It turns out that LLMs encode quite a bit of knowledge about the truthfulness of their answers, even when they give the wrong one.Read More
about 1 hour ago
LinkedIn's new Hiring Assistant will let recruiters use AI agents to find the most qualified candidates based on their LinkedIn profile.Read More
about 2 hours ago
Amazon Q Developer’s inline chat feature demonstrates its potential through practical applications like code refactoring and documentation.Read More
about 2 hours ago
Advanced Micro Devices reported record Q3 revenue of $6.8 billio, up 18%. But the shares fell due to a disappointing forecast for Q4.Read More
about 2 hours ago
As part of its report for its Q2 FY25 earnings, EA noted that The Sims 4 attracted 15 million new players over the past year.Read More
about 3 hours ago
Electronic Arts reported that its net bookings for FYQ2 were $2.079 billion, up 14% on the strength of American football.Read More
about 3 hours ago
Sony acquired the studio in 2023, with Concord seemingly a major part of the company's push into live-service games.Read More
about 5 hours ago
Microsoft expands its AI developer tools with GitHub Copilot for Azure, simplifying cloud integration and transforming how developers build and deploy AI applications in an increasingly competitive market.Read More
about 6 hours ago
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Cloud Interpreter is an innovative platform that provides on-demand language support through qualified interpreters in over 200 languages. Available 24/7 via smartphone, tablet, or desktop, it’s making communication more accessible in critical sectors like healthcare and education. From integration with hospital systems to seam…Read More
about 6 hours ago
Even if a few hundred or thousand use NotebookLM in place of a CRM, it could spell trouble for the companies offering them.Read More
about 6 hours ago
Check out ESPN Football Island in Fortnite Creative, the part of Epic Games' blockbuster title that lets people create their own games.Read More
about 7 hours ago
GitHub expands Copilot with multi-model AI, Apple Xcode support, Stack Overflow extent and Spark for easy app creation.Read More
about 7 hours ago
I was happy to be one of the first to play a couple hours of a preview of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in San Francisco recently.Read More
about 9 hours ago
Muus Collective announced today that its Bellemint fashion styling game is going into soft launch today in the U.S.Read More
about 9 hours ago
Alien: Rogue Incursion is coming to VR December 19, and my preview of the game confirms that it's going to make me jump out of my headset.Read More
about 10 hours ago
Timescale debuts open source pgai Vectorizer for AI embeddings as it looks to push vector database beyond RAG.Read More
about 10 hours ago
To get to the open metaverse, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney wants platforms to embrace enlightened self-interest.Read More
about 24 hours ago
Gen AI is one of the hottest and hyped topics today. However, enterprise leaders are becoming skeptical about its near-term usefulness.Read More
1 day ago
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Hero.io, a platform offering AI-powered tools for Web3 and DeFi, has reached new heights—both figuratively and literally. The Hero.io team successfully scaled Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak. This climb coincided with the release of Hero.io’s whitepaper, marking two significant milestones for the company. Hero.io’s missi…Read More
1 day ago
Universal Music Group inked a deal with AI startup Klay to help develop a "responsible and ethical" AI model for music.Read More
1 day ago
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Every day, you may face challenges that can make life a little more difficult—whether it’s navigating crowded city streets or finding convenient ways to manage your health. Fortunately, there are innovative companies stepping up to make your life easier and better. From high-tech walkways that help you get around more eff…Read More
1 day ago
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: E-commerce websites must handle high traffic volumes to support growing customer bases. Virtual private servers (VPS) host the hardware needed for high-traffic stores. Choosing the best VPS for hosting is essential for optimizing online store performance. What is VPS hosting? VPS hosts have an array of physical servers divided…Read More
1 day ago
These past couple of years have been brutal on the game industry. It has somehow been the worst of times, even as games make their way to more people around the world. Our hearts go out to all of those who have lost their jobs and some semblance of stability, whether they are friends, family, colleagues or even people we haven’t met. We are a…Read More
1 day ago
Gaming advertising platform Anzu and kidtech company SuperAwesome recently released a new report on which they collaborated. The report, called “Gaming the future: how to make an impact with younger generations,” details the effects that in-game advertising has on younger gamers, including how it can inspire interest and brand loyalty.…Read More
