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Funding for gaming startups dropped off in Q4 2024 | Konvoy

Konvoy's latest report shows that funding for gaming-related startups was curiously low in Q4 2024, as were VC deals.

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Perplexity launches Sonar API, taking aim at Google and OpenAI with real-time AI search

Perplexity's Sonar is a real-time AI search API challenging Google and OpenAI with disruptive pricing and superior performance.

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Blockchain gaming grows to 7.4M active wallets in 2024, up 421% | DappRadar

Blockchain gaming reached 7.4 million daily Unique Active Wallets (dUAW) in 2024, marking 421% growth from a year ago, DappRadar said.

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More developers are making VR software for Apple visionOS than PlayStation VR2

The Apple Vision Pro is looking likely to see more software than the PlayStation VR2, according to a game developer survey.

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Tencent introduces ‘Hunyuan3D 2.0,’ AI that speeds up 3D design from days to seconds

Tencent's Hunyuan3D 2.0 transforms images into detailed 3D models in seconds. This could reshape how industries create virtual content.

5h - Tech

How Axis Security is using Xpander.AI’s agent platform to supercharge customer support ticket management

Through its partnership with Xpander.AI, Axis has managed to save thousands of hours monthly and grow its team sustainably.

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GDC survey reveals a rocky year of layoffs and AI skepticism for game developers

The 2025 GDC survey revealed the impact of industry-wide layoffs in 2024 where one of every 11 game developers lost a job.

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GDC 2025 event will celebrate how games connect the world

UBM TechWeb unveiled the 39th edition of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) that will take place from March17 to to March 21 in SF.

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Jeonghee “JJ” Jin aims to build the Americas at NCSoft as she did at Pearl Abyss

Jeonghee “JJ” Jin spent a lot of time growing the business of Pearl Abyss in the Americas, as she headed Pearl Abyss America for almost eight years.

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X Games will test AI from Google Cloud for judging snowboarding competitions

Making its debut in Aspen, X Games will leverage AI technology from Google Cloud to enhance objectivity in subjectively judged sports. The aim is to deepen fan engagement, and provide valuable ...

11h - Tech

TON becomes the exclusive blockchain for Telegram’s mini-app platform

The Open Network Foundation, a non-profit supporting the TON blockchain, has become the exclusive partner for Telegram's mini-app platform.

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Moku unveils Tama Meme fair-launch token launchpad on Ronin

Moku has unveiled Tama Meme, the first fair-launch token launchpad on Sky Mavis' Ronin blockchain network.

12h - Tech

These are the best-paid programming languages for 2025

The software developers market is hot. Find out which software languages will earn you the most money this year.

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Deloitte: 74% of enterprises have already met or exceeded gen AI initiatives (but challenges remain)

Deloitte's state of gen AI report shows that three-quarters of enterprises are seeing ROI and many are set to increase spending.

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Smithsonian and others will use Filecoin to safeguard digital culture heritage

Filecoin Foundation is stepping up today to preserve cultural artifacts in digital form using its decentralized network technology.

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Open-source DeepSeek-R1 uses pure reinforcement learning to match OpenAI o1 — at 95% less cost

The company developed DeepSeek-R1 by using pure reinforcement learning on top of DeepSeek-V3-Base, and matched or beat o1 on some benchmarks.

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Sci-fi author Alan Dean Foster moves into gaming with Pomme studio deal for Midworld — exclusive

Best-selling sci-fi author Alan Dean Foster is moving into gaming in a multi-license deal with studio Pomme, starting with a game based on his Midworld novel.

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Hamilton raises $1.7M to tokenize real-world assets on Bitcoin

Hamilton, a protocol specializing in tokenizing real-world assets (RWA) on Bitcoin, has raised a $1.7 million pre-seed funding round.

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AI comes alive: From bartenders to surgical aides to puppies, tomorrow’s robots are on their way

Beyond performing tasks, machines will integrate into our social fabric, requiring us to navigate new relationships with technology.

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TikTok shuts down in the U.S. (updated)

TikTok just ran out of tiktoks as the countdown ended for the app’s time in the U.S. In the early hours of January 19, the wildly popular short-form video app went dark. The shutdown left me (and ...

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King launches Candy Crush Solitaire on mobile devices in February

King announced that it will launch Candy Crush Solitaire on mobile devices on February 6, 2025. It’s a sweet new chapter for Candy Crush, which is an extremely popular mobile game series. And it’s ...

Jan. 10 - Tech

OpenAI has begun building out its robotics team

Previously, OpenAI partnered with robotics startup Figure to provide the models powering the latter's humanoid robots.

Jan. 10 - Tech

Google DeepMind researchers introduce new benchmark to improve LLM factuality, reduce hallucinations

Based on a new benchmark, Google DeepMind found Gemini 2.0 Flash to be the most factual LLM, with a score of 83.6%.

Jan. 10 - Tech

Researchers improved AI agent performance on unfamiliar tasks using ‘Dungeons and Dragons’

AgentRefine gives AI agents and models the ability to recognize errors and self-correct to work better for general tasks.

Jan. 10 - Tech

My Arcade reveals Gamestation Retro devices bundled with games

My Arcade revealed its new line of retro consoles, the Gamestation, which come in multiple form factors and launch later this year.

Jan. 10 - Tech

Breaking the data bottleneck: Salesforce’s ProVision speeds multimodal AI training with image scene graphs

Salesforce is using structured representation of image semantics to power programs that synthesize instruction datasets for AI training.

Jan. 10 - Tech

Self-invoking code benchmarks help you decide which LLMs to use for your programming tasks

LLMs are good at coding simple functions. But how good are they at calling their own functions to solve complex problems?

Jan. 10 - Tech

GDC reveals finalists for the 27th Independent Games Festival

The Independent Games Festival revealed the nominees for its upcoming awards event, with Consume Me and Despelote leading in nominations.

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LlamaIndex goes beyond RAG so agents can make complex decisions

A new orchestration architecture from LlamaIndex brings more context and decision-making capabilities to AI agents.

Jan. 9 - Tech

Beyond RAG: How cache-augmented generation reduces latency, complexity for smaller workloads

As LLMs become more capable, many RAG applications can be replaced with cache-augmented generation that include documents in the prompt.

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Mountaintop details Spectre Divide Season 1 and console launch for February

Mountaintop had a tough launch with Spectre Divide. Now it is saying how it will launch Season 1 with fixes in mid-February.

Jan. 9 - Tech

Runway’s new AI image generator Frames is here, and it looks fittingly cinematic

The model excels in rendering advanced textures, natural lighting and complex compositions, providing more flexibility.

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$Microsoft’s new rStar-Math technique upgrades small models to outperform OpenAI’s o1-preview at math problems$

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