Month: December 2024

As it continues to expand its footprint in Germany’s recently regulated market, British online and mobile casino software provider iSoftBet has partnered with Jokerstar Casino, the new digital interest of established land-based operator Kling Automaten GmbH.

Under the comprehensive content agreement, jokerstar.de customers will have an enhanced games lobby to choose from, with top titles from the provider such as the mining-themed Gold Digger, Eye of the Amulet, and Aztec Gold Extra Gold Megaways, the hit version of the South American themed original released in October 2019.

Furthermore, the German operator is also to gain access to a substantial selection of content by way of iSoftBet’s game aggregation platform (GAP), which features 8,000-plus diverse titles …

A gambling expansion bill has finally made headway in Connecticut. After passing with the Senate late Tuesday evening, the measure now heads to the governor’s desk. Sports betting and online gambling are close to passing into law, after years of debate on the subject.

Senate Approval

Moving forward with a vote of 28-6, the measure had enough bipartisan support to push forward before the midnight hour. The legislation includes an agreement that Governor Ned Lamont was able to reach with the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes back in March. House members approved the same bill last week and now it only needs the governor’s signature to become law.

The legislation allows the compacts held between the tribes and the state to be amended. The operators of the …

Apple has reportedly slashed production volumes of the Vision Pro mixed reality headset by nearly half. So says analyst and leading Apple soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo.

Kuo reckons the original plan was for up to 800,000 units of the headset in 2024. This has now been cut to 400,000 to 450,000. He also notes that Apple has made the call to reduce production before the headset has even gone on sale in markets outside the US.

That suggests demand in the US has been much lower than expected. What’s more, Kuo says the poor performance of the Vision Pro could mean that a planned update to the headset in 2025 may be cancelled.

It’s tempting to conclude that once the initial flurry of sales to YouTubers and influencers died down, the underlying demand from real-world users was alwa…

The average PC user will probably think ‘ChatGPT’ whenever generative AI is mentioned, as it’s arguably the world’s most well-known and widely used LLM system. An investigative report into the financial status of its creator, OpenAI, suggests that despite its popularity, the immense costs of training the AI models and running the servers that host them are so high that the company is on track to make an operational loss of $5 billion.

That’s according to The Information (via Window’s Central), which based its projection on numbers garnered from unreleased internal financial statements and various industry figures. Founded in 2015, OpenAI has grown in size and scope due to multiple investments, with Microsoft pouring billions of dollars into the AI firm over the years.

The …