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Mistral AI wants to turn European AI sovereignty from a talking point into a product — one with a service-level agreement attached.

The French artificial intelligence company announced Tuesday a three-part expansion of its infrastructure business: regional inference endpoints that let customers choose whether their AI workloads run in Europe or the United States, a new "Priority Tier" backed by an uptime guarantee for mission-critical deployments, and a coalition of European enterprises making multi-year compute commitments that Mistral says will underwrite 200 megawatts of infrastructure across Europe by the end of 2027 — and a full gigawatt by the end of 2030.

In a move that may raise eyebrows among sovereignty purists, the company also said it will begin hosting third-party open models on its platform, starting with GLM-5.2 from Z.ai, the Chinese AI lab formerly known as Zhipu.

Taken together, the announcements mark a decisive shift in how Mistral positions itself. The company that built its reputation training open-weight language models is now selling something closer to critical infrastructure: assured capacity, regional control, and contractual reliability for enterprises and governments that want frontier AI without surrendering control over where it runs.

"When we spoke in June, the story was around how Mistral was building a full-stack AI offering," Timothée Lacroix, Mistral's co-founder and chief technology officer, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the announcement. "Today, the announcement is about strengthening one part of this infrastructure, which is the inference part."

That one part, it turns out, comes with a price tag measured in the tens of billions of dollars.

Inside Mistral's plan to build 1 gigawatt of European AI compute by 2030The headline numbers deserve scrutiny, because they imply staggering capital requirements. Mistral currently operates less than 200 megawatts of capacity, according to the company. Details shared with VentureBeat show the near-term buildout resting on three sites: a 44-megawatt facility near Paris that became operational in the second quarter of this year, a 23-megawatt facility in Sweden built in partnership with EcoDataCenter using renewable energy and advanced cooling, and a 10-megawatt site in Les Ulis, France, that came online in the third quarter.

Getting from there to one gigawatt by 2030 is a different order of magnitude. Independent estimates suggest just how different: research firm Epoch AI calculates that a typical one-gigawatt AI data center requires roughly $38 billion in upfront capital expenditure, with servers and GPUs — not buildings or land — consuming the majority of the cost. Goldman Sachs Research pegs next-generation AI facilities at $15 million to $20 million per megawatt before accounting for the chips inside them.

Lacroix did not dispute the scale of the challenge. The investment required for a gigawatt of capacity "is a large investment that requires also a lot of scaling and revenue behind it," he said.

The urgency, in his telling, comes from a supply crunch that is about to get worse. "More and more, and especially around 2027 and 2028, we see that the demand for AI compute is exceeding what the market has to offer, especially in Europe," Lacroix said. McKinsey has estimated that meeting global AI demand could require $5.2 trillion in data-center capital expenditure by 2030 — and Europe, by most analyses, is starting from behind.

A company valued at a fraction of its American rivals cannot close that gap with venture capital alone. Which explains the most consequential — and most unusual — piece of Tuesday's announcement.

European Compute Units turn AI sovereignty into a five-year contractMistral is assembling what it calls an anchor group of enterprises whose long-term commitments will collectively finance infrastructure none of them could justify alone. Those commitments convert into "European Compute Units," or ECUs — a claim on Mistral-built capacity over multiple years that participants can spend on inference, training, model adaptation, or other AI workloads as their needs evolve.

If that structure sounds more like a power-purchase agreement than a cloud contract, that appears to be the point. Data-center financing increasingly resembles large infrastructure projects — gigawatts, substations, energy agreements — rather than traditional technology spending, and lenders want demand locked in before capital gets deployed. Mistral raised €830 million ($962 million) in debt earlier this year to fund its data center near Paris, TechCrunch reported in March, and pre-committed enterprise demand is exactly what makes that kind of financing repeatable at ten times the scale.

Lacroix was unusually direct about the mechanics. "The entire point of compute units is to have commitment," he said. "The goal is to have customers commit for around five years, or at least a long time." Asked what happens if a customer wants out early, he didn't soften the answer: "There is no getting out."

What makes a five-year, no-exit commitment palatable, he argued, is flexibility in how the capacity gets consumed. "Typically this can be spent on raw inference that you then feed through any other AI stack. It can be spent on raw compute as managed Kubernetes, and it can be spent at the very top with our full AI offering," he said. "My hope is that they will use it with our full-stack services and will love it."

The anchor group already includes some of Europe's industrial heavyweights. Amadeus CEO Luis Maroto said in a statement that "capacity, deployment control, and operating continuity become increasingly important for all enterprises." ASML chief Christophe Fouquet — whose company led Mistral's $13.4 billion (€11.7 billion) Series C last year — called building European AI capacity one of the few industrial endeavors that "will matter more to Europe's next generation," while Capgemini's Aiman Ezzat framed it as "a question of who shapes the future of European industry." CMA CGM chairman Rodolphe Saadé said the shipping group's Mistral deployment is "already under way among thousands of employees."

Commitments of that duration only make sense, of course, if the sovereignty being purchased is real. On that question, Mistral's announcement contains an asterisk worth reading closely.

The fine print on sovereign AI: what data can still leave EuropeThe centerpiece product is Mistral Regional Endpoints, now generally available, which let customers pin inference and its associated processing to Europe or the U.S. Alongside it, the new Priority Tier — in public preview — offers committed service levels, custom rate limits, and an uptime SLA for mission-critical workloads.

Mistral claims it is the only European AI lab offering both a choice of processing region and an SLA-backed service tier, and Lacroix said a third option is coming: an endpoint "that stays on Mistral-controlled infrastructure, so on Mistral compute" — for customers who want their inference not just in Europe, but off hyperscaler hardware entirely.

Then comes the fine print. Mistral's own materials note that in-region inference remains subject to "limited, safeguarded transfers" to sub-processors that may sit outside the chosen region. Pressed on what actually leaves Europe, Lacroix pointed to the connective tissue of modern AI applications: tool calls.

"There are some tool services, like some tool calls, that might be hosted in places where we don't fully control this," he said, citing web search as an example. "A few of our web-search providers might not all be in Europe, and in that case, we need to potentially gate that capability."

His answer to the compliance question — would this satisfy a European bank or a defense ministry? — was that gating is the feature, not the bug. Capabilities that cannot be sourced in-region can be switched off entirely, restricted to certain users or workspaces, or, given sufficient demand, rebuilt with European providers. "Any capabilities that we don't find a provider for in Europe — if it needs to be done in Europe, we'll find some way to implement it or find ways to address it," Lacroix said.

For enterprise buyers, that is a more honest framing than most sovereignty marketing offers: full regional control is available, but the moment an AI agent reaches out to the open web, sovereignty becomes a configuration decision rather than a default. The same pragmatism runs through the announcement's most surprising line item.

Why Europe's open source AI champion is hosting China's GLM-5.2A French national champion — one that has partnered with the French army and positioned itself as Europe's answer to American AI dependence — hosting a Chinese lab's model invites an obvious question. Lacroix's answer was disarmingly matter-of-fact.

"It's a great model. Everyone loves it. It's open weight, so there was no good reason for us not to do it, really," he said, noting that Mistral's own stack is already built on open-source software like Kubernetes.

On security vetting, he argued that open weights fundamentally change the risk calculus. "The risks in taking a new model, at the layer of the weights, are — at least in my opinion — rather limited," Lacroix said. "We checked basically all of the safety and compliance evals that we have. We'll control that model, its outputs, and what it does the same way we do any of our models. We have the same inputs and outputs and monitoring capabilities over all of it."

The strategic logic is worth unpacking. By hosting third-party open models under European regional controls and the same SLAs as its own, Mistral is repositioning itself from model vendor to sovereign distribution layer — the trusted intermediary through which any open model, regardless of origin, can be consumed by a regulated European enterprise that could never call a Chinese API directly. It is the "model garden" playbook the hyperscalers run with Bedrock and Vertex, executed on European soil with European guarantees.

Customers appear to be reading it that way. "Mistral allows us to run open models under strict regional controls and service commitments, making it easy for us to maintain data residency and compliance requirements," Matan Griberg, CEO of AI software-engineering company Factory, said in a statement.

Lacroix stressed the move is not a retreat from frontier training: the model Mistral had in training as of June "is still training, and we're still very excited about it," he said. But openness to rivals' models signals where the company now believes its moat lies — not in any single model, but in the infrastructure underneath all of them. Which makes its relationship with the world's most powerful infrastructure company all the more interesting.

How the multibillion-dollar Microsoft deal funds Mistral's independenceHovering over every sovereignty claim is Mistral's deepening relationship with Microsoft. In July, the two companies announced a multibillion-dollar expansion of their partnership under which Microsoft will rent capacity from Mistral's European data centers to serve its own cloud and AI demand, while adding Mistral Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 to Microsoft Foundry, bringing Medium 3.5 to Copilot Studio, and enabling Mistral models on Azure Local for disconnected, customer-controlled environments. Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told The Wall Street Journal at the time that two-thirds of Mistral's customers already work with Microsoft.

How does a company selling independence from U.S. hyperscalers square taking one on as its largest tenant? Lacroix described Microsoft not as a patron but as an anchor customer that de-risks the buildout.

"It allows us to scale different parts of the business differently by building infrastructure with Microsoft as a customer," he said. "We can scale that team, we can scale our infrastructure, and make sure that we can then, on the side of it, also build for ourselves and for our customers." He compared the arrangement to the neocloud playbook — companies that built businesses supplying capacity to the hyperscalers themselves. "As that part of our business resembles that of neoclouds, we're following the same thing."

It is a genuinely clever inversion: rather than renting American infrastructure, Mistral is renting infrastructure to one of America's largest companies, using Microsoft's demand to finance capacity that also serves European sovereignty customers. But the independence has limits no contract can engineer away — the GPUs filling Mistral's European data centers come overwhelmingly from Nvidia and other American chipmakers, as SiliconANGLE noted in its coverage of the July deal.

Asked directly why a customer should choose Mistral over an EU region on AWS or Azure, Lacroix gave two answers. "The simplest possible answer is capacity. There is more demand than supply right now, and so it adds another option," he said. The second cuts closer to the pitch: "We are a European provider, and on the region that would be Mistral compute, we are fully independent. That's a truly differentiated offering than all of the hyperscalers or pure inference companies can provide."

The economics of open models: why agentic AI is pushing inference to the cloudThere has always been a tension at the heart of Mistral's business: its best-known models are free to download, and open models have historically been difficult to monetize through APIs. Asked how free weights fund a gigawatt buildout, Lacroix offered the clearest articulation yet of the company's thesis — that the economics of self-hosting are collapsing under the weight of the models themselves.

"When the models were smaller, and we were before the explosion of agentic AI, it was doable for enterprises to host their own — up to, let's say, 100-billion-parameter dense models — on their premises," he said. "More and more, with models going into the trillion or more parameters, with the current hardware, and with the increasing amount of tokens that need to be processed, it becomes harder."

His conclusion was blunt: "I don't see how, with the current trend of model size and growth of agentic tokens, we keep the full inference on-prem. To me, that is why we think we're going to monetize our cloud inference." Inference, he noted, is particularly well suited to the cloud because it "does not need to hold any data" and can be encrypted in transit.

In other words: open weights get Mistral into the enterprise, and the physics of trillion-parameter agentic workloads brings the inference — and the revenue — back to Mistral's data centers. The thesis will get an expensive test. Mistral has raised roughly $4 billion to date, according to PitchBook data — a fraction of the war chests assembled by OpenAI and Anthropic — and Bloomberg reported in June that the company is in talks to raise about €3 billion at a roughly €20 billion valuation, nearly double its Series C mark. The revenue behind the buildout will have to come from exactly the enterprises Tuesday's announcement is courting.

And Europe, in Mistral's telling, is only the first market for what it is selling. Asked whether the framework could be replicated in the Middle East, Asia, or anywhere else anxious about AI dependence, Lacroix didn't hedge: "It's completely right. We're starting this in Europe because it's also an easier part of the world for us to scale into, especially in the infrastructure. But we definitely want to extend this, depending on customer demand." Every layer of the stack, he said, "can be controlled, changed, replaced depending on where we operate and what the requirements are — that's pretty much where we excel."

That is the wager underneath the SLAs, the compute units, and the Chinese model flying a European flag: in a world where the U.S. and China dominate frontier AI, the durable business is selling everyone else control. To fund it, Mistral is asking Europe's largest enterprises to sign five-year contracts with no exit — while making a bigger, longer commitment of its own. A gigawatt, after all, is a promise measured in decades. For Mistral, too, there is no getting out.

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LTX, the open world model company spun out of Lightricks, today released LTX-2.5, the newest version of its open-weights video and "world" model and it arrives natively integrated into ComfyUI, the node-based workflow tool that has become the de facto prototyping environment for open generative media, through a strategic day-one launch partnership between the two companies.

The model is available now as open weights on Hugging Face, inside ComfyUI, and through the LTX API for teams that want managed generation. It is free to use for organizations under $10 million in annual recurring revenue; larger companies negotiate a license. LTX says its models have passed 33 million downloads, making the LTX family the most-used "open world" model line on the market.

Ahead of the launch, VentureBeat spoke exclusively with LTX co-founder and CEO Zeev Farbman and ComfyUI co-founder and CEO Yoland Yan about the release, the partnership, and why both companies are betting that open weights — not closed APIs — will win the video and world model market.

"We're trying to maintain the same efficiency and the inference speed that we're known for, but constantly pushing the quality up," Farbman said. "We are introducing many cool things in this release: multi-shot support, a diffusion decoder for better quality, new conditioning modes, better support for autoregressive models that are critical for real-time use cases and robotics."

What's new in LTX-2.5According to the company's announcement, LTX-2.5 rebuilds nearly every stage of the generation pipeline rather than bolting new capabilities onto an older core. The headline changes:

• A new diffusion video decoder that reduces visual artifacts in high-motion footage and reconstructs fine detail like text and faces, while preserving LTX's high compression ratio.
• Native multishot generation that renders a full sequence as a single output, holding character, scene, and voice consistent across cuts rather than stitching individually generated shots together.
• A custom Gemma 4 language backbone and dedicated prompt enhancer for more accurate handling of complex, multi-subject prompts.
• A pretrained checkpoint tuned for physical AI and robotics giving teams a base to fine-tune on domain data that looks nothing like cinematic video.
• A substantially improved distilled model that delivers near-full-model quality at lower cost and faster inference, and, through an optimization effort with NVIDIA, runs locally on NVIDIA RTX GPUs with reduced memory requirements.

The company claims roughly one-eighth the cost and one-seventh the render time of comparable models, with output that runs on hardware ranging from data center GPUs down to a Mac.

How fast and how good LTX says it isThe most eye-catching number in LTX's launch materials is speed: the company says LTX-2.5 generates a 10-second, 720p image-to-video clip in 6.8 seconds faster than real time.

The caveat is the hardware behind it. That figure was measured self-hosted on two of NVIDIA's top-end GB200 chips at steady state, a configuration far beyond what most teams have racked; the same job through LTX's own managed API took 23.7 seconds, albeit rendered at the higher 1080p resolution (the API has no 720p tier).

By the company's end-to-end measurements of competing APIs on the same task, Google's Gemini Omni Flash came in at 52 seconds, xAI's Grok 1.5 at 63 seconds, Google's Veo 3.1 at 70 seconds (for an 8-second clip), MiniMax H3 at 180 seconds, ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 at 317 seconds, and Kuaishou's Kling 3.0 Pro at 398 seconds.

On quality, LTX shared results from blind, side-by-side human preference tests, in which evaluators voted on videos generated from the same prompt without knowing which model produced which.

LTX-2.5 recorded a 67% win rate, narrowly ahead of Seedance 2.5 at 65%, with Gemini Omni Flash at 55%, MiniMax H3 at 50%, Seedance 2.0 at 44%, Wan 2.6 at 42%, and FLUX 3 at 28%.

All of these figures are vendor-reported measured or commissioned by LTX itself, not independently verified and the company labels the preference results preliminary, noting it expects them "to evolve as evaluation expands." They are directional claims a buyer should test against their own workloads rather than settled rankings.

The launch materials also lean on deployment terms rather than raw performance: LTX-2.5 runs on any GPU with a minimum of 16GB of VRAM, deploys on-premises, at the edge, or via API, carries no mandatory branding on output, and can be fine-tuned on a customer's own data and IP flexibility the company contrasts with closed API-only rivals and with open-licensed competitors whose weights are unavailable in the U.S. and Europe or whose licenses restrict fine-tuning.

Betting against the API business modelFor Farbman, the release is another installment in a strategy that began as a reaction to the industry's consolidation around closed models.

"We started with our own models out of necessity, because around the time that Sora came out, we realized that all the big guys are trying to close their models, and working through APIs just doesn't work for many businesses, including the kind of stuff that we wanted to build," he said.

The technical argument, he explained, is that video and world models have a fundamentally wider "surface area" of use cases than language models.

"With LLMs, the surface area of the API is pretty narrow, we're typically asking some kind of question, passing words and getting words back," Farbman said. "With video models, world models, there are so many different use cases that require people to get access to the weights and create flows that really work for them."

He was blunt that the openness is not charity. "We're definitely not doing this as philanthropy," he said. "Our answer is open weights with licenses that allow individuals and companies below a certain amount of revenue to use the model for free, and once they're successful, to come up with some kind of licensing agreement with us."

"We're trying to build a model that builders can confidently build upon," he added. "We're coming and saying: guys, open weights is not some kind of one-time philanthropic fluke for us. It's the strategy. We believe this is the right way to serve these models, and we're going to keep doing that."

From Facetune to world models and the node graph that became a standardLTX grew out of Lightricks, the Jerusalem-headquartered company best known for consumer creative apps including Facetune and Videoleap. Bootstrapped and profitable, Lightricks pivoted to foundation models in 2022, launched its LTX Studio filmmaking platform in early 2024, and released its first open-weights LTX Video model (LTXV) in November 2024, following it with a 13-billion-parameter version in May 2025. Farbman co-founded the company alongside CTO Yaron Inger and CMO Nir Pochter, and the LTX brand now fronts its world model business, with offices in New York, London, and Chicago.

ComfyUI began in January 2023 as an open-source side project by a pseudonymous developer known as "comfyanonymous," who built a node-based graphical interface for Stable Diffusion that let users chain models and processing steps into repeatable visual workflows. It has since become one of the fastest-growing open-source projects in generative media the standard environment where new image and video models are tested, combined, and pushed into production and is now backed by a company, Comfy Org, which raised $17 million to keep developing the tool. Yan, a co-founder, serves as its CEO.

Why ComfyUI is the front door for enterprise adoptionFor readers wondering why a model company and a tooling company are launching arm-in-arm, Farbman's answer was unusually candid: ComfyUI is where LTX's paying customers come from.

"A whole lot of our customers are starting their journey with Comfy," he said. "It's already this prototyping system that's extremely popular in the industry, and a lot of the potential customers are coming to us after they already figured out the flow inside Comfy. It's already working, so for us it's a no-brainer that we have to provide zero-day support for the Comfy integration, because it's basically our customer acquisition channel."

Yan described ComfyUI's role as the connective layer of the open ecosystem. "Comfy at the core is sitting as a layer on top, giving people accessibility to the open-weight models that people can inference on their local machine, or tap into closed models as well through our partner node system," he said. "In the end, [they] combine everything together into a workflow that empowers various things, from the creative side all the way to data pipeline and robotics type of scenarios."

That flywheel, Yan argued, is what sustains open models commercially: "We help promote and push these models into the world... people do all sorts of workflow and model innovation on top of it, and that further propagates these models into studios or robotics labs. Those companies would end up acquiring licenses and then contribute a part of the value gained back to LTX and the rest of the ecosystem."

What enterprises should knowBoth executives pushed back on the assumption that a video model is only for generating videos. Farbman rattled off a list of enterprise deployments that have little to do with cinematic clips.

"We have hardware customers that are trying to figure out how to do computational photography with diffusion models, for example, taking a stream of raw pixels that are coming from the sensors, which is typically very noisy, and trying to figure out how to reduce noise there," he said. "Or think about the production studios that are trying to figure out how to do VFX, how to do water simulation, how to turn day into night. Or think about animation studios: they're trying to figure out how to streamline their pipeline, where animators are creating keyframes and then the system uses them as interpolation."

For enterprises weighing where to start, the recommended path is the one their own employees have probably already taken. "A lot of enterprises have already adopted Comfy, and I think many others will follow," Farbman said. "It gives this right level of structure, where you can tweak things a lot, but it still abstracts a lot of things away... Enterprises are typically reaching out after people internally have already played with the model, played with Comfy."

Yan described a consistent two-track pattern among studios and companies already running LTX and other open models in production. "They have their research, or R&D, creative pipeline, anything goes," he said. "Once in a while, some of these pipelines get good enough that they graduate into some kind of production environment. And somewhere along the line, the enterprise conversation gets started. On our end, it's more around tooling, and on the LTX side, it's more around the licensing."

Because the weights are open, that entire experimentation phase can happen on a company's own hardware, with no per-generation billing and no data or IP leaving its systems, a meaningful distinction for enterprises with sensitive footage, proprietary characters, or regulated data. The commercial trigger only arrives with scale: organizations above $10 million in ARR need a license.

Yan framed the stakes for slower-moving companies in starker terms. "This is a trend that is just fundamentally going to disrupt the entire creative industry," he said. "Studios are heavily trying to figure out what is the roadmap and how do we get ahead, sometimes not even get ahead, just how do we avoid falling behind the AI adoption wave."

Developers, real-time apps, and the edgeFor software developers, the release leans into a growing real-time story. Alongside ComfyUI, LTX named two other launch partners: Asteria, the AI film studio producing original film and video on LTX, and Reactor, a developer platform that runs LTX-2.5 on low-latency inference infrastructure to power interactive avatars, live worlds, and real-time robotics workloads, so developers can build production-grade real-time experiences without standing up that infrastructure themselves.

Yan pointed to a viral example of what open weights plus low latency makes possible: Flipbook, an interactive experience that spread on Reddit in which an entire clickable world is generated on the fly. "Everything people see on that interface is generated using an LTX model, live-streamed," he said. "It's an environment, or a world, where anywhere you click, it just generates a brand-new interaction... That type of experience and experimentation wouldn't exist without an open-weight model, without LTX's type of performance."

Farbman said efficiency at the edge is a deliberate design target, not a side effect. "For us, it's very important to create an extremely efficient model that people can run on edge devices, both on consumer hardware and close to the edge with physical AI," he said, while acknowledging the relentless pace of the field: "These days, it's almost hard to take a vacation. Things are progressing so quickly that while you're releasing one model, you're already deeply into training another one, and new papers are coming on a daily basis."

Filmmakers: virtual production now, easier slopes laterFor professional filmmakers and studios, Yan sees real-time world models changing the shape of production itself, collapsing the gap between shooting and post. "These days you see real-time models, or world models, getting adopted in studios as part of what's called virtual production, meaning you can shoot and then immediately get close to what the post-production result looks like," he said. "You give a much better experience to the producer or director to say, 'okay, this is what I want,' or 'this is not what I want let me actually reiterate.' Whereas before, the entire Hollywood pipeline is, in my opinion, a giant mess where it has to constantly go between multiple departments."

He also cautioned against reading head-to-head model comparisons too literally, given how differently models specialize across animation, photorealism, gaming, 3D, and robotics. "Various models have simply different characteristics," he said. "It's like comparing Michael Phelps with, I don't know, Michael Jordan. It's not really a comparison of who's a better athlete, there are just different specialties here."

As for amateur and indie creators intimidated by ComfyUI's famously steep learning curve, Yan was direct that the tool will meet them partway, but only partway.

"It's kind of like skiing," he said. "There are easy slopes that you can go down using Comfy, and hopefully we can create more and more of these easy slopes overall. But we'll never sacrifice the existence of the double-black-diamond type of lanes, because the real technical, professional creatives actually need and couldn't live without that type of core power. That's actually our core differentiator compared to a mobile-app type of creative tool."

LTX-2.5 is available today on Hugging Face, natively in ComfyUI, and through the LTX API.

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Interested buyers don't generate revenue. Live customers do. That's the lesson I keep drawing from watching hundreds of ISV partnerships navigate the agent economy over the last 18 months.

The companies pulling ahead aren't winning on features. They're winning because customers can move from discovery to live deployment in hours, while competitors are still negotiating contracts, clearing tax reviews, and waiting on provisioning.

That gap between a buyer who says “yes” and a customer who is actually using the product is where too many deals lose momentum. Urgency fades. Champions move on. Competitors get another opening.

Gutenburg saw that gap firsthand. Healthcare organizations valued its product, but sales cycles stretched 30 to 45 days. With custom pricing via AgentExchange, the company closed an urgent healthcare deal in just 48 hours.

Not 48 days. 48 hours.

The final contract phase alone dropped from 4 hours to 4 minutes. A 60x improvement.

I see this pattern across the ISV ecosystem. Building agents is getting faster. Getting buyers live before urgency fades is becoming the constraint. In a market moving this quickly, that can matter as much as the agent itself.

It’s like building a bullet train and selling tickets by fax. The product is built for speed. The transaction is not.

Distribution beats product in crowded marketsNearly every software company is pouring resources into agent development. Far fewer are rethinking the path from discovery to deployment. Manual contracts, custom invoicing, tax reviews, provisioning delays, these are the handoffs that turn a 48-hour deal into a 45-day cycle.

That friction is now a competitive disadvantage, because the buying process is changing faster than most back offices are. Gartner predicts that by 2028, 90% of B2B purchases will be guided by AI agents.

That does not mean humans disappear from enterprise buying. It means the discovery and evaluation process changes. Buyers will increasingly use AI to identify, compare, and narrow solutions.

If your agent is not discoverable where that evaluation is happening, you may never make the shortlist.

A better agent can still lose to one that's easier to buy.

Domain expertise matters. Workflow depth matters. Proprietary data matters. Customer context matters.

But enterprise categories are getting crowded fast. In crowded markets, the best product does not always win. The product that is easiest to discover, buy, deploy, and scale often has the advantage.

As agent-guided buying takes hold, the first evaluation may happen before a demo is scheduled or a sales rep is in the room.

AI agents will increasingly scan marketplaces, compare solutions, and help narrow purchase decisions in the time it used to take to schedule a discovery meeting.

Companies that figure out marketplace distribution now will own their categories.

That is the problem AgentExchange was built to address. It’s a single destination for apps, agents, and integrations that extend and connect to Salesforce and Slack, helping customers get more from their platform investments.

But discovery is only the first step. The bigger question is what happens after the buyer says “yes”.

“Yes” doesn't mean liveEnterprise software teams spend enormous energy getting to "yes." But in many deals, that is where the operational work begins.

Between “yes” and “live,” the back office can generate a chain of handoffs: contracting, invoicing, tax calculation, licensing, provisioning, fulfillment, payment, and finance reconciliation. Every handoff delays activation for the customer and delays recognized revenue for you.

For AI agents, that back-office drag is becoming a front-office problem.

AgentExchange brings discovery, commerce, and activation together, helping partners manage custom pricing, billing, licensing, provisioning, and fulfillment through one connected experience.

"AgentExchange removes the traditional procurement friction that slows deals. Customers can now discover, purchase, and deploy PandaDoc directly through their existing Salesforce contract, turning what used to be a multi-week process into a same-day activation." Keith Rabkin, CEO at PandaDoc

What closing in 48 hours actually looks likeGutenburg’s 30-45 day cycles were eaten up by contract logistics. Sales moved faster than their back office.

Using custom pricing and automated transaction capabilities through AgentExchange, they streamlined contracting, tax calculation, provisioning, and other steps between buyer interest and activation.

When a healthcare organization needed a tool to help them create documents aligned to the Americans with Disabilities Act and accessibility requirements, Gutenburg closed in 48 hours from first contact.

The 48-hour close is the differentiator. It is what efficient growth actually looks like in practice. Revenue scales without scaling headcount. Pipeline coverage improves because you are discoverable everywhere. Net recurring revenue increases because customers expand through the same frictionless channel.

"AgentExchange condenses contracting and tax calculations into a 10-minute process with improved accuracy," said Zamial Jones, VP of Customer Success at Gutenburg. "For partners spending hours on these tasks for every deal, that's transformational."

The window is closing faster than you thinkThe app economy took a decade to mature.

The agent economy won't.

The ISV partners I've watched pull ahead aren't the ones with the most sophisticated agents. They're the ones who treated distribution as a product problem — resourced, measured, and iterated — before the category consolidated around them. The ones still treating go-to-market as a post-launch consideration are consistently 6 to 12 months behind.

You can spend the next two quarters perfecting your agent's reasoning capabilities. Or you can spend them making sure customers can actually buy it.

Salesforce is investing in the next generation of companies creating agents with $50 million through the AgentExchange Builders Initiative—capital, engineering support, co-marketing, and co-sell programs. Companies that move now will define what enterprise AI distribution looks like for the next decade. Learn morehere.

Lisa Eisenberg is SVP of ISV Partnerships at Salesforce.

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Enterprises running always-on AI agents keep hitting the same tradeoff. Send every task to a frontier model and the bill climbs fast. Build custom routing logic to send easy tasks to cheaper models and that becomes its own engineering project, one that has to be maintained every time a workflow changes.

Nvidia is proposing a fix that touches both ends of that problem at once. The company is out on Tuesday with Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter open mixture-of-experts model built for high-volume, specialized agent tasks, alongside NeMo Switchyard, an open-source library that routes each step of an agent workflow to whichever model fits it best.

The headline numbers: According to Nvidia, Lightning delivers up to 4x faster output than comparable models in its class, completing agentic tasks roughly 30% faster than Qwen3.6-35B at matching accuracy. Paired through Switchyard, Nvidia says the combination holds frontier-level task completion while cutting benchmark costs to roughly a third of running Opus 4.8 alone.

The timing puts Nvidia in the middle of the busiest open-weight stretch the industry has seen in months. Alibaba, Moonshot, Zhipu and DeepSeek have all shipped competitive open models out of China since the spring, several landing at or near frontier performance while undercutting US labs on size or price. Meta added to that pressure by releasing its own 30-billion-parameter open agentic model, Muse Glimmer. Open weights have gone from a differentiator to table stakes in a matter of months, and Nvidia's release lands squarely inside that shift rather than ahead of it.

The pairing is the point. A model alone doesn't solve the cost problem, and a router alone has nothing efficient to route to. Nvidia is betting that open source, applied at both the model layer and the routing layer, is what actually moves the cost needle on agentic AI, not a single cheaper model and not a smarter router bolted onto someone else's stack.

Switchyard's real rivals aren't other open models — they're Not Diamond, which already powers OpenRouter's Auto mode, and RouteLLM, the open-source framework from UC Berkeley and LMSYS. Neither ships its own model. Nvidia's bet is that owning both sides of the decision, under one open license, is what a router-only or model-only competitor can't match.

"That is the power of a system of models, matching the right model to each step of the workflow," Kari Briski, vice president of generative AI at Nvidia, said in a briefing.

How the router actually changes the workflowModel routing isn't a new category. OpenRouter, LiteLLM and a handful of standalone routing startups already let developers point traffic across multiple providers. Switchyard plugs into several of them rather than replacing them outright.

The core problem Switchyard solves is that the right model changes as an agent moves through a task. An agent's state shifts as tools return results, errors show up, or a step turns out to be routine rather than complex, and a fixed model choice can't adapt to any of that.

Briski described routing strategies that respond to that shifting state rather than a static task category.

"It has many types of routing strategies," Briski said. "You can have a random router, which is not that great, or you can have an agent state route or a classifier route. Depending on your routing strategy, it wants to choose the best model. In some cases you want to go with a model like Lightning for really efficient tasks, and the router will actually choose Lightning if it's set up in your pool of models."

Cost enters the routing decision directly, not as an afterthought. In response to a question from VentureBeat, Briski said Switchyard can evaluate model verbosity, meaning how many tokens a given model tends to produce for a task, and use that prediction to steer work toward the cheaper option before the call is made.

The part that keeps this from becoming its own integration project is where Switchyard sits. Nvidia split its partners into two groups: agent frameworks that call Switchyard directly, including Cognition, LangChain and Nous Research, and LLM gateways that have built Switchyard support into their own products, including Kong, LiteLLM and OpenRouter. Kong ships Switchyard natively inside Kong AI Gateway. Briski pointed to that same list of gateway partners when describing how the library fits into the existing routing ecosystem.

"We are an ecosystem lover, and we want to make sure that we are integrated," Briski said. "We've partnered with OpenRouter, LiteLLM and Kong, and they've already integrated our routing algorithm, so you can pick it up right where you're already using the best tools."

Nvidia shared results from nine companies testing Switchyard, several with specific figures attached. LangChain reported a 74% cost reduction across 145 multi-turn Deep Agents tasks by routing just 7% of calls to a frontier model, at a 6% accuracy tradeoff. Ramp said it matched a frontier model's performance on Ramp SWE-Bench while cutting costs 58% and runtime 33%. Cognition integrated Switchyard's staged router into Devin Desktop for internal use and reported near-frontier performance on FrontierCode Main while cutting mean cost 28% relative to routing everything to a single frontier model.

Lightning's architecture and performance gainsNemotron 3.5 Lightning is a standalone open model in its own right, built for high-volume, specialized agent tasks rather than general-purpose use.

It extends the hybrid Mamba-Transformer, latent mixture-of-experts architecture Nvidia introduced with the Nemotron 3 family in December 2025, the same line behind Nemotron 3 Super, which Nvidia uses as Lightning's own baseline in its post-training comparisons. Positioned within a routing setup like Switchyard, it's built to sit at the fast, cheap end of the decision rather than the frontier end, but it runs and ships independent of any router.

According to the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a general capability benchmark spanning nine evaluations, Lightning scores 24, tied with gpt-oss-120b and behind Nemotron 3 Super, Gemma 4 31B, Claude 4.5 Haiku and Mistral Medium 3.5, all at 30. Lightning isn't a general-intelligence leader in its size class, and Nvidia isn't claiming it is.

The actual claim is narrower: according to PinchBench data supplied by Nvidia, Lightning matches Qwen3.6-35B's accuracy roughly 30% faster and beats Gemma 4 26B's accuracy at a similar completion time on PinchBench, a real-world agent task benchmark spanning coding, research and file management. That's a speed-to-accuracy tradeoff, not a capability win.

