Game Pass Ultimate is still $20 a month if you buy pre-paid codes

Microsoft may have made the unfortunate decision to raise the price of a Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription to $30 a month, but you don't have to live by the company's rules — at least n [...]

You can still get Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $20 a month by buying pre-paid codes

Microsoft recently jacked up the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to $30 a month, but you may not have to pay that increased rate just yet. Online retailers are still selling codes for prepaid Game Pa [...]

Databricks set to accelerate agentic AI by up to 100x with ‘Mooncake’ technology — no ETL pipelines for analytics and AI

Many enterprises running PostgreSQL databases for their applications face the same expensive reality. When they need to analyze that operational data or feed it to AI models, they build ETL (Extract, [...]

AWS and OpenAI confirm cloud partnership — a day after ChatGPT maker ended its Microsoft exclusivity

AWS is already a big investor in OpenAI – Amazon Bedrock now gets access to more models after Microsoft loses exclusivity. [...]

Salesforce halts development of new features for Heroku cloud AI platform

Heroku has gone into a 'sustaining engineering' phase, which means Salesforce won't be updating it with new features anymore. [...]

New memory framework builds AI agents that can handle the real world's unpredictability

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Google Cloud AI Research have developed a framework that enables large language model (LLM) agents to organize their experiences into a m [...]

Allbirds sold its shoe business for $39 million and is pivoting to AI cloud computing

In short: Allbirds is rebranding as NewBird AI and pivoting from sustainable footwear to GPU-as-a-service cloud computing after selling its shoe business to American Exchange Group for $39 million. Th [...]

AI is starting to look a lot like the early days of cloud – and the real race is operational

AI’s model race is fading. The real battle is running systems reliably at scale. [...]

How leading CPG brands are transforming operations to survive market pressures

Presented by SAP The consumer packaged goods industry is experiencing a fundamental shift that's forcing even the most established brands to rethink how they operate. It's what some folks ca [...]