can’t come soon enough. For another, they shouldn’t look like us.

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Four civilians on a daring SpaceX mission complete the first commercial spacewalk

A four-person crew of civilians on board SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission unlocked the hatch of their capsule and made history as the first group of non-government astronauts to conduct a spacewalk.

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Amazon's AI personal shopper is sharing ads with its advice

Amazon proclaimed its shopping AI chatbot Rufus as a solution for people overwhelmed by the dizzying array of products on its website. But, since it’s Amazon, that’s now going to include some ads, as Adweek first noted. Rufus (named for a pet corgi owned by early Amazon employees) uses AI to research products and recommend purchases through conversations.

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