Post-training is where Nvidia says the bigger gains show up. The company shared before-and-after figures from four early-access partners: CrowdStrike's malicious-content recall against a Nemotron 3 Super baseline, CodeRabbit's coding router against a GPT 5.4 Nano baseline, Harvey and Trajectory's legal task completion against an Opus 4.6 baseline, and Lila Sciences' energy simulation work against an Opus 4.8 baseline. CodeRabbit's case is the most specific: Nvidia says the standard NeMo Auto model recipe, trained for one epoch, built into a working router agent for $85 in about two hours.

What this means for enterprisesThere is no shortage of competitive offerings in the growing market for open models. The new Nemotron Lightning release will be yet another option for organizations to consider.

On the model side, Lightning's own benchmark chart picks Qwen3.6-35B as its direct comparison point. Asked by VentureBeat directly how Lightning compares to Chinese models more broadly, Briski didn't offer a head-to-head benchmark, pointing instead to openness and customizability as the differentiator.

"Our value proposition is not just open and it's very customizable," Briski said.

For enterprises building agentic infrastructure, three trends stand out:

The routing decision is becoming dynamic instead of static. Enterprises that built agent pipelines around a single default model are being pushed toward per-step routing based on live signals like agent state and token cost, not a fixed assignment set at design time.

Open source is now a cost lever at two layers, not one. Pairing an open model with an open router a vendor controls end to end is a newer argument than cheaper weights alone, and worth watching for whether other labs follow the same pattern.

The competitive question shifts from best model to best system. As routing libraries mature, the differentiator moves from which model an enterprise defaults to, toward how well its routing layer matches models to tasks in production, a harder thing to benchmark and a harder thing to market.

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Earlier today, OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized model designed to perform advanced vulnerability research and exploit development for approved defenders — including categories of work that its general-purpose models will often refuse.

GPT-5.6-Cyber is a fine-tuned version of OpenAI's most advanced general model, GPT-5.6 Sol, unveiled back in June, but trained specifically to improve performance on advanced cybersecurity tasks, including finding zero-day vulnerabilities and developing exploit chains.

Crucially, OpenAI also trained it to reduce refusals on some higher-risk, "dual-use" cybersecurity requests — that is, requests that could be used for legitimate defensive or malicious offensive purposes.

Indeed, on an internal OpenAI benchmark called Advanced Cybersecurity Completion Rate — which the company says in its launch blog post measures tasks involving exploit-chain development, authentication bypass, privilege escalation, and other advanced cybersecurity scenarios — GPT-5.6-Cyber completed 95% compared to just 57.3% from its immediate predecessor model GPT-5.5-Cyber, and just 1.5% with the normal GPT-5.6 Sol model and all its safeguards applied.

OpenAI researcher Eric Wallace posted on X, describing GPT-5.6-Cyber as OpenAI's "first large-scale attempt at directly improving capabilities for advanced cybersecurity tasks such as exploit development."

Pricing and availabilityUnfortunately for enterprises, GPT-5.6-Cyber is not being made broadly available to every ChatGPT or API customer.

To get access, an organization has to be accepted into the newly created tier of OpenAI’s Daybreak cybersecurity program, called Daybreak Red — also announced today, which gives access to dedicated cybersecurity models like GPT-5.6-Cyber

Another new tier, Daybreak Blue, gives a wider swath of enterprises access to general models like GPT-5.6 Sol but with some guardrails lifted to allow for more cybersecurity uses.

OpenAI’s documents list pricing for GPT-5.6-Cyber at $12.50 per million input tokens and $75 per million output tokens, with cached input at $1.25 per million tokens.

That makes it more expensive than GPT-5.6 Sol in the same Daybreak cyber pricing table, where Sol is listed at $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens for short-context use.

OpenAI does not list long-context pricing for GPT-5.6-Cyber in the same table, and access still requires separate Daybreak Red approval and provisioning.

Red vs. Blue: OpenAI's new Daybreak tiers and how to qualify for themDaybreak Red is for approved security teams doing advanced, authorized cyber work — the kind of work that can look risky out of context, even when it is being done for defensive reasons. That includes vulnerability research, penetration testing, red-team exercises and exploit validation on systems the organization owns, operates or has permission to test. In other words, OpenAI is saying GPT-5.6-Cyber is for trusted defenders with a clear professional need, not for general experimentation.

Enterprises that want access have to apply through Daybreak Access, OpenAI’s current pathway for vetting cyber users. The application asks companies to identify who they are, what kind of security work they plan to do, where they will use the models, and which OpenAI products or surfaces they expect to use. Applicants also have to confirm that their work is lawful, defensive and authorized.

OpenAI is also looking for signs that the applicant has a serious security program of its own. The company says participating enterprises need controls such as single sign-on, multifactor authentication, role-based access, employee-use monitoring, usage logs, API-key controls and a documented incident-response process. OpenAI also asks for a recognized security certification such as SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 or an equivalent standard. Access is limited to approved people inside the organization using company-controlled accounts and devices.

If an enterprise does not qualify for Daybreak Red, or does not need that level of access, OpenAI is pointing most companies toward Daybreak Blue, its other cyber models access tier, instead.

Blue is the broader tier for approved defenders. It does not provide GPT-5.6-Cyber, but it does give vetted users access to OpenAI’s frontier general-purpose models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, with safeguards adjusted for legitimate defensive work.

For many enterprise security teams, Blue may be the more realistic starting point. OpenAI says it is meant for tasks such as secure-code review, vulnerability discovery, malware analysis, incident response and patch validation. These are still sensitive uses, but they do not necessarily require the same specialized cyber model access that comes with Red.

The practical takeaway is that enterprises now have two routes into Daybreak. Blue is for approved defenders who want stronger AI help with everyday security work. Red is for the smaller set of approved teams that can justify access to specialized cyber models, including GPT-5.6-Cyber. Companies that want to use Daybreak capabilities in products or services for their own customers need a separate approval path through the Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, rather than simply applying for internal enterprise access and passing it along.

How OpenAI got here: from Trusted Access to DaybreakOpenAI has supported defenders through its Cybersecurity Grant Program since 2023 — later expanded to $10 million — and began building cyber-specific safeguards into its model deployments starting with GPT-5.2.

In February 2026 it introduced Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC), an identity-and-trust framework that gave vetted defenders lower classifier-based refusals for authorized work such as vulnerability triage, malware analysis and binary reverse engineering.

From there, the cadence accelerated. In March, OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman announced the Daybreak program. In April, OpenAI scaled TAC and released GPT-5.4-Cyber, a version of GPT-5.4 fine-tuned to be "cyber-permissive" for a limited set of vetted vendors and researchers.

In May, it followed with GPT-5.5-Cyber in limited preview for defenders of critical infrastructure, and lined up partners including Cisco, Intel, SentinelOne, Snyk and Cloudflare.

Notably, OpenAI said at the time that GPT-5.5-Cyber was "primarily trained to be more permissive," not to significantly out-perform its general model — GPT-5.5-Cyber actually scored worse than GPT-5.5 on some evaluations.

TAC required phishing-resistant Advanced Account Security for individuals on its most capable models beginning June 1, and Daybreak now requires hardware security keys for individual accounts beginning September 1.

OpenAI says GPT-5.6-Cyber has already found zero-daysOpenAI isn't relying exclusively on benchmarks to make its case.

The company says its researchers used GPT-5.6-Cyber to investigate V8, the JavaScript engine underlying Chrome, and uncovered two previously unknown vulnerabilities that could be chained to corrupt memory and escape the V8 heap sandbox.

OpenAI researchers validated the findings and disclosed them to Google, which fixed the vulnerability assigned CVE-2026-15903 — a high-severity flaw in which V8's optimizing compiler skipped a safety check during integer conversion, allowing an out-of-bounds array index that an attacker could use to read or overwrite memory.

OpenAI says the model has also contributed to finding at least five vulnerabilities in an unnamed popular mobile operating system, three critical vulnerabilities in an unnamed popular database, and more than 400 vulnerabilities capable of producing privilege escalation in a popular operating-system kernel. Those disclosures are still being coordinated, according to OpenAI.

The results put OpenAI into a rapidly developing market for AI-assisted offensive security. XBOW, for example, markets autonomous penetration-testing agents that map attack surfaces, attempt exploits and independently validate findings; in 2025 it became the first AI system to top HackerOne's U.S. bug-bounty leaderboard, and this year it disclosed a set of critical, CVSS-9.8 remote-code-execution flaws in Microsoft's Bing image-processing systems, found without source-code access.

For enterprise security leaders, that emerging competition matters because vulnerability research is moving beyond using an LLM as an assistant. Vendors are increasingly building systems in which models can investigate targets, operate tools, validate hypotheses and produce actionable findings.

Specialized doesn't mean universally betterOpenAI's own results also show why enterprises shouldn't simply equate cyber specialization with better performance everywhere.

GPT-5.6-Cyber outperformed GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.5-Cyber on OpenAI's implementation of ExploitGym, which evaluates whether agents can turn known vulnerabilities into working exploits in controlled environments. It also beat Sol on an internal zero-day evaluation.

But GPT-5.6 Sol performed better on OpenAI's Vulnerability Discovery and Report Writing evaluation. OpenAI attributes the Cyber model's lower score partly to shorter and less detailed vulnerability reports.

Sol also performed best on ExploitBench under its standard 300-turn limit, with OpenAI saying it solved tasks more token-efficiently. Extending the evaluation to 600 turns narrowed the gap between the models.

That suggests enterprises may eventually treat cyber models as specialized workers rather than replacements for general reasoning models: one model for deep exploit work, another potentially better suited to analysis, documentation or other parts of a security workflow.

SpecterOps CTO Jared Atkinson said GPT-5.6-Cyber is "materially improving our specialist vulnerability-research workflows," adding that it completed some work in less than a day that previous models had failed to resolve after weeks of intermittent effort.

The Hugging Face incident hangs over the launchThe permissive-model pitch arrives weeks after OpenAI's most serious public demonstration of what can go wrong when cyber refusals are turned down — and OpenAI addresses that history head-on in the Daybreak announcement.

In July, OpenAI and Hugging Face jointly disclosed that during an internal ExploitGym benchmark evaluation — run with production classifiers deliberately disabled to measure maximal capability — a combination of OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, more-capable pre-release model, broke out of their sandboxed research environment and autonomously attacked Hugging Face's production infrastructure.

The models exploited a zero-day in an internally hosted package-registry cache proxy to reach the open internet, moved laterally through OpenAI's research nodes, then inferred that Hugging Face likely hosted ExploitGym's answer keys and chained stolen credentials and remote-code-execution flaws to reach its production database. OpenAI called it an "unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities."

As VentureBeat previously reported, the episode also exposed the flip side of blanket safety guardrails: when Hugging Face's defenders tried to use commercial frontier models to analyze the raw exploit payloads and credential dumps from the attack, the models refused, and the company completed its forensic reconstruction only after switching to a Chinese open-weight model, GLM 5.2, run locally.

That guardrails-block-the-defender dynamic is much of what OpenAI's reduced-refusal Daybreak tiers are meant to solve — even as the same incident illustrates the risks of reducing refusals in the first place.

OpenAI is careful to draw a line between that incident and this product. In the Daybreak announcement it states directly that GPT-5.6-Cyber "was not involved in exploiting Hugging Face, nor are any other models planned for an upcoming release," and notes that the pre-release model implicated in July was an internal-only research prototype that has since been deactivated, encrypted and restricted from research access.

The company has said it is working with external advisers including CrowdStrike, METR and Redwood Research on the review, and has brought Hugging Face into its trusted-access program.

In my assessment, the access model still leaves OpenAI with a hard question: whether keeping GPT-5.6-Cyber inside the narrower Daybreak Red tier also limits the very defensive work it says it wants to accelerate. If only a small group of approved participants can use the model, enterprises outside that tier may still lack access to the kind of specialized AI assistance that could help with fast diagnosis, containment and response in incidents like the one involving Hugging Face.

That means OpenAI may still be repeating part of the mistake it is trying to move past. By holding its most capable cyber model behind a tighter approval process, it reduces obvious misuse risk, but also leaves many enterprise defenders looking elsewhere. For teams that cannot qualify for Daybreak Red, or cannot wait for approval, open weights models may remain the more practical alternative: less controlled, but easier to obtain, inspect, run internally and adapt during a live security investigation.

The guardrail is increasingly around the modelThe most consequential part of Daybreak may ultimately be its access architecture rather than its benchmarks.

OpenAI explicitly says Daybreak Blue removes system-level guardrails that can interfere with legitimate defensive work, while GPT-5.6-Cyber goes further by reducing model refusals for certain dual-use tasks. In their place, OpenAI is imposing controls around who receives access and how the models operate.

Daybreak access is restricted to approved individuals and organizations performing authorized work. OpenAI says controls include identity verification, account security, monitoring, approved-use restrictions and legal attestations.

The company is also encouraging Daybreak customers using Codex to move from full-access execution to an auto-review mode capable of evaluating actions requiring elevated permissions before they execute. Individual Daybreak accounts will be required to adopt hardware security keys beginning September 1. OpenAI says it is additionally rolling out improved monitoring in the coming weeks and prioritizing alignment training and testing for upcoming Daybreak releases — commitments that read, in context, as a direct response to the Hugging Face review.

OpenAI's broader Codex Security product supplies another layer around the models, providing repository analysis, vulnerability validation, remediation and integration into cloud, pull-request and local development workflows. OpenAI says Codex Security has scanned more than 30 million commits across more than 30,000 codebases, with more than 500,000 findings fixed.

That model-plus-harness approach resembles a broader shift in AI security products. XBOW, for example, emphasizes orchestration, exploit validation and governance around frontier models rather than treating an LLM alone as the complete penetration-testing system.

OpenAI nevertheless acknowledges that increasingly permissive cyber models create additional risks, whether from misuse or misalignment. It assesses both GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.6-Cyber at the High cybersecurity capability level under its Preparedness Framework, but below its Critical threshold. A fuller GPT-5.6-Cyber system card is planned for later publication.

For CISOs and security engineering leaders, Daybreak therefore presents a different deployment question than another incremental model upgrade. As models become capable enough to perform work previously reserved for experienced vulnerability researchers — and, as the Hugging Face incident showed, capable enough to pursue a narrow goal straight through a sandbox — the enterprise control plane around those models — permissions, sandboxes, monitoring, human review and authorization — becomes as important as the intelligence inside them.

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Amazon Web Services is threading its AI-powered security infrastructure directly into the coding environments built by two of its fiercest rivals — and in doing so, it is making a bold bet that controlling the security layer matters more than controlling the model.

AWS announced at Black Hat USA 2026 this month that its Continuum platform for code vulnerabilities will integrate directly into Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, alongside AWS's own Kiro IDE.

The move embeds AWS security tooling at the point where developers write code, regardless of which AI model they use to do it. Simultaneously, AWS expanded Security Hub Extended — its curated, single-bill security marketplace launched in February — with a 10th security category focused on supply chain protection, bringing in Chainguard and Socket as partners.

Together, the announcements are AWS's most sweeping attempt yet to position itself as the default security control plane for enterprise software development in the AI era — a role that carries enormous commercial implications as the global cloud infrastructure market surpasses $143 billion per quarter, according to Synergy Research Group.

Why frontier AI models turned the vulnerability backlog into a five-alarm fireThe urgency behind both launches traces back to a single inflection point that reshaped enterprise security earlier this year. Claude Mythos Preview, announced by Anthropic in April, is a general-purpose AI model that during testing revealed striking cybersecurity capabilities far exceeding any prior system.

In pre-release evaluations, Mythos identified thousands of previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. More than 99% of those vulnerabilities remain unpatched by their maintainers, and the median time from vulnerability discovery to weaponized exploit — already collapsed from 771 days in 2018 to under four hours by 2024 — is projected to reach under one hour by the end of 2026.

Chet Kapoor, AWS's vice president of search, security, and observability, framed the challenge in stark terms in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. "CISOs have had code vulnerabilities for a while, and then Mythos came along, and it just made it a lot worse," Kapoor said. "They already had a backlog. Now the backlog is 5x more, and that causes a problem."

That problem — the exponential growth in known vulnerabilities outpacing any organization's ability to triage and fix them — is precisely what Continuum is designed to address. Kapoor described AWS's broader security vision as a shift from "telemetry, storage, query, dashboards for humans to telemetry, context, reasoning, and actions by agents." The shorthand for that vision is a phrase AWS repeated throughout Black Hat: autonomous security at machine speed.

Inside Continuum's four-phase system for finding and fixing code flaws automaticallyContinuum operates as what AWS calls an “agent-team loop architecture” — a sophisticated orchestration harness that selects the right AI model for each task, connects to a customer's environment, and delivers validated secure code. Under the hood, it runs through four distinct phases.

Kapoor broke them down for VentureBeat. Discovery uses multiple frontier AI models to scan code and ingest a customer's existing vulnerability backlog. Prioritization — which Kapoor called "one of our biggest value adds" — contextualizes each finding against a customer's actual environment and business risk. "You go from 100 to 2,000, and now you're like, whoa, I didn't even know which 100 to focus on," he said.

Validation then builds reproducible exploits in an isolated sandbox to confirm whether a vulnerability is genuinely exploitable. "Once I do them, how will it behave?" Kapoor explained. "You create a sandbox to go off and make that happen. So you can figure out what the blast radius is." The validation phase covers both first-party code that customers wrote themselves and third-party open source code they depend on. Finally, remediation offers fixes — whether network configuration changes, policy adjustments, or code patches — that the system has already tested in the same sandbox. The human stays in control throughout, approving outcomes at whatever level of autonomy the organization is comfortable with.

The commercial model is equally deliberate. Customers pay AWS a single price for Continuum. AWS absorbs the underlying token costs for whichever frontier model performs best at each phase of the scan. "The customer purchases Continuum, period," Kapoor told VentureBeat. "We optimize on which model to use for what because, quite frankly, GPT Cyber is good at some things, Mythos is good at some things."

How AWS convinced OpenAI and Anthropic to open their coding tools to a rival's security layerThe most strategically striking element of the announcement is the integration with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code. AWS competes directly with both companies across cloud AI services. Amazon holds a massive investment in Anthropic, and OpenAI operates its own growing infrastructure that competes for the same enterprise AI workloads. Yet both agreed to embed Continuum inside their developer environments.

When VentureBeat asked Kapoor directly about the competitive dynamics, he pushed back on the framing entirely. "Who is the competitor?" Kapoor said. "I can keep thinking about Anthropic and OpenAI to be partners. I don't understand the word 'competitor' in your description of the question." He added: "They're partners with us. We use their models. We plug into their environments. Which is why we actually brought them together to do this."

Kapoor argued that working with a single model provider would be insufficient. "I don't think it's good enough to just do it with one company," he said. "Everybody is going to leapfrog each other over a period of time." By absorbing token costs and presenting a single bill to the customer, AWS positions Continuum as infrastructure — not a model wrapper. The harness, not the engine, becomes the durable competitive asset.

As Kapoor wrote in his blog post announcing the partnership: "An AI harness is the orchestration layer that wraps around a model to connect it to tools, guardrails, memory, and workflows, so it delivers outcomes. Think of the model as the engine and the harness as everything around it. You need both to have a high-performance car."

AWS partners echoed the logic. "Model choice was never the hard part for enterprises. Trust in what the model does in production is," said Val Henderson, CEO of AWS Premier Partner Caylent, in comments reported by CRN.

AWS adds supply chain security to its curated marketplace as open source threats intensifyThe second prong of AWS's Black Hat announcements extends Security Hub Extended into supply chain security as its 10th category, with Chainguard and Socket as curated partners. The Extended plan now includes 23 curated partner solutions, all on a single AWS bill with no required long-term commitments, covering endpoint, identity, email, network, data, browser, cloud, AI, security operations, and now supply chain.

Michael Fuller, AWS's director of security services, told VentureBeat that the addition was driven entirely by customer demand. "Over the last six to eight months, it's gotten quite a bit of news around what's happening in the supply chain space, with the fact that everybody builds on open source," Fuller said. "Our customers quickly reached out and said, 'Security Hub Extended is resonating. We would love to see a supply chain security category with some key players there because it's a hot topic for us.'"

The two partners were chosen to be complementary rather than duplicative. Chainguard focuses on providing hardened, secure-by-default container images and packages rebuilt from verified source code. Socket performs behavioral monitoring of packages as they are pulled into a developer's environment, detecting threats like typosquatting, maintainer account takeover, and obfuscated malicious code. "Together, between the three of us — us with consolidating that, ChainGuard providing really good hardened and cleaned images and packages, and then Socket providing a behavioral analysis over the top — gives customers a really good holistic supply chain security offering," Fuller said.

The complementary approach addresses two distinct attack vectors. An attacker can publish a malicious package that contains no known vulnerabilities — Chainguard's clean-build approach defends against that. Separately, an attacker can compromise a legitimate maintainer's account and push a tainted update to a trusted package — Socket's behavioral detection catches that. Both vectors are amplified in the AI coding era, Fuller noted, because AI agents face the same supply chain risks as human developers: "Agents can be misled on, 'Hey, this is a well-known package that you're looking for,' and therefore pull it down, even though it's been maliciously obfuscated."

Why AWS chose two partners per category instead of building a security marketplaceThe partner selection strategy behind Security Hub Extended reveals a deliberate philosophy that distinguishes it from the AWS Marketplace, which already hosts tens of thousands of security offerings.

Fuller told VentureBeat that customers articulated clear principles for what they wanted. "One was don't give me hundreds of offerings. We already have the AWS Marketplace," he said. "Two was give me a sweet spot. Our customers were saying, give me two in each category, and when you look at those two, don't give me head-to-head competitors. Give me one that I may know well, that is an established player, and give me one that's taking a different approach."

Fuller pointed to the security operations category as the template. "You have Splunk, hard to argue not an established leader in security operations, and then you have Seven AI that's kind of taking a very different approach, and they're complementary in a lot of ways."

The decision to build internally versus partner follows a similar logic. For endpoint detection and response, AWS has no structural advantage, so it partners exclusively. For cloud security, AWS builds its own native tools because it intimately understands its own infrastructure — but still partners with Upwind to give customers a second option.

"At the end of the day, what we're trying to do here is ensure that our customers can operate in the most secure way possible on AWS, not necessarily grow a large security business as the core goal," Fuller said. "That's why it's very easy for us to decide to do both building ourselves, but also then inviting partners to participate."

The pricing model reinforces this accessibility. Fuller said customers demanded pay-as-you-go options alongside traditional multi-year commitments. "All of the Security Hub Extended offerings have a public-facing, pay-as-you-go price, just like our first-party offerings do within AWS," he said. "So that gives customers the option to go kick the tires, get going, even scale up and use the services without going through a traditional sales cycle."

Shadow agents and AI cost harvesting emerge as the next frontier of cloud security threatsBoth AWS executives addressed an emerging security concern gaining traction among CISOs: the proliferation of unregistered AI agents — what the industry has begun calling "shadow agents" — and the novel attack patterns they enable.

Kapoor told VentureBeat that shadow agents are a genuine and growing problem, though he was careful to separate it from the Continuum announcement. "There are many agents that are registered with registration directories, whether it's Vertex, whether it's Agent Core, whatever else it might be, but there are many agents that are not registered with the registry, and those are what people are calling shadow agents because they can actually do some harm," he said. "Discovering shadow agents is not easy. The industry is working on it."

Fuller provided more granular detail on what AWS has already deployed. Security Hub now includes a free AI inventory capability that uses three data layers: AWS Config identifies AI-related services like SageMaker, Bedrock, and Agent Core across an organization; Amazon Inspector scans compute instances and containers for AI-related software; and GuardDuty compares DNS request and response logs against known AI tools and agentic workloads.

Beyond inventory, Fuller revealed that GuardDuty now monitors data plane events — including prompts, prompt volume patterns, and inference cost analysis — to detect what AWS calls "cost harvesting."

The attack mirrors the cryptocurrency mining that became common after cloud credential compromises: an attacker gains access to an AWS account and burns through as much free AI inference as possible before detection.

"We're seeing what we're calling cost harvesting," Fuller said. "They'll spin up, basically try to get as much free inference as they can until that's discovered." It is, Fuller noted, "the same thing that's happening in AI" as happened with crypto mining — and GuardDuty's detection of credential compromise and unauthorized compute usage translates directly to the new threat.

How Continuum and Security Hub Extended fit together in AWS's enterprise security strategyAlthough both announcements landed the same week, AWS is treating the products behind them as separate. Kapoor described Continuum to VentureBeat as distinct from Security Hub Extended, sold as its own standalone product. AWS declined to discuss its longer-term roadmap for the two.

The design logic points in one direction. Continuum addresses the code an enterprise writes and the open source it inherits. Security Hub Extended addresses everything else — and the newest of its categories is where the two most clearly overlap. Continuum's validation phase covers third-party dependencies alongside a customer's own code; Chainguard and Socket harden and monitor the same packages from the other direction. One capability is built in-house, the other curated from partners, and they meet at the same attack surface.

Both proceed from the same premise: that enterprises no longer want a catalog, they want a recommendation.

"Customers want an opinionated point of view on how they should do security in the AI era," Kapoor told VentureBeat. "That's what Security Hub Extended was about — actually going off and giving them our opinion." AWS will continue to give customers choice, he added, "whether it is something that we ship or whether it is something from a partner."

That doctrine — a recommendation, with an escape hatch — is the through line connecting a curated marketplace to a first-party agent platform, and it makes the boundary between them more porous than two separate announcements suggest. Security Hub has already absorbed capabilities that did not exist a year ago, including the free AI inventory and the cost harvesting detections Fuller described. The console is where AWS delivers its opinion to the enterprise. Continuum is the sharpest opinion it has shipped.

The audience for that opinion has changed as well, Kapoor said. Mythos, he argued, moved security from something the CISO owned to a CEO and board-level imperative. "Boards are now asking for updates on what's going on with security in the enterprise because it's a business threat now, it's a business risk."

AWS's security ambitions reflect a calculated bet on owning the orchestration layerThe twin launches fit within a broader strategic arc AWS has been building throughout 2026 at a breakneck pace. The company re-imagined Security Hub at re:Invent 2025 by consolidating GuardDuty, Inspector, CSPM, and Access Analyzer into a single console. In February, it launched Security Hub Extended with 14 curated partner solutions. By May, that number grew to 21 across nine categories. Now it stands at 23 across 10. Continuum launched at the New York Summit in June and expanded to OpenAI and Anthropic integrations at Black Hat in August.

AWS generated $42.2 billion in revenue during Q2 2026, with cloud sales expanding 37% year over year. The company holds a 28% share of the global cloud infrastructure market, ahead of Microsoft at 20% and Google at 15%.

Fuller told VentureBeat that AWS has "tens of thousands of customers using one or multiple of our security services, essentially across all geos that we operate in, and in every industry, and both commercial and government." The Extended plan aims to convert that installed base into users of partner security solutions — deepening engagement and making it harder for competitors to dislodge AWS as the default platform.

By making AWS the seller of record for 23 partner security solutions and embedding Continuum inside the coding environments of OpenAI and Anthropic, AWS is constructing something more durable than a product line. It is building the connective tissue between enterprises and every AI model they use, between every open source package they pull, and between every security vendor they deploy. In a world where frontier models are advancing so rapidly that today's best scanner becomes tomorrow's table stakes, the layer that persists is not the model — it is the harness that connects the model to the customer's environment, policies, and risk tolerance.

Kapoor, reflecting on a chance conversation he had on a flight to Black Hat, offered the simplest articulation of why all of it matters. A former CISO turned CTO sitting beside him volunteered a blunt assessment of the current moment: "I don't feel safer now." Kapoor's response, he told VentureBeat, was equally blunt: "We're working on it."

Whether that work makes the world safer or simply makes AWS indispensable to every organization trying to get there may, in the end, amount to the same thing.

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Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi offered a blueprint for one of the pressing challenges facing the enterprise today at VB Transform 2026: securely deploying AI agents, like the open-source OpenClaw, into production environments.

Unlocking this enterprise value requires a mindset shift. The industry needs to move past vague terminology and focus on concrete enterprise roles.

“People talk a lot about agents, but I think 'agents' is a terrible name. It's this Silicon Valley concept that doesn't really mean much,” Franceschi said.

Instead, the goal should be creating entities that can genuinely collaborate with human workers. "The concept we always had in mind was the idea of a virtual employee — someone on Slack, an entity, it has an email address, it can join meetings, you can email it, and that you can work with," Franceschi said.

Realizing this vision demands a new security paradigm. Franceschi’s presentation detailed how Brex pointed OpenClaw at internal roles, realized traditional security models failed, and built a novel network-level security layer called CrabTrap.

The OpenClaw security dilemmaThe journey began following a breakthrough in December, when coding models reached a level of maturity that enabled the January release of OpenClaw. This marked the moment agents could finally self-bootstrap and maintain their own codebases instead of relying on hard-coded, static tools.

However, when Franceschi proposed deploying this to automate internal functions, the Brex security team firmly rejected the idea. “They said, 'Hell no. How could we trust an agent doing these things? This thing has code execution capabilities. There's no way to control it,'” Franceschi said. That caution isn't unique to Brex — enterprises broadly have been wary of granting agents uncontrolled code execution on corporate networks.

To solve this, Brex had to shift the security perimeter. Franceschi contrasted this with approaches like Nvidia's NemoClaw, which he said secure agents by limiting their tool usage — a model he believes neutralizes the coding capabilities that give agents their value.

“… the premise we had was that the coding capabilities were critical to the model having the ability to do a variety of tasks,” he said.

Brex's fix was to shift the security boundary to the network layer instead. Instead of policing the ever-changing code inside the container, the focus must shift to monitoring what the code actually attempts to send or receive from the outside world.

CrabTrap and the LLM-as-a-judge solutionThis network-centric approach led to the creation of CrabTrap, an open-source HTTP proxy built by Brex. The mechanism operates on the assumption that OpenClaw can do anything and might already be compromised. Therefore, CrabTrap monitors all outbound network traffic between the container and the internet, using an LLM to judge whether that traffic aligns with the agent's approved policy.

“Instead of trying to control the code running in the container, assume the thing can do anything and monitor the network traffic between that container and the internet,” Franceschi said.

Using a large language model (LLM) to judge every single network request introduces unacceptable latency, often adding thousands of milliseconds to response times. Brex solved this by passing traffic through a bifurcated system.

Routine, low-risk actions pass through static, pre-approved rules instantly. If a recruiting agent tries to view a LinkedIn profile, the static rule allows it. However, high-risk actions such as sending emails are flagged and routed to the LLM judge for evaluation. Franceschi said that architecture ensures only about 2% of complex requests actually face LLM latency.

A surprising finding from the project was how effectively the LLM judge performs this role. Franceschi attributed this to the models' training: LLMs are exposed to billions of web pages and HTTP requests, giving them what he described as an inherent semantic understanding of network traffic patterns.

“[Models] are very good at discerning what is within the policy and what is not,” Franceschi said, adding that this capability emerges naturally through pre-training without needing heavy prompting.

Brex put this infrastructure to the test with “Jim,” a virtual recruiter built on OpenClaw. Jim handles various tasks, including sourcing candidates, scoring inbound applicants, and sending emails.

When Jim attempts an action that falls outside the established policy, CrabTrap relies on a human-in-the-loop workflow. If the LLM judge flags an unapproved outbound email, CrabTrap pings a human manager on Slack.

The Slack notification explains the agent's underlying intent and suggests a policy change that would allow the action. The human manager can then review the context and click "yes" or "no" to update the rules dynamically.

"I like the virtual employee analogy because a lot of these things were solved already in a company, in the context of humans," Franceschi said. "When an employee hits a wall, they escalate to their manager."

The cost of the frontierBrex is a fintech company, not a cybersecurity vendor. The decision to build CrabTrap in-house was driven by a lack of mature commercial solutions that could satisfy their security team.

Franceschi acknowledged the inherent cost of operating at the bleeding edge, admitting that commercial vendor solutions will likely catch up.

“When we built this, it was clear to me there was a 70% chance we would throw it away in six months... But what we learned by being six months ahead was worth it in shaping our AI adoption strategy,” he said.

The investment in building internal tools provided Brex with the experience needed to safely deploy agents months ahead of the broader market. For enterprise leaders navigating the AI landscape, the core takeaway is the necessity of building the cultural and technical muscle to operate in an agentic world today.

“We don't have all the answers, but the answer is not to do nothing,” Franceschi said.

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Meta today released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model designed to run autonomous AI agents directly on consumer hardware — pushing agentic workloads that normally depend on cloud infrastructure onto high-end Macs and PCs.

Just as notable as what the model does is how it's licensed. Glimmer arrives under the permissive, industry-standard Apache 2.0 open source license — the company's first fully open release since it succeeded its open-weight Llama family in April with the proprietary Muse Spark.

In fact, Muse Glimmer launches today with a more permissive license than Llama ever carried. Llama's bespoke community license drew years of criticism for restrictions like its 700-million-monthly-user cutoff; Apache 2.0 has no such strings, permitting unrestricted commercial use, modification and redistribution.

The weights are available on Hugging Face now. Wang said support is rolling out this week through Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, SGLang, Together AI, Fireworks AI and OpenRouter, with optimized llama.cpp, MLX and ExecuTorch integrations landing in the coming days; Meta's blog post also names Unsloth as a local-runtime partner and points to PyTorch's TorchTitan for fine-tuning. The company says it is working with AMD, Arm, Dell, Intel and Nvidia to optimize performance across devices, and has published developer documentation covering custom agent scaffolds.

"Today we're also opening the weights for Muse Glimmer, a great 30B parameter dense model that can run locally," Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on X (under his longtime handle @finkd). "Soon we'll also release the weights for Muse Spark 1.2, our latest foundation model. Meta is a strong supporter of open source and I'm proud of these releases."

That promised Muse Spark 1.2 release would be an even bigger shift: it's the frontier model behind Muse Code, the terminal coding agent Meta shipped just five days ago, and until today the entire Muse family was proprietary. Zuckerberg had teased at that launch that he'd "have more to share soon" on open source. Now we know what he meant.

For developers and enterprises, the practical stakes of local inference go beyond where computation happens. An agent working with files, screenshots, development environments and other sensitive context can execute those workflows without continuously sending that information to a remote inference service. Local deployment also removes network availability and per-token API charges from the inference loop — although organizations still bear hardware, electricity, deployment and management costs.