1 day ago
Moondream raises $4.5M to launch a AI model with just 1.6 billion parameters, offering edge computing solutions that rival larger models in performance and reduce cloud costs.Read More
1 day ago
Lamborghini and Animoca’s Web3 racing game Motorverse are tapping the Base blockchain for in-game Web3 assets.Read More
1 day ago
Wharton research shows dramatic surge in enterprise AI adoption, with spending up 130% and smaller companies leading in implementation rates.Read More
1 day ago
Adaptability and willingness to embrace change are keys to staying relevant. Don't be afraid of generative AI; make it work for you.Read More
2 days ago
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is a good game with excellent multiplayer and the campaign has one of the best stories in years for Call of Duty.Read More
2 days ago
Federated learning’s popularity is rapidly increasing because it addresses common development-related security concerns.Read More
3 days ago
ServiceNow vice president of AI Dorit Zilbershot believes employees will be more accepting of AI agents when they don't even know they're using AI agents.Read More
4 days ago
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman introduces 'super agency' framework for AI development, dismissing near-term election risks while advocating for balanced regulation and human-AI collaboration in emerging cognitive technologies.Read More
4 days ago
The Sandbox has launched a multi-year partnership with King Kong of Skull Island to build a space inside its virtual world where you can build, own, and monetize your gaming experiences. The Sandbox has been creating AdventureWorld, a neighborhood in the Sandbox map. Defender District park is the first realm within AdventureWorld, where LAND owners…Read More
4 days ago
SynthID makes subtle changes to LLM-generated text to create a statistical signature while preserving the quality of the output.Read More
4 days ago
I’m looking forward to GamesBeat Next 2024 on Monday October 28 and Tuesday October 29 in San Francisco. We’ve got a lot of speakers who can deliver high-level insights into the state of the game business, which has had seemingly contradictory strong financial results, unpredictable game successes and 32,000 layoffs in the past three ye…Read More
4 days ago
It's an interesting quasi-denial given how precise The Verge report is, noting specific details about Orion's supposed release plans.Read More
4 days ago
Mattel and Outright Games today launched Barbie Project Friendship, on the PC and consoles. Players can join Barbie “Malibu” Roberts and Barbie “Brooklyn” Roberts as they team up to save the Malibu Waves Community Center with help from their friends and family. It’s a test of the market in some ways, as it’s rele…Read More
5 days ago
Cohere released two new open weight AI models from its Aya initiative that looks to expand LLM performance for languages other than English.Read More
5 days ago
Claude uses a computer essentially as a human does. People are using it for coding, researching, 'drudge work' and even to hail Uber rides.Read More
5 days ago
Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios told VGC that it is working on a game that it calls an Afro-Gothic RPG.Read More
5 days ago
Talker-Reasoner is inspired by the two-system thinking cognitive framework proposed by Daniel Kahneman.Read More
5 days ago
Sports games continue to beat all comers on the U.S. sales charts, as EA Sports FC 24 tops Circana's September chart.Read More
5 days ago
Meta has launched compressed AI models that run directly on smartphones, making artificial intelligence faster and more private while using less memory than cloud-based alternatives.Read More
5 days ago
While closed models like OpenAI's GPT-4 dominated early adoption, open source models have since closed the gap in quality, and are growing at least as quickly in the enterprise, according to multiple VentureBeat interviews with enterprise leaders.Read More
5 days ago
Velan Studios announced its VR pinball game Bounce Arcade is available for pre-order on Meta Quest and will debut on November 21. In the game, you enter the machine and play pinball like you’ve never seen before. It has multiple themed pinball tables full of challenges. Players must strive to survive, unlock mini-games, and chase high scores in act…Read More
5 days ago
StreamElements' September report shows that Twitch got a boost in watch hours thanks in part to major streamers' subathons.Read More
5 days ago
Users can upload any image of their choosing and actually edit sections of it with AI, or change the style and texture of it.Read More
5 days ago
Electronic Arts' EA Sports and Adobe have teamed up to transform the Team Builder mode of EA Sports College Football 25.Read More
5 days ago
Gaming merger and acquisition (M&A) deal activity increased for the 4th straight quarter during the September period with $2.5B in disclosed deal value.Read More
5 days ago
