Napster’s announcement that it is among the first commercial deployers of Microsoft Azure AI Foundry’s Realtime API marks a notable moment in the maturation of production-grade, low-latency voice and video AI agents for commerce and customer experience. The collaboration—announced September 25...
Software engineer Jeff Schomay’s weekend experiment—feeding an old-school, ASCII-based roguelike called Thunder Lizard into modern generative models and streaming back full-motion, photoreal-style frames—reads like a proof‑of‑concept for what many game developers quietly hope AI can do: turn...
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