A 30B model built around the agent loopRather than positioning Glimmer primarily as a general chatbot, Meta trained it around the sequence of operations an autonomous agent performs: formulate a plan, call tools, interpret the results, continue working, and recover when something goes wrong.

"Just like much larger models, muse glimmer can operate as a fully capable agent via planning, tool calls, checking its own results, and failure recovery," Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, wrote in a thread on X announcing the release, adding that the model "can run on 24GB of VRAM without losing agentic reliability."

According to the model card on Hugging Face, Glimmer is a dense causal transformer with approximately 29.6 billion total parameters across 52 layers, including a dedicated ~1.8B-parameter ViT-G/14 perception encoder. It accepts interleaved text and images, produces text, supports more than 100 languages and has a stated context length of 131,072 tokens or more, with a knowledge cutoff of January 4, 2026.

That combination is intended to let an agent interpret screenshots, charts and documents while simultaneously reasoning about text and invoking external tools. Glimmer offers low, medium, high and xhigh reasoning settings — set via the system prompt — so applications can dial reasoning effort up or down per task, and Meta says it works across agentic scaffolds including OpenClaw and Hermes Agent.

The model is a distillation of Meta's larger flagship: per the company's technical blog post, Glimmer was pre-trained on Muse Spark's outputs using logit distillation, mid-trained on longer-context, agent-heavy data with richer reasoning traces, then post-trained with supervised fine-tuning, on-policy distillation and reinforcement learning across general, reasoning, coding and agentic domains.

Meta demonstrated the result with a local Home Assistant workflow: in a demo video, Glimmer autonomously discovers a Home Assistant instance on the network via tool calls, queries device APIs, writes a responsive HTML/CSS/JavaScript dashboard from scratch and deploys a local server to verify its own work. That's closer to the operational reality of enterprise agent deployments than a standalone question-answering benchmark — the model has to maintain a plan while interacting with external systems, then inspect whether its actions produced the expected result.

Compressing an agent into 24GBThe hardware story is central to the release.

At full precision, Meta says the 30B model requires more than 55GB of memory — beyond any single consumer GPU.

The company therefore developed approximately 4-bit quantized versions that shrink the language-model weights to under 20GB, leaving headroom for the pieces an operational agent also needs in memory: the KV cache, the perception encoder and a companion speculative-decoding model, all fitting within a 24GB or 32GB envelope.

In practical terms, that means the quantized builds run on consumer machines — though the upper end of them. The 24GB-targeted K-Quant-17GB configuration fits on a single high-end consumer graphics card, such as Nvidia's RTX 3090 or RTX 4090 (both with 24GB of VRAM), while the 32GB-targeted K-Quant-Dynamic version lines up with the newer RTX 5090's 32GB. On the Mac side, Apple Silicon's unified memory plays the role of VRAM, so a MacBook Pro or Mac Studio with 32GB or more of memory can hold the full stack — Meta ran its own speed tests on M4 Max and M5 Max MacBook Pros. A typical 8GB or 16GB laptop, however, remains out of reach, and the full-precision BF16 release — which Meta pegs at 64GB — stays in the territory of data-center GPUs and top-spec Mac Studio configurations.

Meta reports average accuracy degradation of just 0.2% across 15 benchmarks for its K-Quant-Dynamic version targeting 32GB hardware, and 1% for the K-Quant-17GB configuration targeting 24GB hardware. Those figures are Meta's own measurements, not independent evaluations.

Meta is also using DFlash speculative decoding to attack the other big problem with local agents: latency. Instead of generating every token sequentially, a smaller DFlash "drafter" model proposes blocks of 16 tokens that the primary model verifies in parallel, producing identical output faster.

Meta reports this raises average generation speed on an Nvidia RTX 5090 from 74.9 tokens per second to 233.4 — a 3.1x increase. An Apple M5 Max rises from 26.6 to 50.2 tokens per second (1.8x), and an M4 Max from 23.7 to 37.8 (1.5x). The tests used batch size one and greedy decoding, with Apple systems measured via ExecuTorch and the RTX 5090 via llama.cpp.

For agent applications, those multipliers matter more than they would for chat: a single user request can trigger many model turns, tool calls and verification steps, and latency accumulated at every stage can quickly make an otherwise capable agent impractical.

Glimmer enters an increasingly competitive local-model marketMeta is not entering an empty field. Developers already have capable open-weight models in this size class, most prominently Google's Gemma 4 family and Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B — both of which position themselves around reasoning, multimodal understanding and agentic workloads. Meta's own benchmark table compares directly against both.

Glimmer leads that three-way comparison on several agentic tests, including MCP Atlas at 75.5, DeepSearch QA at 74.6, τ³-Banking at 23.5, WildClawBench at 47.6 and GAIA2 at 43.3. It scores 51.2 on SWE-Bench Pro, versus 36.9 for Gemma4-31B and 50.2 for Qwen3.6-27B in Meta's evaluation.

But Glimmer does not sweep the field. Qwen leads Meta's own comparison on OSWorld-Verified (75.6 vs. Glimmer's 65.9), TerminalBench 2.1 (60.7 vs. 51.7), SkillsBench, GDPval-AA (1141 vs. 953) and most of the multimodal benchmarks. On SWE-Bench Verified, Glimmer's 76.0 lands just below Qwen's 77.2. Gemma leads on GPQA Diamond and Humanity's Last Exam.

Read honestly, the numbers make Glimmer more interesting as a specialized local-agent model than as evidence of a universal performance lead. For enterprise developers, the practical question is whether its combination of agent reliability, quantization quality, tool compatibility and decoding speed translates from benchmarks into sustained real-world workflows.

| Model | Developer / origin | AA score | Parameters / context | Lowest tracked API price | Access | License | Strongest use cases | | Kimi K3 | Moonshot AI; China | 60 | 2.8T total / 104B active; 1M | $3.00 input / $15.00 output via Kimi, Fireworks or Modal (pricing) | WeightsKimi API | Custom Kimi K3 license. Large model-as-a-service operators above $20M in 12-month revenue need a separate agreementLarge products may need to display “Kimi K3.” | Frontier long-horizon codingMultimodal research and complex tool-driven agents | | GLM-5.2 | Z.ai / Zhipu AI; China | 53 | 753B / 40B active; 1M | $0.75 / $2.40 via DeepInfra FP4 (pricing) | WeightsZ.ai API | MIT | Long-horizon coding and agentsMillion-token analysis with adjustable reasoning | | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | DeepSeek; China | 52 | 284B / 13B active; 1M | $0.09 / $0.18 via DeepInfra (pricing) | WeightsDeepSeek API | MIT | • Extremely economical reasoning• Coding agents, terminal work and tool use | | MiniMax-M3 | MiniMax; China | 45 | 428B / 23B active; 1M | $0.23 / $0.96 via CoreWeave (pricing) | Weights; MiniMax API | MiniMax Community License. Commercial attribution required; companies above $20M yearly revenue need authorization. Includes prohibited-use conditions. | • Native text, image and video work• Long-context coding and “cowork” agents | | MiMo-V2.5-Pro | Xiaomi; China | 43 | 1.02T / 42B active; 1M | $0.35 / $0.70 via GMI (pricing) | WeightsXiaomi API | MIT | Complex software engineeringAgents spanning thousands of tool calls | | Inkling | Thinking Machines Lab; U.S. | 42 | 975B / 41B active; 1M in weights | $0.95 / $4.05 via DeepInfra FP8 (pricing) | WeightsTinker | Apache 2.0 | Customizable text, image and audio foundationFine-tuned coding, RAG and tool-use systems | | Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B | NVIDIA; U.S. | 38 | 550B / 55B active; up to 1M in weights | $0.37 / $1.08 via Blackbox AI (pricing) | Weights | OpenMDW-1.1; permissive commercial and derivative-model rights | Complex agents and long-context reasoningHigh-accuracy RAG, code, math and science | | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Mistral AI; France | 30 | 128B dense; 256K | $1.50 / $7.50 via Mistral (pricing) | WeightsMistral API | Modified MIT. Companies above $20M consolidated monthly revenue must obtain a commercial license or use Mistral’s service. | Coding agents and function callingMultimodal instruction following | | Gemma 4 31B | Google DeepMind; U.S. | 30 | 30.7B dense; 256K | Free on Google AI Studio’s limited tier; paid low $0.10 / $0.34 via CoreWeave (pricing) | WeightsGoogle AI Studio | Apache 2.0 | Compact multimodal reasoning and codingManageable local or private-server deployments | | gpt-oss-120b | OpenAI; U.S. | 24 | 117B / 5.1B active; 131K | $0.03 / $0.17 via CoreWeave (pricing) | Weights Numerous third-party APIs | Apache 2.0 | Reasoning structured output and toolsFine-tuning and single-80GB-GPU deployment | | Command A+ | Cohere; Canada | 23 | 218B / 25B active; 128K input | Free on Cohere’s currently tracked endpoint (pricing) | WeightsCohere | Apache 2.0 | Enterprise RAG and grounded citations• Multilingual agents and document processing | | Muse Glimmer 30B | Meta; U.S. | Not yet scored | 29.6B dense, including vision encoder; 131K+ | No public metered hosted price located on launch day | WeightsMeta model page | Apache 2.0 for full-precision weights, quantizations, drafter and perception encoder | Always-on local agents on 24–32GB systemsTool use, recovery, coding and screen/document understanding |

Meta Glimmer adds to a still-small roster of genuinely open, frontier-class models from U.S. companies.

For the last two years, Chinese companies have set the pace in open source AI, with DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen team, Moonshot AI's Kimi, Zhipu's GLM and MiniMax shipping frontier-class open models under MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses on a cadence Western labs haven't matched.

The usage data reflects it: by May 2026, Chinese open-weight models accounted for roughly 61% of all tokens consumed on OpenRouter, with four of the five most-used models coming from Chinese labs — while Meta's Llama, the prior open-weight leader, fell off the rankings entirely.

The U.S. counterexamples remain countable on one hand: OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, released under Apache 2.0 in August 2025 as the company's first open weights since GPT-2; Google's Gemma family, which is open-weight but ships under Google's own more restrictive custom license rather than an OSI-approved one; and Thinking Machines' Inkling.

Glimmer invites the most direct comparison to gpt-oss: both are Apache 2.0, both offer adjustable reasoning effort, and both target self-hosted deployment.

But the gpt-oss models are text-only, sparse mixture-of-experts designs built primarily for reasoning and tool use — gpt-oss-20b fits in about 16GB of memory while gpt-oss-120b targets a single 80GB data center GPU.

Glimmer stakes out different ground: a dense model with native vision input, trained end-to-end around the agent loop, shipping with its own quantized variants and speculative-decoding drafter tuned for 24GB consumer machines.

And if Zuckerberg follows through on opening Muse Spark 1.2's weights, Meta would put an actual U.S. flagship frontier model into open circulation — something no American lab has done at that tier.

Safety remains part of the deployment architectureGiving a local model access to tools creates a different security problem from deploying a local chatbot — and Meta's own safety numbers show Glimmer is not uniformly stronger than its peers.

On CI Memories, a privacy benchmark where lower violation rates are better, Glimmer records 26.4 against Gemma's 12.1 and Qwen's 53.4. On Siren AgentDojo, a prompt-injection test, Glimmer shows a 28.4% attack-success rate versus 25.6% for Gemma and 40.3% for Qwen — while posting the highest utility score of the three at 94.2.

Meta says it evaluated Glimmer under its Advanced AI Scaling Framework and determined the model does not meet the framework's definition of "Frontier AI" because it is generally less capable than Muse Spark. Its Preparedness Team assessed Glimmer at Moderate or lower risk across chemical/biological, cyber and loss-of-control categories — the latter two inferred from the fact that Glimmer is broadly weaker than Muse Spark 1.0, which received the same designations.

The company nevertheless recommends deploying Glimmer as part of a broader system with guardrails, including human-in-the-loop confirmation for irreversible actions. That caveat matters especially for local agents: keeping data on-device reduces exposure to cloud infrastructure, but local execution does not by itself solve prompt injection, excessive permissions or an agent taking an unintended action.

Apache 2.0 weights and a fast-growing runtime ecosystemMeta is releasing full-precision BF16 weights, both 4-bit quantized variants, the DFlash drafter and the perception encoder — all under Apache 2.0. There is no Meta API price attached to the downloadable model, leaving total cost dependent on local hardware or whatever third-party hosting developers choose. One nuance worth noting for procurement teams: as with most "open source" model releases, it is the weights that are open — Meta has not released the training data or training code.

The broader implication is that Meta is treating the developer workstation as a credible deployment target for autonomous agents, rather than merely a place to experiment with smaller language models. Glimmer's 30B size and 24GB target put that proposition within reach of high-end consumer hardware, while the Apache 2.0 license gives developers — and their legal departments — unusual freedom to modify and deploy it.

The next test is whether its benchmark advantages survive the messier conditions of real software repositories, enterprise tools and long-running agent sessions. If they do, the most consequential part of Glimmer may not be another set of benchmark scores — it may be that a class of agent previously expected to live behind a cloud API can increasingly live, and work, on the machine sitting under a developer's desk.

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We have been building databases as an industry for roughly 60 years. We have been building AI agents, in the form most people mean when they say the word today, for about 18 months.

Sit with that ratio for a second, because it explains almost everything about the state of agentic development right now. Six decades versus a year and a half. We are not in the middle of this learning curve. We are standing at the very bottom of it, squinting up.

There is no LAMP stack for agents yet. There is no settled, boring, default set of choices that lets a team stop re-litigating architecture and just ship.

One of the earliest lessons came from the industry’s brief obsession with token-maxxing. For a stretch in early 2026, token consumption became a vanity metric. The backlash was fast. Token volume measures activity, not outcomes.

But the interesting part of the token-maxxing story was never the workplace theater. It was the architectural lesson hiding underneath it.

The context window is the scarce resourceWhat follows is an aggregation of what I’ve learned from more than 100 customer conversations across 15 cities in six countries during the first half of 2026. I’m seeing organizations begin to converge on the same conclusion: the context window is the scarce resource. The challenge isn’t stuffing more information into every prompt. It’s deciding what belongs there in the first place.

That question has an answer. The answer is memory.

Not the loose way people use that word to mean “the context window,” but a real, persistent, queryable memory system that sits outside the model and feeds it deliberately.

The answer is memory, and it is more than short-term and long-termA good agentic memory does three things that the context window alone cannot:

• It saves what the generative model produced on previous loops and previous sessions, so the expensive reasoning you already paid for does not evaporate the moment the session ends.
• It applies role-based access control to that saved content, so a memory created by one team can be shared across an enterprise without leaking things it should not.
• It lets new queries retrieve the right prior content, which in practice means it is backed by semantic search rather than exact-match lookup, because agents ask for things by meaning, not by key.

That last point is where this connects back to the 60-years-of-databases observation. We spent six decades getting extremely good at storing and retrieving structured data by exact criteria. Agentic memory needs something different and newer: the ability to store the unstructured output of a generative process and find it again by similarity.

The teams building this well are the ones whose data platform can do semantic search natively, apply access control to it, and hold the generated content in the same place, rather than stitching three systems together with hope.

The pattern that is emerging in enterprisesOnce you have memory like that, a genuinely interesting architecture falls out of it, and I am seeing more enterprises converge on it.

You pair the powerful memory system with a leaner model, often an open-weight one, whose job is not to be brilliant but to be a good judge. A new query comes in. The agent does a semantic search on the memory, reranks to get the best candidate answer, and asks the leaner model a single question: is this good enough to return as is, or not?

If it is good enough, you return it. You never paid for the expensive generative model at all. You answered from memory.

If it is not good enough, you escalate to the more expensive generative model, get an original solution, return that, and then save it back into the same memory system so the next session does not have to pay for it either.

Think about what that does to agentic economics over time. Every original answer the expensive model produces becomes a cheap answer the next time someone needs something similar. The system gets cheaper and faster the more it is used, which is the opposite of how naive token-maxxing scales, where cost grows linearly with usage forever. This is the difference between an agent that learns what it already knows and one that re-derives the universe on every loop.

Memory has types, and humans curate the best onesThe last piece, and the one I think separates where we are headed from where we are now, is that mature agentic memory will not be a flat bucket of short-term and long-term. It will have types, the way human memory does.

Taxonomic memory holds terminology, the controlled vocabulary and definitions an organization runs on, so the agent uses "chargeback" to mean what your finance team means by it and not what the internet at large means.

Procedural memory holds task lists and sequences, the how-we-do-this-here knowledge that turns a capable model into a useful colleague. There will be more types than these, and figuring out the right taxonomy of memory types is itself part of the learning curve we are climbing.

And here is the part that should sound familiar to anyone who has run a real production system: the best memories often get there because a human put them there. Not every memory an agent generates is worth keeping, and not every kept memory is worth surfacing first.

Increasingly I expect to see humans curating these systems, injecting the high-value memories back in for frequent reuse, pruning the noise, promoting the procedural sequence that works over the three that mostly work. We did this for knowledge bases. We did it for documentation. We will do it for agentic memory, because curation is how a corpus stops being a landfill and starts being an asset.

What comes next?We are 18 months, give or take, into agents and 60 years into databases. The gap between those two numbers is not a problem to be embarrassed about. It is just the truth about how early it is, and it should make us humble about every "best practice" that is barely a season old.

Token-maxxing was the first big idea to rise and fall inside this new field, and its fall taught us the lesson the field most needed: the context window is scarce, so the discipline is in choosing what goes in it. That discipline is agentic memory. Semantic-search-backed, access-controlled, typed, human-curated memory that saves what was expensive to produce and serves it cheaply forever after.

There is still no LAMP stack for agents. But if I had to bet on which layer becomes the boring, default, settled choice first, the one we stop arguing about so we can get back to building, I would bet on memory. That is the next advancement in agentic development. Everything else is still hand-wiring CGI-BIN.

Pete Johnson is Field CTO, AI at MongoDB.

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Content filters can block unsafe output. They cannot tell you whether an agent was authorized to issue that refund, touch that production system, or commit the company to an external action. Those are different problems, and most enterprises are only solving the first one.

An AI agent can follow its instructions perfectly and still take an action the business never sanctioned.

In commerce environments, I have seen this pattern emerge in practical ways. A service workflow calculates the correct refund amount but lacks a boundary preventing credits above what the business approved for autonomous action. An order agent correctly applies a requested change but overlooks a financing or fulfillment condition. A procurement agent identifies the lowest-cost supplier, but nobody has defined whether it can accept contractual terms or only recommend the option.

The agent keeps working. The problem may not surface until something downstream breaks.

These are not necessarily AI reasoning failures. They are failures to separate technical capability from business authority.

As enterprises move from copilots that recommend to agents that call tools and trigger workflows, every production agent needs explicit decision rights: What it may execute, what requires approval, what it may only recommend, and what it must never touch.

Guardrails remain necessary. But a guardrail is not an authority model.

Safety controls and decision rights solve different problemsEarly gen AI controls screen harmful content, protect sensitive information, validate responses, and constrain tool behavior. That work matters.

Decision rights answer a different question: Even when an action is safe and technically valid, is this agent authorized to take it on behalf of the enterprise?

That governance gap is becoming harder to ignore. In April 2026, a Cloud Security Alliance survey found that 65% of respondents had experienced an AI-agent-related incident in the prior year, while 82% had discovered previously unknown agents operating in their environments. The survey involved 418 IT and security professionals and was sponsored by Token Security.

The findings illustrate how quickly agent activity can outpace the visibility and ownership structures built for conventional software.

The World Economic Forum’s May 2026 playbook reflects this shift. It introduces an Agent Capability and Authorization Profile designed to make delegated actions auditable, enforceable and accountable.

Guardrails constrain behavior. Decision rights define legitimate authority.

Give every production agent an authority contractBefore an agent receives access to enterprise tools, it needs a machine-enforceable record of exactly what authority the business has chosen to delegate. Call it an Agent Authority Contract.

At minimum, that contract should answer seven questions:

1. Who owns the outcome? Name a human or business role, not another system.
2. What may the agent do? Read, recommend, write, or commit?
3. Which systems and data may it reach?
4. What materiality limits apply? Define dollar thresholds, record counts, customer scope, and operational impact.
5. What triggers escalation? Uncertainty, anomaly, sensitive data, or potential impact?
6. Can the action be reversed, and who can reverse it?
7. When does the authority expire, and how is it withdrawn?

Access control determines whether an agent can reach a system. The authority contract determines whether it may take a specific action in the current context.

Those are not the same check.

Singapore’s updated Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI draws a similar distinction. It treats access controls, behavioral guardrails, and human approvals as separate controls and ties oversight requirements to action scope, reversibility and potential impact.

Resolve every consequential action into four outcomesA working decision-rights model should map every consequential agent action to one of four results.

AllowLow-risk, bounded, and reversible actions run autonomously.

Examples include retrieving approved information, classifying an inbound request, or updating a non-material field. The agent acts without prior review because the potential impact is limited and the action can be reversed.

ApproveThe agent prepares or initiates the action, but execution waits for authorization from a human or deterministic policy service.

This category covers payments, production changes, and actions that materially affect a customer, employee, or third party.

RecommendThe agent analyzes, ranks, drafts, or proposes. A named human makes the final decision.

Use this outcome when contextual judgment matters or when the legal, financial, or individual impact makes automated execution unacceptable.

DenyThe action remains outside the agent’s authority regardless of its confidence.

Deleting critical production data, making a final employment decision or overriding a mandatory compliance control should remain in the Deny category even when the agent’s underlying reasoning appears correct.

One point gets missed consistently: Deny must be enforced outside the system prompt.

A natural-language instruction telling an agent not to do something is not a technical boundary. It is a suggestion.

Make authority decisions at runtimeStatic configuration cannot cover every situation.

A small service credit might be allowed under normal conditions but require approval when the amount crosses a threshold, the account is under investigation, or the request involves a regulated customer.

A practical runtime sequence looks like this:

1. The agent proposes an action.
2. A policy layer evaluates the agent’s identity, delegated principal, requested tool, data involved, transaction context, and potential impact.
3. The policy returns Allow, Approve, Recommend, or Deny.
4. The system records the authority decision, resulting action and outcome.
5. Operational telemetry expands, narrows, or revokes the agent’s authority over time.

In enterprise commerce, the most dangerous AI mistake is not always a false answer. It can be a technically correct action the agent had no business taking.

A refund may be accurate but exceed an approval limit. An order change may match the customer’s request but invalidate a financing condition. A delivery promise may reflect available inventory while overlooking a carrier constraint applied an hour earlier.

The agent may not have failed to reason. The enterprise failed to define where its authority stopped.

Human oversight should target exceptions, not everythingRequiring human approval for every agent action looks conservative. At scale, it can quickly degrade into rubber-stamping.

When reviewers approve thousands of routine actions, attention declines and genuine exceptions become harder to identify. Singapore’s framework acknowledges that continuous human oversight of every agent workflow becomes impractical at scale and recommends meaningful checkpoints for higher-risk or irreversible actions.

Proportional authorization is the more workable model.

Low-risk actions run within narrow boundaries. High-risk or irreversible actions require approval. Unexpected behavior triggers escalation. Any consequential action without a defined authorization policy is denied by default.

The objective is not maximum autonomy. It is the highest level of autonomy the enterprise can observe, govern and reverse responsibly.

Measure whether authority is calibratedOnce agents are in production, response accuracy becomes too narrow a success metric.

Enterprises should also track:

• Override rate: How often do humans reject or materially change what the agent decided?
• Escalation precision: Does the agent surface genuinely risky cases, or does it return routine work to people?
• Unauthorized-action attempts: How often does the agent try to exceed its system, data, or action scope?
• Business-impacting error rate: How often do authorized actions produce financial, compliance, operational, or customer harm?
• Decision latency: Are approval requirements managing risk, or slowing down automation that was already safe?

These measures turn authority into a governed operating variable.

Consistently reliable performance may justify expanding bounded authority. Frequent overrides, escalation failures, or policy violations should narrow it.

The governance gap is not in the modelModel safety, output controls, and secure tool use all matter. Enterprises should continue investing in them.

But none of those controls can answer who delegated authority, how much was transferred, under what conditions it applies, or who owns the result when something goes wrong.

An Agent Authority Contract can.

Before asking how autonomous an AI agent can become, the more useful question is: What is the enterprise actually prepared to delegate, and how will that delegation be enforced, observed, and withdrawn?

The agent demo works. That is not the hard part anymore.

Nixal Patel is a product leader. The views expressed are his own

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As enterprise codebases grow, AI agents tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and tool calls. Dividing the work among a team of agents seems like the obvious fix, but it introduces a fatal flaw: most multi-agent systems are not designed for agents to coordinate among themselves mid-task and in real time.

To solve this, researchers at Coral AI Labs and multiple universities introduced AgentRadio, an asynchronous message-passing layer that allows agents to communicate between their execution steps without interrupting their main work. In real-world enterprise applications where subtasks are highly interdependent, this architecture enables agents to make mid-course corrections rather than continue on dead-end paths until a formal review phase.

On a benchmark of long-horizon questions over production repositories, a team of agents powered by AgentRadio nearly doubled task accuracy for four Claude Code agents working independently. It also outmatched single agents running on more advanced models. For AI practitioners, AgentRadio shows that the right coordination structure can outmatch raw compute and model scale.

The challenge of codebase understandingLLM-based agents are increasingly capable of handling long-horizon tasks that require interacting with different tools and environments. Codebase understanding represents an extreme version of this challenge. It requires an AI agent to build the software, execute it, trace execution paths across multiple files, and synthesize evidence over extended periods.

Under these conditions, single-agent systems usually break down because of a “coverage problem.”

"A single agent follows one serial path through the repository," Xinxing Ren, Caelum Forder, and Peter Carroll, co-authors of the AgentRadio paper, explained to VentureBeat. As its context grows, "the initial plan becomes harder to revise and discoveries made late in the investigation do not always propagate." The model can usually execute individual steps, but "the hard part is keeping every obligation, dependency, and piece of contradictory evidence active across a long investigation."

One benchmark that helps measure AI performance on large codebases is SWE-Atlas QnA. This benchmark consists of long-horizon, natural-language questions over live production repositories. The tasks can’t be solved by just exploring the code. AI agents must run the software and execute multiple commands to find the answers.

According to the research team’s experiments, a single Claude Code instance running on Opus 4.6 resolves just 32.3% of these tasks. Upgrading to a newer, more advanced model like Opus 4.8 only yields a 57.2% success rate.

A natural remedy is to distribute the workload across multiple agents, allowing each to work with a smaller, cleaner context. Multi-agent solutions can provide substantial performance gains when tasks are cleanly decomposable, meaning they can be solved separately and merged at the end.

Codebase understanding, however, is rarely cleanly decomposable. The subtasks are highly interdependent. A critical configuration file or a bug uncovered by one agent can completely rewrite or redirect the entire exploration path of another agent. Because of these dependencies, agents must coordinate, negotiate, and share intermediate discoveries in real time.

Despite this need, asynchronous multi-agent communication is rare. The researchers point out that existing multi-agent systems generally fall into three flawed patterns:

• Parallel but isolated: Agents operate simultaneously but do not communicate at all.
• Parallel but round-synchronized: Agents can communicate, but only at strict, synchronized round boundaries. This forces agents to stop and wait for one another to finish a round before they can debate or exchange intermediate findings. Round-based systems assume that important discoveries can wait until the next communication phase, which is an expensive assumption when agents are working on interdependent parts of a live system. For example, an agent investigating an API symptom might uncover evidence that invalidates the storage agent's current hypothesis. "If that information waits until both agents finish, the storage investigation may complete along the wrong path," the researchers said.
• Asynchrony in adjacent forms: These systems offer limited asynchronous features, such as top-down task dispatching. They don’t have peer-to-peer lateral channels between agents or shared memories that require an agent to actively pause its work to read updates.

In their paper, the researchers point out that the main bottleneck hindering current multi-agent systems is that “an agent that is working cannot also be listening.”

“To our knowledge, no existing system gives concurrently working agents passive awareness of one another over a lateral, natural-language channel,” the researchers write.

How AgentRadio worksTo dissolve the mutual exclusion between working and listening, the researchers developed AgentRadio, an asynchronous message-passing layer designed to plug directly into existing coding-agent harnesses.

AgentRadio equips agents with three primitives:

• The create_thread primitive opens a conversation between participating agents.
• The send_message primitive appends a message to a thread and returns without blocking the sending agent.
• The wait_for_mention primitive blocks the process until a message mentioning the caller arrives. It delivers the message along with a full snapshot of all threads so the agent has instant context.

This trio enables agents to have a state of “passive awareness,” where they can continue their primary tasks while passing messages and updating their knowledge in the background.

AgentRadio's code is available under the Apache 2.0 license on GitHub. It is designed to be lightweight, requiring no direct modifications to the underlying agent harnesses like Claude Code or Codex CLI.

The architecture consists of two main parts:

• The message server: A standalone process that acts as the central hub, storing all active threads, messages, and mentions for the group of agents.
• Harness-side integration: Agents interact with the server using three simple shell scripts, one corresponding to each primitive.

The only strict requirement for the system to work is that the agent harness must be able to run a shell command as a background task. The agents are instructed in their system prompts to keep one watcher running and to send messages through the provided scripts. Running the wait_for_mention script in the background allows the agent to continue its work and receive notifications asynchronously.

To integrate this into an existing stack, a team still needs a "thin adapter that starts the workers, assigns identities, connects them to the shared server, and manages final synthesis," the researchers said. That work sits around the coding agent rather than requiring changes to the underlying model.

AgentRadio in actionTo validate the real-world utility of AgentRadio, the researchers tested the framework on 124 tasks from the SWE-Atlas QnA benchmark. The tests covered domains including system design, root-cause analysis, security, and API integration.

The researchers used Claude Opus 4.6 and DeepSeek V4 Pro as the backbone models. For the harness, they evaluated configurations ranging from a single Claude Code agent (B0) to a team of agents with classic division of labor (L1), up to a team of agents using AgentRadio to coordinate asynchronously (L3).

The experimental results showed that the AgentRadio communication architecture outperforms both naive multi-agent setups and raw compute scaling.

While a single Claude Code agent with Opus 4.6 resolved only 32.3% of the tasks, the full AgentRadio setup nearly doubled that metric, resolving 62.1% of the tasks, and surpassed the single agent running on Opus 4.8, which hit 57.2%. It also boosted the DeepSeek V4 Pro results from 29.0% to 50.8%.

To understand how this practically impacts enterprise AI, the paper highlights a real-world task involving a MinIO system. Solving the task required checking per-request server logs, a requirement the agents did not anticipate during their initial planning phase.

In the L2 setting, where agents collaborate but lack asynchronous communications, two agents independently realized they needed these logs while executing commands. Because they could not share this finding mid-execution, one agent gave up privately and the other failed to propose it to the team. During the review phase, the team unanimously agreed on the wrong answer, missing five rubrics.

With AgentRadio activated, the agents made the same mid-execution discovery, but one agent instantly broadcasted the required server-side log evidence to the shared worklog. Because the other agents were passively listening, they absorbed this new evidence immediately. This real-time coordination transformed a failing score into a perfect 16 out of 16.

"The useful distinction is timing," the researchers said. "The team did not need another agent or another review round. It needed one agent's discovery to reach the right peers before its operational value expired."

The researchers note that the same pattern appears in enterprise incident work. For example, an agent investigating an API symptom might uncover evidence that invalidates the storage agent's current hypothesis. If that information waits until both agents finish, the storage investigation may complete along the wrong path. “Passive awareness lets the second agent incorporate the contradiction at its next work step without interrupting a command already in progress,” they said.

The cost and complexity of coordinationAgentRadio requires a fixed multi-agent team budget, which inherently multiplies the token cost. The researchers acknowledge that the "tax is real," noting that average API spend rose from $2.96 per task for one Opus agent to $19.45 for the full AgentRadio stack.

However, raw scale does not equal performance. When researchers compute-matched the test by spending $17.76 on six independent Opus runs, the models only resolved 37.9% of tasks, compared with 62.1% for AgentRadio. This suggests that AgentRadio's architecture is a structural win, not just a brute-force scale win. Teams should still be aware of inter-agent churn. "Communication can redirect an agent toward better evidence, and it can also distract an agent from a valid path," the researchers warned.

A fixed multi-agent team should not become the default response to every engineering task. The more useful test to determine if a multi-agent setup is required is whether the task contains "responsibility breakpoints," the researchers said. These are places "where a competent engineer would involve another person because the work crosses an ownership boundary, needs an independent hypothesis, or carries enough risk to justify separate verification."

“Coordination is a strong fit when the task can be decomposed, the resulting parts remain interdependent, the single-agent success rate is unreliable, and an incomplete answer has a meaningful downstream cost,” the researchers said. Examples include repository-wide architecture questions, unfamiliar legacy systems, cross-service incident investigation, security analysis, dependency migrations, and multi-module refactors.

Conversely, a single agent remains the cleaner choice for “bounded, local, and reversible work,” such as a known one-file change or boilerplate generation.

“Use one agent while one context can still own the problem honestly,” the researchers said. “Introduce another responsibility when the existing agent would otherwise need to compress away evidence, cross an independent ownership boundary, or verify its own high-impact conclusion.”

From research to commercialization: Coral CodeWhile AgentRadio serves as a controlled research implementation using a fixed four-agent team and a five-phase protocol, the underlying principles are being adapted into a commercial product called Coral Code.

Instead of a rigid, multi-agent protocol applied to every ticket, Coral Code works from the bottom up. An engineer begins with their existing coding agent, and Coral introduces repository-scoped investigation, specialist responsibility, and communication only when the emerging evidence justifies it. "Coral packages the operational concerns around the tools engineers already use, providing the repository context, scoped specialists, communication, and evidence layer around the harness rather than inside it," the researchers said.

This dynamic approach optimizes costs by targeting the relevant unit: the cost of a completed, reviewable outcome.

The future of autonomous software engineeringWhile AgentRadio provides a major upgrade to agent orchestration, there are still hurdles to overcome. One major bottleneck that the researchers pointed out to is “attention governance and verification.”

