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Louis Columbus @ VentureBeat · 02/29/2024 00:25 EDT

Cybersecurity startup makes open source pay, gains funding in a down market

Filigran is now instrumental in organizing and analyzing cybercrime data, managing the modeling of multiple ransomware campaigns and enhancing response to cyber incidents. Read more

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 21:40 EDT

GamerSafer acquires Minecraft-focused Minehut server community

GamerSafer has acquired the Minehut server from SuperLeague, taking over a popular Minecraft server community. Read more

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Michael Nuñez @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 20:10 EDT

Alibaba researchers have developed a new AI system called EMO that animates portraits with fluid and expressive talking and singing motions perfectly synced to audio, significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in controllable video synthesis. Read more

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Carl Franzen @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 18:55 EDT

Slice wants to make it easier for companies to distribute and track equity

It's not all about the Benjamins, baby — particularly for executive compensation, but increasingly, all levels of employees. Read more

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Taryn Plumb @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 18:24 EDT

Why does AI have to be nice? Researchers propose ‘Antagonistic AI’

These systems that are purposefully combative, critical, rude and even interrupt users mid-thought, challenging current “vanilla” LLMs. Read more

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Rachel Kaser @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 18:23 EDT

Deck Nine lays off 20% of staff due to ‘worsening market conditions’

Deck Nine Games joins the list of games companies laying off employees, which the developer blames on the market conditions. Read more

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Jordan Fragen @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 18:17 EDT

EA cuts 670 roles, cancelling Respawn Star Wars FPS and more

Electronic Arts is cutting 5% of its staff and shifting focus to its owned IP, sunsetting new licensed games like Respawn's Star Wars FPS. Read more

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Sharon Goldman @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 17:29 EDT

Snowflake names Neeva co-founder as CEO with focus on AI opportunity

Data cloud company Snowflake announced today that its SVP of AI and former Neeva co-founder Sridhar Ramaswamy has been named CEO. Read more

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Rachel Kaser @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 16:49 EDT

Remedy takes Control back from 505 Games for €17M

Remedy Entertainment has bought back the rights for Control and its sequels from 505 Games, including spinoff Condor. Read more

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Shubham Sharma @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 14:41 EDT

Nvidia, Hugging Face and ServiceNow release new StarCoder2 LLMs for code generation

While it remains to be seen how well StarCoder2 models perform in different coding scenarios, the companies did note that the performance of the smallest 3B model alone matched that of the original 15B StarCoder LLM. Read more

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Carl Franzen @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 13:48 EDT

Midjourney rival Ideogram gets $80M in Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz

In addition, Martin Casado, General Partner at a16z, is joining Ideogram's board, and the company today announced Ideogram 1.0. Read more

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 13:00 EDT

How Activision designed Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile | Chris Plummer interview

The main task for Activision is building any Call of Duty game is to “not screw it up.” And so the pending March 21 launch of Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile will be a big test for the development ecosystem that the company built for its big free-to-play game release on iOS and Android. To […] Read more

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 13:00 EDT

Warzone Mobile debuts March 21 with Verdansk, Rebirth Island and multiplayer maps

Activision announced that Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile will launch worldwide on March 21 with the popular Verdansk and Rebirth Island maps. Read more

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Carl Franzen @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 12:44 EDT

WordPress says VIP customer data won’t be shared to AI firms without consent

The wording would seem to imply that only those who pay for the $25,000-per-year Wordpress VIP service are safe from data sharing with AI. Read more

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Jon Stojan @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 12:25 EDT

Dopple.ai surpasses leading social networks in average user time spent in-app

Dopple.ai recently surpassed a 55-minute average user time beating out top social networks and video sites’ average user times. Read more

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Jon Stojan @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 12:16 EDT

How Aria is shaking up influencer marketing

The AI influencer discovery tool, Aria, allows unlimited access to over 200 million profiles completely free. Read more

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Carl Franzen @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 11:53 EDT

Willy Wonka Experience Glasgow: a metaphor for the overpromises of AI?

Will users ultimately try AI tools and leave as disappointed as the poor attendees of the miserable world of Wonka Glasgow? Read more

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Michael Nuñez @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 11:00 EDT

Gradial raises $5.4 million to bring AI to enterprise marketing workflows

Gradial, an AI startup streamlining marketing workflows, raised $5.4M led by Madrona; the generative platform automates content updates so creative teams can focus on strategy rather than tedious tasks. Read more

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 11:00 EDT

Mattel partners with Zynga’s Rollic to make Barbie mobile game

Yes, there is finally a new Barbie game coming, and, no, it's not called Barbenheimer. Zynga's Rollic is making it for Mattel. Read more

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Dean Takahashi @ VentureBeat · 02/28/2024 09:30 EDT

Game M&A hit $11.8B in 2023, lowest since 2019 | Quantum Tech Partners

Game industry mergers and acquisitions hit $11.8 billion in 2023, the lowest level since 2019, according to Quantum Tech Partners. Read more

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