Halliday secures $20 million to develop secure AI agents for blockchain, solving critical safety challenges for enterprise applications with immutable guardrails and automated workflows.Read More
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Sensor Tower acquires gaming data company Video Game Insights
Sensor Tower announced it has acquired Video Game Insights, expanding its market research into PC and console.Read More
Muse unveils wearable that combines brainwave tracking and brain oxygen measurements
Muse by Interaxon, a neurotechnology startup, unveiled Muse S Athena, a consumer wearable that can deliver advanced cognitive fitness insights.Read More
Minecraft Education launches replica of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican
Students can step inside this legendary St. Peter’s Basilica building and take on the role of its caretakers in Minecraft Education.Read More
Operative Games unveils AI-driven interactive storytelling platform
Operative Games, an interactive storytelling company, emerged today from stealth with backing from investors 1AM Gaming, Samsung Next, and LongJourney.vc.Read More
Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)
Baidu has also announced plans to integrate ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 into its broader ecosystem, including Baidu Search and the Wenxiaoyan app.Read More
Mistral AI drops new open-source model that outperforms GPT-4o Mini with fraction of parameters
France’s Mistral AI launches efficient open-source model that outperforms Google and OpenAI offerings with just 24 billion parameters, challenging U.S. tech giants’ dominance in artificial intelligence.Read More
Inworld AI showcases AI case studies as they move to production
While impressive in controlled demos, today’s AI technologies expose critical limitations when transitioning to production-ready games.Read More
Gaming luminaries explore industry’s struggles and how its best days are still ahead
Matthew Ball started a big conversation about the state of the game industry when he launched a 224-slide PowerPoint deck. We continued it.Read More
Digital Bandidos wants to be an outlaw publisher that fights for devs | Steve Escalante
Digital Bandidos formed last year as an indie game publishing company just as many publishers were going out of business.Read More