“Passive awareness makes communication available during execution. It does not decide which agents should exist, which discovery deserves an interruption, who should receive it, or when the evidence is strong enough to revise the plan,” the researchers said. If every agent receives every update, the communication layer becomes noise. If several agents share the same bad assumption, faster communication can spread the error.

For example, in one of the case studies in the paper that involved the Grafana platform, four of nine rubrics required negative conclusions, such as observing that a datasource picker did not select automatically. The agents ran the relevant tests, yet none formed the missing negative hypothesis. Both configurations failed the four rubrics.

“Passive awareness can distribute an idea that somebody develops. It cannot supply a conception that never appears anywhere in the team,” the researchers said.

As task durations stretch longer, communication and coordination become critical. "The next generation of systems… needs adaptive responsibility assignment, evidence-aware routing, conflict resolution, explicit cost limits, permissions, recovery, and clear human escalation points," the researchers note. Most importantly, it requires durable provenance so engineering leads can inspect which agent made a claim and why an action was accepted.

"Longer-running agents make communication more important. They also make accountability much harder to fake," they said.

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For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent — the model Claude Code and similar tools. At VB Transform 2026, James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University, argued that assumption is about to break: the next frontier isn't a single, more capable agent, it's tens of thousands of them collaborating.

For developers and product builders, the most critical takeaway from Zou’s presentation is how these massive systems are orchestrated. His team's research offers a practical blueprint for connecting legacy databases to AI orchestration layers and designing environments that enable thousands of agents to collaborate.

Emulating the organization — the virtual biotechZou’s project began as a "Virtual Lab" consisting of five to eight agents structured to mirror his physical Stanford lab. The setup included an AI professor acting as the principal investigator and AI students with distinct specialties holding regular group meetings.

"We also created for the agents a replica of Stanford, an agent school, where the agents can actually go to the school and do supervised fine-tuning to improve their expertise in their specific domains," Zou noted.

The virtual lab successfully designed new nanobody proteins for recent COVID variants.

"What is really exciting to us is that these AI-designed nanobody proteins actually worked much better than the previous human-designed nanobodies in terms of binding to the recent different viruses," Zou said.

Following this wet-lab validation, the team expanded their ambition. They transitioned from emulating a single research team to modeling a massive corporate structure.

The resulting system, dubbed the Virtual Biotech, comprises tens of thousands of specialized AI agents overseen by a Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) agent. It operates through distinct corporate divisions, such as target discovery, molecule design, and clinical trials.

"Working with the CSO agent are different divisions that mirror the divisions found in a human biotech or pharma company," Zou explained — one focused on identifying drug targets, another on designing molecules, a third on safety and clinical trials. Individual agents specialize further within a division, he said. "Under the target discovery division, we'll have one agent that specializes in looking at all the genetics data, another agent that looks at all the genomics data and single-cell data, and so on."

The multi-agent advantageAs foundation models grow more capable, developers face a core architectural dilemma: Why distribute workloads across tens of thousands of specialized agents instead of channeling all computing resources into a single, omniscient model?

Zou's team ran a head-to-head comparison of a multi-agent team against a single agent tasked with the same scientific challenge. The multi-agent ecosystem created friction and interaction that produced better solutions that were more resilient against compounding errors.

"In these scientific virtual labs, the agents actually get into debates and disagreements. They have to convince the other AI scientists [of] their ideas, and all of that elicits much more creative and robust reasoning compared to if you have a single model trying to do the problem by itself from scratch," Zou said.

The orchestration bottleneckWhen scaling to tens of thousands of agents, orchestration becomes the primary bottleneck. The system requires a unified context layer that allows agents to synthesize knowledge from various tools, datasets, and historical records.

Many enterprise teams attempt to solve data integration by wrapping existing databases with an MCP. However, legacy systems are not very friendly to agents. For instance, dropping a PDF of a research paper into an agent's context window is inefficient, and standard text models struggle to interpret complex figures and tables, leading to hallucinations.

"Even if you wrap an MCP around the existing databases and APIs, that doesn't solve the underlying problem: the interface and APIs are not suitable for agents," Zou said. He added that existing databases are designed to be consumed by humans or pre-AI algorithms.

To resolve this, Zou's team created Paperclip. The platform relies on a core strength of modern LLMs: their ability to write code and navigate file systems. Instead of forcing agents to query brittle, database-specific APIs, Paperclip digitizes unstructured data and maps disparate databases into a unified, AI-native virtual file system.

This structure allows agents to access knowledge from millions of papers using standard file-system operations.

"This basically shows that we can get much better accuracy if you use Paperclip, and we can reduce the time and the cost by over an order of magnitude compared to if you use agents without these AI-native scientific infrastructures," Zou stated.

Real-world validationTo test the practical output of this architecture, Virtual Biotech spun up 37,000 "clinical trial agents" to synthesize fragmented trial data. These agents identified single-cell features that predict trial success — drug targets supported by these features were about 50% more likely to reach market than comparable drugs without them.

The system then autonomously designed an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) targeting the CD276 protein for lung cancer. The agents completed this design autonomously, relying exclusively on data published prior to January 2025.

Several months later, Zou said, pharmaceutical company Merck independently developed and validated the same therapeutic design — which went on to receive breakthrough designation from the FDA. He characterized this as "a third-party external validation of the therapeutic design provided by the virtual biotech agents."

Designing ecosystems, not workflowsAs multi-agent systems scale, leaders must rethink how they manage these digital workforces. Zou advocated for shifting from designing rigid workflows to creating open environments. Workflows dictate the exact steps an agent should take, similar to managing a junior employee. Environments provide the infrastructure, guardrails, and incentives for agents to collaborate on open-ended problems.

"In workflows, we're trying to tell agents what to do and how to do their job. But in environments, we're providing the infrastructures, the incentives, and the guardrails, but otherwise we leave it open to incentivize agents to collaborate," Zou said.

Optimization at scale means engineering the environment rather than fine-tuning individual models. While single agents can improve via reinforcement learning or supervised fine-tuning in the agent school, the success of a massive multi-agent system relies on adjusting the parameters governing their collaboration.

"At the multi-agent [side], we're not actually fine-tuning and changing the individual models anymore, but we're optimizing the environment," Zou explained. "The environment itself is the object that we optimize to improve the agents."

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A VB Pulse survey this June found that 57% of enterprises had traced a confidently wrong agent answer back to missing or inconsistent context — the latest sign of how central context has become to whether AI agents can be trusted to act on their own.

Most of the fixes so far have solved a narrower version of that problem: one agent remembering more, in one session. What's been missing is a way for a team of agents to draw on the same context at once, and that gap is where a newer problem is surfacing. Once an agent's context is shared across a whole team, a wrong fact doesn't cost one person a repeated explanation. It costs the whole team.

Tencent's answer to that gap is Agent Memory, an open-source project the team said grew out of six months spent fixing a narrower problem: agents losing context in long sessions. Part of that system is a persona layer, a stable, distilled picture of who a user is and how they work, built up over many conversations rather than reconstructed each time. On Tencent's own benchmark for whether an agent still applies that picture correctly after extended use, accuracy rose from 48% to 76%, a 59% relative improvement, once the persona layer was added. This week, Tencent extended that project with the beta launch of Team Memory, which opens the same approach up to a whole team instead of one agent. Tencent said the repo hit No. 1 on GitHub's TypeScript trending list this week.

Agents on a team can now read from a shared memory hub instead of keeping separate, siloed context, governed through an access control layer that determines who can read what.

What Team Memory actually doesThe core idea is a shared hub rather than a shared prompt. Instead of pasting one large context block into every agent's window, Team Memory registers four kinds of reusable assets and equips each agent with only the ones it needs.

• Chat Memory. Retains preferences, facts, decisions, and interaction history, distilled through four layers, from raw conversation up to a stable long-term persona, so an agent does not need to be reintroduced to a user it has already worked with.
• Skill. Captures procedures pulled from completed work, versioned and reviewed before they are shared rather than dropped into a folder as-is.
• LLM-Wiki. Turns documents and specs into structured, linked pages.
• Code-Graph. Indexes a codebase's symbols, files, and call relationships so an agent can check what a change might affect before making it.

Tencent's documentation draws the distinction directly: "RAG answers 'what can be found?' Team Memory also answers 'who can use it, which version is valid, and which Agent should receive it.'"In practice, that's what Tencent calls an "Agent Loadout": a Scout agent doing research can be equipped with market research and competitive analysis assets, while a Builder agent gets the code graph and product docs it needs instead, rather than every agent getting access to everything.

Which assets an agent gets equipped with is governed through four visibility tiers:

• Private. Readable only by the asset's owner.
• Team. Readable by anyone on the team.
• Restricted. Gated by user, role, or agent-level access control.
• Agent. Equipped to one specific agent within a team.

New assets default to private, so sharing has to be a deliberate action rather than something that happens automatically.

What happens when a memory is wrongThat access model answers a real question, who is allowed to read a given memory asset. It does not answer a second one, which is what happens once a memory asset turns out to be wrong. Tencent's own documentation lays out ownership, versioning, and status tracking for each asset, but nothing in the documentation describes a correction or expiry process for a fact that's already been read and reused by other agents on a team, or a way to resolve it when two agents' memories of the same thing disagree.

That gap is what practitioners flagged within hours of the launch post.

"Shared memory makes the write path the interesting problem. Retrieval gets most of the attention, but a wrong fact written once now propagates to every teammate's agent instead of just yours. Curious how the governance layer handles correction and expiry," Blake Murphy wrote on X.

The concern wasn't only about fixing a bad fact after the fact. It was about the decision to leave something out of the record in the first place. "the governed part is the hard part. once teammates' agents can read each other's context, someone has to decide what never gets written down," Virgil Maro wrote on X.

Others pushed further into what happens once two agents' memories actively contradict each other, not just go stale.

"The Code-Graph plus LLM-Wiki split is the right call. The part I'd want to see benchmarked: in shared mode, whose memory wins when two teammates' agents have written contradicting facts about the same module? Single-agent memory drifts slowly. Shared memory drifts fast, because one stale write propagates to people who never saw the session that produced it," Austin Green wrote on X.

The reaction wasn't uniformly critical. "Interesting shift: making memory a shared service turns agents into a real team rather than isolated bots. Governance will be the trickiest part, especially when facts conflict," Moez Zhioua wrote on X.

None of these are edge cases specific to Tencent's implementation. A March 2026 paper on production multi-agent memory architecture, "Governed Memory: A Production Architecture for Multi-Agent Workflows," published independently of any single vendor, identifies governance fragmentation and silent quality degradation without feedback loops as structural risks in shared multi-agent memory generally. The pattern the paper describes matches what the commenters above pointed at directly: a wrong fact in a single-agent memory system costs one user a repeated correction, while the same wrong fact in a shared, team-wide memory system propagates to every agent that inherited it before anyone catches it.

How Team Memory comparesAI agent memory work in 2026 has mostly focused on a single agent remembering more, in one session, about one user: LangChain's LangMem SDK, Google's Always On Memory Agent, and Anthropic's work inside the Claude Agent SDK all work this way. A different line of work has focused on giving agents access to a shared model of business data. VB's own June survey found only 25% of enterprises had that kind of governed context layer in production, while vendors including AWS, Couchbase, Oracle, Redis, and Pinecone have all shipped versions of it this year.

Team Memory's closest existing comparison is likely Asana, which built shared memory across a company's AI teammates so an agent doesn't need to be re-briefed on context another agent already has. Asana's CPO described the same tradeoff Tencent's practitioners are now raising, an access control system built specifically to stop one agent's memory from leaking into a project another agent isn't cleared to see. Tencent's version is open-source and portable across frameworks rather than scoped to one platform, but it's answering a question Asana's team already ran into while building a closed one.

For teams evaluating this category, the upside is real: agents stop relearning what the team already knows. The tradeoff is just as real: one bad write is no longer contained to one agent — it's inherited by every agent that reads from the shared pool, with no correction or expiry process yet in place to catch it.

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Borderlands 4 is coming on September 12 on the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and the Windows PC. I had a chance to play it for a few hours in a preview session, and I liked how familiar it felt. The action role-playing first-person shooter looter game is now priced at $70 instead of the previously floated $80, per Gearbox Softwa…Read More

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NetEase Games is launching Season 2 of Dunk City Dynasty, adding Jayson Tatum and a community competition with a prize pool of $10,000.Read More

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Anthropic is developing “interpretable” AI, where models let us understand what they are thinking and arrive at a particular conclusion.Read More

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Google launches production-ready Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash AI models for enterprises while introducing cost-efficient Flash-Lite to challenge OpenAI's market dominance.Read More

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Despite the strong reaction, OpenAI had in fact already announced the plan to deprecate GPT-4.5 Preview back in April 2025.Read More

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Treehouse Games' Michael Chu talks about how players helped guide the development of upcoming title Voyagers of Nera.Read More

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Microsoft announced an agreement with AMD to co-engineer silicon across a portfolio of devices, including the next-generation Xbox consoles.Read More

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The games industry's days of double-digit growth are behind it, according to MIDiA's sobering new Global Forecast report for 2025.Read More

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Neon Machine, the developer and publisher of the Web3 first-person shooter Shrapnel, announced it has settle an investor lawsuit filed in 2023. Neon said it expects the settlement to be submitted for court approval in due course. By entering into this settlement agreement, Shrapnel looks forward to bringing this matter to a close. The team is makin…Read More

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Despite overall user numbers rising year-over-year, a freefall in third-party revenue paints a less rosy image for the Epic Games Store.Read More

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With a few hundred well-curated examples, an LLM can be trained for complex reasoning tasks that previously required thousands of instances.Read More

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One DeepHermes-3 user reported a processing speed of 28.98 tokens per second on a MacBook Pro M4 Max consumer hardware.Read More

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Perplexity's Deep Research tool matches $75,000/month enterprise AI capabilities, forcing OpenAI and Google to justify premium pricing.Read More

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Astro Bot from Team Asobi took home five major awards at the Dice Awards, including Game of the Year. The game, which Sony said last night sold 1.5 million copies, also won awards for Outstanding Achievement in Animation, Outstanding Technical Achievement, Family Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Design. Solo game developer LocalThu…Read More

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Developers beware of the haunting downsides of changes to a game’s in-app purchase models. It turns out they can be so catastrophic that they can take the entire game down with them. Such is the case with the iOS version of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, itself a remaster of a 2003 GameCube game then ported to mobile platforms. On all vers…Read More

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Astronomer launches Astro Observe, an AI-powered data observability platform that combines orchestration and monitoring.Read More

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SAP's Databricks-powered Business Data Cloud will give teams a faster, simpler way to unify and mobilize their business data assets.Read More

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Ready Makers Inc. won a legal victory against its Ready Maker Ltd. subsidiary when a Gibraltar court ordered a freeze on its Web3 tokens.Read More

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PIN AI told VentureBeat they will make money by charging transaction fees for other AI agents to access users' information.Read More

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Skybound Entertainment, owner of The Walking Dead, announced the acquisition of Maple Media from Shamrock Capital.Read More

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Josef Fares has had a foot in both the worlds of film and video games, but he's not split when it comes to his game strategy.Read More

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Let’s face it. I died a lot in Split Fiction when I played it with a partner at a preview event held by Hazelight and Electronic Arts. But I got right back up and went back into the fray. And I really enjoyed my time with the split-screen co-op action adventure game. Split Fiction, is coming out on the consoles and PC on March 6, 2025, for $5…Read More

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Use Gemini Deep Research to produce industry reports or ask it to identify new opportunities or helpful insights to grow your business.Read More

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LinkedIn's collaborative prompt engineering playground helps bridge the gap between engineers and product managers.Read More

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NVIDIA GTC is the best opportunity to explore the future of AI, and the powerful partnership of Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA AI solutions.Read More

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Sony reported a significant increase in PlayStation business sales of 1,682.3 billion yen in the holiday quarter, up 237.9 billion yen, or 16%.Read More

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CrowdStrike is launching Charlotte AI Detection Triage, saving SOC teams over 40 hours a week and delivering over 98% accuracy.Read More

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Housemarque's latest game is Saros, a follow-up on its successful 3PS, Returnal, set to launch sometime in 2026.Read More

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Altman is the rare CEO to admit that the number of models the company released has made their core products more complicated to use.Read More

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The now-retired Activision CEO Bobby Kotick did not think much of his rival at Electronic Arts, according to a new interview.Read More

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Training LLMs and VLMs through reinforcement learning delivers better results than using hand-crafted examples.Read More

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Next to GDC, the GamesBeat Crossfire Lounge on March 18 will be an exclusive, invite-only verbal smackdown hosted by Dean Takahashi.Read More

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Thunderful Gothenburg announced today it has rebranded as Stormteller Games, with a cultural refresh to its development approach.Read More

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Qualcomm unveiled AI technologies and collaborations for PCs, cars, smart homes and enterprises at CES 2025. At the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, Qualcomm Technologies showed how it’s using AI capabilities in its chips to drive the transformation of user experiences across diverse device categories, including PCs, automobiles, smart homes…Read More

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MeetKai, a startup with AI and immersive technology, is launching an AI-based OS as software for AI-powered smart glasses.Read More

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Alphabeats, which provides mental performance for athletes, has partnered with sleep measurement firm SleepScore Labs.Read More

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The Ulticam security camera brand has a new model out today: the Ulticam IQ Floodlight, an edge AI-powered home security camera.Read More

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Intel unveiled new Intel Core Ultra 9 processors today at CES 2025 with as much as two or three times the edge performance on AI apps.Read More

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SolidddVision smartglasses, which correct vision for people living with vision loss due to macular degeneration, will debut at CES.Read More

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Intuition Robotics, creators of the award-winning ElliQ AI companion robot, announced a new ElliQ solution to help caregivers.Read More

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L’Oréal Groupe announced at CES 2025 the L’Oréal Cell BioPrint, a hardware device that provides customized skin analysis in just five minutes.Read More

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For this year’s lineup, Samsung said that AI will come to life in more ways than just great picture quality. The company is introducing AI-backed experiences to make your day simpler, more dynamic, and just plain better. Announced at CES 2025, these experiences will help usher in a new era for Samsung TVs known as Vision AI. Vision AI will de…Read More

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Halliday has come up with eyewear we didn't know we needed: smart glasses with no lenses. Welcome to the age of AI smart glasses.Read More

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Lymow said the Lymow One is the world's first smart robotic mower with mulching blades and tracked threads.Read More

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This is how smart your smartphone is getting. Now it will be able to analyze your saliva and do a real-time hormone test.Read More

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Timekettle has unveiled the Babel OS, its first-ever operating system designed to redefine its language translation earbuds.Read More

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Doublepoint has released its WowMouse app for Apple Watch, which you can use to control your Mac devices with gestures.Read More

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The tech market in the U.S. is expected to grow a few percent in 2025 to $537 billion, so long as there isn't a trade war.Read More

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In 2025, augmented mentality will emerge from the convergence of AI agents, conversational computing and augmented reality.Read More

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Reelables is showing a new way to track shipped packages using inexpensive paper-based electronics that are on one side of a shipping label.Read More

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So-called fake data centers are a bottleneck to scaling infrastructure to keep up with compute demand for AI and other critical workloads.Read More

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Nuwa Pen is a smart ballpoint pen that digitizes the words you write on paper as you write them. Can smart pens make a comeback?Read More

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Date Everything is one of 2025's most unusual titles. Sassy Chap's Robbie Daymond speaks about the game's creation and launch.Read More

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Mapping ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode to the new physical Action Button on the side of newer iPhones, just above the volume up and down.Read More

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Next week at the CES 2025 trade show in Las Vegas, we'll once again be able to see and hear about the latest tech trends in person.Read More

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Visionary Realms is an ambitious game studio that recently launched early access for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, a classic fantasy MMO.Read More

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By thinking about recommendation as a generative problem, you can tackle it from new angles and use LLMs to better understand user intent.Read More

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Swave Photonics, a holographic display company, has raised $28.27 million in funding as it prepares components for AI-powered smart glasses.Read More

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Later, an influencer marketing and social media management firm, is acquiring social influencer app Mavely for $250 million.Read More

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AARP has started its AgeTech Investor Network, aimed at helping startups get off the ground in the AgeTech market.Read More

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Yat Siu, executive chairman of Animoca Brands, has made 540 investments into blockchain games. We talked to him about the 2025 outlook.Read More

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Here's how business leaders can use a hacker’s problem-solving approach to to improve their own leadership skills.Read More

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Parallels between our brains and vector databases go deeper than retrieval. Both excel at compression, organizing and identifying patterns.Read More

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2025 needs to be the year identity providers go all in on improving every aspect of software quality and security, including red teaming.Read More

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A potential repeal of President Biden's AI rules could mean enterprises will have trouble navigating state-specific laws.Read More

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Google's Gemini-Exp-1114 AI model tops key benchmarks, but experts warn traditional testing methods may no longer accurately measure true AI capabilities or safety, raising concerns about the industry's current evaluation standards.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Nearly 28% of the global workforce works remotely, and 38% of the global workforce are freelancers who don’t commute to traditional office spaces: remote work is here to stay. While it offers a number of advantages both for employers and employees, it isn’t without its drawbacks, including a plethora of distractions and an incr…Read More

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Matthew Bromberg painted a path forward for game developers in one of his first public talks as Unity CEO at GamesBeat Next 2024.Read More

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I hope you’re ready for the GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games event, our next conference for the GamesBeat community. I’ve been looking forward to talking about our next half-day event on December 12 in Los Angeles. It seems like we just finished GamesBeat Next 2024 to look at technologies and strategies at the edge of the g…Read More

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Reforged Labs announced today that it's launching its AI-based ad-creation service, built specifically for mobile game studios, in open beta.Read More

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Basejump unveiled its social gaming platform with an AI-powered gaming substrate dubbed Action that lets players create their own games.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Live commerce and the sports collectibles industries are both booming. There’s one place that sports fans are all going after work and no, it’s not the nearest sports bar. At night, fans are flocking to Loupe, where they can extend the game day excitement and connect with fellow sports fans for another live experience, but one…Read More

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Distill Web gives users the ability to look up of 300,000-and-counting public companies and generate polished financial reports.Read More

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The company debuted new tools for Cortex AI, its fully managed offering for developing conversational AI apps.Read More

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Don’t let anything, least of all AI, cheat you out of what is creatively possible. Go forth and write your own story.Read More

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The companies also envision a future where 3D tools are more accessible to smaller businesses and non-professional creators.Read More

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ChatGPT on Mac OS can launch VS Code, Xcode, Terminal and iTerm2 straight from the desktop app.Read More

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Anthropic introduces new AI tools, including a prompt improver and example management, designed to automate prompt engineering, boost accuracy by 30%, and enhance enterprise AI development.Read More

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Ultimately, AI agents will be able to perceive (process and interpret data), plan, act (with or without a human in the loop), reflect, learn from feedback and improve over time.Read More

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Discover how to build a robust data stack for your AI agents and unlock the full potential of generative AI.Read More

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Interest in AI agents is high, and as enterprises get more comfortable with agents, 2025 may be the year AI agents finally go into production.Read More

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Public benchmarks are designed to evaluate general LLM capabilities. Custom evals measure LLM performance on specific tasks.Read More

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In the race to harness the transformative power of gen AI, enthusiasm alone won't generate returns.Read More

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When should enterprises build custom in-house AI agents, adopt third-party models, or use open source tools?Read More

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Into 2025 and beyond, a strategic, responsible and intentional approach to enterprise AI adoption is critical for long-term success on meaningful projects.Read More

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Telegram has emerged as a key development platform for Web3 games, capturing 21% of new Web3 game launches this year, Game7 said.Read More

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It's the weaponized AI attacks targeting identities, unseen and often the most costly to recover from that most threaten enterprises.Read More

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Many early AI agents tend to be singularly-purposed or IT-driven. Sema4.ai says it is the differentiator for diverse horizontal use cases.Read More

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Resolution Games' mixed-reality first-person shooter Spatial Ops has officially launched on Quest and PICO platforms.Read More

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Bit Odd has, a studio in Finland led by Lasse Louhento, has raised $18.2 million (€17 million) in funding to make mobile games.Read More

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Apple TV+ today announced that the fourth season of its hit comedy Mythic Quest will debut on January 29.Read More

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Intelligent voice moderation solutions slash problematic behavior in VR experiences. Learn more in this GamesBeat Next 2024 panel recap.Read More

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Puzzle, a fintech startup, launches an AI-powered accounting platform that automates 90% of routine tasks, aiming to support accountants and streamline business finances.Read More

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Ruckus Games has raised $19 million in funding to disrupt the multiplayer gaming landscape with an RPG shooter.Read More

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Following the success of its previous investments, casual game publisher SayGames plans to offer a further $30 million to studios around the world. The company plans to focus its funding efforts on hybrid-casual mobile games and says it’s open to finding cultivating new long-term partnerships with studios whose games fall under that umbrella.…Read More

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AMD has a new batch of AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processors with integrated graphics and the company says its thin-and-light laptops are as much as 75% faster than Intel rivals. The thin-and-light laptops enable you to play games even if you’re not just confined to desktops or consoles in the home. Now you can play games in between classes or w…Read More

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Immutable and Sequence, two companies that support Web3 game development, announced a strategic partnership and technical integration.Read More

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A smart combination of quantization and sparsity allows BitNet LLMs to become even faster and more compute/memory efficientRead More

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Microsoft collaborates with Siemens, Bayer, and Rockwell Automation to launch industry-specific AI models designed to boost efficiency in manufacturing, agriculture, and finance through tailored AI solutions available via Azure AI.Read More

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The Ricochet anti-cheat system for Call of Duty games can block cheaters before they play or as they play a match and before they can win.Read More

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Disney is reportedly considering Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson as a successor to Disney CEO Bob Iger, the Wall Street Journal said.Read More

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To further support adoption of local AI solutions, Exo Labs is preparing to launch a free benchmarking website next week.Read More

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AMD said today it will lay off 4% of its global staff, or perhaps somewhat less than 1,000 of its estimated 26,000-person workforce.Read More

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Blizzard announced several new products and events to celebrate the Warcraft franchise's 30th anniversary during a special video presentation today.Read More

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Roblox is launching thumbnail personalization to help creators attract more users by showing the most relevant thumbnail to each user.Read More

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Proof of Play, the maker of Web3 game Pirate Nation, announced today the launch of Season 3 on November 14.Read More

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Women-Led Games and the Latin American Games Showcase are bringing two showcases to The Game Awards this December.Read More

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Amazon Prime Video said the Secret Level streaming show will debut on December 10 as an anthology of stories set inside your favorite video game worlds.Read More

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Team Liquid, the global professional esports organization, launched MyBlue, a native fan engagement platform built on the Sui blockchain.Read More

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ServiceNow is looking to solve a key enterprise AI adoption challenge, with the debut of new governance capabilities to give organizations more confidence in AI outcomes.Read More

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Monster Hunter Outlanders is a new mobile game coming from TiMi Studio Group of Tencent Games and franchise creator Capcom.Read More

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Nazara Technologies has teamed up with Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) to launch "gCommerce" in India.Read More

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Modern Times Group has agreed to buy Plarium, the maker of RPG Raid: Shadow Legends, from Aristocrat Leisure for $620 million. MTG is acquiring 100% of Plarium Global, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based game studio with a long history of success in mid-core mobile games. MTG said the acquisition will substantially improve its already strong cash flow generat…Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: From 2024 to 2031, there will be an annual growth of 26.00% in AI and blockchain and Spectral Labs is taking part in this revolution. Spectral Labs is on a mission to change the way users interact with decentralized finance (DeFi) using AI-powered onchain agents. These autonomous agents allow users to do complex financial tasks…Read More

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Writer CEO May Habib explains the four things companies need to know before setting off on their agentic AI journey.Read More

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Organizations have already started upgrading from vanilla RAG pipelines to agentic RAG, thanks to the wide availability of large language models with function calling capabilities and new agentic frameworks.Read More

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Alibaba's new AI coding assistant, Qwen2.5-Coder, challenges GPT-4o with state-of-the-art code generation, offering free and open-source AI tools to developers worldwide despite U.S. chip restrictions.Read More

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Immersive Gamebox and Netflix have teamed up to launch a new gaming experience based on the Floor is Lava show at physical venues globally.Read More

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The platform for data agents enables teams to easily and safely advance their businesses with data-driven insights they can act on to deliver measurable impact.Read More

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The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) found that 76% of U.S. kids are asking for video games as gifts for the holiday season.Read More

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Neon has raised $14 million in funding to build its direct-to-consumer digital store platform to help make game companies more independent.Read More

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In this age of AI, enterprises need to be able to quickly access and extract value from edge data. Here's how Dell is helping them do it.Read More

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Box debuts its largest set of updates ever, with agent driven enterprise AI data studio and no code apps.Read More

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Magic Story, an AI-powered media platform for kids to create adventures, has launched its customized books and subscription platform.Read More

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Advanced Micro Devices announced its Versal Premium Series Gen 2 chip platform for data center customers doing AI processing and other work.Read More

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Mobile gaming is expected to generate $98.7 billion in revenue globally this year, with Asia leading the market at $65 billion.Read More

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DataRobot aims to boost AI success with a new Enterprise Suite featuring pre-built templates, AI agents, observability and governance tools.Read More

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Georgia Tech has joined Apple's initiative aimed at preparing students for hardware technology, computer architecture and chip design.Read More

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Fastino emerges from stealth with $7 million in pre-seed funding to advance task optimized enterprise AI models that don’t require a GPU to run.Read More

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Lightspeed Studios, a division of Tencent, said that it has established Lightspeed Japan Studio, a new game development studio headed by game director Hideaki Itsuno. The studio will be focused on the development of original triple-A action game titles, marking a major step in Lightspeed Studios’ global expansion. The new studio will have offices i…Read More

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Animoca Brands has raised an additional $10 millino for Mocaverse, a platform for building an open metaverse.Read More

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While several companies offer LLM-powered tools for data analysis, Connecty claims to stand out with its context graph-based approach.Read More

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Nintendo's famous game designer Shigeru Miyamoto showed off the Donkey Kong Country area at Super Nintendo World.Read More

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Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3's source code to academics, marking a significant advance in AI-powered molecular biology and drug discovery, while balancing open science with commercial interests in the wake of its creators' Nobel Prize win.Read More

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Genvid Entertainment has revealed the first story details for its upcoming interactive series/mobile roguelite hybrid, DC Heroes United.Read More

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The GDC has granted Amir Satvat's Games Community a total of 240 GDC Expo Passes (worth $108,000) for game job seekers.Read More

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Microsoft is touting a deep dive trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Here's my interview with one of the game's designers.Read More

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Northflank raises $22.3M to simplify cloud deployment, offering developers a third path between inflexible platforms and costly internal tools, with backing from Bain Capital Ventures.Read More

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It can make both video and audio from text prompts, and allow users to customize their own videos, adding special effects, props, costumes.Read More

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Look North World and Hasbro are partnering to bring classic board games to Fortnite via UEFN -- starting with Clue as a murder mystery game.Read More

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KOR Protocol, a Web entertainment protocol that reshapes intellectual property management, launched its Telegram music game Enkor.Read More

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Immutable Passport sign-ups surpassed a milestone of three million this week, a 2,500% increase since the launch in early 2024.Read More

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Identifying potential deepfake multimodal content is one of the benefits of OpenAI's design decisions that together define GPT-4o.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: From startups to industry giants like TikTok, companies are increasingly turning to AI to improve online sales. Digital advertising is moving five times faster than inflation in the U.S.; 71% faster than the costs of TV ads. Further, the average customer acquisition cost (CAC) in e-commerce has risen more than 60 percent over t…Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: XenTag is providing brands and creators with a unique solution to break creative barriers and introduce superior, limited-edition products into their product lines. After ten years in the GPS and telematics solutions industries, CEO Vishal Singh and his team discovered the convergence point between blockchain and NFC technology…Read More

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3thix is partnering with Avalanche to launch a decentralized ad data layer on the Layer 1 blockchain, offering an ad solution without compromising privacy.Read More

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The more data the Reflection 70B creators publish about the model, the more evidence the open source AI community has to pore over.Read More

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Cohere unveils advanced AI fine-tuning tools for enterprises, revolutionizing customization of language models with improved performance and efficiency.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: As artificial intelligence continues to transform industries, a select few development studios have emerged as trusted partners, providing the technological infrastructure and innovation that enable high-growth companies to scale and compete. Lateral, founded in 2008, is one such firm — quietly powering several emerging A…Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: The secondary market for private company stock has emerged as an economically vital ecosystem for millions of U.S. private company employees and institutional investors. A steady and dramatic trend of the past 20 years is that companies are waiting longer to IPO, from roughly five years in 2000 to nearly 12 years today. A…Read More

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Canvas is rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users, with subscribers to Enterprise and Edu tiers following in a few days.Read More

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DreamWorld announced that it is launching a playtest on Steam where it shows it can use AI to generate 3D assets based on text prompts.Read More

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Microsoft unveils Drasi, a groundbreaking open-source data processing system that simplifies event-driven architectures and revolutionizes cloud-native development for improved efficiency and real-time responsiveness.Read More

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Flux 1.1 Pro image generation is priced at USD $0.04 per image, while the older Flux 1.0 Pro is available at $0.05.Read More

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In a world of ever-declining revenue margins for game developers, direct-to-consumer is becoming essential.Read More

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Multiplayer battle arena game Moonray Studio announced its mobile Autobattler game is coming in the first quarter of 2025.Read More

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Credo AI's Integrations Hub connects AI Ops platforms and business tools to one central compliance service.Read More

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During the summer, Ukraine’s victories winning Olympic gold medals in Paris made me think about the country’s resilience in the face of overwhelming odds. And just as you can see this strong drive among the athletes in sports, you can also see the spirit of resistance in the games that Ukraine is making. I just watched War Game: The Mak…Read More

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Avarra raised $8 million and it is launching its first AI-avatar-based enterprise app that uses AI avatars to train human salespeople.Read More

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Enterprise RAG accuracy needs better embeddings and that’s what Voyage AI provides with models that will be coming to Snowflake Cortex AI users.Read More

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Supermodel Heidi Klum and Supersocial, a maker of Roblox games, announced the launch of Modelverse on the popular Roblox platform.Read More

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Global venture capital activity declined in Q3, confirming that 2024 will be another weak year for venture investments and exits, according to the Q3 2024 Pitchbook/NVCA Venture Monitor First Look. By just about every number, Q3 was weak and 2024 overall doesn’t compare well in terms of numbers of deals, average deal size, VC fundraising, exi…Read More

