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Amodei says the breakthrough actually cost billions, emphasizing that AI development remains resource-intensive despite engineering gains. Read More

AI filmmakers and creatives applauded the move — welcoming the opportunity to receive copyright protections on their work. Read More

The reduction in noisy, unstructured telemetry data by Observo can cut enterprise observability costs by up to 50%. Read More

The next Mass Effect title will take BioWare's full focus, but it's not quite ready for full production yet. Read More

Resolution Games' collaboration with Wizards of the Coast is a social strategy title called Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked. Read More

Wonderland and Robot Invader have merged to form a new company called Create Worlds, focused on web gaming. Read More

Existing open-source AI approaches are still not entirely open, which is a challenge that former Google and Apple engineers alongside a coalition of 13 universities are looking to solve. Read More

Comcast is unveiling ultra-low lag connectivity when it comes to highly interactive applications like gaming, video conferencing and virtual reality. Read More

VRAL Games, a Miami gaming company, acquired a 30% stake of PolarityOne, a Seattle game studio developing the sci-fi VR shooter Exoshock. Read More

NIP Group said it has partnered with the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) to drive gaming in Abu Dhabi in a $40M deal. Read More

AI agents are set to transform enterprise. But when will they really come to the fore? Salesforce and Mulesoft says this will be the year. Read More

Endpoint, identity, and multi-domain attacks are dominating the enterprise threatscape today, fueled by new tradecraft invented using gen AI. Read More

The Movement Network Foundation, the organization dedicated to fostering innovation and advancing the adoption of MoveVM technology, is firing up its mainnet for blockchain apps including games. The group announced today the deployment of Movement Developer Mainnet, advancing its public mainnet journey. This phase continues the momentum from Decemb… Read More

Snowflake SnowConvert has already been used to convert over 2 billion lines of code and over 46 million database objects. Read More

A group of gaming influencers/streamers in the Evolved talent management network have raised $97,000 in donations for victims of the Los Angeles fires. Just as the fires have been quelled by rain (and now led to the risk of mudslides), the streamers have raised money for the Habitat for Humanity’s LA Recovery funds. Beyond overall rebuilding effort… Read More

VB LAB INSIGHTS: This is a VB Lab Insights article presented by Capital One. AI offers transformative potential, but unlocking its value requires strong data management. AI builds on a solid data foundation that can iteratively improve, creating a flywheel effect between data and AI. This flywheel enables companies to build more customized, real-ti… Read More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=P96y90QU_60 Incention is launching a platform to bring AI and blockchain to Hollywood, and it is working with Hollywood writer David S. Goyer. Read More

Phoenix Labs, the maker of Dauntless and Fae Farm, has laid off a majority of its staff two years after it was quietly acquired by blockchain gaming firm Forte. Read More

Midwest Games, which is focused on indie games in the Midwest and elsewhere, introduced a new service support model, shadow publishing. Read More

DeepSeek-R1 can collect and store on servers located in China, but there's an easy way to circumvent this. Read More

For now, ChatGPT remains the better-rounded and more capable product, offering a suite of features that DeepSeek simply cannot match. Read More

Ubisoft confirmed that it's laying off yet more employees and closing its Leamington office as it restructures in Europe. Read More

Franchises don’t get better than The Walking Dead. It has enormous hits on everything from comic books to TV shows to games. The games alone have generated more than $1 billion in revenues, and the Netlix show drew 1.3 billion viewing hours in 2023, according to a report by Owl & Co. And during that year it was the third-most watched TV s… Read More

The Day of the Devs indie dev gaming show is returning to San Francisco in March for an event during the Game Developers Conference 2025. Read More

Pocket Worlds, maker of the popular social gaming app Highrise has acquired Infinite Canvas, an AI-driven user-generated content team. Read More

Haptikos has unveiled a hand exoskeleton, meant to enable you to use your hands with precision in haptic applications in XR. Read More

Here's what OpenAI's o1 had to say about AI trends this year. Just how many there are is a testament to AI’s general-purpose value.  Read More

DeepSeek-R1’s Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. This story focuses on exactly how DeepSeek managed this feat, and what it means for the vast number of users of AI models. For enterprises developing AI-driven solutions, DeepSeek’s breakthrough challenges assumptions of OpenAI's dominance -- and offers a blueprint for cost-efficient innovation. Read More

Prosocial AI supports a hybrid future where human and machine intelligences co-evolve, guided by shared principles and grounded in truth. Read More

Season 4 of a TV show is not something I write about very often, given my focus is video games. But Season 4 of Mythic Quest is another matter. Read More

Marc Andreessen, Yann LeCunn and Mark Zuckerberg have all penned what appear to be responses to the Chinese open source model's ascent. Read More

Y Combinator's fastest-growing startup Origami Agents raised $2M to build AI research tools that help sales teams find perfect customers. Read More

OpenAI used its own o1-preview and o1-mini models to test whether additional inference time compute protected against various attacks. Read More

Authorities arrested GameOn Technology founder Alex Beckman and attorney Valerie Lau Beckman (a married couple) for allegedly defrauding investors of $60 million. Read More

I'm a fan of transparency. Because, as the big newspaper says, "Democracy dies in darkness." Read More

G2 Esports announced the launch of a new media agency called 62, which aims to connect brands with gamers. Read More

The Royal Shakespeare Company announced it's making its first video game alongside iNK Stories, an adaptation of MacBeth called Lili. Read More

DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R1-powered chatbot interface similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Read More

Circana's December report reveals Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is 2024's last big hurrah on the U.S. sales charts. Read More

Trump unveils ambitious $500 billion 'Project Stargate' AI initiative with tech giants OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, sparking controversy as Elon Musk questions funding and environmentalists raise concerns about massive data centers. Read More

Sakana found that self-adaptive models can modify their weights during inference to adjust behavior to new and unseen tasks. Read More

The developers of games like Street Fighter are using generative AI to take the busywork out of development. Read More

Hugging Face's new SmolVLM models run on smartphones, outperform larger systems and slash computing costs by 300X. Read More

David Haddad, who has served as Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president for 12 years, is leaving the company. Read More

Amplitude Studios announced Endless Legend 2, a long-awaited next entry in the award-winning fantasy strategy game series. Read More

Id Software, a division of Microsoft’s Bethesda, unveiled the details of Doom: The Dark Ages, a prequel to Doom 2016 coming on May 15. It’s a big reveal for a game that is the third in a series of modern Doom games — Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal in 2020 — and this one is about the “medieval war against hell.” It go… Read More

Savvy Games Group expanded its leadership team with former executive director of the International Game Developers Association Foundation, Nika Nour. Nour, who carries over a decade’s experience in games and esports, and held positions at Genvid Entertainment, Entertainment Software Association, Internet Association and more, joins Savvy Games Grou… Read More

Instead of relying on specialized APIs, the system uses screenshots for visual input and virtual mouse and keyboard actions to complete tasks. Read More

Platinum Games and Team Ninja announced their new game, Ninja Gaiden 4, at Xbox's January Developer Direct. Read More

It’s been a long time coming, with a couple of big giant companies standing in the way. But Epic Games announced it will finally be able to release third-party mobile games on the Epic Games Store. It’s been an epic ordeal to get this far, but the launch includes games from tens of developers, with both paid games and free games availab… Read More

Pipeshift has a Lego-like system that allows teams to configure the right inference stack for their AI workloads, without extensive engineering. Read More

AIAS announced that Ted Price, president of Insomniac Games, will be honored with a prestigious Hall of Fame Award. Read More