Project Helping Hands is a new community-based initiative to help game industry job seekers who have been out of work or underemployed for more than a year. Aiming to draw a spotlight for long-term job seekers in games, it’s a project led by Amir Satvat, the game job opening aggregator who has amassed a big following of 400,000 unique viewers…Read More
5 days ago
Sequence, the all-in-one platform for building Web3 games, has partnered with Google Cloud Marketplace to widen its reach to game developers.Read More
5 days ago
Huuuge founder Anton Gauffin has started Beyond, which is building a fashion game called Decor Society tapping generative AI.Read More
5 days ago
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang noted India’s progress in its AI journey in a conversation at the Nvidia AI Summit in India. India now has more than 2,000 Nvidia Inception AI companies and more than 100,000 developers trained in AI. That compares to a global developer count of 600,000 people trained in Nvidia AI technologies, and India’s strate…Read More
6 days ago
Livewire's recent study shows that the next generations of gamers -- Z and Alpha -- expect ads, but they want a very particular kind.Read More
6 days ago
New research details a novel approach to model merging that could help to improve enterprise AI deployments.Read More
6 days ago
A pair of researchers at OpenAI has published a paper describing a new type of model — specifically, a new type of continuous-time consistency model (sCM) — that increases the speed at which multimedia including images, video, and audio can be generated by AI by 50 times compared to traditional diffusion models, generating images in nearly a 10th o…Read More
6 days ago
Non-English game developers may soon be looking toward AI as a means to shorten localization times. In an interview with 4Gamer (translated by Siliconera) at Tokyo Game Show, Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo posited the idea of using artificial intelligence to more quickly localize games developed in the Japanese language. Kondo took the stag…Read More
6 days ago
At the TED AI conference, OpenAI’s Noam Brown unveiled the o1 model, showcasing how "System Two Thinking" could transform industries by enabling AI to deliver smarter, more deliberate decision-making.Read More
6 days ago
Multiplayer games are taking over the VR sales charts. Despite being a tougher development roadmap, there is wisdom in pursing this audience.Read More
6 days ago
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Since the introduction of generative AI, many industries have undergone significant transformations. Recently, the new amp fitness machine was launched, showcasing how gen AI, combined with advanced technologies, is set to change the way people approach fitness training. Upon entering amp’s showroom in NYC’s Soho, the futuristi…Read More
6 days ago
PlaySide Studios, Australia’s largest indie game studio, announced Shattered for the Meta Quest 3 and 3S virtual reality headsets.Read More
6 days ago
As a result of these changes, Character AI appears to be deleting certain user-made custom chatbot characters abruptly.Read More
6 days ago
Party Icons, a mobile-first gaming platform with three playable modes, said it has raised $9 million in funding despite market headwinds.Read More
6 days ago
Founded in 2004, Virtuos has grown into a big company when it comes to the production of games. As an external developer, Virtuos’ team of 3,800 professional game devs can supplement the teams at game studios and publishers as they finish their games. The Singapore-based company has a big presence in Asia and it has worked with nearly all of…Read More
6 days ago
Cohere enhances its embeddings model Embed 3 to now be multimodal, letting enterprises search images on their databases.Read More
7 days ago
The new feature includes safeguards to detect and block attempts to generate content featuring public figures without authorization.Read More
7 days ago
Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon Elite platforms for automotive applications at its Snapdragon Summit event today.Read More
7 days ago
Netflix has closed Team Blue, the LA-based internal studio, before it could release its alleged triple-A game.Read More
7 days ago
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Could your profile picture use an update? Not everyone has the time or money to hire a professional whenever they need a headshot, and a smartphone picture doesn’t usually make a good impression. Designed to automatically give your photos a professional look, an AI headshot generator might be the perfect solution—but which is t…Read More
7 days ago
Users can spread newly generated images out, compare them to older ones, resize and reorder them at will, and even combine two with AI.Read More
7 days ago
A new report from CyberSeek found that there are only enough workers to fill 83% of available jobs.Read More
7 days ago
Anthropic's new AI, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, introduces groundbreaking "Computer Use" capabilities, allowing AI to interact with applications and complete complex tasks, potentially transforming enterprise workflows.Read More
7 days ago
Stability AI is looking to retake the lead in text to image generative AI with Stable Diffusion 3.5.Read More