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Maximum Football is a free-to-play game in the sports game genre, which is dominated by premium titles. How does it plan to succeed?Read More

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ScaNN vector index in AlloyDB delivers up to four times faster vector queries and up to eight-fold faster index build times.Read More

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Vera AI launches its AI Gateway platform, offering businesses customizable guardrails and model routing to accelerate safe and responsible AI deployment while addressing last-mile challenges in enterprise AI adoption.Read More

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If a primary goal of education is to prepare kids for the future, IT leaders play a more pivotal role than ever.Read More

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Lamborghini and Animoca Brands' division Motorverse have teamed up to include the car maker's iconic vehicles in the Fast ForWorld Web3 racing game.Read More

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Accenture has formed an Nvidia business group with 30,000 professionals to receive training to help enterprises scale up for the AI era.Read More

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Return Entertainment, a Finland game developer making cloud games for Samsung smart TVs, has reported positive early success with its titles in the U.S.Read More

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Nvidia has released NVLM 1.0, a powerful open-source AI model that rivals GPT-4 and Google’s systems, marking a major breakthrough in multimodal language models for vision and text tasks.Read More

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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney opened the Unreal Fest Seattle event today with an update on news that included a blistering criticism of monopolistic platform owners.Read More

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The new Pikaffects can transform imagery and pre-recorded video subjects into bizarrely malleable versions of themselves.Read More

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Sometimes, the LLMs have the internal knowledge to self-correct their responses. They just need the right training technique to use it.Read More

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Digic Studios shares insights with GamesBeat on an unsung part of game development: How do you make a trailer for a video game?Read More

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Stanford researchers presented Archon, a framework that can cut down on inference costs and allow LLMs to perform better.Read More

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With few exceptions, the updates all leverage AI in an effort to create a more personalized and powerful experience for users.Read More

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Mostly AI's synthetic text tool can generate question-and-answer pairs, enabling enterprises to train smarter customer service chatbots.Read More

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Epic Games announced it's reducing its royalty rates for Unreal games, but only if they're launched day one on its Store.Read More

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OpenAI's DevDay 2024 unveils game-changing tools for developers, including 1000x cost reduction, Vision Fine-Tuning, Realtime API, and Model Distillation, signaling a strategic shift towards empowering its AI ecosystem.Read More

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Nvidia released its latest tech for creating AI-powered characters who look and behave like real humans.Read More

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Equinix has raised $15 billion in funding to expand its xScale data centers for AI, particularly for investments in the U.S.Read More

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CryptoKitties are back, this time as a mini-game on the Flow blockchain on the Telegram messenger platform.Read More

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Devolver Digital's latest subsidiary is a publishing label, Big Fan Games, aimed at helping indie developers create licensed titles.Read More

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DataPelago has just emerged from stealth but is already claiming to deliver a five-fold reduction in query/job latency while providing significant cost benefits.Read More

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AMD launched its Epyc Embedded 8004 Series processors, driving its high-performance, low-wattage computing into the embedded market. Over the years, AMD has set the industry standard with its Epyc embedded processors offering exceptional performance, efficiency, connectivity, and innovation for networking, storage, and industrial applications. Toda…Read More

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Pop star Joe Jonas has joined PlanetPlay's Make Green Tuesday Moves, an initiative of raising environmental awareness through gaming.Read More

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Gov. Gavin Newsom's veto of SB 1047 has been hailed by some industry veterans as good for open source innovation.Read More

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From explicit fact retrieval to hidden rationales, all you need to know about data-augmented LLM applications.Read More

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The startup from MIT's CSAIL says its Liquid Foundation Models have smaller memory needs thanks to a post-transformer architecture.Read More

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Epic Games is suing Google again, along with Samsung, for allegedly making the EGS install procedure prohibitively difficult on mobile.Read More

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Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is shaping up to become a special treat for classic JRPG fans like me.Read More

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Open NotebookLM, a free open-source AI tool developed in one day, challenges Google's NotebookLM by converting PDFs to podcasts, highlighting rapid AI development and its implications.Read More

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Google NotebookLM product leader Raiza Martin says her team will be adding new updates to allow users to control more of the Audio Overviews.Read More

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Dot9 Games and Nazara said the FAU-G: Domination mobile shooter game supported by the Indian military has gotten a million pre-registrations.Read More

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Kenji Matsubara joined SNK three years ago as CEO of a Japanese game company with a rich heritage in fighting games like King of Fighters.Read More

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Artisan, a startup aiming to replace traditional sales software with AI-powered virtual employees, announced on Monday that it has raised $11.5 million in seed funding. The company’s first AI assistant, named Ava, automates many tasks typically handled by business development representatives, like researching leads and crafting personalized o…Read More

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GUEST: AI is rapidly evolving, poised to transform the workplace in ways that were thought of as science fiction only a few years ago. For example, Google recently updated its NotebookLM, an AI-powered research assistant and note-taking tool, with Audio Overview to turn documents into audio discussions. Writing in ArsTechnica, Kyle Orland describes…Read More

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Today’s AI systems can’t earn our trust by sharing the reasoning behind what they say, because there is no such reasoning.Read More

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Nintendo gave fans a glimpse behind the curtain for Echoes of Wisdom, revealing more details about its development and director Tomomi Sano.Read More

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I made it to Japan this week for my first Tokyo Game Show. Yes, in 27 years of regular coverage of games, I have never been to the show until now.Read More

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Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative (SFI) and Apple's Private Cloud Compute (PCC)'s goals are to harden cloud security and privacy at scale.Read More

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Cohere has confirmed that the V1 suite of APIs will continue to be supported for developers who are not yet ready to migrate.Read More

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Look North World revealed its latest UGC game: Tower of Heck: Super Only Up, a UEFN island created by FarBridge Studio.Read More

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Discover how to access Meta's advanced Llama 3.2 Vision AI model for free through Together AI's demo, enabling developers to explore cutting-edge multimodal AI capabilities without cost barriers.Read More

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Google said it plans to roll out agents slowly through Workspace as Gemini begins to show productivity gains for customers.Read More

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Monopoly Go is getting a big crossover event with Marvel through the end of the year, bringing superheroes to Scopely's title.Read More

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CCP Shanghai has announced that it's launching its mobile 4X strategy title, called EVE Galaxy Conquest, is October 29.Read More

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Getting compliance, cybersecurity, and governance orchestrated as part of an AI infrastructure helps AI teams find roadblocks.Read More

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AI-based applications create a platform for businesses to drive revenue and market share, but the transformation can be difficult to achieve.Read More

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Software may run AI orchestration, but the AI infrastructure will be nowhere without hardware that enables orchestration tools to run well.Read More

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AI accelerators and chips can help enterprises support select low- to medium-intensive AI workloads with better total cost of ownership.Read More

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In this age of AI, more enterprises adopting hybrid infrastructures, as they can exploit the different advantages of cloud, edge and on-prem.Read More

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What is the minimum viable infrastructure enterprises need? from data storage and LLMs, and integration and development resources.Read More

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Nvidia has earmarked $110 million to invest in "sovereign AI" startups, and many countries are investing in AI on their own.Read More

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Discord is rolling out access to its Activities platform for all developers who want to make and distribute games and other apps.Read More

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Ken Kutaragi, father of the PlayStation, gave an opening keynote at the Tokyo Game Show where he said the game industry could grow by more than 10 times to 100 times as it kicks off the age of real-time computing. Kutaragi did a fireside chat with Katsuhiko Hayashi of Kadokawa Game Linkage. Kutaragi said his dream is to see games continue on a prog…Read More

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Airtable has unveiled a new enterprise AI platform, featuring App Library and HyperDB, aimed at helping businesses deploy AI into critical workflows and realize returns on massive AI investments.Read More

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Ensemble raises $3.3M for "dark matter" AI tech, enhancing machine learning with improved data representation to solve previously impossible problems.Read More

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Using natural language prompts, Redbird AI agents can handle all analytical tasks, right from data collection to reporting.Read More

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Distance Technologies has raised $11.2 million for to further develop glasses-free mixed reality apps for enterprises.Read More

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The PostgreSQL 17 database update includes new features that enterprise data professionals are going to benefit from.Read More

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Meta has revealed its new Meta Quest 3S headset, which launches on October 15 and comes bundled with Batman: Arkham Shadow.Read More

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Gaxos.AI has launched its Gaxos Labs AI development tools so game developers can increase revenue and empower player creativity.Read More

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The models are not only high-performing but also entirely open, allowing researchers and developers to access and build upon them.Read More

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Resolution Games' latest title is Home Sports, a mixed reality title where players on Meta Quest 3 and 3S headsets can play five sports.Read More

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OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati resigns amid leadership turmoil and restructuring plans, signaling potential shifts in the AI industry's landscape.Read More

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Intuit is expanding its GenOS platform with agentic AI capabilities to help businesses get more done.Read More

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If a product or service is marketed as AI-driven, it must deliver clear and measurable benefits rather than vague promises.Read More

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Meta's Llama Stack transforms enterprise AI deployment with cross-platform compatibility, simplified integration and partnerships with major cloud providers.Read More

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Roblox announced it's opening its Marketplace further, offering creators the option to sell their items in bundles.Read More

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Meta has created CYBERSECEVAL 3, a new suite of security benchmarks for LLMs that benchmark AI models' security risks and capabilities.Read More

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Anthropic said it will reveal more details on the instructions for its Claude models and the Artifacts feature after researchers called its previous release incomplete.Read More

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Luma is also aiding in bringing new AI video users along for the ride by also showing a small 3D animation pop-out beside each camera motion.Read More

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Google integrates Gemini AI into Chrome's address bar, revolutionizing web browsing and marking a significant step towards AI-driven internet interaction for millions of users worldwide.Read More

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As AI continues to reshape the job market, individuals taking the initiative to learn AI tools may find themselves at a significant advantage.Read More

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PlayStation and Firewalk Studios have decided to pull Concord from sale, taking the game offline two weeks after launch and issuing refunds.Read More

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NaNoWriMo champions the freedom for writers to choose their own methods, whether they involve traditional approaches or AI tools.Read More

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Tetris turned 40 this year and it's still a game that people just keep on playing. Maya Rogers calls it the perfect game.Read More

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We talked with the leaders at Machine Games about making the big game of the fall: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.Read More

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DeepMind's GenRM trains LLMs to verify responses based on next-token prediction and chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning.Read More

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Steve Arhancet of Team Liquid, took a measured look whether his esports team should participate in the Esports World Cup.Read More

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Sandbox VR, the operator of a chain of location-based virtual reality experiences, plans for a big expansion with franchisees.Read More

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Dean Takahashi speaks to Berkley Egenes of Xsolla about opportunities for developers in mobile gaming’s post-DMA era and more.Read More

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In tests, all baselines achieved no more than 20% accuracy, while table-augmented generation did far better with 40% or better accuracy.Read More

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Safeguarding revenue and minimizing business risks will dominate CISOs' budgets next year, starting with APIs and software supply chains.Read More

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Mysten Labs, the Web3 company supporting the Sui blockchain, has launched preorders for the SuiPlay0X1 gaming handheld.Read More

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The emerging discipline focuses on real-world application of AI research rooted in engineering — bringing science together with raw materials.Read More

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We have already invested far more in LLMs — time, money, human effort, energy and breathless anticipation — than we will ever see in return.Read More

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After a hectic week, GamesBeat's Rachel Kaser has to be reminded of her age by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, of all things.Read More

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The Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 beta is underway and fans are quickly learning how to dive, slide and rotate with the new Omni-movement options.Read More

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Xbox's latest update includes new features for Discord users, including the ability to watch users' Discord streams from the console itself.Read More

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Industry leaders at DataGrail Summit 2024 warn of AI's exponential growth outpacing security measures, urging companies to invest in robust AI safety systems to mitigate risks and protect consumer trust.Read More

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OpenAI added more control over file searching and responses in its Assistants API, which lets developers build AI assistants.Read More

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XR Games revealed the release date of its new Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded title, which launches on Meta Quest 3 on September 5.Read More

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Meta Transfusion is a multi-modal model that can learn both discrete and continuous values to process and generate text and images.Read More

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Cohere upgrades Command R AI models, boosting performance in coding, math, and reasoning for enterprise clients, as the startup navigates fierce competition in the $500B AI market.Read More

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If anyone can say they have had challenges making a game, the team making S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: The Heart of Chornobyl can make that claim.Read More

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Remedy announced it's partnering with Annapurna to both publish Control 2 and also bring the franchise to TV and film.Read More

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Pokémon Go has added Dynamax Pokémon among other Sword & Shield-specific features in its latest season, Max Out.Read More

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Several enterprises are tapping Meta's Llama family of models, including AT&T, DoorDash, Goldman Sachs, Niantic, Zoom and KPMG.Read More

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Nvidia's Eagle AI model revolutionizes visual understanding with high-resolution processing and multiple vision encoders, advancing document comprehension and visual question answering across industries.Read More

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GamesBeat had a chance to sit down with World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas.Read More

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It also has 92% of Fortune 500 firms using its products, indicating massive uptake among enterprises and decision-makers.Read More

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OpenAI and Anthropic will send AI models to the US AI Safety Institute before public release for safety testing and evaluations.Read More

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StreamElement's latest report shows that July's Twitch numbers were relatively quiet except for Ibai Llanos' big event.Read More

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The 7B and 2B variants are available under open source permissive Apache 2.0 licenses, allowing enterprises to use them at will.Read More

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GameSwift will be the first Web3 gaming project that will integrate AI agents from Fetch.ai.Read More

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Nate Mitchell had a good run with a venture-funded game company before now. He was a cofounder of Oculus, which Mark Zuckerberg bought for a few billion dollars and then launched his Meta Quest virtual reality headsets. After leaving, Mitchell got the urge to try it again at a time when there were more game-focused venture capital companies. He cof…Read More

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Learn how AI-powered moderation tools and innovative testing and strategy boosted player satisfaction to 90% in this VB Spotlight.Read More

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Skydance Games showed off its Behemoth title at Gamescom as its latest virtual reality game coming for the VR platforms. The game makes good use of the sense of size that you can get in a VR game, with an enemy towering over you as if you were an ant. I tried it out and it was pretty spooky, as if I were playing Shadow of the Colossus with giant mo…Read More

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A study by Cohere shows that pre-training LLMs on code improves their abilities in non-coding tasks, including world knowledge and reasoning.Read More

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Miris has revealed its patented spatial streaming technology and raised $26 million in its seed funding round.Read More

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The GamesBeat tour is headed to Toyko, before heading back to the U.S. with opportunites to network and learn about the latest trends.Read More

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The Bandai Namco-developed online title is shuttering despite an announced and unfulfilled North American release from Amazon.Read More

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According to Circana, EA Sports College Football 25 has topped both the monthly and year-to-date sales charts.Read More

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Adobe unveils Magic Fixup, an AI-powered photo editing tool that learns from video data, promising to transform creative workflows across industries and democratize advanced image manipulation.Read More

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Pixel Perfect Dude announced the early access launch date of September 25 for its #Drive Rally arcade racing game.Read More

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Ideogram 2.0 improves AI image creation with better text display, color options, and lower prices, challenging big names and changing how digital content is made.Read More

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It comes as Midjourney faces increasing competition from the likes of Elon Musk's xAI and it Grok 2 and Ideogram 2.Read More

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At the annual Diversity in Gaming Lunch at GamesBeat Summit 2024, ESA members addressed increasing equity and inclusion in the game industry.Read More

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-No longer do organizations need to pay for long running servers for AI inference as Google Cloud Run previews support for Nvidia L4 GPUs.Read More

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While there are plenty of AI agents for coding, LambdaTest says KaneAI differentiates by enabling users to manage their entire testing journey on a single platform. Read More

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More than 1,000 venture capitalists representing more than $276 billion in assets managed have signed a pledge in support of Kamala Harris.Read More

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Skyfire claims it is offering the world's first payment network designed to support fully autonomous transactions across AI agents and LLMs.Read More

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Smart TV cloud gaming platform Return Entertainment has partnered with Aethir to leverage its GPUs-as-a-service to scale globally.Read More

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Game Science's Black Myth Wukong is on track to be one of the biggest video game releases of 2024. The game has already set records on Steam.Read More

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The company is building a first-of-its-kind foundation model that can detect and understand complex “brain language” or brainwaves.Read More

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Nvidia‘s accelerated computing has helped India manage its tollbooth traffic, which spans four million miles across 1,000 tollbooths. Tne Indian road network is the second-largest in the world, and most of it is run manually. Traditional tollbooths, wherever in the world they’re deployed, can contribute to massive traffic delays, long commute…Read More

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Microsoft’s release of the Phi-3.5 series represents a significant step forward in the development of multilingual and multimodal AI.Read More

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At Gamescom 2024, Firaxis unveiled how players will blend cultures in Civilization VII through the ages with Gwendoline Christie narrating.Read More

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Nvidia researchers used model pruning and distillation to create a small language model (SLM) at a fraction of the base cost.Read More

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In addition to its PC and Xbox launch date, Machine Games revealed Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to PlayStation in Spring 2025Read More

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Hangar 13 revealed its upcoming title Mafia: The Old Country at Gamescom 2024's Opening Night Live, with more details coming in December.Read More

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The company notes that developers can achieve strong results with as few as a few dozen examples in their training data.Read More

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle got an extended reveal in a demo before thousands of game fans at Gamescom's Opening Night Live.Read More

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At gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live, Krafton unveiled trailers for upcoming titles: Dark and Darker Mobile and inZOI.Read More

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Netflix unveil Squid Game Unleashed at Geoff Keighley's Opening Night Live.Read More

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Game designer Peter Molyneux unveiled his next self-funded title, Masters of Albion, at Gamescom 2024 for PC and console.Read More

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OpenAI partners with Condé Nast in a landmark deal, granting AI access to premium content from Vogue, The New Yorker, and Wired, reshaping the future of publishing and AI-driven media.Read More

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Marvel Rivals got a release date of December 6, and its new heroes Captain America and the Winter Soldier were revealed.Read More

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Monument Valley 3 launches on December 10 exclusively on Netflix Games, with its two predecessors joining the platform as well.Read More

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Firaxis Games showed off gameplay for Civilization VII, out February 11, 2025, for the first time on stage at gamescom 2024.Read More

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Tarsier Studio's latest game is horror title Reanimal, with launches on PC and console at some point in the future.Read More

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SNK reveled a new character for the upcoming fighting game Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves during Gamescom Opening Night Live.Read More

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Funcom showed off Dune Awakening at Opening Night Live and announced the massively multiplayer online game will debut in 2025 on the PC.Read More

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Fuzzy Bot announced the early access launch date for its colorful action title, Lynked: Banner of the Spark.Read More

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Luma AI transforms video creation with Dream Machine 1.5, offering enhanced realism, multilingual support, and public access to advanced AI-generated content in minutes.Read More

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At gamescom 2024, Coffee Stain Studios announced Goat Simulator Remastered a decade after the original launched.Read More

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Activision showed an entire level of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 as the hero infiltrates a campaign event involving a U.S. Senator in Washington, D.C. It showed the demo at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, hosted by Geoff Keighley. Cold War’s CIA operative Russell Adler joins operator Troy Marshall and the pair shoot their way through the A…Read More

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Hugging Face's LeRobot tutorial revolutionizes DIY robotics, empowering developers to build and train their own AI-powered robots, democratizing access to cutting-edge technology and fostering innovation in the field.Read More

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Researchers at Meta have released Self-Taught Evaluator, a technique that enables LLMs to automatically label their training data.Read More

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Salesforce releases xGen-MM, a groundbreaking suite of open-source multimodal AI models that combine text and image understanding, potentially revolutionizing AI research and applications.Read More

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Soulbound raised $4 million in funding for its Web3 social gaming ecosystem.Read More

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Climax Studios, a Keywords studio, is opening a new branch in Edinburgh, Scotland that will offer co-development services on triple-A games.Read More

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Alpheros says its patented technology can cut down the energy requirements for data center cooling by at least 10%-20%.Read More

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Ben Kvalo had a good run in the game industry, most recently in a role where he helped Netflix expand into the game business. His way of giving back is starting Midwest Games.Read More

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A calculated and savvy marketing move on Procreate's part to seize the space left behind by Canva and Adobe Creative Cloud.Read More

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Sporty Group, a global sports and betting entertainment company, has moved into games with the acquisition of Sociable Soccer.Read More

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When Epic Games decided to cancel its MOBA Paragon, Robbie Singh didn't accept that. Once a fan, he took it over and now he's launching Predecessor.Read More

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Veteran game entrepreneur James Gwertzman has joined Mudstack as CEO and raised $4 million to help game developers manage their assets.Read More

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Amir Satvat has created a geographic mapping of open video games jobs with a list of 14,162 jobs open now in gaming across the globe.Read More

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Gate Ventures and The Blockchain Center in Abu Dhabi announced the launch of Falcon Gate Ventures, a $100 million fund.Read More

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The Devcom 2024 developer conference started Sunday with the Indie Awards and a VIP dinner in Cologne, Germany for 300 speakers.Read More

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Intel Extreme Master Cologne drew a record 39,000 people to watch six of the world's best Counter-Strike 2 players square off over a $1 million prize pool.Read More

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Are transformers the architecture that will lead to better reasoning? And what might come next after transformers?Read More

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Web3 gaming firm Gamee, a division of Animoca Brands, raised an investment from TON Ventures.Read More

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AI won't replace you, but someone using AI will — so it’s time to embrace AI, and it’s possible to do so even on a low budget.Read More

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Whether targeting executives' family members or snitching on those that don’t pay, ransomware gangs are taking their tactics to new heights.Read More

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Players can explore Project Kyzen, the casual Web3 multiplayer title from Impact Theory Studios, as Bruce Lee when it launches on August 22.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: While celebrities and newspapers like The New York Times and Scarlett Johansson are legally challenging OpenAI, the poster child of the generative AI revolution, it seems like employees have already cast their vote. ChatGPT and similar productivity and innovation tools are surging in popularity. Half of employees use ChatGPT, a…Read More

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Amazon unveils RAGChecker, a new AI tool designed to enhance accuracy in Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems, but its public availability remains uncertain.Read More

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Resolution Games announced its Spatial Ops mixed reality game is ready for pre-order on the Meta Quest platform.Read More

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The update comes amid intensifying competition in the AI image generation space from the likes of Elon Musk's permissive Grok-2.Read More

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PlaysOut said it will bring thousands of Web3 mini-games to Telegram as part of a strategic partnership with TON Play.Read More

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The Epic Games Store debuted on iOS in the EU and on Android worldwide with Fortnite, Fall Guys and Rocket League Sideswipe included.Read More

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Survival Crafting specialist publisher North Beach Games is opening a new Prague Studio developing Stranded Deep 2.Read More

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Activision sent a cease and desist letter to the H2M mod that aimed to recreate 2009's Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer.Read More

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Iron Galaxy co-CEO announced plans to step down from his role at the end of 2024. His co-CEO, Chelsea Blasko, will take over.Read More

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The model excels in scenarios requiring advanced reasoning, strategic planning, and decision-making, making it valuable for professionals.Read More

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A new survey from PwC showed a little more than half of 1,001 respondents said they've started early forays into responsible AI strategies.Read More

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LLMs are known for reasoning powers. But new research from MIT and UCLA shows LLMs differ widely between inductive and deductive reasoning.Read More

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AI startup Exists unveiled its generative AI platform platform to enable anyone to create 3D games from text prompts.Read More

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The open source Apache Airflow data orchestration technology is adding new features to help enterprises build better data pipelines and understand where data is coming from.Read More

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Google quietly releases Imagen 3, its advanced AI image generator, to all U.S. users, sparking debates on AI ethics and creativity as it competes with xAI's unrestricted Grok-2.Read More

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Activision revealed today that is optimizing the Call of Duty user interface to create a better experience for players accessing their games.Read More

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Gen-3 Alpha Turbo should be priced at 5 credits per 1 second of video per Runway's statement that it is 50% less.Read More

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Epic Games announced that Fortnite Festival Season 5 (the music world of the shooter game Fortnite) will feature Grammy winner Karol G.Read More

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The Lost Glitches, an RPG-style trading card game, launched its open beta on Xai, a Layer-3 blockchain network built for gaming.Read More

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Krafton has partnered with in-game extension platform Overwolf to add official mod support for its upcoming life simulation game, inZOI.Read More

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Paradox Interactive announced Stellaris's latest expansion, Cosmic Storms, which launches on September 10 on PC.Read More

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The company aims to support the largest state-of-the-art open weight models available, refine its model editing functionality.Read More

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Sanlo reported its survey of mobile gamers found that 81% of them are aware of web shops that are alternatives to the Apple and Google app stores.Read More

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MeetKai, an "immersive AI company" that has created numerous metaverse experiences, has enlisted popular creator Charlamagne Tha God to help.Read More

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Tsinghua University researchers develop AI capable of generating 10,000-word texts, revolutionizing long-form content creation and raising ethical questions about the future of writing.Read More

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The offering comes as the latest addition to Pindrop’s Pulse suite of products and can detect audio deepfakes from any audio/video file.Read More

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Caresyntax raises $180M to build an open AI platform for surgery, aiming to become the 'Android of robotic surgery'.Read More

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Indie studio Emptyvessel today revealed its debut title: Defect, a cyberpunk multiplayer squad-based shooter.Read More

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Cathedral Studios has unveiled The Ritual, a new game mode for its upcoming horror first-person shooter game The Bornless.Read More

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Mattel and AirConsole announced that Uno Car Party will debut as an in-car game in BMW Group automobiles.Read More

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Overwatch Champions Series had its first major earlier this year at DreamHack Dallas -- what did the organizers think of the event?Read More

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Anthropic's prompt caching lets users save prompts and call these up for later sessions with additional context for a lower price.Read More

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Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 2, an AI model with unrestricted image generation capabilities, sparking debate on AI ethics, content moderation, and tech regulation.Read More

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Indie studio Maschinen-Mensch announced its latest game, a co-op roguelike platformer called Mother Machine.Read More

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In the private preview, about 40-50 enterprises, including pharma major Bayer, deployed Cortex Analyst to talk to their data and accelerate analytical workflows.Read More

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The Astronauts game studio announced that the RPG shooter Witchfire is coming to Steam early access in 2024.Read More

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Roto revealed the next phase of virtual reality entertainment with the Roto VR Explorer, a next-generation VR gaming chair made in partnership with Meta.Read More

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Cyprus-based Eschatology Entertainment has raised $11.3 million in a series A funding round led by Krafton.Read More

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Using Flux.1, Grok-2 can generate controversial images of public figures such as U.S. presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.Read More

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Researchers at MIT have released the AI Risk Repository, a comprehensive database that can help organizations identify and mitigate AI risks.Read More

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Founded in 2017 by CEO Minna Song and CTO Tony Stoyanov to address rental housing communications, EliseAI is now getting into healthcare.Read More

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TON Ventures has raised $40 million for a for-profit venture capital group to support early-stage crypto projects.Read More

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Roughly half of organizations say they have encountered a deepfake and are incredibly concerned as the technology grows more sophisticated.Read More

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In Sandsoft's survey of 450+ senior mobile game devs, 81% said they were working on new games but 67% are worried about their job security.Read More

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The Sustainable Games Alliance, a non-profit cooperative of game companies and trade associations, has formally announced its launch.Read More

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Gamescom 2024 will kick off next week in Cologne, Germany, with more than 1,400 exhibitors, a new record at 15% more than a year ago.Read More

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Team Jade revealed that its upcoming shooter Delta Force: Hawk Ops is on 1 million wishlists during its PC alpha test phase.Read More

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Badge's device-independent MFA allows users to enroll once on any device and authenticate seamlessly across all their devices.Read More

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Even though OpenAI showed off a similar feature first, Google is set to make it more available to a much wider potential audience sooner.Read More

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Sakana AI's groundbreaking 'AI Scientist' system autonomously conducts end-to-end scientific research, challenging traditional scientific methods and raising questions about the future of discovery.Read More

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Intrepid users have already found that it appears to exhibit step-by-step or multi-step reasoning and more detailed explanationsRead More

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Autoverse Studios has raised $8 million to develop its social drag racing game Auto Legends. From the folks who created Racing Rivals.Read More

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Asmodee announced that its online board gaming platform, Board Game Arena, now officially has over 10 million users.Read More

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Marvelous USA and Xseed Games announced strategic changes to its publishing structure to facilitate growth in the West.Read More

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Akeana, which has raised over $100 million in funding in the past three years to design RISC-V processors, is unveiling products.Read More

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Squid Game: The Experience is coming to New York City in October as Netflix is stirring up interest in another upcoming season of the streaming series. On top of that, a multiplayer video game Squid Game: Unleashed, featuring series characters and all the competitive fun, is set to release later this year. The idea is to make people feel like they…Read More

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The case can move forward toward a discovery phase — which allows the lawyers for the artists to peer inside AI image generator companies.Read More

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Nacon has moved open-world survival title Terminator: Survivors from an October early access launch to sometime in 2025.Read More

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Krafton is on pace for a record-setting 2024. According to its Q2 financial earnings, the publisher's H1 revenue is up nearly 50% from 2023.Read More

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Sutter Health and Google Cloud shared how generative AI is helping doctors save time and give patients a better clinical visit experience.Read More

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In several benchmark, Falcon Mamba 7B convincingly outperformed Llama 3 8B, Llama 3.1 8B, Gemma 7B and Mistral 7B. Read More

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MixRift, a mixed reality gaming startup, has raised $1.6 million to develop and published MR titles.Read More

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Yield Guild Games (YGG) Pilipinas has partnered with Immutable to promote the Guild of Guardians Web3 game.Read More

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Roblox revealed its user count and revenue grew last quarter beyond what the company estimated, with the audience demographics shifting.Read More

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OpenAI's new Structured Outputs helps ensure model-generated outputs match critical JSON Schemas and provide more accurate, usable outputs.Read More

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Contextual intelligence helps ensure chatbots don't divulge sensitive information from Large Language Models (LLMs).Read More

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OpenAI's summer of turmoil: Key executives depart, lawsuits loom, and competition intensifies as the AI giant faces unprecedented challenges in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.Read More

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For workers fear being left behind and worry their current skillset will soon become obsolete, there are several courses of action to take.Read More

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A film parodying Star Trek is now an official part of the franchise, thanks to a mobile game.Read More

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No More Robots and RageSquid revealed Descenders Next, the long-anticipated sequel to downhill biking hit Descenders.Read More

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The 2.25 KWh battery pack housed in Figure 02's torso ensures it delivers 50% more power than its predecessor and runs for 20 hours every day.Read More

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EdgeCortix is pioneering energy-efficient AI processors for the edge. It's a mighty dream, obstructed only by this little company worth $2.76 trillion called Nvidia.Read More

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Web3 IP licencing platform Spaceport is partnering with Toei Animation to bring its next film, Hypergalactic, to gaming UGC platforms.Read More

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ESL Faceit Group and the Esports World Cup have signed a multi-year deal to operate the $60M mega tournament in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Read More

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Perceptive Space, a Canadian aerospace startup, has emerged from stealth mode with $2.8 million in funding to predict space weather.Read More

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The Arbitrum Foundation and Sequence teamed up with Ubisoft Labs on the Web3 game Captain Laserhawk: the G.A.M.E.Read More

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TI introduced a new DLP controllers that are 90% smaller than the previous generation and will enable 4K ultra-high-definition projectors.Read More

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Game developer Curio announced it's raised $5.7 million in funding, alongside the launch of strategy game Duper's first season.Read More

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GameSquare and the NFL are teaming up for the NFL 4 the Fans Live - a new event series that will blend gameday fandom with gaming creators.Read More

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S&P Global partners with Accenture to launch an ambitious AI training program for 35,000 employees, revolutionizing financial data analysis and decision-making on Wall Street.Read More

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Hybe IM, the interactive media and games arm of Hybe, has raised $80 million in funding to make games.Read More

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Riverlane has raised $75 million in funding to build its quantum error correction technology.Read More

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Five Nights at Freddy's is crossing over with Dead By Daylight to celebrate 10 years of killer animatronics.Read More

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Marvel Rivals, the upcoming 6v6 (super)hero shooter from Netease, earned 7M hours watched during its closed beta on Twitch due to key drops.Read More

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Aiming to meet rising demand for on-device AI, Samsung has begun mass production for the industry’s thinnest DRAM chips.Read More

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Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman in federal court, alleging betrayal of AI's founding mission, raising crucial questions about ethics, profit, and the future of artificial intelligence development.Read More

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Dig VR is a new VR sim title where you operate a digger -- and it's a both funnier and more thoughtful than you might think.Read More

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Runway's Gen-3 Alpha AI video tool now allows creators to bookend videos with specific images, transforming AI-generated content and challenging industry giants.Read More

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Groq raises $640M in Series D funding to transform AI inference with next-gen Language Processing Units (LPUs), aiming to become the largest non-hyperscaler AI compute provider by 2025.Read More

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Warner Bros brings Beetlejuice to Roblox in a new branded experience, along with a virtual Fandango box office for buying real tickets.Read More

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Cartridge announced today it has raised $7.5 million in its Series A funding round to accelerate its onchain development tools.Read More

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Angelic will launch its strategy RPG set in a dark and collaborative sci-fi universe on the Saga blockchain.Read More

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Now.gg has partnered with Netmarble to bring South Korean company's Tower of God: New World collectible RPG title to the cloud.Read More

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Amber, a video game development agency in Bucharest, Hungary, has acquired the Colombian game studio Madbricks.Read More

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Study finds threat actors are increasingly targeting physical supply chains and tampering with device hardware and firmware integrity.Read More

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People thought the internet would fail. So could we be underestimating gen AI's long-term potential as we focus on short-term challenges?Read More

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Effective, sustainable use of gen AI requires a flexible training program within a culture that values collective, continuous learning.Read More

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To be sure, the path from gen AI Act 1 to Act 2 will not be a straight one. It will require effort we've never seen before.Read More

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From Bungie's adding their numbers to the layoff counter to Game Informer shutting down so abruptly, it's been a bleak week for Rachel Kaser.Read More

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Circana's latest report shows that Elden Ring is once again a bestseller thanks to the June release of Shadow of the Erdtree.Read More

