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Discord announced that its first year of Quests generated 70 campaigns with advertising partners and millions of rewards that kept gamers engaged. Speaking at the ad-focused IAB Playfronts event, Peter Sellis, senior vice president of product at Discord, said that, in the first year of Quests, Discord had found a way to make game discovery and enga…Read More
Roblox announced today that it’s launching Rewarded Ads for advertisers, as well as adding Google’s Ad Manager to its tech stack.Read More
How 50 random sports fans created a highly-accurate March Madness bracket through real-time conversational deliberation.Read More
The new system is literally a no code, natural language, AI-powered multi-agent builder, and it works in real time.Read More
Henk Rogers has written his insider’s take on the story of The Perfect Game: Tetris, From Russia With Love.Read More
Not long after raising $80 million, South Korea’s HYBE IM has raised $21 million to boost its growth in game publishing and IP games.Read More
Following up on previously announced plans, Nvidia said that it has open sourced new elements of the Run:ai platform, including the KAI Scheduler.Read More
OpenAI plans to release its first open-weight AI model since 2019 as economic pressures mount from competitors like DeepSeek and Meta, marking a significant strategic reversal for the company behind ChatGPT.Read More
In a move that surprised the tech industry Monday, OpenAI said it has secured a monumental $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, catapulting its valuation to an unprecedented $300 billion — making it the largest private equity investment on record. The landmark investment underscores the escalating significance of AI, and also signals a shift in the enterprise technology landscape.Read More
Gartner forecasts large growth in global AI spending as enterprises shift focus to commercial tools away from custom projects that often fail.Read More
