The backlash raises questions about whether public safety and transparency have been sacrificed in favor of personal image control.Read More
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Realize Music launches singing-wellness app
Hey shower singers, Realize Music has launched its revolutionary singing-wellness app, Realize Music: Sing is now available exclusively on Meta Quest in North America. Realize Music is an odd thing to call a game, but then again it is coming from Mike Wilson, founder of Deepwell and Devolver, and Mark Roemer. Now you can belt out some of your favor…Read More
We need to talk about the F word (‘friction’ in enterprise, that is)
Only by bringing friction back into the conversation can we responsibly build out new technologies with growth potential and staying power.Read More
The rise of browser-use agents: Why Convergence’s Proxy is beating OpenAI’s Operator
A new wave of AI-powered browser-use agents is emerging, promising to transform how enterprises interact with the web. These agents, including OpenAI’s Operator and Convergence’s Proxy, can autonomously navigate websites, retrieve information, and even complete transactions – but early testing reveals significant gaps between promise and performance between these leaders. While consumer examples like ordering pizza or buying game tickets have grabbed headlines, the question is about where main developer and enterprise use cases are for this. More likely it is going to be used in combination with other tools like Deep Research, where companies can then do even more sophisticated research plus execution of tasks around the web.Read More
Meta launches $50M Meta Horizon Creator Fund
This week, Meta launched a $50 million Meta Horizon Creator Fund. Under the theme of “Shape what’s next,” Meta plans to reward creators who can innovate and earn with Meta Horizon Worlds. The fund will support Meta Horizon Worlds creators with new opportunities to create, monetize and earn rewards. I couldn’t get around to doing t…Read More
Write Warz developers on how creative writing makes a hilarious party game
Write Warz is an upcoming party game centered around communal creative writing. Boltz Entertainment describes how it came together.Read More
Supergiant Games battles back accusations it is working around SAG-AFTRA strike
After a public callout, the developers of Hades took to social media to clarify that they are not intending to recast union voice actors.Read More
The remarkable banter of Cory Barlog and Neil Druckmann on the creative process
Cory Barlog and Neil Druckmann had a remarkable conversation at the Dice Summit about their approaches to creativity.Read More
Game investments and M&A totaled $17.5B across 985 deals in 2024 | DDM
As the games industry moves on from “survive til 25,” 2024 games investment and M&A data revealed recovery and improvement, DDM said.Read More
How test-time scaling unlocks hidden reasoning abilities in small language models (and allows them to outperform LLMs)
A 1B small language model can beat a 405B large language model in reasoning tasks if provided with the right test-time scaling strategy.Read More