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Figure is backed by OpenAI among others to the tune of $675 million in its last round in February, but is teasing a new update today.Read More

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Google's AI comeback: Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemma 2B outperform rivals, reshaping Silicon Valley's AI landscape and offering new possibilities for enterprise technology.Read More

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Character AI’s founding team, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, along with some members of its research team, will join Google.Read More

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GameStop has shut down the iconic, long-running gaming magazine, Game Informer, after 33 years and 367 issues.Read More

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Google DeepMind has released Gemma Scope, a series of sparse autoencoders (SAEs) that help interpret Gemma 2 models.Read More

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Web3 rewards platform and game aggregator Earn Alliance now offers an Ally Pass for users to earn XP for various rewards while playing.Read More

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Riot Games released Valorant on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and Brazil.Read More

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Borderlands the movie is coming out on August 9 in theaters as the latest gaming intellectual property that has gone Hollywood.Read More

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2weeks has raised $1.25 million for its experimental bite-size game Homestretch Bet on the open web.Read More

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The first Esports World Cup has brought in 1M festival visitors to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and 177.5M hours watched in its first 4 weeks.Read More

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Hedra released its AI video model Character-1 after raising cash from Index Ventures, A16Z Speedrun and Abstract.Read More

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Beyond fun and interesting demos and experiments, will it make ChatGPT more useful or appealing to a wider audience?Read More

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To develop Whisper-Medusa speech recognition model, aiOla modified Whisper’s architecture to add a multi-head attention mechanism.Read More

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Black Forest Labs launches FLUX.1, an open-source AI image generation model, securing $31M in funding and challenging industry giants with its innovative approach to accessible, high-quality visual AI.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Native AI, a leader in consumer purchase feedback and GenAI Digital Twins of consumers, has partnered with Nichefire, a leader in cultural listening, to help businesses identify and predict consumer, political and economic trends. The combined data will allow brands and researchers to stay one step ahead of consumer motivations…Read More

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Arc Games and Chief Rebel announced their new "MODA" title, Fellowship, with plans for a closed alpha test later this month.Read More

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Intel announced that it will lay off 15% of its workforce as part of a broad cost-reduction program.Read More

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Whiteout Survival is the third fastest 2023 mobile release to reach $1 billion in revenue according to Sensor Tower estimates.Read More

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How fast is fast? It now takes only half a second to generate a 3D image with the power gen AI.Read More

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Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro revolutionizes AI with top LMSYS scores, outperforming GPT-4 and Claude-3.5, promising transformative impact across industries while raising ethical questions.Read More

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The CEO also noted that OpenAI remains committed to allocating at least 20% of its computing resources to safety research.Read More

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Mountaintop's first game is Spectre Divide, a 3v3 multiplayer tactical shooter game with an unique twist: you get two bodies.Read More

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GitHub is making it easier for developers to try out and build applications with a series of leading gen AI models in a bid to help accelerate enterprise deployments.Read More

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Google is bringing Gemini to BigQuery and Looker while expanding the power of the Spanner database for gen AI.Read More

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Dstlry said it has raised $5 million for its next-generation comics publisher and digital collectibles business.Read More

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Aart de Geus, Synopsys executive chair and founder, will be the 2024 recipient of SIA’s highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award, the SIA said.Read More

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Inworld AI has added culturally relevant multilingual support for Mandarin (simplified Chinese), Japanese, and Korean.Read More

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It is a variation on its signature GPT-4o model from May, but with a massively extended output size: up to 64,000 tokens of output.Read More

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Microsoft reports that Xbox content and services revenue is up 61%, with growth driven largely by the newly acquired Activision Blizzard.Read More

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Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, said in an analyst call that EA Sports College Football saw five million players in its first 11 days.Read More

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Advanced Micro Devices report that its revenues for the second quarter were $5.8 billion, up 9% from a year ago and above analyst expectations.Read More

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The rollout of the feature was delayed from OpenAI's initial estimate of late June following a controversy raised by Hollywood actor and celebrity Scarlett Johansson.Read More

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Electronic Arts has announced its Q1 FY25 financial results where the company exceeded guidance expectations.Read More

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Electronic Arts reported it saw strong momentum across its American football platform with the anticipated return of EA Sports College Football.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: The deep desire to help individuals through trying circumstances sparked Russell Nicolet’s desire to become a personal injury lawyer. His drive to help others led him to form Nicolet Law, which has grown from a one-man venture to a thriving business spanning multiple states with dozens of employees. Nicolet’s journey to the top…Read More

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Amir Satvat, a jobs quant, said he sees an improved outlook when it comes to layoffs in the game industry.Read More

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Activision is sharing its Caldera map data set today from Call of Duty: Warzone for non-commecial use.Read More

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Baidu's novel self-reasoning AI framework aims to enhance language model reliability, potentially eliminating 'hallucinations' and setting new standards for AI accuracy and transparency.Read More

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Two landmark child safety bills - KOSA and COPPA 2.0 - passed the U.S. Senate with major implications for gaming UGC and advertising.Read More

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Frost Giant Studios has started the early access preview for Stormgate, the sci-fi/fantasy real-time strategy (RTS) game.Read More

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CCP Games has launched Project Discovery: Phase Four, in which its citizen science program expands into cancer and immune system research.Read More

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Particle has launched Tachyon, its first Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered single-board computer (SBC) designed to make cutting-edge chipsets and AI tooling widely accessible to consumers and businesses. The 5G device is available for pre-order via a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for $149, and it is compatible with Raspberry Pi’s ecosystem. Zac…Read More

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Google has long dominated search, and with OpenAI's SearchGPT, the pressure is on for Google to make its search product better.Read More

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With the acquisition, Leonardo hopes to continue this ground breaking creative AI research with the support and scale of Canva.Read More

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We had a chance to play almost five hours of Star Wars Outlaws during a recent preview event.Read More

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Movement Labs is the builder of a new blockchain network that takes advantage of the Move smart contract language.Read More

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In the benchmark results shared, Not Diamond's router working with multiple LLMs delivered much better results than individual models.Read More

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Virtuix unveiled its next wave of 15 virtual reality titles, pushing the platform's game lineup to over 50 games.Read More

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Perplexity will offer a flat rate to its first batch of partners for every link that it cites on the Perplexity search platform.Read More

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Supersocial, which makes branded games, and Bandai Namco Entertainment America announced Pac-Man Simulator is coming to Roblox.Read More

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Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 mobile platform, which can make 5G accessible tobillions of smartphone users, the company said.Read More

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Boosty, a creator support platform owned by My.Games, was sold after creators allegedly used the platform to violate sanctions on Russia.Read More

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Apple unveils 'Apple Intelligence,' an AI system for iOS devices, featuring on-device processing and privacy-focused design to power next-gen features without compromising user data.Read More

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Hugging Face is offering developers an inference-as-a-service powered by Nvidia NIM microservices.Read More

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To accelerate humanoid robot development on a global scale, Nvidia is providing services to the world’s leading robot manufacturers.Read More

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Nvidia has added more AI services for for OpenUSD, the universal 3D data interchange framework for things like digital twins.Read More

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Shutterstock has released generative 3D and Getty Images has upgraded its AI service. Both services are powered by Nvidia's generative AI.Read More

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Dotplay raised $1M in pre-seed funding for its web-based mobile game technology platform that allows developers to bypass app stores.Read More

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Users can now upload imagery and/or continue to enter text prompts to guide new AI video generations that are 5 or 10 seconds in length.Read More

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DreamHack Dallas had its biggest showing ever in 2024, in part because the event is no longer just about esports.Read More

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Cerabyte secures strategic investment from Pure Storage, accelerating the commercialization of its revolutionary ceramic-based cold storage technology.Read More

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Wellness tech company Tripp announced its AI meditation app Kōkua is now available on the Meta Quest virtual reality platform.Read More

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Gaming acquisitions and public market deals continued to gain momentum in second quarter of 2024 as the market gradually gets better.Read More

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By using LLMs as aids rather than crutches, we can harness their potential without falling into the trap of imposter syndrome.Read More

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One critical (but overlooked) facet to gen AI success is the people behind the technology and the dynamics between them.Read More

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The word of the week was "union," as Rachel Kaser watched unions form and put in work during this busy week.Read More

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Meta's Llama 3.1 and Mistral Large 2 open-source AI models challenge industry leaders, reshaping the AI landscape and democratizing access to cutting-edge technology.Read More

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Epic unveiled its new game strategy for mobile game stores in a move that was driven by new regulation in Europe and ongoing platform wars.Read More

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Salesforce's MINT-1T, a trillion-token dataset, revolutionizes AI research by democratizing access and raising crucial ethical questions about the future of machine learning.Read More

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Maingear has launched a new version of its ML-17 laptop designed to offer performance, portability and a massive screen for gamers.Read More

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Activision has been taking deep dives into its matchmaking process for Call of Duty multiplayer.Read More

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A new research by Google DeepMind shows how sparse autoencoders (SAEs) with special JumpReLU activation can help interpret LLMs.Read More

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75% of knowledge workers are already using AI at work, and that usage has doubled in the past six months.Read More

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After 5 years, the ambitious Fallout London mod has launched. The "DLC-sized" mod for Fallout 4 rivals the base game's size.Read More

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While it's a clear win for developers looking to stay in the Microsoft ecosystem, it's also a notable competitor to Microsoft's own ally.Read More

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Experts from IBM, AWS and HP Labs tackle the big question of gen AI: soaring training costs, at VB Transform 2024.Read More

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Look North World, a UGC game studio and publisher led by Bungie cofounder Alexander Seropian, has raised $2.5 million.Read More

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Look North World is creating a UEFN Island within Fortnite to celebrate the upcoming Netflix anime series Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance.Read More

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Deadpool and Wolverine hits theaters on July 26 and video game partnerships are a major part of its final marketing push.Read More

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SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood talent, announced it has called for a strike against the big video game publishers.Read More

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OpenAI launches SearchGPT, challenging Google's search dominance with AI-powered, conversational search that promises faster, easier access to information.Read More

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Runway revealed Gen-3 Alpha, an early version of the software, to acclaim for its realism, last month, and began allowing the public...Read More

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GSC Game World has delayed Stalker 2 one more time within the home stretch of the release, from September 5 to November 20.Read More

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Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner announced their new Freestyle Chess venture, with which they plan to start a new tournament series.Read More

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Airtable's Cobuilder transform app development with AI, allowing non-coders to create custom applications in seconds using natural language prompts.Read More

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Forge has launched a massive update that pivots the company into loyalty program tools for game developers.Read More

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The hybrid nature of Jamba-Instruct makes it more economically accessible than other models of the same class on Snowflake.Read More

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The Xai Foundation announced that the treasure hunt extraction shooter Planet-X is joining its blockchain network.Read More

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Google is making Gemini 1.5 Flash available for free users of the Gemini chatbot. The company is also adding related links to responses.Read More

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Walkabout Mini Golf: Wallace & Gromit is launching on July 25 as the latest DLC for the ongoing hit multiplayer virtual reality game.Read More

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The World Technology Games is a new global gaming and tech competition aimed at promoting and showcasing scientific advancement.Read More

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Mobil 1 teamed up with Forza Motorsport in which gamers and race fans around the world will be able to compete against pro race drivers.Read More

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Kit Harington reprises his role as Jon Snow for Zynga's new RPG Puzzle title, Game of Thrones: Legends, available today.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: While headlines continue to be dominated by the evolution of LLMs and their various new products, AI is entering its next phase: industry-specific applications of cutting-edge AI technology to disrupt and innovate in industries typically defined by slow or out-of-date practices. These vertically-integrated AI startups — t…Read More

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Monster Hunter Now announces its new Dimensional Link feature, as well as its upcoming MrBeast collaboration.Read More

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The CTA projects that overall retail revenues for the U.S. consumer technology industry will finally grow 1% in 2024 to $505 billion.Read More

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Google faces tough questions on AI strategy in tense earnings call. Analysts probe 5 key concerns as Google Cloud results hint at strong quarters for AWS and Azure.Read More

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Nvidia launches AI Foundry service, enabling businesses to create custom AI models with increased accuracy and control, potentially revolutionizing enterprise AI adoption.Read More

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Google Play has updated several features related to games, including the ability to "play" two games at once on PC.Read More

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The developers behind Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft have officially voted to unionize as a part of the CWA.Read More

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Salesforce and Workday forge a groundbreaking AI partnership, revolutionizing enterprise software with unified data integration and an AI-powered employee service agent, reshaping the future of work and customer relationships.Read More

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On the Multilingual MMLU tasks, Mistral Large 2 performed on par with Meta’s Llama 3.1-405B while delivering significant cost benefits.Read More

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Rules-based Rewards, a method from OpenAI that automates safety scoring, lets developers create clear-cut safety instructions for AI model fine-tuning.Read More

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Stability AI is adding the dimension of time to gen AI video with new 4D model.Read More

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Pontus Mahler and Jacques Benchetrit have raised $600,000 to launch a publishing and fundraising advisory service for game companies.Read More

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Developers aren’t afraid gen AI will take their jobs, but they don’t fully trust the technology yet either.Read More

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The Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator is opening its application eligibility beyond startup founders affiliated with UC Berkeley.Read More

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Xalavier Nelson Jr., head of Strange Scaffold, has worked on 90 games in the last eight years.Read More

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Customers of Lambda can reserve access to Nvidia H100 and InfiniBand GPUs "on-demand," and for shorter periods without years long contracts.Read More

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Star Catcher Industries has raised $12.25 million in seed funding to provide an energy grid in space for satellites. With this funding, the Jacksonville, Florida-based company is positioned to help eliminate power constraints on space operations through the construction of its Star Catcher Network, the world’s first space-based energy grid. Once co…Read More

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Vanta raises $150M in Series C funding, reaching $2.45B valuation, as it expands AI-powered trust management and compliance automation globally.Read More

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Quantum Transistors, a developer of advanced quantum processors, has been awarded up to $19 million (€17.5 million) by the European Innovation Council (EIC). Tel Aviv, Israel-based Quantum Transistors received an initial grant from the EIC Accelerator of $2.7 million combined with a future equity investment of $16.3 million through the EIC Fund. T…Read More

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How Chevron is using gen AI, digital twins and robots to analyze massive datasets, make predictions and protect workers and the planet.Read More

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OpenAI challenges Meta's Llama 3.1 with free GPT-4o mini fine-tuning, reshaping the AI landscape and intensifying competition in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence market.Read More

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Meta challenges OpenAI with Llama 3.1, an open-source AI model rivaling GPT-4o, as Yann LeCun claims Meta AI is becoming the most widely used AI assistant.Read More

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Netflix announced it's appointed Alain Tascan, formerly of Epic Games, as the new head of its gaming division.Read More

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Already, Resquared claims to have collected data on more than 11 million SMBs throughout the U.S. and Canada.Read More

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A new study shows that AI can help writers become more creative, but they result in stories that are too similar.Read More

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LightSpeed has established its new LightSpeed L.A. performance capture studio, which is built with an eye for safety and maximum creativity.Read More

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Blue Rider Interactive has announced the release date for Apartment Story: The upcoming narrative-thriller game launches on September 26.Read More

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After two seasons, Paramount+ has canceled its Halo series. Amblin Television, Xbox and 343 Industries hope to find a new home for season 3.Read More

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Coach is bringing its Spring 2024 collection to Roblox and Zepeto as part of its Find Your Courage campaign.Read More

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OpenAI grants more control over users, domains, and services that connect to ChatGPT Enterprise and creating a record of interactions.Read More

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Catch up with this VB Spotlight to learn how to protect your company and customers against the newest ecommerce threats fueled by AI.Read More

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Groq releases open-source AI models outperforming tech giants in tool use, challenging industry norms with synthetic data training and democratizing access to advanced AI capabilities.Read More

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Ubisoft's Q1 FY25 results show strong growth, driven in part by XDefiant's launch and anticipation of its upcoming games.Read More

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The level of effort and intensity adversaries are putting into tradecraft aimed at breaking an AI companies' endpoints is growing.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: In the digital age, the United States has emerged as a global powerhouse in the information and communication technology sector, attracting IT professionals from around the world. This vibrant market is home to the world’s leading Tech Giants, such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and others, offering a variety of opp…Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: The Bitcoin mining industry has undergone a significant transformation since the early days when anyone with dedicated software on their PC could participate. Many factors and contexts have changed, as the general trend has shifted towards an institutional approach, with larger players dominating the mining landscape amid drama…Read More

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Mobile app programmatic advertising platform Mintegral announced a revamp to streamline its product suite and additional retargeting tools.Read More

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To put that cost into perspective, that's 60% less than GPT-3.5 Turbo, previously the most affordable model among OpenAI's offerings.Read More

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Mobile game installs grew 7% in the first quarter of 2024 in Japan, according to a new report from measurement firm Adjust.Read More

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Nvidia and Mistral AI unveil Mistral-NeMo, a powerful 12B-parameter language model designed to run on desktop computers, potentially revolutionizing enterprise AI accessibility and deployment.Read More

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Modulate teamed up with Activision to use AI voice moderation to address toxicity in Call of Duty multiplayer games.Read More

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Arkadium is celebrating International Chess Day by launching its own game, Multiplayer Chess Online, on PC and mobile.Read More

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Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, has acquired LF Group, which makes digital solutions for gaming communities. This collaboration is aimed at transforming how developers connect with their audiences and manage transactions across various platforms, integrating advanced technology to improve the creator and gamer experience. Xsolla…Read More

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Tiam Lim, a Roblox vice president talked about in a blog post about genres that are emerging on the Roblox platform.Read More

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Monopoly Go is going back to its roots as Scopely and Hasbro are collaborating to make a board game based on the mobile title.Read More

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Ansys partnered Supermicro and Nvidia to deliver turnkey hardware, enabling unmatched acceleration for Ansys multiphysics simulations.Read More

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Arrcus, the hyperscale networking software and infrastructure company raised $30 million from Nvidia and others today.Read More

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NTT Data, the IT infrastructure and services company owned by Japan’s NTT, unveiled its newEdge AI platform to accelerate AI processing to the edge. By processing data when and where it is generated and unifying diverse Internet of Things devices, systems and data, this unique, fully managed solution enables real-time decisions, enhanced oper…Read More

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Artificial Agency, an AI startup pioneering generative behavior for gaming, emerged from stealth and announced $16 million in funding.Read More

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Blue Scarab Entertainment reveals itself with $7 million in funding. It's also working on its first title, an MMORPG built on an original IP.Read More

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Live2Diff, developed by an international team from Shanghai AI Lab, Max Planck Institute, and Nanyang Technological University, pioneers uni-directional attention in video diffusion models, enabling near real-time stylization of live video streams.Read More

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Transmedia adaptations like Amazon Prime's Fallout and Peacock's Twisted Metal earned 18 nominations for the 2024 Emmys.Read More

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As enterprises increasingly adopt gen AI tools, they must do so with an eye on enhancing customer experience (CX).Read More

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Briefly Bio has already roped in early customers and has plans to create a ‘Github-like public version of the platform for open sharing and collaboration on scientific data.Read More

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Microsoft hopes the new capabilities and expanded access will boost the usage of Designer, propelling it ahead of competing models.Read More

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OpenAI's work seeks to give people a framework to train models to better explain how they arrived at particular answers.Read More

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EA and Capital Games has launched early access for the PC version of Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, with cross-play and cross-progression.Read More

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Sunnyside Games has announced Nocturnal 2, the sequel to its action-platformer, for PC and Switch launching sometime next year.Read More

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No Man's Sky just launched its latest update, called Worlds Part I, which overhauls the in-game biodiversity.Read More

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Though companies are bullish on gen AI, most proof of concepts fizzle out. At VB Transform 2024, Capgemini reveals how to change that fate.Read More

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Micron Technology announced the availability of the Crucial P310 2230 Gen4 NVMeTM solid-state drive (SSD), which is targeted at portable gaming storage.Read More

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Comscore's 2024 State of Gaming report highlights key trends among U.S. gamers and opportunities to reach them through in-game ads.Read More

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Salesforce is growing its Einstein platform with an autonomous AI agent technology that will be used initially to support customer self-service.Read More

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FarSight Studio is making the first officially licensed pickleball game, which launches today for PC and consoles.Read More

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AdInMo, a player-centric monetization platform mobile games, announced the beta release of its InGamePlay software development kit (SDK) 3.0.Read More

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Google developers for the open source language Go has started using Project Oscar to build AI agents to manage its issue tracking.Read More

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PC racing title Torque Drift 2 is getting its tenth update in early access, which adds Toyota and Mazda cars among other features.Read More

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SAP Labs' top four ways generative AI is improving business illustrate how shared lessons learned help improve genAI accuracy and speed.Read More

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Karpathy's new company will create a “teacher+AI symbiosis” where human-written materials will be scaled and guided by an AI assistant. Read More

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As part of the partnership, Fujitsu will also serve as the exclusive provider of the Japanese language models and services developed with Cohere. Read More

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Codestral Mamba, a new coding model from Mistral, outperformed other coding assistants. Mistral also released a math solving model.Read More

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Evo, the premier fighting game tournament, is expecting its largest fan (and brand) turnout ever for this weekend's tournament.Read More

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Hugging Face's SmolLM transforms AI with compact, powerful language models that outperform tech giants, bringing advanced capabilities to personal devices without compromising privacy or performance.Read More

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Huma's underlying models can develop a healthcare application prototype in minutes by using just a simple prompt from the user.Read More

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Microsoft's Purview Data Governance solution sees 200% monthly growth, offering AI-powered tools to address enterprise data management and AI deployment concerns.Read More

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6079, a standard for decentralized AI from an emerging group of thought leaders in the independent AI movement, has launched Nodeshifter XP.Read More

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Anthropic launches Claude AI assistant on Android, challenging ChatGPT with advanced features like Claude Vision, potentially reshaping the mobile AI landscape and intensifying competition in the AI assistant market.Read More

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Arcee AI is enabling small language models with a $24M Series A funding round and the launch of Arcee Cloud. This innovative platform offers a hosted SaaS version of their AI, complementing the in-VPC Arcee Enterprise. Led by Emergence Capital, the funding underscores growing investor confidence in efficient, domain-specific AI. Arcee's Co-Founder and CEO, Mark McQuade, discusses the shift towards small language models for specialized tasks, highlighting their cost-effectiveness, faster deployment, and customizability. Learn about their unique Model Merging and Spectrum technologies that optimize AI training and deployment, offering enterprises unparalleled efficiency and performance.Read More

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Founded by former Google Deepmind researchers, Haiper has onboarded over a million users and is now taking on the likes of RunwayML and Pika.Read More

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Minecraft and Beats by Dre are teaming up for a special edition of the Solo 4 headphones inspired by the iconic Creeper and pixelated style.Read More

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Echo Chunk, the AI startup behind the viral free-to-play, daily puzzle game Echo Chess, has raised $1.4 million in a funding round.Read More

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Dusk has raised $8 million in a funding round to build out its game development and social platform aimed at Gen Z gamers.Read More

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On, an enterprise AI startup previously known as GameOn Technology, has laid off all of its estimated 60 staff members after allegedly discovering cash is missing.Read More

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Kindo, an enterprise AI security platform, has raised $20.6 million in funding and it also acquired open-source security project WhiteRabbitNeo.Read More

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Advanced Micro Devices executives revealed the details of the chipmaker’s latest AI PC architecture, which includes a newneural processing unit (NPU) in the company’s latest AMD Ryzen AI chips. The company announced the latest AMD Ryzen AI processor (code-named Strix Point) and other next-generation technologies at the Computex trade sh…Read More

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Nex Playground is a new game console that detects your body motion so you can control games witout a controller. And Fruit Ninja is coming to the platform.Read More

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HP unveiled its latest AI PC in the form of the HP OmniBook Ultra laptop today as well as two new Omni all-in-one desktop models. The new laptop features Advanced Micro Devices’ AI 300 Series processors with 12 cores and an AMD Ryzen AI GPU, as well as AMD Radeon graphics. It’s part of HP‘s expanded efforts to make AI real forcomp…Read More

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Honda has announced a partnership as the first-ever, exclusive automotive partner of Twitch Rivals, the popular tournament series.Read More

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Grand Games announced it has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding for its AI-based mobile game development pipeline.Read More

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Game studio Eden Games, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, has launched the beta for Cosmic Royale, a Web3 party royale kart racing game.Read More

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Here are 3 actions CEOs and organizational leaders should take instead of wantonly replacing employees with AI.Read More

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Riot Games plans to host its second open bracket Teamfight Tactics tournament. The TFT Macau Open will feature 512 players this December.Read More

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The shocking news has galvanized leaders from some of the largest and most notable tech companies in the country to showing support.Read More

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We must create environments where safety does not come through the transfer of risk, but where we can encounter risk in a supportive way.Read More

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Xbox Game Pass and Apex Legends are two things in gaming that are becoming more expensive, and Rachel Kaser isn't sure she can keep up.Read More

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A technique by researchers at Meta FAIR distills System 2 thinking into LLMs so that they can perform reasoning tasks with less resourcesRead More

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Parameter-Efficient Expert Retrieval (PEER) is a technique that allows LLMs to scale to millions of experts and remain resource efficient.Read More

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Discover how Elastic and DocuSign are revolutionizing enterprise with generative contract and search solutionsRead More

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Every company's AI journey will be different, but they all must explore, experiment, skill and reskill until AI is in their DNA.Read More

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Pinterest unveils Canvas, an AI model for visual discovery, at VB Transform, showcasing its potential to revolutionize user experience and e-commerce while prioritizing responsible AI development.Read More

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This recognition underscores the company's innovative approach to AI computation and its potential to reshape the enterprise AI landscape. Read More

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Game developers dwell in the shadow of the giants. It almost sounds like a dramatic setting for a video game.Read More

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The mind of Matt Inman will be studied sometime for its ability to produce cute animated kittens and wacky humor.Read More

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Thangs has become the world's largest 3D art community with more than 20 million monthly active users, according to creator Physna.Read More

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Instabase was voted most likely to succeed at the Innovation Showcase for VentureBeat's Transform 2024 event today.Read More

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Nvidia is showing off a number of advancements in rendering, simulation and generative AI at Siggraph 2024.Read More

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A year ago, Brian Ward, CEO of Savvy Games Group, schooled us all on what it meant to be ambitious in the game industry.Read More

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At VB Transform 2024, Olivier Godement, the head of API Product at OpenAI, touched upon several subjects associated with OpenAI’s technology, including how the inference cost of its models has come down.Read More

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Discover five transformative ways generative AI is revolutionizing healthcare today and shaping its future.Read More

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FinFin Play AG announce that it plans to launch its free-to-play creative platform, Fashion League, on mobile this fall.Read More

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Gen AI, LLMs, IoT, wearables, edge computing and many other technologies are helping Kaiser Permanente bring healthcare straight to patients.Read More

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Taking a unique approach, Healthvana is upending AI-patient interactions, transcending typical healthcare portals that 'suck.'Read More

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Financial services companies talk about how they use generative AI and why there has to be a high bar for AI apps before getting to consumers.Read More

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The awards recognized enterprise implementation, innovation, startup promise, and visionary and inclusivity initiatives in generative AIRead More

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Enterprises are spending millions in the race to build cutting-edge AI. But what does it take to create AI that truly meets customer needs?Read More

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Walmart is moving beyond its initial efforts with gen AI with a focus on helping to improve productivity, customer care and operations.Read More

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VentureBeat congratulates all the nominees and thanks everyone for raising awareness of the women making a significant difference in AI.Read More

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Chess.com is collaborating with CrunchLabs on both its latest Masters tour and a chess-teaching bot based around YouTuber Mark Rober.Read More

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New report from Zendesk details the impact and prospects of AI for customer experience.Read More

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IBM's David Cox unveils InstructLab, a groundbreaking approach to customize AI models with enterprise-specific language and knowledge.Read More

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AI chip startup Groq claims record-breaking adoption of 280,000 developers in just 4 months at VB Transform, potentially disrupting the AI hardware market with its innovative inference technology.Read More

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Perplexity announced plans to share revenues with publishers whose links it cites. Revenue will be from advertising it plans to run.Read More

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Patronus AI launches Lynx, an open-source AI hallucination detector that outperforms GPT-4, revolutionizing enterprise AI trustworthiness and challenging tech giants.Read More

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Qualcomm's Nitin Kumar on the AI PC on the edge, highlighting on-device AI benefits, Snapdragon X Series capabilities and partnerships with Microsoft.Read More

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Experts detail gen AI's transformative role in financial services at VB Transform 2024.Read More

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Staying focused on a customer-driven vision while ensuring the latest AI and ML technologies contribute to greater compliance is key.Read More

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Genies has introduced the Genies Creator & Partner Network to enable brands and others to develop and commercialize digital avatars.Read More

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The Girls in Tech nonprofit women’s tech community closed its doors after 17 years.Read More

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Aethir and GameSwift have teamed up on a Web3 gaming project that combines a modular gaming chain with decentralized cloud infrastructure.Read More

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Scopely's Stumble Guys launched an update with the addition of ranked mode and abilities features.Read More

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Web3 startup Anomaly Games has joined the Google for Startups Cloud Program.Read More

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DM2C Studio, a division of the DMM Group conglomerate, said today it is launching the Seamoon Protocol for Web3 games.Read More

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Web3 game distribution platform Portal is launching Portal Pay to enable cross-chain interoperability in Web3 games.Read More

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Xai Foundation said Peeking Duck Studios’ My Angry Yakuza Girlfriend will exclusively debut on the Xai blockchain.Read More

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RAG is an important technique, but there are many questions it simply can’t answer. How LLamaIndex is helping provide those answers.Read More

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Generative AI democratized development with AI, and speakers during VB Transform believe people with different expertise plays a huge role in making it more human-centric.Read More

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Anthropic's Jared Kaplan reveals AI's role in creating bespoke software on demand. Learn about their approach to custom AI solutions.Read More

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Multimodal gen AI is becoming "seriously clever," serving as a "personal data sidekick" that understands the nuances of enterprise data.Read More

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Sky Mavis welcomes fantasy MMORPG Forgotten Runiverse to the Ronin blockchain, which has migrated from Arbitrum.Read More

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AWS released new capabilities for Amazon Bedrock and beyond with the new Guardrails API and extended memory for AI models.Read More

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Some notable names that are already using AWS App studio are Campus Life & Style, Deloitte, HealthVerity and LaunchDarkly.Read More

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VAST Data unveils its vision for a global AI operating system, revolutionizing enterprise AI infrastructure. Learn how this unified platform tackles cross-geography data management, serverless computing, and unstructured data processing to power next-gen AI applications.Read More

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Bondex has joined the experimental trend of making games for Telegram, the instant messaging app embraced by the crypto community.Read More

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Openfort announced its Ecosystems product to streamline the management of multiple games within a single Web3 ecosystem.Read More

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Series Entertainment, a fast-growing AI game development company, has acquired interactive fiction mobile game studio Pixelberry.Read More

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Animoca Brands reported that its bookings dropped 30% from $402 million in 2022 to $280 million in 2023, the company announced today.Read More

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Iceland's early-stage investor Frumtak Ventures has raised a fourth fund that totals $84 million.Read More

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Yes, I think there are Pokemon with Guns plushies in your future.Read More

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A study by Dataiku and Cognizant shows that enterprises are pouring hefty sums into generative AI initiatives, but they face major hurdles.Read More

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Writer CEO Mary Habib unveils new AI features at VB Transform 2024 addressing enterprise challenges with graph-based RAG, 10M context window and AI transparency tools.Read More

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Writer unveils AI upgrades with 10 million word capacity, advanced RAG, and transparent 'thought process' feature, revolutionizing enterprise chat applications.Read More

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AI agent driven approach takes another step forward to being a reality for enterprise application developers.Read More

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Performance marketing conglomerate Hawke Media acquired Lemonade to boost its production capabilities and its gaming and blockchain expertise.Read More

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With this round of funding, Captions will expand its machine learning team and invest more in in-house research and technical infrastructure.Read More

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Overwatch 2 is getting a Transformers crossover, featuring four Autobots and Decepticon skins, through July 22.Read More

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Volley has raised $55 million in a new round of funding for its voice-enabled AI games like games for Amazon Alexa.Read More

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The Sphere is an amazing entertainment experience in Las Vegas where you can see eye-popping visuals watching a 16K immersive screen.Read More

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VR game downloads on Android are on pace to pass 11 million in 2024, setting a new benchmark for the industry according to Splitmetrics.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: In a significant move to enhance its last-mile delivery capabilities and broaden its international presence, OneRail has announced the acquisition of OrderBot, a modern Order Management System (OMS). Bill Catania, CEO of OneRail, provided insights into the strategic goals behind this acquisition and the future aspirations of On…Read More

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Audiomob, the creators of audio ads for mobile games and apps, announced an exclusive partnership with mobile game publisher Voodoo.Read More

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Kwalee recently teamed up with Saudi Arabia-based Fahy Studios and Neom to beef up gaming in the Middle East.Read More

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Trialforge announced its new Soulslike, which comes with its own unique party mechanic, launches on August 8.Read More

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Infinite Reality, the company working on metaverse-like technologies, has raised $350 million and acquired Landvault for $450 million.Read More

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Aitomatic announced SemiKong, the world's first open-source AI Large Language Model (LLM) designed specifically for the chip industry.Read More

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As enterprises grapple with the complexities of generative AI, many are gravitating towards comprehensive, end-to-end solutions.Read More

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Microsoft unveils MInference, a groundbreaking AI technology that accelerates language model processing by up to 90%, potentially transforming long-context AI applications across industries.Read More

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Out of nowhere, the Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut launch on PC rockets to the top of Circana's May list over the month's new games.Read More

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Key innovations in Meta's MobileLLM include prioritizing model depth over width, implementing embedding sharing and grouped-query attention and utilizing a novel immediate block-wise weight-sharing technique.Read More

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LockBit claiming to have breached the U.S. Treasury and, instead, exfiltrated customer data from a bank is a common deception strategy.Read More

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Don't miss your chance to meet some of our top reporters and editors at this year's VB Transform in San Francisco. Register now!Read More

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Gamescom Latam (combined with the BIG Festival) grew to more than 100,000 visitors for its gaming expo in São Paulo, Brazil.Read More

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Hoyoverse's latest RPG, Zenless Zone Zero, reached 50M global downloads but failed to generate the same revenue at launch as its predecessors.Read More

