Linklaters put together a squad of attorneys who got trained up on AI stuff, and they're gonna help other lawyers at the firm figure out how to use the tech for better workflows and client work. The team is pairing up with data science people to find spots where AI makes sense and figure out implementation, which some director named Sarah Barnard says will lead to cooler solutions for everyone.
Some analyst from Gartner thinks other big law firms are probably gonna copy this move since they've already dropped serious cash on AI investments. The main issue these new AI teams will face is getting swamped with requests for help, and they'll also need to sort through all the generative AI products flooding the market.
Linklaters already...
Zanu PF Central Committee member Kudakwashe Tagwirei told party supporters at a provincial conference that President Mnangagwa should stay in power through 2030 to finish his economic transformation plans. Tagwirei pointed to infrastructure upgrades and foreign currency earnings jumping from under $2 billion to over $8 billion as proof that the leadership is working. He announced new programs to help land reform beneficiaries get title deeds, with financial support rolling out for A1 and A2 farmers.
The Land Tenure Technical Committee chair pushed back against criticism of the title deed process and said more than 360,000 people have gotten land through reforms. Masvingo Province could hit an $8 billion economy by 2030 if it uses its...
Apple just swapped out its AI chief, John Giannandrea, for Amar Subramanya, who was doing AI research over at Microsoft. Subramanya will report to Craig Federighi as a VP and take over the company's entire AI operation. Tim Cook mentioned that Federighi has been pushing the AI stuff forward behind the scenes, like getting a revamped Siri ready for next year that will supposedly run on a massive custom Gemini model with over a trillion parameters instead of the tiny 1.5 billion-parameter thing they use right at this moment.
Apple is apparently bleeding people everywhere since OpenAI has poached around 40 engineers recently to work on some iPhone-killer device with Jony Ive's company. Some notable exits include Matt Theobald and Cyrus...
Amazon locked down two seasons of the God of War show, and Frederick E.O. Toye from Shogun and The Boys is directing the first couple of episodes to set the vibe. Ronald D. Moore is still running the whole thing as showrunner and executive producer, and pre-production already kicked off in Vancouver ahead of filming next spring. The series is pulling from the 2018 reboot and Ragnarok instead of the old Greek mythology games.
Casting for Kratos and Atreus is happening right at this moment, and Christopher Judge said he would throw his name in the hat even though he has no beef with whoever lands the gig. Amazon is juggling a bunch of other video game adaptations at the same time, like the new Fallout season dropping soon, plus Mass...
The Game Awards dropped the first round of voting for Players' Voice, which lets people pick their favorite 10 games out of 30 nominees. Voting closes early next week, and all six Game of the Year contenders made the list alongside a bunch of other stuff nominated elsewhere. A few games like Delta Force, Genshin Impact, Warframe, and REPO are only showing up in this category.
The full lineup has everything from Battlefield 6 and Elden Ring Nightreign to Hollow Knight Silksong and Doom: The Dark Ages. Other picks include Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Mario Kart World, Marvel Rivals, and Ninja Gaiden 4. Round one wraps up soon, so people should vote before the cutoff if they want their picks to...
NVIDIA still controls most of the discrete GPU market, but both AMD and Intel managed to claw back some ground during the third quarter. AMD's share jumped to 7% while Intel hit 1%, and NVIDIA dropped from 94% to 92% despite being the only company that grew overall GPU market share in the prior report. Jon Peddie Research says discrete GPU shipments hit 12 million units worth $8.8 billion, which is up slightly from the previous quarter.
The second quarter apparently saw panic buying because people were freaking out about tariffs, and that sucked sales away from the third quarter. Desktop CPU shipments climbed to 19.2 million units, and JPR thinks the installed base of add-in boards will reach 152 million units by the end of the decade...
Arc Games and Cryptic Studios managed to bail out of Embracer Group before getting axed like Volition and Free Radical Design. XD Inc. helped bankroll the buyout, and Arc is back to being an independent double-A publisher without any layoffs or restructuring drama. CEO Yoon Im said the company spent over 15 years under various owners, and going independent lets them actually work with devs they want instead of dealing with whatever mess Embracer was cooking up.
Arc has published the Remnant games, the Torchlight series, Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and some other stuff like Have A Nice Death. The publisher is apparently gearing up for a big year ahead after dodging the Embracer meltdown that happened when their massive $2 billion...
Apple just threw the original iPhone SE onto its obsolete products list along with seven other devices that hit the seven-year mark after getting discontinued. The SE stopped selling back in 2018, and the cutoff clock starts ticking from when Apple pulls something from stores instead of when it first launched. Other stuff that made the list includes second-gen iPad Pro 12.9-inch models, a bunch of Apple Watch Series 4 variants like the Hermes and Nike editions, and the Beats Pill 2.0 speaker.
Once something lands on the obsolete roster, Apple Stores and authorized repair shops will not touch it anymore for fixes or service. The regular Apple Watch Series 4 is not on there yet since only specific versions got axed, and products hit...
Samsung and SK Hynix are telling everyone they are not going to ramp up DRAM production like crazy because they got burned during the COVID era when demand tanked. Both companies slashed output back then to deal with oversupply, and right at this moment, their production lines are super constrained. They are worried that if they scale up too fast and the AI hype dies down, they will end up with another oversupply mess on their hands.
The memory shortage is probably going to stick around until 2028 based on what suppliers are saying. Samsung and SK hynix are locking in short-term contracts so they can adjust prices faster and keep long-term profitability as the main goal. RAM prices have already gotten ridiculously expensive, and the...
