Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Elite platforms for automotive
Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon Elite platforms for automotive applications at its Snapdragon Summit event today.Read More
about 3 hours ago
Netflix shutters its only triple-A studio, loses major industry hires
Netflix has closed Team Blue, the LA-based internal studio, before it could release its alleged triple-A game.Read More
about 4 hours ago
Three of the best AI headshot generators
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
about 5 hours ago
AI startup Ideogram launches infinite Canvas for manipulating, combining generated images
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
about 6 hours ago
Skills shortage persists in cybersecurity with many jobs going unfilled
A new report from CyberSeek found that there are only enough workers to fill 83% of available jobs.Read More
about 7 hours ago
Stable Diffusion 3.5 debuts as Stability AI aims to improve open models for generating images
Stability AI is looking to retake the lead in text to image generative AI with Stable Diffusion 3.5.Read More
about 7 hours ago
Anthropic’s new AI can use computers like a human, redefining automation for enterprises
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
about 7 hours ago
Asana AI Studio now offers AI agent creation for workflow management
Work management platform Asana said multiple AI agents on a workflow system gets rid of "busy work."Read More
about 9 hours ago
Generative AI grows 17% in 2024, but data quality plummets: Key findings from Appen’s State of AI Report
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
about 9 hours ago
CrewAI now lets you build fleets of enterprise AI agents
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
about 10 hours ago
Epic Games launches Fab unified digital content marketplace
Epic Games has launched Fab, a new unified content marketplace that enables developers to access digital assets from a single online market.Read More
about 10 hours ago
AI video startup Genmo launches Mochi 1, an open source rival to Runway, Kling, and others
Available under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, Mochi 1 offers users free access to cutting-edge video generation capabilities...Read More
about 10 hours ago
Dotmatics aims to speed drug development, break data silos with Geneious Luma
It leverages AI and machine learning to automate workflows, enabling scientists to manage complex biological data with greater accuracy.Read More
about 11 hours ago
NetVRk launches its AI-powered metaverse with Unreal Engine 5 graphics
NetVRk, a cross-platform AI and Web3-driven metaverse, unveiled its platform for building virtual worlds with Unreal Engine 5.Read More
about 13 hours ago
Elon Musk’s xAI launches API, letting third-party developers build atop Grok
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
1 day ago
Xsolla announces certified parental controls, a boom in Web Shop revenue and expansion in SE Asia
GamesBeat lead writer Dean Takahashi, sat down with Xsolla CMO, Berkley Egenes, to dig into the latest Xsolla news.Read More
1 day ago
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite as world’s fastest mobile CPU
Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon 8 Elite, which it claimed is the world's fastest mobile centralized processing unit (CPU).Read More
1 day ago
Microsoft’s new AI agents set to shake up enterprise software, sparking new battle with Salesforce
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
1 day ago
Gartner: 2025 will see the rise of AI agents (and other top trends)
Also keep an eye on AI governance tools, hybrid computing, disinformation security, post-quantum cryptography and even more out-there tech.Read More
1 day ago
How marketers should advertise to mobile gamers during the holidays | Unity
Unity is unveiling its playbook for mobile game advertisers to increase revenues in the holidays through ads.Read More
1 day ago
IBM debuts open source Granite 3.0 LLMs for enterprise AI
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
2 days ago
The AI edge in cybersecurity: Predictive tools aim to slash response times
AI's ability to sift through massive amounts of data, identify patterns and constantly learn makes it invaluable in cybersecurity.Read More
2 days ago
The human factor: How companies can prevent cloud disasters
Let's explore human engineering techniques that have worked at scale across the most successful tech companies in history.Read More
3 days ago
Game studios are getting candid about funding problems | Kaser Focus
Surgent Studios is not the only studio to publicly admit to having trouble securing funding. Rachel Kaser recognizes the honesty.Read More
3 days ago
Meta Introduces Spirit LM open source model that combines text and speech inputs/outputs
Spirit LM Expressive incorporates emotional cues into its speech generation and can detect and reflect anger, surprise, or joy.Read More
4 days ago
Keywords acquires co-development studio Certain Affinity
