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Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory

Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, a source tells The Verge. Staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, but they are hoping the studio will find a buyer. The closure comes as "several" Xbox studios at Microsoft, including Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in "active negotiations" about spinning off, Bloomberg reports. The closure and negotiations follow Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and chief content officer Matt Booty warning last week of a "re

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AWS News Blog

AWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization capability to help content owners charge AI bots for content access

AWS WAF launches AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that enables content providers and publishers price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs. AWS WAF now lets you set a price for that access, accept payment through third-party providers, and grant scoped access directly at the edge.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Introducing Gemma 4 models on Amazon Bedrock

Today, we are announcing the availability of the Gemma 4 family on Amazon Bedrock. Built by Google DeepMind and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4 is a family of open-weight models designed with a focus on intelligence-per-parameter across a broad range of deployment scenarios. The family includes three instruction-tuned variants: Gemma 4 31B, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, and Gemma 4 E2B. These cover dense and mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures, where only a fraction of the model’s parameter

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