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Xbox CEO Joins Federal Reserve’s Productivity And Jobs Task Force Amid Tumultuous Time

Xbox CEO Joins Federal Reserve’s Productivity And Jobs Task Force Amid Tumultuous Time https://ift.tt/SzyVoWR The United States central bank, the Federal Reserve, has announced new task forces to "advance the conduct of monetary policy," and its board has chosen Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to help guide one task force pertaining to AI, as part of a wider effort to help create jobs and keep prices stable. The new Productivity and Jobs task force will look into the "economic impact of new general-purpose technologies," including AI, to help the Fed make better policy decisions. Sharma is joined on this task force by billionaire businessman and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, along with Stanford University economics professor Charles I. Jones--he is currently on leave from the university to become a scholar-in-residence at the AI company Anthropic. Fed chairman Kevin Warsh said the new task forces are part of the group's "commitment to price stability a...
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Warcraft Rumble Will Receive "No New Content" Amidst Layoffs At Blizzard

Warcraft Rumble Will Receive "No New Content" Amidst Layoffs At Blizzard https://ift.tt/eDVnZjq

Warcraft Rumble is shifting into life-support mode following the latest round of layoffs at Microsoft, which appears to be targeting about 4% of the company's workforce, or around 9000 employees.

In a post on Blizzard's blog, the studio announced that the team behind Warcraft Rumble would "continue supporting Rumble with updates focused on regular, systemic in-game events and bug fixes, but no new content. " An email sent to staff by Blizzard president Johanna Faires about the layoffs, which was received and reported on by Aftermath, reads, "As part of these changes, we made the difficult decision to shift to a scaled down, live ops-only phase of development for Warcraft Rumble, similar to our current approach with games like StarCraft II and Heroes of the Storm.”

Warcraft Rumble, a mobile tower defense game based on Blizzard's popular Warcraft series, was released back in 2023 after nine years in development.According to this latest announcement though, Rumble "struggled to find its footing," and despite feedback from the community and changes implemented by the team, the efforts weren't enough to set the game on "a path to sustainability."

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