Keywords Studios' latest acquisition is co-development studio Certain Affinity, which will join its Create division.Read More
4 days ago
Surgent Studios puts staff on hiatus while searching for a publisher
The developers behind Tales of Kenzera: ZAU risk furloughing their entire staff if they do not find a publishing partner soon.Read More
4 days ago
Why AI is going nuclear
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
4 days ago
ChatGPT’s Canvas now shows tracked changes
OpenAI now lets some ChatGPT users check changes to text or code on the Canvas feature, something developers have been asking for.Read More
4 days ago
Yuga Labs brings AI to blockchain with ApeChain creator platform
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
4 days ago
How Andrew Stephan made War Game — the Ukraine game documentary | The DeanBeat
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
4 days ago
Embracing diversity: GamesBeat’s Diversity in Gaming Lunch is just around the corner
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
4 days ago
How TiMi Studio revived Age of Empires Mobile for a new age of fans
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
4 days ago
Vizta DGTL aims to bring realistic graphics and RPG gameplay to Kutur Runway fashion game
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
4 days ago
How game developers win in a soft market dominated by big platforms
During the latest stop of the GamesBeat Global Tour, Aldora CEO Joost van Dreunenbut addressed new ways to monetize and reach customers.Read More
4 days ago
Small but mighty: H2O.ai’s new AI models challenge tech giants in document analysis
H2O.ai has released efficient vision-language models for document AI, challenging tech giants with superior performance in OCR and text recognition tasks.Read More
5 days ago
SambaNova and Gradio are making high-speed AI accessible to everyone—here’s how it works
SambaNova and Gradio partner to simplify AI development, offering faster inference and improved energy efficiency, challenging Nvidia's dominance in the evolving AI chip market.Read More
5 days ago
Perplexity lets you search your internal enterprise files and the web
Perplexity announced Internal Knowledge Search and Spaces, which lets paying users query their own files as well as the internet.Read More
5 days ago
Simplismart supercharges AI performance with personalized, software-optimized inference engine
The software-optimized inference engine behind Simiplismart MLOps platform runs Llama3.1 8B at a peak throughput of 501 tokens per second.Read More
5 days ago
Platforma.bio by MiLaboratories is making waves in drug discovery
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: In the evolving field of bioinformatics, staying current is a challenge. For MiLaboratories, the challenge was creating software called Platforma.bio, which not only simplifies the complex analysis of immunogenomic data for researchers, but furthers the technology critical for drug discovery, especially in the field of mRNA vac…Read More
5 days ago
Remedy reveals FBC Firebreak, its first multiplayer title
Remedy dropped a gameplay trailer for its first multiplayer title: FBC Firebreak, a first-person shooter set in the office space of Control.Read More
5 days ago
OpenAI just launched ChatGPT for Windows—and it’s coming for your office software
OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Windows, expanding its AI assistant's reach and signaling a strategic push into enterprise productivity tools.Read More
5 days ago
Riot Games and Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty team up on Arcane beauty products
Riot Games has teamed up with Fenty Beauty to create beauty products based on the Arcane animated film series based on League of Legends.Read More
5 days ago
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and UI requires a beefy preload starting Monday
Activision will have a new user interface for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and it will require a beefy preload starting on Monday. It’s time to clear out your storage. You can download this pre-launch update to check out the new UI and be ready to play Black Ops 6 as soon as it releases on October 25. To prepare for launch, Activision is delive…Read More
5 days ago
Archetype AI’s Newton model learns physics from raw data—without any help from humans
Archetype AI's 'Newton' model learns physics from sensor data, promising breakthroughs in industrial applications and scientific discovery.Read More
5 days ago
Google launches NotebookLM Business to make enterprise AI audio, text
A paid version of the increasingly popular Google tool NotebookLM will target businesses.Read More
5 days ago
Unity 6 launches today: here’s what it can do for you
A handful of benefits and features launch with Unity 6 today, lightening the load for developers on the engine.Read More
5 days ago
Zyphra’s new Zyda-2 dataset lets enterprises train small LLMs with high accuracy
Zyphra's Zyda-2 dataset is five times larger than the original Zyda and covers a vast range of topics and domains.Read More
5 days ago
Daffy Charitable Fund launches novel private stock donations for workplaces
