TNB Tech Minute: Microsoft Plans Major Shake-Up of Videogame Strategy
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Z-Scaler extended its Zero Trust architecture with powerful AI engines trained by 500 trillion daily signals |
| 0:07.8 | to prevent ransomware and AI attacks that target business. |
| 0:11.7 | Z-scaler Zero Trust plus AI. Learn more at Z-scaler |
| 0:16.0 | dot com slash Zero Trust AI. Here's your Tn B Tech Minute for Friday, May 17th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:27.0 | We exclusively report Microsoft is planning a major shakeup of its video game sales strategy. |
| 0:34.8 | The Tech Giant will release the coming installment of Call of Duty to its subscription service |
| 0:40.3 | instead of only selling at Al-A, the long-time lucrative approach. |
| 0:45.0 | The plans mark the biggest change to Microsoft's gaming division since it closed the |
| 0:49.8 | 75 billion dollar takeover of Activision Blizzard last year. |
| 0:54.0 | Consumers will still have the option to purchase the game outright for playing on consoles |
| 0:58.5 | or computers. |
| 0:59.8 | A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment. |
| 1:03.4 | More exclusive W.S.J. reporting, CoreWeave, an artificial intelligence cloud computing startup |
| 1:09.4 | backed by NVIDIA has raised $75 billion dollars. Investors include Blackstone, Black Rock, and |
| 1:17.0 | Carlisle Group in what is one of the largest ever private debt financing. |
| 1:21.6 | Two weeks ago during an equity funding round, the company |
| 1:25.1 | was valued at $19 billion. Cora weave sits near the center of the AI boom. It leases |
| 1:31.6 | out access to AI chips from |
| 1:34.0 | NVIDIA that are essential to creating AI systems such as |
| 1:37.2 | Open AI's chat gp. |
| 1:39.4 | And Elon Musk says his social media platform, |
| 1:42.4 | formerly known as Twitter, has completed its rate |
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