Tue. 02/13 – Why Microsoft’s Xbox Strategy Shift Is A Big Deal

Threads gets “today’s topics.” iMessage and Bing dodge EU DMA regulation. Why Temu bought a bunch of SuperBowl ads. Nvidia’s Chat with RTX lets you run your own ChatGPT right on your Windows machine. And why Microsoft’s forthcoming Xbox strategy shift is potentially such a big deal.

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Links:

• In battle with X, Threads gets trending topics where politics will be allowed (TechCrunch)
• Apple iMessage, Microsoft Bing Dodge EU’s Big Tech Crackdown (Bloomberg)
• Temu Spent Millions on Six Super Bowl Ads as It Tries to Win Back US Shoppers (Bloomberg)
• The unsettling scourge of obituary spam (The Verge)
• Chat With RTX brings custom local chatbots to Nvidia AI PCs (VentureBeat)
• NVIDIA's New AI Chatbot Relies On Local Files, Not the Cloud (HowToGeek)
• Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC (The Verge)
• Microsoft prepares to take Xbox everywhere (The Verge)