7 days ago
Work management platform Asana said multiple AI agents on a workflow system gets rid of "busy work."Read More
7 days ago
Appen’s 2024 State of AI report reveals surging generative AI adoption, but companies face growing challenges with data quality, bottlenecks, and declining ROI in AI deployments.Read More
7 days ago
CrewAI is one of the most popular AI agent frameworks, enabling users to quickly and simply build, deploy and iterate multi-agent “crews.”Read More
7 days ago
Epic Games has launched Fab, a new unified content marketplace that enables developers to access digital assets from a single online market.Read More
7 days ago
Available under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, Mochi 1 offers users free access to cutting-edge video generation capabilities...Read More
7 days ago
It leverages AI and machine learning to automate workflows, enabling scientists to manage complex biological data with greater accuracy.Read More
8 days ago
NetVRk, a cross-platform AI and Web3-driven metaverse, unveiled its platform for building virtual worlds with Unreal Engine 5.Read More
8 days ago
Attention, developers: you can now get your hands on Elon Musk's Grok 2 multimodal language model through his startup xAI's new API.Read More
8 days ago
GamesBeat lead writer Dean Takahashi, sat down with Xsolla CMO, Berkley Egenes, to dig into the latest Xsolla news.Read More
8 days ago
Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon 8 Elite, which it claimed is the world's fastest mobile centralized processing unit (CPU).Read More
8 days ago
Microsoft launches autonomous AI agents for Dynamics 365, challenging Salesforce's Agentforce in the race to dominate enterprise AI and reshape the future of work.Read More
8 days ago
Also keep an eye on AI governance tools, hybrid computing, disinformation security, post-quantum cryptography and even more out-there tech.Read More
8 days ago
Unity is unveiling its playbook for mobile game advertisers to increase revenues in the holidays through ads.Read More
8 days ago
IBM is launching its new open source Granite 3.0 family of models for enterprise AI as it looks to a future state of generative computing.Read More
9 days ago
AI's ability to sift through massive amounts of data, identify patterns and constantly learn makes it invaluable in cybersecurity.Read More
9 days ago
Let's explore human engineering techniques that have worked at scale across the most successful tech companies in history.Read More
10 days ago
Surgent Studios is not the only studio to publicly admit to having trouble securing funding. Rachel Kaser recognizes the honesty.Read More
10 days ago
Spirit LM Expressive incorporates emotional cues into its speech generation and can detect and reflect anger, surprise, or joy.Read More
11 days ago
Keywords Studios' latest acquisition is co-development studio Certain Affinity, which will join its Create division.Read More
11 days ago
The developers behind Tales of Kenzera: ZAU risk furloughing their entire staff if they do not find a publishing partner soon.Read More
11 days ago
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have all announced plans to partner with or build new nuclear power plants and reactors for AI. Here's why.Read More
11 days ago
OpenAI now lets some ChatGPT users check changes to text or code on the Canvas feature, something developers have been asking for.Read More
11 days ago
Yuga Labs, the Web3 company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, is bringing AI to blockchain with the launch of ApeChain, a new creator platform. In order to future-proof its ecosystem, Yuga Labs is partnering with Wire Network, the universal Layer 1 blockchain infrastructure designed for the AI agent economy. That is, it’s the near future where “AI…Read More
11 days ago
Andrew Stephan is the director of War Game: The Making of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, a documentary from Microsoft about the ordeal of the game developers at GSC Game World, the Ukraine game studio that had to make S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: The Heart of Chornobyl, a triple-A game, in the middle of a war zone. The film depicts the lives of the game team — perha…Read More
11 days ago
On Oct. 29, join GamesBeat's Diversity in Gaming Lunch where industry pros dig into the critical importance of diversity in the game industry.Read More
11 days ago
Mobile gaming fans around the world are ready for battle as Age of Empires Mobile has launched worldwide on the Apple App Store and Google Play. Co-developed by TiMi Studio Group (Call of Duty: Mobile, Pokémon Unite) and World’s Edge, an Xbox Games Studio, Age of Empires Mobile is a fresh and innovative experience for the beloved series, bringing f…Read More
11 days ago
Vizta DGTL, a game studio based in Berlin, hopes to set the fashion world ablaze with Kutur Runway, a fashion game that embraces role-playing game mechanics, social platforms and realistic 3D graphics. The Berlin company believes the market opportunities created by early fashion games like Covet Fashion will become bigger with a fresh take —…Read More
11 days ago