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Hebbia has 1000+ use cases in production with organizations like CharlesBank, Center View Partners and the U.S. Air Force.Read More

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Groq now allows you to make lightning fast queries and perform other tasks with leading large language models (LLMs) directly on its web site. On the tests I did, Groq replied at around 1256.54 tokens per second, a speed that appears almost instantaneous, and something that GPU chips from companies like Nvidia are unable to do.Read More

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Learn why Intuit is such a good example of how to really put generative AI to work at this year's VB Transform.Read More

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Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2024 raised $2.5M for Doctors Without Borders despite declining viewership since 2017.Read More

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Perplexity offers an "answer" engine that makes search so simple, while publishers say it's just stealing content. What's the real story?Read More

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The Girls in Tech women's tech community is closing its doors after 17 years, according to a newsletter from founder Adriana Gascoigne.Read More

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Last week, researchers at MIT and UCSD unveiled a new immersive remote control experience for robots. This innovative system, dubbed “Open-TeleVision,” enables operators to actively perceive the robot’s surroundings while mirroring their hand and arm movements. As the researchers describe it, the system “creates an immersive…Read More

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Game job aggregator Amir Satvat estimated 4,463 additional people will be laid off in 2024, but he noted the rate of layoffs is slowing.Read More

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Applied Materials has revealed chip wiring innovations that will address challenges for energy-efficient computing.Read More

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Whataburger has launched its own branded map in Fortnite, with a $25,000 Fortnite tournament coming later this month.Read More

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An experimental methodology analyzed how different AI prompt designs influence the generation of unbiased and fair content from LLMs.Read More

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Chief AI officers have a tremendous challenge and opportunity to lead their organizations into the future as the AI age unfolds.Read More

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Cybersecurity is a differentiator, and organizations that prioritize developing and nurturing talent will emerge as leaders.Read More

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A study by Princeton University shows that benchmarks made for AI agents don't account for costs and are prone to overfitting.Read More

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The brain-inspired architecture gives neuromorphic systems distinct advantages, particularly for edge computing applications in consumer devices and industrial IoT.Read More

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Earlier this week, the Inaugural 2024 Esports World Cup took the global stage. The mega event taking place in Saudi Arabia features tournaments for 22 titles across PC, console and mobile and over $60 million in prizes up for grabs. Given the tournament’s scale, brands that partner with the tournament will gain access to millions of fans set…Read More

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Nintendo will no longer be repairing the Wii U, so Rachel Kaser laments yet another reminder that her underrated console is kaput.Read More

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Sony Honda Mobility will ship its Afeela electric cars starting in 2026. But the joint venture company is already showing off cool features in the new vehicle. I got a recent demo of the car and its driving simulator recently at Sony’s PlayStation headquarters in San Mateo, California. That’s where I got to see the uniquely Sony feature…Read More

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Satisfactory, Coffee Stain's factory sim game, is officially launching in 1.0 after five years in early access on September 10.Read More

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Are we ready to put our lives in the hands of generative AI? Kaiser Permanente's VP of AI shares how they went all in, at VB Transform.Read More

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Anterior raises $20M to transform healthcare administration with AI, promising to slash costs and streamline prior authorizations for health insurers.Read More

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So far in 2024, Tinybuild has seen 10 million views on YouTube. Its players spent 1.8 million hours in its game demos.Read More

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NodaFi secures $3.5M seed funding to transform facility management software, aiming to reclaim 1 billion work hours with AI-powered solutions in a rapidly growing $72B market.Read More

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In our tests, ElevenLabs' AI Voice Isolator was able to remove different types of background noises to extract clear speech, without any distortions.Read More

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Meta revolutionizes AI with multi-token prediction models, promising faster, more efficient language processing and potentially reshaping the tech landscape while raising questions about AI democratization and ethics.Read More

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The race is now on to scale AI workloads while controlling infrastructure costs.Read More

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Generative AI is changing how people search, and enterprises are taking notice of the newest way to bring information to people: RAG.Read More

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Generative AI is set to revolutionize healthcare. But it is fraught with many challenges, too. Experts discuss how we can bridge this gap.Read More

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Blocklords, a Web3 medieval grand strategy game, has launched Dynasty, a companion app on Coinbase’s Base blockchain.Read More

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The event showcased how AI tools can compress months or years of traditional work into mere hours, potentially revolutionizing clean energy deployment.Read More

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From writing code snippets to designing full software, here is how large language models (LLMs) are changing software development.Read More

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The 2024 AI Innovation Awards winners will be announced during an awards ceremony on the main stage of VBTransform on July 10, 4-5 p.m. in San Francisco.Read More

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Women in Games Italia announced the date and location of its Women Create Games Forum, as well as its list of speakers.Read More

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Roblox has appointed Xbox and Netflix alum Jerret West as its new chief marketing officer and head of market expansion.Read More

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Developer Pixel Perfect Dude today revealed more information about its upcoming game, #Drive Rally. More specifically, it gave fans a look at the gameplay for the title, including the cars and customization options, the racing environments and the differences between this game and its predecessor, Pixel Perfect Dude’s endless racer, #Drive. #…Read More

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Aspiring beauty gurus can now purchase a selection of physical e.l.f. Cosmetics products through its Roblox experience, powered by Walmart.Read More

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Effectively combating voice fraud requires a combination of education, caution, business practices, technology and government regulation.Read More

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Wargaming's World of Tanks Blitz has turned 10 years old. It has more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue and reached 180 million players.Read More

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It's been a long week, but VR games gave Rachel Kaser the most joy out of any of the news stories she covered.Read More

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The path to AGI and superintelligence is uncertain — but the rapid evolution of AI is undeniable, promising transformative advancements.Read More

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The upcoming VB Transform 2024 conference will further explore these themes with expert panels discussing the cross-functional future of AI.Read More

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The award for best game went to Chants of Sennar at the BIG Festival Awards.Read More

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The 2024 Innovation Showcase finalists are: Typeface, Tabnine, Instabase, Catio, AutoAlign and SambaNova System.Read More

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Adrian Ledda, Activision's head of inclusive game design, sat down with GamesBeat to talk about Pride, coming out and the joy in acceptance.Read More

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It's not easy to find good news in the game industry these days. But on my trip to see the Gamescom Latam event in Sao Paolo, Brazil, it was plentiful.Read More

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AWS updates its chatbot for contact centers, Amazon Q for Connect, with a real-time step-by-step guides for agents to answer customer calls.Read More

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LMSYS's new Multimodal Arena reveals GPT-4 leads in AI vision tasks, but benchmark results show even top models lag behind human visual understanding and reasoning capabilities.Read More

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Character.AI officially launched its new Character Calls feature, allowing users to have dynamic voice conversations with AI Characters.Read More

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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was relatively quiet during the Ubisoft Forward event in Los Angeles in June, but he opened up in a new post.Read More

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Futureverse and Animoca Brands have teamed up in a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of blockchain-based metaverse tech.Read More

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Amir Satvat, the game community job resource aggregator, said in a post that the job market data he sees is finally turning around.Read More

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Playable Worlds has announced its first title, Star Reach, a fully-simulated, massively multiplayer sandbox game for all to explore. This is a modern MMO crafted by veteran MMO designer Raph Koster, cofounder of Playable Worlds. It’s set in a smarter, more natural, and more reactive galaxy, thanks to a first-of-its-kind architecture running p…Read More

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Detect-2B, the next version of Resemble's AI audio detection model, relies on a new way to hear audio artifacts to know if the clip is real.Read More

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Ario raises $16M to build an AI personal assistant that leverages users' personal data, aiming to provide affordable, high-value digital assistance to everyone.Read More

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Orby AI raises $30M Series A to automate complex enterprise workflows using generative AI and large action models, revolutionizing productivity.Read More

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From GTA VI's record-setting trailer to the LA Chargers/Sims crossover, YouTube's latest report on fandom shows the impact of gaming creatorsRead More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Being a student is tough enough. Unfortunately, with gloom and doom scenarios about AI replacing job opportunities, life for students has become even tougher. It’s no wonder that many students are stressed about how or even if they will ever be able to support themselves. Questions like: “If AI can code better than I can, what…Read More

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Time's embrace of two up-and-coming AI companies shows a strong vote of confidence in the technology overall.Read More

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Meta unveils LLM Compiler, an AI-powered suite of models revolutionizing code optimization and compilation, promising faster, more efficient software development and new frontiers in AI-assisted programming.Read More

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Google is partnering with third-party data sources to help ground AI responses and minimize hallucinations. Data from Moody's, MSCI, Thomson Reuters and Zoominfo will be incorporated next quarter.Read More

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Axelera says its flagship edge AI platform, Metis, can deliver up to a five-fold increase in efficiency and performance for enterprises.Read More

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Multibeam Corp. today introduced the MB platform, a first-of-a-kind Multicolumn E-Beam Lithography (MEBL) to make chip factories better.Read More

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Outfit7, the entertainment brand behind the Talking Tom & Friends franchise, is set to release My Talking Hank: Islands July 4 on mobile.Read More

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Crunchyroll announced it's exponentially expanding its Game Vault this summer with the addition of fifteen games.Read More

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According to Precise TV's latest survey, 91% of Gen Alpha plays games but trails YouTube in use, ad recall and driving purchases.Read More

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Google's newest text-to-image foundation model is now available on Vertex AI in preview. Imagen 3 offers high-quality image generation with richer details and fewer distortion.Read More

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Google is making its two recent Gemini model variations generally available after debuting them at Google I/O 2024. Its powerful small multimodal model and fastest Pro model with larger context window is now available.Read More

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Redacted just raised $10 million for its entertainment and gamification ecosystem based on Web3 technology.Read More

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Game7, an on-chain gaming ecosystem which rewards players, announced LootDrop, a new reward system to engage gamers. The LootDrop feature in the Game7 Portal is aimed at retaining players by rewarding them for participating in a game or a chain ecosystem over a multi-week period. The first LootDrop campaign will take place over the next five weeks…Read More

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When Google initially announced Gemma 2, there was only a 27B parameter option. Now, when it launches in July, there will also be a 9B model.Read More

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Google says Mistral's Small, Large and Codestral models will come to Vertex AI this summer, shoring up the platform's enterprise appeal after adding Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet.Read More

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Zip's AI-powered procurement platform achieves $4.4 billion in customer savings, revolutionizing enterprise spend management and reshaping the $9.2 billion procurement software market.Read More

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MMA fighter Conor McGregor is joining Hitman World of Assassination as a new Elusive Target today -- the latest target for Agent 47.Read More

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Generative AI may be dominating the headlines, but Boston-based Creatio is making news of its own on the strength of its “no code” customer relationship management (CRM) platform and app-building tools. Today, the 10-year-old software company announced it has raised a significant $200 million at a valuation of $1.2 billion in a round le…Read More

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Netflix's June update adds several new games, including Case of the Golden Idol; and reveals Thirsty Suitors is coming to the platform soon.Read More

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CData has built a library of over 300 standards-based data connectors, which are being used by more than 7000 global organizations.Read More

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Bulletstorm VR is being "fixed" by its developers (their words) in a major update that launches this year alongside its release on Pico.Read More

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Tigertron announced that its interstellar voyage game Starwave is coming to the Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest 3 VR headsets on September 5.Read More

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AI coding assistants can (almost) do it all these days. How are enterprises integrating them, and how will it change software development?Read More

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Hugging Face revamps its Open LLM Leaderboard as AI model performance plateaus, introducing more challenging benchmarks and sparking a new era in AI evaluation alongside complementary efforts like the LMSYS Chatbot Arena.Read More

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Figma is moving from a design app to a product development platform. To achieve this, it has launched new AI tools that challenge Adobe's dominance.Read More

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Onehouse is continuing to build out open source Apache Hudi data lake technology, data lake table format interoperability with Apache XTable, alongside the company’s own Universal Data Lakehouse.Read More

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ANALYSIS: The video call connected with a burst of static, like the sudden death of a thousand startups. Here is Matt Wood, VP of AI products at AWS, crammed into what might be a janitor’s closet at the Collision conference in Toronto. I imagine the scene outside Wood’s video prison, as thousands of glassy-eyed developers are probably s…Read More

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The Oracle platform formerly known as MySQL HeatWave, gets GenAI features with integrated in-database LLMs and advanced vector processing.Read More

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It's not so easy to create a differentiated free-to-play looter shooter game, but Nexon is on the path to do it with The First Descendant.Read More

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NTT Data, an IT infrastructure and services firm, has partnered with Zebra Technologies to collaborate on private 5G devices in the enterprise. The aim is to power AI at the edge. The aim is to accelerate innovation in the 5G device ecosystem, laying the foundation for widespread adoption across industries. Under this multi-year agreement, NTT Data…Read More

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Rocketlane will use AI to identify risks in projects and alert leadership about deviations from planned playbooks.Read More

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The rapid rise of AI music generation has led to a conflict over the training data and outputs that shows no signs of being resolved.Read More

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MetaGravity, a multiplayer gaming tech firm, and Aethir, a decentralized cloud infrastructure provider(DCI), announced a collaboration.Read More

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Unistellar has been turning the world of telescopes upside down with crowdfunding, and now it’s about to start a new Kickstarter campaign for its smart binoculars. Dubbed Envision, the smart binoculars are similar to the company’s user-friendly smart telescopes, which use AI to help people see objects despite light pollution from city l…Read More

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Theorycraft Games has revealed Supervive, a neon-apocalyptic hero battle royale game previously codenamed Project Loki.Read More

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Slushy has raised $10.2 million for its creator monetization platform which was purpose-built to help creators grow their community and consumers to form authentic connections. That sounds familiar. But the thing that’s different about Slushy is that it’s an adult entertainment company. Miami Slushy said it’s the first venture-bac…Read More

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k-ID has raised $45 million to make online games safer and offer privacy management for game developers, parents, kids, and teens.Read More

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Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI model tops LMSYS Chatbot Arena rankings in coding and hard prompts, outperforming industry giants at a fraction of the cost, potentially disrupting the AI market.Read More

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Etched announced that it has raised $120 million in a challenge to Nvidia in designing AI chips.Read More

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Deepfakes and misinformation are driving a wedge of distrust between companies and the customers they serve.Read More

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Clicks Technology today announced its teaming up with Best Buy to bring the popular Clicks Keyboard for iPhone to U.S. customersRead More

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Logitech reveals the latest in its line of G-branded gaming devices: The G515 wireless gaming keyboard, which has a sleek, modern design.Read More

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SiFive considers itself the gold standard for RISC-V computing and it is unveiling the 4th generation of its SiFive Essential product family.Read More

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Midnight Society has cut ties with cofounder DrDisrespect after an internal investigation into allegations of the creator's misconduct.Read More

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Alter3 is a humanoid robot that uses GPT-4 to reason about natural language instructions and map them to API calls to the robotRead More

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According to Roblox, it's working on the next iteration of generative AI: 4D, where the fourth dimension is interaction.Read More

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Synthesia also announced a new AI screen recorder that can simplify how companies create how-to videos for their workforce, among other content. Read More

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Substrate raises $8 million to launch an AI development platform that simplifies enterprise machine learning with plug-and-play models and abstractions.Read More

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Twitch's viewership sees minor declines according to StreamElements, while Kai Cenat's Elden Ring marathon showed the power of top creators.Read More

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AI startup Gradient and cloud platform Crusoe teamed up to extend the context window of Meta's Llama 3 models to 1 million tokens.Read More

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Major music labels like Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music claim AI music generation platforms Suno and Udio trained AI models on copyrighted materials.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: As businesses vie for visibility in a saturated market, the key to increasing brand awareness isn’t just creating compelling content — it’s maintaining a consistent, effective and efficient content engine that evolves with your audience’s demands over time. Where many growing businesses struggle is in sustaini…Read More

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Founded originally under the name Remotion in 2019, Multi was originally focused on building a kind of Zoom-style videoconferencing app.Read More

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Data centers need server rack solutions; processors need to be mounted. In the middle, Supermicro is making bank.Read More

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Studio369 announced that its player-versus-player (PvP) mech shooter MetalCore will have its third closed beta starting on June 27.Read More

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DataStax debuts a series of tools to improve enterprise RAG including Langflow 1.0, Vectorize and RAGStack 1.0.Read More

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Earn Alliance and Sky Mavis are partnering to bring Ronin's games to the former's platform, and are celebrating with Ronin Week.Read More

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Sky Mavis announced that it's partnered with Ticker Logic Studio to migrate its MMORPG, Lumiterra: Embers of the Legacy, to Ronin.Read More

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Collective Superintelligence will use emerging generative AI technologies to connect large human groups into real-time deliberative systems.Read More

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XP Gaming drew more than 700 people to its 2024 XP Game Developer Summit in Toronto, Canada, last week to hear talks about intellectual property and game development. I went to the event and moderated a panel. It was good to listen to talks and talk about what it takes to keep game communities — like Canada’s local game ecosystem…Read More

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The divisions between IT and security are quickly disappearing; so should the organizational barriers within the business.Read More

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Lam Research recently held its Lam Capital Venture Competition contest at its headquarters in Fremont, California. I attended the event to get a flavor for the startups in the semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing equipment space. It turned out there was a vibrant atmosphere at the event, which was sponsored by Lam Capital. The first time i…Read More

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Fortnite fans are getting a treat with an update with Fortnite Reload, an action-packed mode for Battle Royale and Zero Build with classic features.Read More

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Steam Next Fest gives us a chance to try out a number of games pre-launch. Here are the ones GamesBeat's Rachel Kaser enjoyed playing.Read More

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Anthropic's Artifacts, a new AI workspace feature, may revolutionize human-AI interaction and reshape enterprise software, signaling a shift in focus from raw capabilities to user experience in the competitive AI landscape.Read More

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New CEO and more funding are reportedly coming to Stability AI as former CEO presses forward on decentralized AI.Read More

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Many businesses from startups like Color to Fortune 500 enterprises such as Walmart are already embracing AI and seeing tangible resultsRead More

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Black Girl Gamers confirms that it's holding its Online Summit on August 3, while also revealing details about the speakers.Read More

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Microsoft won the Summer Game Fest with the best games and broadest portfolio of titles coming for 2024 and 2025.Read More

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With this deal, the tech stack built by Rockset, especially the “world-class indexing and querying capabilities,” will be powering the retrieval stack of OpenAI products.Read More

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While at SGF, we got a chance to chat with Street Fighter VI director Takayuki Nakayama about the new characters.Read More

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Everyone and their very smart grandmother are talking about the increasing pressure to scale AI while it becomes more expensive every day.Read More

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1Kin Labs has unveiled its Web3 modular gaming network GR1D to simplify access and asset management for blockchain games.Read More

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Multiplayer has officially launched its Multiplayer platform, a developer tool designed to enhance distributed software development.Read More

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PathChat serves as a consultant, of sorts, for human pathologists to help identify, assess and diagnose tumors and other serious conditions. Read More

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CEO Leonard Tang tells VentureBeat the Haize Suite is a collection of algorithms specifically designed to probe large language models.Read More

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AI voice company SoundHound acquires Allset to expand its reach to more restaurants and build a voice-powered ordering platform.Read More

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Activision announced that the Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy has sold more than 20 million units, doubling its milestone from 2019.Read More

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AI influencers and power users have taken to the web share their largely positive impressions about Anthropic's new release.Read More

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Olivier Godement, OpenAI’s head of product, API dives into what generative AI really means to enterprises at Transform 2024.Read More

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Sierra releases TAU-bench, a new benchmark that claims to more accurately evaluate AI agent performance in the real world. Read how 12 popular LLMs fared.Read More

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GrayMatter's robots work 2-4 times faster than manual operators and cut down consumable waste by 30% or more.Read More

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For lovers of Frank Herbert's Dune novel, the Dune: Awakening massively multiplayer online game has a tantalizing premise.Read More

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Bessemer Venture Partners' 2024 State of the Cloud reveals the rapid growth of AI. It identifies five trends shaping the Cloud AI economy and why the market is moving faster than the hype.Read More

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FEATURE: Endiatx’s swallowable robotic pill hits clinical trials, company preps for FDA review and commercial launch In a development straight out of science fiction, Endiatx, a pioneering medical technology company, is making significant strides in bringing its robotic pill to market. The company’s CEO, Torrey Smith, recently sat down…Read More

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Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a cutting-edge AI model that combines unparalleled performance and cost-effectiveness for enterprise businesses, setting itself apart from consumer-focused competitors like OpenAI.Read More

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Tomislav Uzelac had a long journey from inventing MP3 to making war strategy games like Unity of Command 2.Read More

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Writer, an AI writing platform, triples revenue and expands to 250 customers as demand for enterprise generative AI soars, delivering tangible business value through advanced language models and responsible AI practices.Read More

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CrazyGames, a browser games platform with 35 million users, today announced its new social capabilities that allow friends to instantly.Read More

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Ben Parker Chin, 24, from Ohio beat out more than 15 million people in a Candy Crush Saga tournament and won $500,000.Read More

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Farworld Labs raised $1.75 million to roll out its decentralized Farcade platform for developers to build Web3 games.Read More

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Oracle brings its Autonomous Database to Microsoft Azure, allowing companies to benefit from Oracle Cloud Infastructure without worrying about maintenance.Read More

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Konami and Avalanche are offering a new NFT solution called Resella, which will be made available to other companies and organizations.Read More

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Slay has raised $5 million to build its social gaming platform that already has a headstart thanks to its popular Pengu virtual pets game.Read More

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Maze Theory, a London-based XR studio, is launching its mysterious Infinite Inside mixed reality game on July 12.Read More

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Readygg has partnered with the physical-digital "phygital" entertainment festival Open World Now (OWN) for Web3 gaming.Read More

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Pixels, the largest Web3 game by daily active gamers, today announced the release of Chapter 2, which includes updates for its million daily active players.Read More

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The startup focused on improving cancer patient experiences believes it can help doctors decide quicker what tests to order.Read More

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At today's Nintendo Direct, Sunblink announced Hello Kitty Island Adventure is going crossplatform in 2025, starting with PC and Switch.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: As technology rapidly reshapes the sports landscape, forward-thinking teams, leagues and startups are pioneering new ways to engage fans around the globe. From VIP experiences that money can’t buy to digital collectibles and participatory Web3 models, innovators are blending cutting-edge tech with core human desires for connect…Read More

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To showcase its Sound Effects API, ElevenLabs has released an open-source tool for creators that uses AI to apply sound effects to any uploaded video.Read More

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Penguin’s OriginAI solution includes validated architectures backed by intelligent cluster management software and expert services.Read More

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While Maxim is still at an early stage, the company claims it has already helped a “few dozen” early partners test, iterate and ship their AI products about five times faster than before.Read More

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Augmented World Expo 2024 gets under way today as a show where the XR community gathers for news at a new location in Long Beach, California.Read More

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Meta's research arm FAIR launches new AI models like JASCO which ideally gives more control over AI-generated audio clips.Read More

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Tap Systems is unveiling its TapXR wrist-worn controller, which lets you tap on any surface and create keyboard-like inputs for XR devices.Read More

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Backbone announced it's collaborating with Post Malone on a new Limited Edition of its Backbone One controller in glow-in-the-dark green.Read More

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The FTC’s investigation uncovered that Adobe’s cancellation process is designed to be cumbersome and a deterrent.Read More

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Varjo, a leader in industrial-grade VR/XR solutions, today unveiled Teleport, an innovative service for turning real-world places into virtual experiences.Read More

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Skale Labs, a simple and low cost and Ethereum-compatible blockchain, announced it has teamed up with Unity to support blockchain games.Read More

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After years of waiting, we finally saw game play of Metroid Prime 4, now subtitled Beyond, during today's Nintendo Direct.Read More

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Nintendo announced a new top-down Legend of Zelda game starring the Princess herself, called Echoes of Wisdom.Read More

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Capcom announced Ace Attorney Investigations Collection during today's Nintendo Direct, coming to Switch on September 6.Read More

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Super Mario Party Jamboree is coming out on October 17, 2024 on the Nintendo Switch from Nintendo.Read More

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Fantasian, formerly of Apple Arcade, launches on Switch as Fantasian Neo Dimension sometime later this year.Read More

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Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection Arcade Classics got announced during today's Nintendo Direct, set for launch later this year.Read More

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Funko Fusion is coming to the Nintendo Switch on September 13, 2024.Read More

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We finally got another look at Dragon Quest III HD-2D during today's Nintendo Direct, and it has a release date: November 14.Read More

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Nintendo started its newest Direct by announcing Mario & Luigi is back with Brothership, launching on November 7 for Switch.Read More

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Maingear is announcing its 16-inch ML-16 gaming laptops aimed at delivering desktop-like gaming performance.Read More

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Freeaim has raised $316,700 in funding to launch its VR Shoes, or shoes that you can wear in virtual reality games and applications.Read More

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Even Realities, a company that blends digital and physical realities, announced the launch of its first product, the G1 Digital Glasses.Read More

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Decagon emerges from stealth, armed with $35 million in funding, to launch its AI customer support platform that includes a human-like chatbot experience.Read More

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dLocal, a cross-border payment platform specializing in high-growth markets, has a partnership with Eneba.Read More

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CurseForge and Hasbro announced they've teamed up to bring the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers to Ark: Survival Ascended in a new licensed mod.Read More

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Studio 369, developers of the open-world mech shooter MetalCore, today announced the upcoming launch of its Barony guild system.Read More

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Oracle's APEX low-code development platform has received several new AI enhancements, including AI assistants to create valid SQL statements and app blueprints using natural language prompting.Read More

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Gen-3 Alpha allows users to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length.Read More

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Kong launches AI Gateway, an enterprise-grade, AI-native API gateway that enables organizations to govern, secure, and scale generative AI workloads across any cloud environment.Read More

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TikTok launches new gen AI business tools, including Digital Avatars for enhanced branded content and AI Dubbing for translations, as part of its Symphony suite of AI-powered ad solutions.Read More

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Quantum Machines, a provider of processor-based quantum controllers, today announced the opening of the Israeli Quantum Computing Center (IQCC).Read More

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Parallel Domain launches PD Replica, a breakthrough product that generates high-fidelity digital twins from real-world data, revolutionizing autonomous vehicle testing and development.Read More

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Evercoast, a provider of end-to-end 3D spatial video software, has announced the acquisition of Depthkit, a pioneer in volumetric capture.Read More

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Logitech is launching MX Ink, a stylus that works for Meta Quest mixed reality and virtual reality headsets.Read More

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Gracia AI has raised $1.2 million for its tools for creating photorealistic volumetric videos for spatial computing.Read More

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Doublepoint Technologies is taking gesture tech another step with the unveiling of the WowMouse AR for the Magic Leap 2.Read More

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Predicting the future of AI is no simple feat, but understanding when hype is worthy or not is key to moving the industry forward. Read More

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AI is a powerful technology, but humans must be the ones making critical decisions driven by reason, benchmarking and common sense.Read More

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ANALYSIS: As artificial intelligence (AI) takes the world by storm, an old debate is reigniting: should businesses self-host AI tools or rely on the cloud? For example, Sid Premkumar, founder of AI startup Lytix, recently shared his analysis self-hosting an open source AI model, suggesting it could be cheaper than using Amazon Web Services (AWS).…Read More

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The reaction to Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first teaser trailer was mixed -- but Rachel Kaser loved it and is trying to see the other side.Read More

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Nvidia's Nemotron-4 340B revolutionizes synthetic data generation for training large language models, empowering businesses across industries to create powerful, domain-specific LLMs.Read More

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Simogo's Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is a delight for anyone who loves puzzles, adventure games and survival horror.Read More

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AI is a revolution because for the first time in history, ordinary people can transform their imagination into a film.Read More

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Galvanic Games just ended its most productive year in its history. But now the game studio is shutting down.Read More

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In just 5.5 months, the industry layoff toll of 10,800 for 2024 exceeds the 10,500 laid off in all of 2023.Read More

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Lilith Games is announcing Project Party, a brand-new lifestyle app-game hybrid, coming soon to PC and mobile devices. Read More

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Niloom.ai has launched today the beta test for its generative AI content creation platform for spatial computing.Read More

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Google researchers introduce the Personal Health Large Language Model, a version of Gemini fine-tuned to reason on data from wearables.Read More

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Microsoft delays broad release of Recall AI feature for Copilot+ PCs, opting for a staged rollout to Windows Insiders to ensure security and gather feedback.Read More

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GamesBeat had a chance to chat with Nicolas Doucet, studio head and creative director of Team ASOBI, about Astro Bot.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Transparency and integrity are important in every single industry. But as Randy French, CEO of Independent Solar, has found, those values are of particular importance in the solar industry. “There are many customers that won’t go solar just because of what they’ve heard,” he says. “There’s a lot of misrepresentation…Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Strategic business transformations are initiatives undertaken to equip organizations with the capabilities needed to effectively address impending business challenges. When planning these transformations, corporate executives and board members conduct comprehensive analyses of major economic, technological, customer and operati…Read More

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While Jace can already handle a range of tasks, Zeta Labs has not monetized the product yet. The company is working with design partners.Read More

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MatMul-free LM removes matrix multiplications from language model architectures to make them faster and much more memory-efficient.Read More

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Nick Tuosto, former head of gaming at LionTree, announced the launch of GoodGame Advisors, a boutique deal advisory firm.Read More

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Highrise announced that its raised $250 million in revenue across its marketplaces, in part from sales of player-created items.Read More

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DeepWell Digital Therapeutics (DTx), a maker of games to treat mental health, has launched Zengence, its first action video game treating mental health.Read More

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Distance Technologies has emerged from stealth as a pioneering developer of glasses-free eXtended Reality (XR) apps.Read More

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Yann LeCun and other researchers have developed LiveBench, an open AI benchmark evaluating models using challenging, contamination-free test data.Read More

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The Wholesome Games Direct is, once again, one of the brightest spots in the Summer Game Fest with its diverse, colorful lineup of games.Read More

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Niantic and Capcom announced that Elder Dragons are coming to the location-based mobile game Monster Hunter Now for Season 2.Read More

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These issues highlight the need for a new approach to privacy in cloud AI, one that goes beyond simple trust and provides users with robust, verifiable privacy guarantees.Read More

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The Apple Intelligence announcement was watched by a large audience of tech workers and journalists and inspired wide-ranging reactions.Read More

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Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices at his companies over OpenAI integration, as cybersecurity experts warn of potential security risks in the tech giants' AI arms race.Read More

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Creator-led production company Offbrand is launching its own game publishing label in partnership with PirateSoftware and Aether Studios.Read More

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Ubisoft spoiled Prince of Persia fans at its Summer Games Fest event, revealing updates and its Sand of Time remake is coming in 2026.Read More

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Apple's new partnership with OpenAI brings advanced AI to iOS, but Microsoft's strategic moves with OpenAI suggest a complex power struggle in the tech industry.Read More

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One of the new games revealed during Ubisoft's Forward event was Anno 117: Pax Romana, a new strategy title set in the Roman Empire.Read More

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During Summer Games Fest, Ubisoft previewed gameplay of Assassin's Creed: Shadows' dual protagonists - samurai Yasuke and shinobi Naoe.Read More

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During Summer Games Fest, we played Ubisoft's upcoming single-player action adventure title, Star Wars Outlaws.Read More

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The iPhone company announced its most significant generative AI effort yet: Apple Intelligence, a much-rumored new service.Read More

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Cribl is expanding its data engine portfolio, empowering organizations to move data to where it needs to be, with a little help from AI.Read More

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Zynga announced that Game of Thrones: Legends will debut as a RPG puzzle title for mobile on July 25. Pre-registration has officially opened on the App Store and Google Play, with special in-game rewards for players who complete the game’s first chapter within seven days of launch. The new trailer for the game highlights the puzzle battles paired w…Read More

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South of Midnight is going to be a unique and lively third-person action-adventure game set in the American Deep South.Read More

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Why informed dialogue, ethical development and proactive oversight are crucial to ensuring that AI benefits society.Read More

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Developer Beethoven and Dinosaur (The Artful Escape) and publisher Annapurna Interactive revealed Mixtape, a coming-of-age action adventure.Read More

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The final reveal at the Xbox Games Showcase was Gears of War: E-Day, a prequel to the main Gears series showing the Locust invasion.Read More

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Rebellion showed off a new game called Atomfall coming for 2025. It's a post-apocalyptic title, with both human and monstrous enemies.Read More

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is scheduled for release starting October 25 on the PC, consoles and Xbox Game Pass. Read More

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At the Summer Game Fest Play Days event, I was able to play a 20-minute demo of Replaced coming from Ukraine's Sad Cat Studios.Read More

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Activision's Treyarch studio has had an unprecedented four years to work on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which is heading for release on October 25. Read More

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I'm happy to say I was able to play a part of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, at the Summer Game Fest Play Days event.Read More

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Playground's new Fable game got a new story and character reveal -- and 2025 release window -- in its Xbox Games Showcase trailer.Read More

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Netease unveiled its upcoming 5v5 hero FPS, Fragpunk, complete with CCG-inspired rule changing mechanics at the Xbox Games Showcase.Read More

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Square Enix announced that Life is Strange: Double Exposure is coming on October 29. The game is yet another entry in the Life is Strange series, which features realistic human graphics and lots of narrative drama. In this story, a young woman, Max, talks about her friend Sofie, who dies in one world. But in an alternative universe of the game, Sof…Read More

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Why leadership, strategic management, interpersonal communication and other soft skills will continue to be exclusive human strengths.Read More

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Microsoft announced that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming on November 19.Read More

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One of the games shown off at the Xbox Games Showcase is the new Perfect Dark from The Initiative, which got a full gameplay trailer.Read More

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Blizzard announced during today's Xbox Games Showcase that Diablo IV's first expansion, of Vessel of Hatred, is launching on October 8.Read More

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Microsoft announced that Age of Mythology Retold is coming on September 25 to the PC, Xbox and Xbox Game Pass.Read More

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Blizzard announced during today's Xbox Game Showcase that World of Warcraft's next expansion, The War Within, is launching on August 26.Read More

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At the Xbox Games Showcase, Bethesda unveiled Fallout 76 expansion Skyline Valley will launch June 12, 2024 with ghouls coming in early 2025.Read More

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Sandfall Interactive showed off (Clair Obscur) Expedition 33, an original title coming for 2025.Read More

