I'm proud to announce that Microsoft is investing $3.3 billion to build a new datacenter in Racine that will operate some of the most powerful Artificial Intelligence systems in the world.

That's 2,300 union jobs to build the center. And 2,000 permanent jobs in total.

'We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,' said Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, in a Microsoft town hall today 👇theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152…

Intel's 13th and 14th Gen K chips have been crashing games for some recently. Intel and motherboard makers now disagree on how to stabilize the chips, after a round of BIOS updates that were supposed to fix things 😬 theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152…

Microsoft has deployed GPT-4 in an isolated, air-gapped environment on a government-only network. The Azure Government Top Secret cloud-hosted model is reportedly the first time a “major” LLM has operated separated from the internet theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152…

a lot of folks seem to hate Apple’s new iPad Pro ad. I’m curious if you like it or hate it, and why?

ASUS is going to announce the next ROG Ally tomorrow 👀 theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152…

Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports that Tango Gameworks was pitching a sequel to Hi-Fi Rush before the studio closure. Xbox Game Studio chief Matt Booty held a townhall with employees earlier today, and we'll have some additional details on that shortly bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Xbox app on Windows is getting even more handheld-friendly. The compact mode will soon have controller improvements to navigation and an improved game launcher. Details below 👇 theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152…

Inside Microsoft’s Xbox turmoil. Here's what's going on inside Xbox right now, as employees brace for more cutbacks and uncertainty. Details below 👇 theverge.com/2024/5/8/24151…

Christ, it’s a PS2, not a horse-drawn carriage.

Microsoft says it's 'turning everyone into a prompt engineer' with new Copilot AI features. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is getting auto-complete, rewrite, and more to improve AI prompts soon. Full details below 👇 theverge.com/2024/5/8/24151…

HMD is bringing back the Nokia 3210. The modern twist on a 90’s classic includes new colors and 4G support theverge.com/2024/5/8/24151…

Microsoft has now adjusted the language on today’s Xbox controller announcement

Sweden should have just used the whole of Salva Mea by Faithless. Could easily win the whole thing with that legendary track #Eurovision

Windows95man is the Finnish entry for Eurovision 2024 🙃

I bloody love Eurovision 😅

the new Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro finally has a function row of keys. Now give the iPad Pro a better OS and it might be worth buying

Microsoft asks Xbox gamers to 'Feel the Burn Today' with yet another special edition Xbox controller on the same day it shuts Xbox studios 😬 really unfortunate timing for this news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/05/…

another awful day for Xbox employees and the game industry. Hi-Fi Rush 'was a break out hit' for Microsoft last year in 'all key measurements and expectations,' but the studio behind it got closed today alongside others. I feel for everyone affected ☹️

all the details on Apple's new M4 chip:

• CPU has 4 perf and 6 efficiency cores
• 10-core GPU with dynamic caching, mesh shading, and ray tracing
• up to 50% faster CPU performance than M2
• 38 TOPS of NPU perf

full details here: theverge.com/2024/5/7/24148…