Concerns Over Esports Security and Sony's VR Production Halt

I did NOT have on my bingo card Apple turning to Google to power its first big foray into modern AI on its hardware. Even while a new Apple AI model might be pointing to breakthroughs in AI reasoning. One of the biggest e-sports competitions in the world has been hacked by cheaters. And some pretty bearish news for the VR industry.

Links:

• Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features (Bloomberg)
• Apple researchers achieve breakthroughs in multimodal AI as company ramps up investments (VentureBeat)
• xAI open-sources base model of Grok, but without any training code (TechCrunch)
• Musk’s Grok AI goes open source (VentureBeat)
• Massive ‘Apex Legends’ Hack Disrupts NA Finals, Raises Serious Security Concerns (Forbes)
• Sony Hits Pause on PSVR2 Production as Unsold Inventory Piles Up (Bloomberg)

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