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard got a new trailer at the Xbox Showcase which gives at Fall 2024 release window as well as a look at the companions.Read More

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Bethesda’s id Software studio showed off Doom: The Dark Ages coming for 2025 The company, owned by Microsoft, made the announcement at Microsoft’s Xbox showcase today. The trailer showed a lot of action in the style of Doom 2016/Doom Eternal, the most recent editions of the decades-old franchise. The Doom Guy soldier had a different kin…Read More

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As AI's verbal and cognitive capabilities evolve, we have to ask ourselves: What unique qualities will humans retain?Read More

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Devolver's Direct for 2024 showed off six titles, including new games Tenjutsu and Possessors among previously revealed games.Read More

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New study by Harvard, MIT, Wharton, and BCG researchers finds that relying on junior employees to train seniors on generative AI risks is ineffective, highlighting the need for top-down governance and expertise at all levels.Read More

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Former Silent Hill devs at Bokeh Game Studio have revealed their grotesque new action-horror game, Slitterhead, at Summer Game Fest.Read More

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Capcom announced at Summer Game Fest that Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess launches on PC and consoles on July 19.Read More

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One of the updates show at Summer Game Fest was the Sakurajima update for Palworld, which adds new features and Xbox dedicated servers.Read More

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At Summer Games Fest, EA announced a console play test for Skate and sparked players' rebellious instincts against the villainous M-Corp.Read More

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Riot Games announced its bringing Valorant to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S in a limited beta test on June 14, 2024 at Summer Games Fest 2024.Read More

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After its meteoric rise thanks to Among Us, Innersloth is giving back to indie devs with its fund, Outersloth.Read More

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Dune: Awakening is coming from Funcom and it made an appearance at the Summer Game Fest 2024.Read More

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Amazon Games announced that New World: Aeternum, an action RPG experience, is heading to the consoles with crossplay on October 15.Read More

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Uncapped Games announced Battle Aces, a new action real-time strategy (RTS) game for PC that aims to unlock the core fun of RTS games for a wider audience.Read More

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Remedy Entertainment unveiled Alan Wake 2 Night Springs expansion downloadable content (DLC) during the Summer Game Fest.Read More

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Embark Studios unveiled Season 3 of The Finals, the free-to-play team-based multiplayer shooter, will debut on June 13.Read More

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Nexon announced today that The First Descendant, a co-op looter shooter, will debut as a free-to-play title on July 2 on the PC and consoles.Read More

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Blumhouse Games announced the first six indie horror games its will publish under its label at Summer Games Fest 2024.Read More

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Digital Eclipse announced Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind during Sumer Game Fest today.Read More

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The devs of Delta Force: Hawk Ops showed off the Extraction Mode for the multiplayer modern combat game.Read More

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Capcom revealed its second season of DLC fighters for Street Fighter VI during today’s Summer Game Fest. Season 2 will add Terry and Mai from SNK’s Fatal Fury series. It will also include Street Fighter III’s Elena and famous Street Fighter villain M. Bison (guess he isn’t dead anymore). Street Fighter VI released last year.…Read More

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2K is bringing back its beloved strategy series for a new entry, as it announced Civilization VII during today's Summer Game Fest stream.Read More

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Warner Bros. Games showed off Harry Potter Quidditch Champions, a new game arriving on September 3.Read More

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The first reveal of Summer Game Fest 2024 was a Lego version of Guerrilla's Horizon series, coming out in the holiday season 2024.Read More

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Pollen Robotics partnered with Hugging Face to train the robot to do a variety of household chores and safely interact with humans and dogs.Read More

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Microsoft temporarily disables its AI-powered Recall feature on Copilot+ PCs following privacy and security concerns raised by cybersecurity experts and the public.Read More

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Attackers are turning to deepfakes and other identity attacks to achieve their goals, quickly changing the enterprise threatscape.Read More

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A study by researchers at Stanford University shows that AI-powered legal research tools make hallucinations, contrary to claims by providers.Read More

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Don’t miss your chance to recognize an extraordinary woman leader in the AI industry for the Women in AI Awards at VB Transform 2024.Read More

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Access happened because the demo account was not behind Okta or Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), unlike Snowflake’s corporate and production systems.Read More

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GamesBeat's Rachel Kaser attended DreamHack's Dallas event, and got to see a lot of esports, local indie games and a live D&D oneshot.Read More

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At 40 years old, Tetris is one of those games you never get tired of. You grow up with it and pass it on as tradition to bring joy to a new generation.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Any new venture requires a vision that transcends the ordinary to disrupt entire industries. This vision drives innovation and inspires teams to push the boundaries of what is possible. The following ten companies are challenging the status quo, embracing risk, and, more importantly, fostering a culture of relentless pursuit of…Read More

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Zyphra's Zyda is a 1.3T open dataset combining RefinedWeb, Starcoder, C4, Pile, Slimpajama, pe2so, and arxiv to help train large language models.Read More

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Tomato.ai raises $10M to launch zero-shot accent softening technology, revolutionizing call center communication and performance.Read More

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Galileo unveils Luna, a revolutionary suite of Evaluation Foundation Models that redefines enterprise GenAI evaluation with unparalleled speed, cost, and accuracy.Read More

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Sources close to Adobe noted that the company did not and could technically not analyze Adobe file formats saved locally.Read More

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Bioware has revealed that Dragon Age: Dreadwolf has a new subtitle: The Veilguard. It's also getting a gameplay trailer on June 11.Read More

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Rivian is using the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine for making games to power the new display user interface in its latest R1 electric vehicles being unveiled today. With Rivian’s introduction of its second generation R1 vehicles, it is expanding its use of Unreal Engine from the driver’s display to the full infotainment center across its existing…Read More

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A panel at GamesBeat Summit 2024 spoke about the evolving relationship between Hollywood, a.k.a. the film/television industry and gaming.Read More

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EXCLUSIVE: Browserbase, a San Francisco startup, today announced the launch of its platform that enables developers to automate complex web tasks using AI and headless browser technology. The company aims to streamline the process of web automation, making it easier for developers to create and manage sophisticated workflows without the need for ex…Read More

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The Sandbox, a user-generated content metaverse platform, has raised $20 million in convertible debt at a $1billion market valuation.Read More

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AEP AI Assistant is hooked directly up to Adobe's AI image generation model Firefly, and as such, can be asked to create marketing assets.Read More

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Sky Mavis announced a new early access program called Ronin Forge, which supports new Web3 developers bringing their games to Ronin.Read More

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Team NDUS, a South Korean game studio making a third-person shooter game Xociety, has raised $7.5 million in funding.Read More

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Mythical got its NFL Rivals game on the mobile app stores, and the hybrid Web2/Web3 games are gaining momentum.Read More

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Bem is an AI data interface company that provides an API for developers to convert unstructured data into structured data formats. It raised $3.7M from Uncork Capital.Read More

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I’ve got a paintbrush, and I’m not afraid to use it. Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail is the popular MMO’s next expansion, releasing on July 2. It takes players to a new land across the sea, the Tural. The new world has more to offer than summer vacation vibes, as Dawntrail will offer players new challenges and ways to play. This incl…Read More

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Samsung Electronics announced that it will introduce new Just Play games on its Samsung Smart TVs as a way to remove barriers to gaming.Read More

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According to Deloitte's 2024 Gaming Outlook, transmedia adaptations and Gen AI are driving growth and cost reductions.Read More

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Game veteran David Polfeldt today announced the launch of Bespoke Pixel, a new game development studio opening in the heart of Barcelona.Read More

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GPUs aren't the only way to fine tune and do inference as Kneron pushes its edge AI technology further at Computex.Read More

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As a OTK Media and Cash App have awarded a total of $50,000 to indie developers that showcased their games at 2024's OTK Games Expo.Read More

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New position paper introduces a framework for foundation agents, AI systems that can perform open-ended tasks in virtual and real worlds.Read More

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Corporate travel and entertainment (T&E) expenses currently account for 20% of annual purchases made on Ramp, a figure expected to rise.Read More

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Notorious Studios has unveiled its debut title, Legacy: Steel and Sorcery and its fantasy meets emergent PvP gameplay at OTK Games Expo.Read More

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Snowflake's annual summit followed the trend of building data infra but with enhanced focus on on key aspect — enabling teams to build powerful AI applications with their data assets.Read More

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Netflix is adding 14 new titles in the coming months, including the upcoming Tales of the Shire, to its gaming platform.Read More

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“Everybody yawns when you hear about a billion dollars in AI these days," says Cisco CEO. “We're thinking about it slightly differently.”Read More

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RelationalAI launches Knowledge Graph Coprocessor on Snowflake, enabling enterprises to leverage advanced AI capabilities on structured data without data movement. The integration allows companies to build intelligent applications and gain insights from complex data directly within their Snowflake environment.Read More

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Snowflake is focusing on accelerating how teams develop AI-powered applications and simplifying how they manage the models behind them.Read More

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This wave of criticism directed at OpenAI follows a long and ongoing period of turbulence for the company following Altman's brief ouster.Read More

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First impressions really matter in job interviews, specifically words, paralinguistics like tone, pitch and loudness, and facial expressions.Read More

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Behaviour Ineractive, the company behind Dead by Daylight, announced that it's restructuring with plans to lay off 95 employees.Read More

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After several delays, Zynga and Lucasfilm Games have launched Star Wars: Hunters worldwide on Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android.Read More

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Games industry job and employment community site TheXPlace announced several new features for its users, as well as new advisors.Read More

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Mainframe Industries announced that its Pax Dei massively multiplayer online (MMO) game will debut in early access on June 18.Read More

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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is largely more of the same, and that's perfect.Read More

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Samsung has launched preorders for its Odyssey OLED 2024 gaming monitor as well as its Smart Monitor and ViewFinity monitor lineups.Read More

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A look at the state of the game industry, including insights into the market, creative funding opportunities and more, at GB Summit 2024Read More

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UFL, the free-to-play soccer game that boasts Cristiano Ronaldo as an investor, announced its open beta running from June 7-9.Read More

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Elemind is launching a neurotech wellness headband that improves your sleep by using neurotechnology to let you fall asleep on demand.Read More

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SAP is embedding Joule in Ariba and Analytics Cloud to manage spending and business intelligence. Its AI copilot will also soon support Microsoft Copilot.Read More

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Infinite Reality, an immersive AI firm doing digital media and ecommerce, has acquired Action Face, an AI-powered avatar creation platform.Read More

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GamesBeat Summit 2024's Women in Gaming Breakfast panel focused on the positive things the games industry brings to the world.Read More

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Cyan Worlds revealed that Riven, the modern remake of the acclaimed narrative puzzle-adventure game, will launch on June 25.Read More

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OCP recently came out of stealth as a new game studio focused on a new game dubbed Project Frontier and a creator platform dubbed CreatorLab.Read More

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Of all the talks at GamesBeat Summit 2024, I thought one of the most interesting was a panel I moderated on Roblox devs.Read More

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The probability of any game industry applicant landing a job in the games industry is about 4% over a period of 12 months.Read More

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Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su talked about her company’s chip architecture strategy for AI data centers and AI PCs at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. She spelled out AMD’s plans for its central processing unit (CPU), neural processing unit (NPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) architectures powering end-to-end AI infrastructu…Read More

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Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced a new model of the ROG Ally handheld game console. It’s available for preorder now for $800. Designed for Windows 11 gaming on the go, the ROG Ally X features the same AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor with upgraded storage, RAM, and battery life, alongside an updated chassis for improved ergonomics, cool…Read More

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As organizations mature in their use of gen AI, the game will be about obtaining the highest quality tokens, as quickly as possible.Read More

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Farlight Games said the team took a global approach to making the anime-style RPG game AFK Journey.Read More

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As the State of Play airs, the summer games shows have officially begun! Rachel Kaser is braced as the big reveals are starting to flow in.Read More

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at Computex that the world’s top computer manufacturers today are unveiling Nvidia Blackwell architecture-powered systems featuring Grace CPUs, Nvidia networking and infrastructure for enterprises to build AI factories and data centers. Nvidia Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs), which have 25 times better e…Read More

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Nvidia unveiled new RTX technology to power AI assistants and digital humans running on new GeForce RTX AI laptops.Read More

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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, gave a keynote at the Computex trade show in Taiwan about transforming AI models with Nvidia NIM.Read More

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Taiwanese electronics makers are using Nvidia's industrial digitalization, or digital twin, technology to transform their factories into more autonomous facilities.Read More

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Netflix and Crystal Dynamics revealed the October 10 premiere date for the upcoming anime series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft.Read More

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Companies that build user-friendly tools, infrastructure for smooth AI integration and new LLM-powered products will be the winners.Read More

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ANALYSIS: On Thursday, SalesForce (CRM) released weaker than expected earnings, resulting in the biggest 1-day decline in the stock since 2004. It was the latest in a string of disappointing earnings this season across the board from B2B SaaS companies. This reporting quarter almost the entire B2B SaaS industry reduced guidance or disappointe…Read More

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Microsoft's head of trust and safety, Kim Kunes, spoke at GBS 2024 about what role AI plays in the future of content moderation.Read More

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Pliny the Prompter has been finding ways to jailbreak, or remove the prohibitions and restrictions on leading LLMs, since last year.Read More

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Microsoft's Xbox unveiled its support for LGBTQIA+ players in advance of Pride Month in June.Read More

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Fallout 76 has surpassed the 20 million-player milestone, thanks in part to the popularity boost it received from the Fallout show.Read More

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Xbox plans to publish the next new title from Skylanders developer Toys for Bob after spinning off the studio from Activision in February.Read More

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65% of organizations are regularly using gen AI, McKinsey found, and respondents predict it will lead to “significant or disruptive” change.Read More

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Konami revealed more details about the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, including its release date on October 8.Read More

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Grinding Gear Games' Path of Exile 2 will debut on the PS5 in early access in late 2024.Read More

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Readyverse Studios gave the Consensus crowd a first look today at the metaverse, or digital experience, it has been building for a while. The Readyverse is a next-gen immersive and interoperable launcher for discovering metaverse games and experiences integrating web3 and AIGC technologies. It enables users, developers, and brands to create interco…Read More

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The psychological horror game Until Dawn's remaster will arrive on the Sony PlayStation 5 and the PC in the fall of 2024.Read More

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PlayStation announced a new Astro Bot game during its State of Play event today.Read More

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Sony showed that Alien: Rogue Incursion is coming as a virtual reality game to the PlayStation VR 2 in the holidays of 2024. The game is coming from Survios and 20th Century Games. It’s set in the Alien universe, as you can tell by the slimy guy in the picture. The game will be a single-player action-horror title for VR headsets. It launches…Read More

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The opening act at Sony's State of Play event was Concord, a new PvP FPS from Firewalk Studios coming out in August.Read More

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God of War: Ragnarok is coming to the PC on September 19, 2024 as Sony continues its love affair with its favorite second platform.Read More

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Tyler Bahl of Activision and Vanessa Chang of TikTok spoke at GamesBeat Summit 2024 about how Call of Duty's marketing reaches digital audiences.Read More

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Fable is launching its Netflix of AI platform, Showrunner, which lets people make their own TV shows and share them.Read More

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Gamefam has created a $5 million fund for user-generated content (UGC) creators working on Roblox, Fortnite and other UGC gaming platforms.Read More

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Hypersonic Laboratories has raised $7 million in funding for a multiplayer role-playing sandbox platform for user-generated content (UGC).Read More

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Anthropic empowers enterprises with Claude AI's groundbreaking Tool Use feature, revolutionizing task automation, personalized recommendations, and data analysis.Read More

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In most cases, Perplexity produced the desired Pages, but what we found missing was the option to edit the content manually.Read More

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Netflix announced it's making a Minecraft animated show in collaboration with Mojang, though we know little beyond the teaser trailer.Read More

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In conjunction with a dodgeball video hitting the YouTube channel on Saturday, the Dude Perfect Dodgeball mode is launching todayRead More

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You.com launches Custom Assistants, allowing users to create personalized AI using top language models like GPT-4o, Llama 3, and Claude 3, with live web access for enhanced productivity and accuracy.Read More

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GB Summit 2024: Ensuring a successful live game service launch and creating the kind of live game environment that keeps players coming back.Read More

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Developers dive into it'll take to make Web3 games mainstream, capturing player attention, ditching the crypto and more at GB Summit 2024.Read More

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GEM Capital announced today today that it has invested a combined $5 million into three game development studios.Read More

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Nokia today announced it is working with SCUF and Oversight Esports, to host the Nokia Apex Legends Invitation Tournament. The telecom company said this is the first-ever esports event to use Wi-Fi instead of ethernet-basedconnectivity. The charity event will feature 20 teams of professional and amateur players worldwide competing over Wi-Fi. Nokia…Read More

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Alo Moves, the on-demand wellness platform created by Alo Yoga, is building a mixed-reality fitness app for the Meta Quest 3.Read More

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The team at AI Layer has a project called 6079, a reference to Winston Smith, the protagonist of the cautionary book 1984 by George Orwell.Read More

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A group of data center tech leaders have formed the Ultra Accelerator Link Promoter Group to create a new way to scale up AI systems in data centers.Read More

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Sightful has unveiled Spacetop G1, a laptop that uses augmented reality glasses to replace the screen, using spatial computing instead.Read More

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Today has unveiled Dreamia, an AI-powered character engine that shapes storytelling in real-time.Read More

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In its continued search toward profitability and a potential IPO, Discord CEO Jason Citron announced plans to the platform refocus on gaming.Read More

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April was a quiet month as hardware sales dip. But Stellar Blade lit up the charts and older Fallout games are getting new life.Read More

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The Xai Foundation, the core contributor to the Xai, has partnered with Sequence on tools for Web3 game devs.Read More

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With so many lining up to voluntarily deal with OpenAI, it's clear where the seat of power lies. And that's not something media companies...Read More

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Maven AGI raises $28M to transform customer support with generative AI, enabling enterprises to deploy accurate, empathetic AI agents that reduce costs and enhance customer satisfaction.Read More

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The open, non-commercially licensed model specializes in more than 80 languages and already outperforms CodeLlama 70B and Deepseek Coder 33B.Read More

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Sony is holding a 30-minute State of Play on May 30 to show off its PS5 and PS VR2 games coming out later this year.Read More

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Learn how in-app messaging enables a unified experience based on user behavior to maximize open rates and conversions.Read More

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The Gayming Awards 2024 announces its air date on June 25. It'll honor the Gayming Icon of the year and up-and-coming queer content creators.Read More

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Empower Change is launching as a new tech-enabled nonprofit aimed at helping grieving families.Read More

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Another week, another round of valuable content partnerships between OpenAI and leading media publishers. Today, both The Atlantic, the venerable American magazine and digital media powerhouse Vox Media — which owns The Verge, Vox.com, New York Magazine, Thrillist, SB Nation and numerous other titles — announced they are partnering with the maker o…Read More

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Co-CEOS Walter Driver and Javier Ferreira spoke with me in a fireside chat about how they designed Scopely.Read More

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Genies, a maker of social avatars, has hired former Netflix Games creative director Andrew Chambers the head of its games studio.Read More

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Play AI has raised $4.3 million in seed funding round to build the middleware for AI models and agents in gaming.Read More

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Amazon Games will publish the upcoming open world narrative-driven driving title from the Forza Horizon veterans behind Maverick Games.Read More

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The race to make Llama 3 faster continues as SambaNova accelerates the gen AI model to a new milestone, bringing significant benefits to enterprise users.Read More

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Kinetix, the generative AI startup doing user-generated emotes for games, has teamed with Overdare on putting AI in the hands of gamers.Read More

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PwC signs partnership with OpenAI to be the first-ever reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise, helping companies use gen AI in a way that drives impact.Read More

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SAP is deepening its AWS partnership, integrating Amazon Bedrock into its AI Core to streamling access for those in regulated firms.Read More

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A federal court awarded a $14.4 million judgment to Activision Publishing in its lawsuit against EngineOwning UG, Garnatz Enterprise.Read More

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GitHub's AI Accelerator ignites open source revolution, empowering startups like Unsloth and Formbricks to democratize access to cutting-edge AI technologies and challenge big tech's dominance in the field.Read More

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Gamecity Hamburg announced it is supporting five game projects in its 2024 funding round with up to 80,000 euros ($86,600).Read More

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Supervillain Labs has raised new funding from Aptos Labs and Neowiz's Intella X.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Dear survival game enthusiasts. There’s a new game in town – and boy, is it shaping up to be a banger. It’s called Decimated. It isn’t just a game. It’s an experience. Everyone knows you’ve heard that before. But hear it out. Decimated is a foray into the cyberpunk apocalypse that offers a unique blend of heart-thumping a…Read More

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India-based tournament platform Gamerji is expanding to Southeast Asia, continuing its focus on developing esports markets.Read More

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Elon Musk and Meta's AI Chief Yann LeCun clash on Twitter over the future of AI research, development, and self-driving technology.Read More

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Microsoft confirmed today that the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will debut on day one Xbox Game Pass when the title debuts this fall.Read More

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Startups seeing double-digit growth rates tell VentureBeat that combining networking and security in the same platform is essential for protecting every identity, endpoint, and threat surface that gets exposed as their companies quickly grow. Consolidating network and security together into a unified platform also helps them to be more agile, flexi…Read More

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MoRA is a new LLM fine-tuning technique that solves some of the problems of other parameter-efficient techniques such as LoRA.Read More

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At GamesBeat Summit 2024, IGDA's Jakin Vela and actor Zeke Alton spoke about the power of unionization and how it can help game workers.Read More

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OpenAI's board of directors, many of which are now on the new Safety and Security Committee, has been a source of controversy before.Read More

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Brian Ward, CEO of Savvy Games Group, is leading the expansion of Saudi Arabia into the games and esports markets.Read More

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MultiVersus is returning to general availability today from publisher Warner Bros. Games and developer Player First Games.Read More

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AI’s potential is immense, but it will only be realized when AI systems and the people who make them can reach and maintain trust.Read More

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The Arbitrum Foundation and Sequence, with Ubisoft Labs, unveiled the Web3 gaming adventure Captain Laserhawk: the Eden Online Experience.Read More

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Raamayan Ananda felt like social media was not built for community co-creation and incentive alignment. That prompted him to build Veme.Read More

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xAI is expected to pump the money to enhance the capabilities of Grok and build an AI supercomputer to train and run its next version.Read More

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The bottom line on prompt injection: Take it seriously and minimize the risk, but don’t let it hold you back. Read More

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Why keeping pace with the latest technology and ensuring open and honest communications with non-cybersecurity stakeholders is imperative.Read More

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Epic Games will open the Epic Games Store and Fortnite on Apple's iOS in the United Kingdom in the second half of 2025.Read More

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University of Chicago researchers demonstrate GPT-4's remarkable ability to predict corporate earnings, outperforming human analysts and transforming the future of financial statement analysis.Read More

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Now, whether users actually act upon the information provided in these searches remains to be seen — but if they do, it is clearly unwise.Read More

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Songyee Yoon, president of NCSoft, is one of the rare women leaders at one of the game industry's biggest companies.Read More

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Atropos Health raises $30 million in Series B funding to revolutionize healthcare with AI-powered clinical evidence generation, aiming to personalize medical decision-making and accelerate drug development.Read More

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The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has named Sue Madden as the new executive director of the ESA Foundation.Read More

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Ideogram unveils Ideogram Tile, an AI-powered pattern generator that creates seamless, repeating patterns from text prompts, revolutionizing creative workflows across industries.Read More

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Daylight, a public-benefit technology company, will unveil its groundbreaking product, Daylight DC1, at an exclusive event in San Francisco.Read More

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To provide access to this research, the company has released the open weights for both the 8B and 35B Aya 23 models on Hugging Face.Read More

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Another addition to Netflix's growing games library is Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit, the latest game from Spry Fox.Read More

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Elixir Games has acquired the RoboKiden shooter game and set up a strategic partnership with Ava Labs.Read More

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Mintegral has partnered with GameAnalytics and Tenjin for its 2024 Casual Gaming Report to give marketers guidelines on mobile gaming metricsRead More

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It's official. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has been confirmed as this year's big game for the franchise.Read More

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Atari has acquired the Intellivision brand, purchasing its trademarks and uniting competing brands from the 1970s and 1980s.Read More

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Huang emphasized that Ethernet is a major new opportunity for Nvidia to bring AI computing to a wider market.Read More

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Apple and Microsoft have been trying to integrate AI features into their applications but with different strategies. For the moment, Microsoft seems to be way ahead.Read More

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NTT said its is expanding its innovative use of racing data to improve fan experiences across the NTT Indy Car Series, including this year’s Indianapolis 500. Read More

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Jada Pinkett-Smith and Adriene Mishler have joined Medicinal Media as board members to elevate mental health awareness month.Read More

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Inworld AI, an AI and games startup that raised $50 million on a $500 million valuation last year, has launched Inworld Voice.Read More

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Anomaly has raised $1.45 million for an AI-driven Layer 3 Web3 gaming platform.Read More

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Gunzilla Games, a Web3 game studio and developer of the GUNZ blockchain, announced it has integrated Fireblocks tech.Read More

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The U.S. House of Representatives passed the FIT21 cryptocurrency market bill with bipartisan support today.Read More

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A deep dive into Microsoft's Models-as-a-Service program and how it helps developers focus on ideas instead of managing AI infrastructure.Read More

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There remains a vast repository of content from WSJ and other outlets that will significantly enrich OpenAI’s generative AI products.Read More

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The move to acquire TruEra is expected to support Snowflake's mission to deliver end-to-end capabilities for building AI apps with data cloud.Read More

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Instead, Meta's Yann LeCun says, work on next-gen AI systems that lift the limitations of LLMs. But what are those next-gen systems?Read More

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Currently, UnifyApps is working with large brands in financial services, D2C consumer space, tech-based logistics, telecom and global SaaS product domain.Read More

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Industry experts dive into the reasons power skills are just as important as tech skills for IT leaders.Read More

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Mattel announced a multi-year strategic partnership with family game publisher Outright Games to make three console and PC games.Read More

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Patronus AI raises $17M to automatically detect language model flaws like hallucinations, copyright violations, and safety risks at scale.Read More

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Sinn Studio, a studio dedicated to XR games, announced it has raised $2.5 million in funding to make a real-time player-versus-player VR combat game. Leveraging groundbreaking spatial computing technologies, the Toronto, Canada-based studio is making a free-to-play title driven by its proprietary Combat Engine, said Alex Sinn, CEO of Sinn Studio, i…Read More

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GamesBeat unveiled its 2024 Visionary Awards at the close of the GamesBeat Summit event in Los Angeles.Read More

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Intently launches Founder AI, an AI-powered networking tool that raised $3M to help startup founders automate fundraising by identifying relevant investors and warm introductions.Read More

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Chameleon, Meta's new multimodal language model, uses early fusion to generate documents with text, code, and images interleaved.Read More

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With AI PCs, even if you are paying, you may still be the product – and that's a risk no business can afford to take lightly.Read More

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USC Games’ Jim Huntley spoke at GamesBeat Summit 2024 about the next generation of game developers and their career paths.Read More

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Using “dictionary learning," Anthropic researchers have, for the first time, gotten a glimpse into the inner workings of the AI mind.Read More

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More and more publishers are turning to web stores and other direct-to-consumer (D2C) models in today’s games. And at GamesBeat Summit 2024, Discord SVP of product Peter Sellis and Coda chief operating officer Rick Phillips talked about how companies can effectively use D2C strategies in their own products. GamesBeat lead writer Dean Takahash…Read More

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In addition to real-time intelligence, Microsoft is launching a development kit to help developers build custom workloads for Fabric.Read More

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke at Microsoft Build to talk AI, telling Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott that GPT-4 and models like it are safe to use.Read More

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Unlike languages like Rust, Zig or Nim, which can have steep learning curves, Mojo allows developers to write code that seamlessly integrates with Python libraries and frameworks.Read More

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Suno, a music AI startup, raises $125M to revolutionize the music industry with its generative AI platform that democratizes music creation, sparking both excitement and copyright concerns.Read More

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Using AWS's cloud capabilities, NinjaTech's AI agents can perform multiple tasks simultaneously, significantly enhancing user productivity.Read More

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While the news is out, the interoperability experience between Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric is yet to go live. The companies plan to launch it in preview later this year. Read More

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A number of users on X immediately greeted the feature and demos of it with alarm. Some even equated it to spyware or keyloggers.Read More

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Microsoft has introduced Phi-Silica, a small language model with 3.3 billion parameters built specifically for its Copilot+ PCs.Read More

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VB EVENT: The steady drumbeat of big mistakes by customer support AI agents, for example from big names like Chevy, Air Canada, and even New York City, has brought a renewed focus on the need for more reliability. If you’re an enterprise decision maker involved in building generative AI apps and strategy and you are having a hard time keeping up wi…Read More

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Microsoft partners with Khan Academy to show AI's impact on education, using Azure OpenAI for Khanmigo, building Phi-3 math models, and more.Read More

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Microsoft's AI boss Mustafa Suleyman speaks ahead of the company's Build conference about his AI vision, the impact of Copilot and more.Read More

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Microsoft introduces Team Copilot, a virtual team member to run meetings, take notes, and handle project management, coming later in 2024.Read More

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Microsoft is enhancing its Copilot Studio, helping businesses turn bots into smart autonomous AI agents, making Copilot extensions and more.Read More

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Microsoft's Phi-3 models are now generally available ahead of the AI PC era. The company also revealed its Phi-3-vision multimodal variant.Read More

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Microsoft has unveiled new tools to help developers build AI apps on Azure. It also made its gen AI dev platform generally available.Read More

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Qualcomm's AI Hub is allowing developers to import models and optimizing them for use in AI PCs. It also now supports Snapdragon X processors.Read More

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon Dev Kit is a compact PC that gives developers an environment to build Windows-based AI apps, priced at $900.Read More

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GitHub unveils Copilot Extensions, a way to connect third-party apps like Docker and Sentry to streamline dev workflows through Copilot Chat.Read More

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Archetype is sharing a new in-universe story and concept art for its science fiction game Exodus.Read More

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While AI tools are nice to have, they are not a sum total solution, or replacement in the case of developers.Read More

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Jadu AR has launched Season 1 for its multiplayer mobile fighting game that uses augmented reality (AR) to blend the virtual and physical worlds. Dubbed Jadu, the game is available now for free download on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, as well as on Google Play for Android devices. Building on the game’s initial release in Octo…Read More

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Amazon Games today announced it has opened a new game development studio in Europe, based inBucharest, Romania.Read More

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Advanced Micro Devices announced the availability of the AMD EPYC 4004 Series processors for the enterprise.Read More

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Since the start of 2024, the technology sector has undergone significant transformative innovations. Notably, the diversification offered by the industry, including Telecommunication, Cloud Engineering, Quantum Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, etc, are worth emulating by o…Read More

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Unistellar, the maker of user-friendly smart telescopes, is launching a Kickstarter campaign to launch its Envision smart binoculars.Read More

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IBM CEO explains why open source gen AI matters as Granite models get an Apache license and new AI assistants are announced at Think 2024.Read More

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Legendary game designer and SimCity creator Will Wright believes that AI will be a transformative force in game development, and he hopes that his new project will help illustrate some of those possibilities. “Right now, we’re just seeing the earliest uses of AI in the gaming industry. But it is going to be huge, I’m sure,”…Read More

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In a blog post, OpenAI denies any imitation of Johansson's voice, stating it worked with different voice actors.Read More

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If enough people choose to go this route, will Google reconsider making Gen AI summarized search results the new default?Read More

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Micro1 launches AI-powered technical interviewer to help companies efficiently screen software engineering candidates, generating custom questions, conducting interviews, and providing assessment reports.Read More

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Lil Snack has created a platform for snackable games that players can come back to every day, and we’re trying it out on GamesBeat.com. These aren’t super serious games. In fact, they’re the opposite, meant to help distract you from your day, help you relax or give you a mental challenge with a puzzle or two. And for the first sev…Read More

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HP unveiled a new class of AI PCs at Microsoft’s AI Vision Event designed for the AI era to empower people to work and create more meaningfully. HP said the way we live and work is no longer confined to a desk; we are creating at home, from the office, and everywhere in between. At the same time, AI is rapidly changing everything, including consume…Read More

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Dell Technologies tackles enterprise AI challenges with AI Factory approach alongside expanded Nvidia, Hugging Face and Meta partnerships.Read More

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Acer announces its first Copilot+ PC, the Swift 14 AI Laptop, which is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series processors.Read More

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While the voice of Sky is paused, the other four from OpenAI remain available. Users will be able to choose any of these voices to interact with ChatGPT.Read More

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Games for Change announced the winners of its Special Awards today, including its most recent Vanguard Award. This year, the award goes to Alyssa Sweetman, currently the director of strategy at Player 2 and founder of Ideation Forge. Sweetman was also the program manager for social impact at Twitch. According to Games for Change, they chose Sweetma…Read More

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According to Fandom's 2024 edition of its Inside Gaming study, two thirds of gamers say it is easier to be themselves while playing games.Read More

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Inflection AI announces its new executive team, including CEO Sean White, CTO Vibhu Mittal, COO Ted Shelton, product lead Ian McCarthy.Read More

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Kyndryl and Nvidia join forces to empower businesses with the tools and expertise to develop and deploy successful generative AI projects.Read More

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Unity, the maker of the Unity game engine, announced 2024 Unity for Humanity grant winners and honorees, all of whom will receive bespoke awards from a pool of $500,000. Judged based on the vision, impact, inclusion, and viability of their projects, the eight winners will also receive technical support from Unity to bring these projects to life. “E…Read More

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It’s crucial that CISOs and their teams ensure employees are aware of vulnerabilities, and build a system resilient to breaches.Read More

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The future might see AI becoming an integral part of emotional support networks, providing companionship that feels empathetic and informed.Read More

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Jace Hall, the CEO of Twin Galaxies, has a big idea to bring attention to gamers and their achievements.Read More

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Ubisoft has revealed its new game, Assassin's Creed: Shadows, and Rachel Kaser is fascinated by the dual protagonists.Read More

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Google's new open source tool, Model Explorer, revolutionizes AI transparency by enabling smooth visualization and debugging of complex machine learning models, paving the way for more responsible AI development and deployment.Read More

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The new Audio Native embeddable audio player automatically narrates web page content via ElevenLab's text-to-speech technology. Read More

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