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Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl is up.
He’s speaking with Vox’s Peter Kafka.
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Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela is onstage now.
He’s talking about the rapid advancement of AI and history of visual storytelling.
The company has shown off some impressive text-to-video tech.
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Is Roblox moving away from the term “metaverse?”
“I wouldn’t say it’s a distancing. We have evolved the terminology we’ve used,” Baszucki says.
He prefers the term “human co-experience” or “communication and connection platform.”
I have to wonder if a certain brand’s renaming has anything to do with it.
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Roblox’s recent job cuts are “absolutely not” a sign of a business downturn.
Baszucki said Roblox was growing headcount by 50 percent back in Q1 and needed a lot of recruiters. That hiring is just slowing down, he told The Verge’s Alex Heath.
“We’ve done this amazing job of growing steadily over the last two years,” Baszucki said.
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Roblox CEO David Baszucki is on now.
He’s speaking with The Verge deputy editor Alex Heath, who writes the Command Line newsletter.
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‘Liar in a Crowded Theater’ author Jeff Kosseff is speaking now.
We ran an excerpt from his book earlier today. It’s a fascinating section about how the First Amendment protected someone who lied about military service.
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AMD is open to regulations on what AI chips can do.
CEO Lisa Su says you can’t limit the chips alone, but...
I can make the combination of the chip and the model have some safeguards in place, and we’re absolutely willing to be at that table to make that happen.
She was responding to a question from Verge EIC Nilay Patel about whether she’d accept government restrictions on AI chips, such as stopping them from being used to develop chemical weapons.
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“AI is like 10x, 100x more” impactful than phones, the internet, and PCs, says AMD CEO Lisa Su.
But she says she’s looking at AI on a 10-plus year cycle — not just over the next four quarters. And there’s still a lot of room to improve our current models with higher performing chips.
“Generative AI, you know, is kind of the killer app for high performance computing,” she says.
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AMD CEO Lisa Su is up next.
She’s being interviewed by The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel.
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Rivian will offer subscription features in its vehicles.
Scaringe said he doesn’t like the BMW model of charging for heated seats — a feature that’s just flipped on or off.
But for something where there’s “ongoing R&D efforts,” he thinks it makes sense and consumers are willing to pay. “We’re certainly planning that in future products,” he said.
For Rivian, that probably looks like some sort of autonomy features.