Daffy.org, a modern platform for charitable giving, has launched its groundbreaking Private Stock Donation Program to benefit charities.Read More
5 days ago
Salesforce CEO Marc Beinoff slams Microsoft Copilot as ‘Clippy 2.0’
Fighting words? Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff took to his personal X account last night to criticize Microsoft's AI assistant.Read More
5 days ago
Shadow IT risks are on the rise as GenAI tools gain popularity with employees
The risk of a data breach today has expanded by many magnitudes, in part due to the boom of generative AI tools.Read More
5 days ago
Nvidia just dropped a new AI model that crushes OpenAI’s GPT-4—no big launch, just big results
Nvidia quietly launched a groundbreaking AI model that surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5, signaling a major shift in the competitive landscape of artificial intelligence.Read More
6 days ago
Games VC funding is stabilizing, but growth-stage funding is up | Konvoy
Konvoy has published its latest report on venture capital funding in the gaming industry, which shows signs of normalizing.Read More
6 days ago
Pika 1.5 updates again to add even more AI video Pikaffects: crumble, dissolve, deflate, ta-da
The move to further differentiate Pika 1.5 from competitors Runway, Luma, Kling, and Hailuo comes amid intensifying competitionRead More
6 days ago
FunPlus opens Studio Ellipsis to make cross-platform games in Lisbon
FunPlus, a Swiss company that has become one of the world’s largest independent game companies, has opened its new Studio Ellipsis in Lisbon.Read More
6 days ago
Microsoft’s Differential Transformer cancels attention noise in LLMs
A simple change to the attention mechanism can make LLMs much more effective at finding relevant information in their context window.Read More
6 days ago
Magic Leap founder is back with $20M funding round for SynthBee
SynthBee, started by Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz, has raised $20 million in funding to create a new kind of "computing intelligence."Read More
6 days ago
Mistral AI’s new language models bring AI power to your phone and laptop
Mistral AI, a rising star in the artificial intelligence arena, launched two new language models on Wednesday, potentially reshaping how businesses and developers deploy AI technology. The Paris-based startup’s new offerings, Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, are designed to bring powerful AI capabilities to edge devices, marking a significant s…Read More
6 days ago
SuperGaming launches Indus Battle Royale mobile esports game
SuperGaming launched its made-in-India Indus Battle Royale, targeted at mobile gamers and esports tournaments.Read More
6 days ago
Live Aware Labs raises $4.8M for its AI-powered gamer feedback platform
Live Aware Labs has closed a successful seed funding round to build out its community feedback platform for game developers.Read More
6 days ago
IO Interactive teams with Build A Rocket Boy to publish MindsEye, after a ‘hell of a ride’
After a "hell of a ride" Hitman publisher IO Interactive is teaming up with Build A Rocket Boy to publish MindsEye, a cinematic game.Read More
6 days ago
What open-source AI models should your enterprise use? Endor Labs analyzes them all
The new tool tells developers how popular and secure open-source, pre-built models are and how recently they were created and updated. Read More
6 days ago
Play unveils Build Play development platform for Web3 games
Play, formerly known as ReadyGG, has launched the Build Play development platform to expand access to Web3 technologies for gaming.Read More
6 days ago
Node.vc raises $77.3M for new fund backed by 70 Nordic entrepreneurs
Node.vc has raised $77.3 million, or €71 million, for a new fund that is backed by 70 Nordic entrepreneurs.Read More
7 days ago
Cognizant adds multi-agent functionality to AI application platform
Cognizant's Neuro AI platform will use a multi-agent framework to help enterprises ideate new AI applications.Read More
7 days ago
Arch-Function LLMs promise lightning-fast agentic AI for complex enterprise workflows
Katanemo's new Arch-Function LLMs promise 12x faster function-calling capabilities, empowering enterprises to build ultra-fast, cost-effective agentic AI applications.Read More
7 days ago
Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium smashes Kickstarter goal on day one
Electronic Gaming Monthly's print magazine gets the Kickstarter tribute, with backers crushing its initial goal within hours.Read More
7 days ago
The 3 takeaways from Epic Games’ battle to open up mobile storefronts
In 2020, Epic Games — developers of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine that powers a significant number modern video games — declared war on both Apple and Google’s mobile storefronts. Epic wanted to challenge the idea of significant passive revenue percentages, specifically the way Apple and Google collect a percentage of all transactions made o…Read More
7 days ago
Anthropic just made it harder for AI to go rogue with its updated safety policy
Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, introducing new safety standards and AI capability thresholds to manage risks from powerful AI models like autonomous systems and bioweapons threats.Read More
7 days ago
The one question you need to ask ChatGPT right now
Recommended by Tom Morgan: From all of our interactions what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself?Read More
7 days ago
Arm touts growing ecosystem of sustainable AI datacenter silicon
Arm said that a year from its introduction, the Arm Total Design ecosystem has doubled in size, drivingglobal silicon innovation for sustinability. Datacenters are constantly challenged to balance power demands with the growth of AI workloads, the increasing cost and complexity of developing chips, and the need for sustainability, Arm said. Eddie R…Read More
7 days ago
SAG-AFTRA and game companies resume negotiations
The SAG-AFTRA talent union has resumed negotiations with video game companies around rules for using AI for voice acting in games.Read More
7 days ago
Jacksepticeye’s Thankmas 2024 partners with mental health crisis hotlines
Thankmas, one of the biggest charitable events in the game space, is back again -- this time supporting crisis hotlines in the U.S. and U.K.Read More
7 days ago
Azra Games raises $42.7M for next-generation mobile RPG with Web3 features
Azra Games has defied the funding gods and raised $42.7 million to accelerate development of its Project Legends mobile role-playing game.Read More
7 days ago
Gam3 Awards 2024 reveals shortlist for Web3 game awards and $5M prize pool
The Gam3 Awards for Web3 games is returning for a third year in a row with a prize pool of $5 million, up from $2 million last year.Read More
7 days ago
Strella raises $4 million to automate market research with AI-powered customer interviews
Strella, an AI-powered market research startup, raises $4 million in seed funding to automate and accelerate customer insights, delivering results 10x faster and at half the cost of traditional methods.Read More
7 days ago
Noice streaming platform launches open beta with rewards for European creators
Gamer livestreaming platform Noice announced it is launching a global open beta as well as a rewards program aimed at benefiting creators.Read More
7 days ago
DataStax looks to help enterprises stuck in AI ‘development hell’, with a little help from Nvidia
DataStax looks to improve enterprise AI production deployment with Nvidia, using Langflow as the center for building agentic AI workflows.Read More
7 days ago
Gladia raises $16M for AI transcription and analytics
Gladia, an AI transcription and audio intelligence provider, has raised $16 million in funding.Read More
7 days ago
League of Legends World Championship will air in IMAX Wanda theaters in China
The League of Legends 2024 World Championship will be shown via IMAX in the Wanda chain of theaters in China.Read More
8 days ago
Chip industry faces talent shortage as revenues head to $1 trillion | Deloitte
Deloitte says the chip industry will hit $1T in 2030, but a huge talent shortage looms across the entire world.Read More
8 days ago
PicsArt’s creative AI playbook: A vision for contextual intelligence, AI agents
Eventually, Mehrabyan says contextual intelligence will lead PicsArt to an agent-based ecosystem.Read More
8 days ago
The evolution of memes: from simple laughs to a cultural phenomenon
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Memes have become a common form of humor in the digital realm, especially among younger generations. Now, memes are even shared to express certain feelings or actions in one’s life, making them a popular way to laugh with others online. Memenetic allows users to create and share their memes with the world. This is especially po…Read More
8 days ago
Innovators to watch: Brands aiming to disrupt their industries with new approaches
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Change is inevitable; instead of resisting it, some companies are embracing it by stepping up with fresh ideas that make a real difference in our everyday lives. These innovators are challenging the status quo—whether it’s making healthier products more accessible, helping homeowners turn their spaces into income, or transformi…Read More
8 days ago
NetEase announces Destiny: Rising, a mobile RPG spin-off of Bungie’s series
NetEase's partnership with Bungie is bearing fruit: A mobile title called Destiny: Rising, set in an alternate universe.Read More
8 days ago
OpenAI’s Swarm AI agent framework: Routines and handoffs
At the heart of OpenAI's Swarm are the concepts of "routines" and "handoffs," which are mechanisms designed to help agents carry out collaborative tasks in an organized manner.Read More
8 days ago
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 promises a detailed and dynamic soundscape
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 developers say you can expected a more detailed and dynamic soundscape in the game debuting on October 25.Read More
8 days ago
Nerd Ninjas’ Rogue Piñatas: VRmageddon asks ‘What if piñatas fought back?’
Rogue Piñatas: VRmageddon is a new colorful, festive, and chaotic VR social mayhem game that asks, "What if piñatas fought back?"Read More
8 days ago
PlayVS partners with Omnic to help gamers play smarter with AI feedback
PlayVS has partnered with Omnic.AI, a self-service platform that helps gamers player smarter with AI feedback.Read More
8 days ago
Lidwave raises $10M to improve machine vision with on-chip 4D LiDAR
Lidwave has raised $10 million to make machine vision better when it comes to spotting pedestrians in a busy landscape.Read More
8 days ago
Accel-backed Jetapult invests $4.5M in Saudi Arabian game studio UMX
UMX, a game studio based in Saudi Arabia, has raised $4.5 million from Jetapult, an investment company backed by Accel Partners.Read More
9 days ago
OpenAI unveils experimental ‘Swarm’ framework, igniting debate on AI-driven automation
OpenAI has unveiled “Swarm,” an experimental framework designed to orchestrate networks of AI agents. This unexpected release has ignited intense discussions among industry leaders and AI ethicists about the future of enterprise automation, despite the company’s emphasis that Swarm is not an official product. Swarm provides develo…Read More
9 days ago
LLMs can’t outperform a technique from the 70s, but they’re still worth using — here’s why
Why we must develop methods, procedures and practices to make sure that improvements in some areas don't eliminate LLMs' other advantages. Read More
9 days ago
The ‘strawberrry’ problem: How to overcome AI’s limitations
A simple letter counting experiment exposes a fundamental limitation of LLMs ChatGPT and Claude, proving they can't yet “think” like humans.Read More
10 days ago
Tomb Raider IV-VI remasters continue franchise comeback | Kaser Focus
Tomb Raider is coming back from its lengthy hiatus -- just in time for a Netflix series and for Amazon to start building hype for a new game.Read More
10 days ago
Intel leverages core processor technology in NRG partnership
Gamers and developers looking for their next target spec will want to pay attention to NRG esports and Intel joining forces for a collaboration intent on showcasing Intel’s latest processing power. The pair are joining up for a Valorant-focused Night Market designed to emulate the look and feel of Riot’s hotshot shooting game. Headlinin…Read More
11 days ago
Football wins two months in a row as Madden sweeps August sales | Circana
The latest Circana report shows that Madden NFL 25 has topped sales charts for August, but hardware sales are not so favorable.Read More
11 days ago
AI21 CEO says transformers not right for AI agents due to error perpetuation
Ori Goshen, CEO of enterprise AI company AI21, believes alternative model architectures will make AI agents work better.Read More
11 days ago
The future of surgery is here: Dr. Alberto Rodriguez-Navarro’s MARS surgical system transforms minimally invasive procedures
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: MARS is empowering surgeons with enhanced control, reducing patient recovery times, and streamlining hospital operations through innovative magnetic technology. Dr. Alberto Rodriguez-Navarro is advancing minimally invasive surgery with his innovative technology, the MARS Surgical System. “Our purpose as a company is to develop…Read More
11 days ago
Changing the game: Fundraising for schools’ extracurricular programs gets a software upgrade
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: The landscape of school funding has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years, with technology emerging as the pivotal force in its evolution. Educational institutions across the nation are grappling with a perfect storm of financial challenges: budget cuts that strain resources, staff shortages that stretch existing…Read More
11 days ago